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My annual review is coming up. This is the time when you’re encouraged to reflect on what you’ve done over the past year, and what you want to be when you grow up. While thinking through mine yesterday, and thinking about the ones from the past twelve years, I came to a realization: I’m in this for two reasons: I love the technology I ...

For those of you working with Silverlight 2, are you also working on WPF projects? If so, what types of things are you building in WPF? Are you sharing source and/or team talent across the two technologies? What about readers doing only one or the other? Either way, drop me a note in the comments below. I’m interested in getting a feel for ...

For the WPF/VE fans in the house, Marc Schweigert has a post and demo showing how to use the new web browser control in .NET 3.5 SP1 to host Virtual Earth. Web meets desktop. Marc's post is here.

If you know Silverlight or WPF, the job market for those skills is really on the rise. Same for Adobe Flex. Found via Twitter (thanks to whomever tweeted it!) "adobe flex", silverlight, javafx, openlaszlo, wpf Job Trends "adobe flex" jobs - silverlight jobs - javafx jobs - openlaszlo jobs - wpf ...

This one almost slipped past me. Lots of folks have asked about ways to automate encoding videos for Silverlight applications both on the client and on the server. Ben Waggoner just announced that Expression Encoder 2 includes a .NET object model for automation. The code in the SDK example looks really simple and straight-forward: static void ...

Justin Van Patten from the BCL Team has put out an official list of what assemblies will be included in the RTM of the .NET Framework Client Profile. The usual suspects are there, and as expected, server-side technologies like ASP.NET are not. Note that that list is for RTM, the assemblies in the current beta differ slightly. The .NET Framework ...

During all my Silverlight and WPF talks, one point I try to make is that in those technologies, the important aspect of an out-of-the-box control is not its particular display properties, but its model and its ability to be customized. Back when we used to do Windows Forms work, you often picked third-party controls based on how many UI ...

The Microsoft Health and Life Sciences Evangelism Team have put together a great free event in NJ with Silverlight, SQL Server, Surface, Silverlight Mobile, WPF, AJAX and lots more. April 22 - April 24 2008 Sheraton Atlantic City Convention Center Hotel  Two Miss America Way Atlantic City New Jersey 08401 United States Solutions ...

WPF and Silverlight applications cover a whole spectrum of application types and richness from incredible full-screen applications incorporating 3d and video to games to good old standard (but highly usable and attractive) business applications. It's the last category that I find of particular interest as while those applications don't always get ...

Early in my programming career, we had a choice to make at the beginning of each project: do we do this as a command-line/console app (prompt and response), use a DOS windowing library, or do a Windows 3 native app? Eventually, it became the norm to do a Windows app by default, and fall back to command-line only if you need to call it from batch ...