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At the Developing Windows 8 Metro style apps with C++ event that happened on 18-May-2012, we saw and heard some very interesting things. If you were watching live then hopefully you didnt see how I tr...
Being more involved in the engineering process of a product I had the chance to participate in the design of various features instead of just the ones that Im responsible for delivering. One of those ...
Just a little post to point out a hidden gem if you are a .NET developer creating a Metro style app: you can bind to anonymous types. This came up in a discussion with a customer today that I was havi...
I should have known better honestly. Ive had one strike with cloud billing catching me by surprise and Im not sure why Im shocked it happened again. This time, however, I thought I really did plan it ...
My blog runs on Subtext which has a pretty good skinning model (albeit a tad outdated) and allows you to customize whatever you want. Ive had my own custom theme since 2009. I figured I was due for an...
If youve been playing around with the Windows 8 Consumer Preview then hopefully youve seen the hundreds of samples provided and downloaded some apps form the store. In a lot of those applications youl...
Today, the Microsoft Advertising team announced an update to their AdCenter SDK to include support for monetizing your Metro style apps. In a blog post announcing the update, Ian notes that if you we...
At //build one of the surprising immediate things I heard about was folks wanting to build custom controls right away. I knew that would happen, but not so quick on something so new (WinRT). The XAML ...
Today the Bing team announced the release of their WinRT Bing Maps control (BETA) for XAML applications. First the goods: Read their announcement here: Bing Maps for Metro style apps Download t...
So youve started to kick the tires of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview and now you are building an app. Youve read all the UX design guidelines and started looking at some great apps on the store. Perha...
An old colleague of mine and now HTML extraordinaire, Adam Kinney, just recently posted on his spelunking of some styling in both WinJS and XAML runtimes with regard to icons/buttons to use in a Metro...
Today, Microsoft will reveal the Windows 8 Consumer Preview for download to everyone. This builds on the momentum and feedback from the Developer Preview released in September. Im very excited to get ...
I run my site on Subtext which has been around for 6+ years in some form (Subtext is a fork of .Text from way back). As a part of the framework, there was initially built-in capabilities for tracking ...
For the past 6 years Ive run this blog on the Subtext project (an Open Source software project which is an ASP.NET blog framework). It has served me very well with being flexible and allowing me to cu...
I wanted to believe, I really did. It has been over a month since my first impressions of the Amazon Kindle Fire. Over the holidays, I processed a return for my Kindle Fire. When the Fire was announce...
One of the features introduced with Silverlight 4 was the out-of-browser feature, enabling you to create an application that can be installed, run offline, automatically updated, etc. As a part of tha...
Lately Ive been doing a lot of re-paving of machines and I never had my favorite tools on them, nor did I want to spend the time to re-install a set of tools that I knew I would blow away each day any...
Silverlight 5 is finally released! Congratulations to the team for getting through some of the toughest parts of finishing a product and validating with customers. Its been a pretty crazy year for the...
It seems like a daily question Ive been answering lately when working on internal email discussion groups and folks report an issue, my initial response is: what build combination are you working on? ...
Today there was an event in San Francisco which introduced the Windows Store for Windows apps as well as some details on revenue sharing and policies. As a part of that Antoine LeBland, Vice President...
Well, today I received my Kindle Fire. I pre-ordered this on Sep 28 when they were announced. Ive been eagerly awaiting to see if there is anything that can be a better-priced tablet-like consumption ...
I was searching my archives for sending something to my team this morning after looking at various bugs logged from customers, internal partner teams and ourselves. I had an old post from 2005 but it ...
My family and I do not have traditional television in our homes (see My move to free HDTV Part 1 and Part 2). In our home for live TV (which of course we have none) we rely on services like Hulu (whic...
By now hopefully youve seen a lot of the revealing of what the next version of Windows has in store for developers. Trust me there is a LOT to absorb as the week continues and you should absolutely ke...
The Silverlight 5 Release Candidate (RC) is now available for developers to download. As with previous preview releases, this is a developer-focused release, which means no production releases, no go-...
