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First, if you wander on over to the AgFx CodePlex site, you'll see that there is a new release up. There's some new things in this new release such as some statistics about the perfo...
One of the great features of Visual Studio, that’s been around for a while is snippets. Frankly, I should build more of these because I use them *so* often.
I find them so useful I thought...
Earlier this week I wrote a post detailing the application framework that Ive been working on, which Im calling AgFx. I wanted that post to be a bit of an introductory overview,. Now Im going to...
Introducing AgFx
One of the things we’ve spent a fair amount of time on is working with various application writers, helping them build great Windows Phone 7 applications. Many of the top ...
One of the main goals of the Portable Library Tools is to be able to implement your ViewModel in the Portable Library such that you can share it between your UI in your Silverlight, Windows Phone, or ...
Earlier this week, we released the Portable Library Tools CTP. Youll need to install the VS 2010 SP1 Beta first, then its a quick install on top of that. What is it? Back at PDC in October, I ...
In this series, I will be taking sample applications from the iPhone SDK and implementing them on Windows Phone 7 Series. My goal is to do as much of an apples-to-apples comparison as I can.&nbs...
In this series, I will be taking sample applications from the iPhone SDK and implementing them on Windows Phone 7 Series. My goal is to do as much of an apples-to-apples comparison as I can....
This week we released an updated Silverlight Toolkit - the Silverlight Toolkit March 2009 release. This release has some new components, but we spent a lot of time working to make sure tha...
General Compat Thoughts The majority of the controls in the Silverlight Toolkit November 2008 (PDC) release are Silverlight versions of controls already present in WPF. These "WPF Parity" ...
The Silverlight Toolkit is off to a great start and lots of people have been spending time writing content about how to use it.
I'm a big believer in delivering a good end-to-end experience with the s...
The Silverlight Toolkit is off to a great start and lots of people have been spending time writing content about how to use it.
I'm a big believer in delivering a good end-to-end experience with the s...
Today at lunch, Jeff mentioned to me that the default security policy on Windows Vista was causing some users difficulty opening the CHM help file. Jeff has all the details on his blog. You'll get a m...
Just arrived back home from a great few days down at PDC in LA. What a fun show to be at - even for people inside the company it's a great opportunity to learn about some of thee great projects ...
On the heels of Scott Guthtrie's PDC keynote this morning, I'm very pleased to announce the launch of the Silverlight Toolkit on CodePlex!
The Silverlight Toolkit is a collection of components dedic...
As you know, today we released Silverlight 2. Scott mentioned the Silverlight Toolkit in his post as well - which is exactly what my team is working on. We're driving hard to get the first...
If you understood the title of this post, then you'll understand the question that's been in my head for a few weeks. Recently, Microsoft released a preview of the Microsoft Extensibility Framew...
One of the things I was most excited about when we shipped the Silverlight 2 Beta 1 controls was the included unit testing harness, written by Jeff Wilcox. I think it's a good thing when we can...
Here is the updated control sample for RC0.
Just a few changes from Beta 2 - RCO:
generic.xaml needs to now be in a folder called "themes" (case sensitive) rather than in the root of your pro...
Hmmm...no blogging lately...what has Shawn been up to? Yes, guilty. But here's what's been going on over the past few months. Shortly after MIX07, ScottGu brought up an idea of bui...
I've finally gotten the Silverlight Control tutorial sample updated for Silverlight 2 Beta 2.
There have been some non-trivial changes to how controls are written between Beta 1 and Beta 2. My g...
If you're interested in what's going on with the new ASP.NET MVC project, Rob Conery has just launched a new series of webcasts that document the process of him building out an MVC Storefront. H...
Get Silverlight 2 Beta 1 If you were watching the Keynote from MIX08, you know that Silverlight 2 Beta 1 is now available for download. The package includes three components: 1) The Silverlight 2 ...
I'll be headed down to Las Vegas this week to attend the MIX08 show. This is the third year of MIX and it's by far my favorite Microsoft event, and not just because it's in Vegas. Like the...
As you know, the team has been very busy working on controls for the upcoming Silverlight 2 Beta 1 release. Working on a new platform, with new tools, doing things that have never been done befo...
What we've been up to in DevDiv... Today, Scott put up a mammoth post introducing the upcoming Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1. His post includes an 8 (yes, 8!) part walk through building out an application u...
The build of the .NET Framework that we recently released source for was 2.0.50727.1433, which was the VS2008/.NET 3.5 RTM build. A small change was made to the Framework after that, and this ne...
When you debug code in the .NET Framework using the newly available Reference Source functionality in VS 2008, you may notice that many variables are not available for inspection. This is because ...
It's finally here - the launch of the .NET Reference Source project. This post (hopefully!) contains everything you need to know. Over the past few weeks, we ran a pilot of this feature an...
By now I'm sure you've heard that Visual Studio 2008 & the .NET Framework 3.5 shipped on Monday. Good news. Many of you who have been able to download the release are probably anxious...
It's a boy! No, no, no not that.
If you're a SubSonic fan, you may have seen Rob Conery's blog today with the announcement that he's accepted an offer to join my team. I've bee...
On Friday, the OSI approved two of Microsoft's Shared Source licenses, saying that these licenses satisfied the 10 criteria of Open Sourciness. As part of the approval, the community suggested w...
Yesterday afternoon I did a Channel 9 video talking about the Reference Source program we announced yesterday, plus doing a live demo of how it works. That's the first time I've done one of the ...
For any of you that have been following my blog, you may remember that I made a splash with a post about possible ways to release Windows Forms source code. This generated a lot of discussion an...
I know, I know, we were a whole week late from our original date. What kind of show are we running around here anyway? :) S Seriously there's a lot of big fixes in here - almost 1000...
We're working on making the Toolkit home page better, and one of the things we're going to add is a showcase showing some great sites using the Toolkit. The showcase will be very similar to what...
I've been doing some research around component models for Silverlight. Since Silverlight brings us back to a client side programming model (yay member variables!), I started cruising through the...
The AJAX Control Toolkit has been out there for over a year now, and we've picked up a lot of new users along the way. Recently, I've noticed more and more forum posts from folks that are just c...
Several people have asked about how to make the contents of their tabs load when the user first clicks them, thereby reducing initial page size.
I can think of several ways to do this with varying lev...
We had a bit of a haitus from Toolkit releases when we were focused on MIX. Since the show, though, we've been cranking through bugs and community asks.
The new bits are available. This is...
I've been quiet again for a while, mostly because my team has been heads-down for a few weeks working on a demo for ScottGu's MIX keynote, and today it went off without a hitch.
Silverlight is ...
One of the big challenges for the Toolkit has been how to get the community more involved. The way CodePlex works, we only have a limited number of contributors that have checkin and source cont...
Last night we released our 10301 Toolkit package. David Anson already wrote up a great post describing what's in there, but I thought I'd highlight some of the great stuff the team has do...
Yes, it's still painful But not as bad as it used to be.
Damien, one of our Toolkit contiributors has written a great little article documenting some of his experiences getting his ListSearchExtender ...
It's done! You can download the RTM version of the ASP.NET AJAX bits here, and the matching Toolkit bits here.
The ASP.NET AJAX project has been a lot of fun to be involved and it's gr...
The MIX07 website is now up and taking registrations for this years show, again in Las Vegas. I'm planning on doing a Toolkit talk down there.
The MIX show was a lot of fun last year. ...
Several folks have asked for this, so here it is.
Works with ASP.NET AJAX RC1....
I write this post from a coffee shop in downtown Bellevue (not far from Microsoft). We had a massive wind storm here last night and most of the Seattle area is without power, Microsoft included....
If you haven't already seen ScottGu's post on WPF/E, I'd recommend checking it out. WPF/E is a new technology that opens up incredible new possibilities for improving the richness and interactiv...
We've refreshed the recent Toolkit release, you can download it here. After the release, we discovered that the ASP.NET AJAX install didn't drop the Microsoft.Web.Extensions.Design.dll on machin...
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