Are you one of those people who hate when people post to their blogs about how it has been so long since theyve blogged and they apologize for the delay and cite all sorts of excuses? Yeah, me too ;-)...
In case you havent paid attention today, Microsoft announced the upcoming developer conference in September: Registration is now open so get registeredand save $500 now. For a preview of what is co...
At the MIX11 conference Scott Guthrie announced the availability of Silverlight 5 Beta. I suppose this doesnt come at a surprise to most as this is now a regular annual occurrence. In fact it is almos...
Ive been working on some stuff around templates lately and had my own opinions of some of the value of certain features of the Visual Studio template functionality. What Im speaking of here is when yo...
Today (at approximately 10:00 AM PST) our team released an update to the Silverlight 4 runtime. This update, dubbed internally as GDR3, provides an update in the following key areas (KB2495644):
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Last night after a quick e-mail exchange with Phil, David and Scott I revised my Silverlight Toolkit NuPack packages I had previously created when NuPack NuGet first came out. At the time there were a...
Today we are releasing an update to Silverlight 4. This is an update to two areas where no workarounds could be provided for customers and we found it important to fix. The two issues in todays update...
Today we had the SIlverlight Firestarter event and revealed to the world for the first time, not only the plans for the next version of Silverlight, but also a slew of demonstrations of some key fea...
In the release of Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2 one feature that might be interesting to Silverlight developers is the introduction of support for the coded UI test framework and Silverlight 4 app...
Well PDC10 is over (note: head on over to the PDC site to view all the sessions). There was a lot of talk about Internet Explorer 9 (and another preview update) as well as general web development. The...
Yesterday there was quite a buzz around something Microsoft just released called NuPack which is described as: NuPack is a free open source package manager that makes it easy for you to find, inst...
Just a quick shout-out to congratulate the latest Silverlight MVPs to the program. The Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) program is a recognition program that is in place to recognize and rew...
Recently our team released a service release for Silverlight on 1-Sep-2010. We affectionately call these GDR releases (general distribution release). NOTE: Other teams have different names for dif...
It looks like the MSDN team has arranged some deep dives into Windows Phone development across the country. I am sure that for Microsoft developers Windows Phone 7 represents a new opportunity to get ...
I was spelunking around playing with Silverlight in Windows Phone 7 and specifically the CameraCaptureTask. The tasks are APIs that allow you to interact with phone-specific functionality like the cam...
Three years ago I wrote about one of the first full-featured casual games built in Silverlight (at the time Silverlight 1.1) which we called Zero Gravity. It was a game featuring Lt. Bennett a charact...
On the heels of the Windows Phone Developer Tools and Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit releases I saw a lot of exhaling going on in the hallways today. Apparently Jeff saved his largest one for a...
Well, the official Windows Phone Developer Tools are out! Go get them. (warning likely some caching issues..direct installer here.) The awesome Silverlight toolkit team is at it again, this time for ...
Today, Seesmic more broadly launched Seesmic Desktop, a refreshed platform for interacting with various social media outlets like Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz, etc. Seesmic has been one of the leade...
After a longer-than-should-have-been delay (you can blame me for that) allow me to introduce JetPack. Im really excited about this theme and the work that our team put together here. You may have s...
The Silverlight team today posted some information about what the future holds for rich Internet apps and where we have come with SIlverlight, where we see HTML5 playing a role and how Silverlight wil...
Today we released an update to Silverlight 4 (update build is 4.0.50826.0) along with an updated SDK. We appreciate our customers patience on working with us to help identify and verify necessary upda...
When I first saw the Kindle 3 (is that even the new name?) was going to be offered with WiFi, I thought that was cool. Then when I saw the price (USD $139) I figured it was a no-brainer to explore. I ...
In talking with a friend about some Windows Phone 7 and Silverlight stuff recently. He was giving me some great feedback about a few things (all of which Ive passed along). One of the things was what ...
Suppose you use Firefox as your default web browser and you are a Silverlight developer using Visual Studio. You may have been frustrated at times in being able to get the debugger to attach to your b...
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