In building 33 on campus today we have a large number of people who have come to learn more about Silverlight. Luckily we, we being Mithan Dhar, Laurence Moroney, Arturo Toledo, Ernie Booth, Adam Nathan and myself, have prepared for this day. We have a nice line up of sessions on the age…
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Last week Tim posted about the new reference sample called Video.Show. Its very cool sample that allows you to create a user-generated video site within minutes. It smartly uses Silverlight, Expression Encoder, Silverlight Streaming and is overall a very interesting bit of code.&nbs…
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TechNet EDGE is a new site developed by the EvNet team where the content is focused on ITPros. I'm not a big IT guy in any sense, but I wanted to congratulate my past team on launching another site based on the EvNet code base. They are now supporting Channel 8, Channel 9, Channel 10, MIX Onl…
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Reading the release notes for Dojo 1.0, I found a line item that said "dojox.gfx now includes Silverlight support". For those in the know this was actually added back in v0.9, but it was a new to me and I've been wanting to give it a test drive since I read about it. From the Dojo docs …
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I noticed on the new MIX08 site, that they maintained that they kept the fun MIXTIFY page from last year. This is the place where you can get all the shiny blog bling, grab the poster and ponder what your entry for Show Off should be, but there is no wallpaper. A tragedy, I say. B…
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Based on the fact that you are reading my blog, I'm guessing you have an interest in Silverlight. If only there was some sort of grand conference where you could hope to learn more about Silverlight and its future. Although content, news, plans and other details are still in process, Microsoft MIX…
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I subscribe to the internet in general whenever the word "silverlight" is mentioned using a variety of search feeds such as Technorati and Bloglines. This results in a lot of posts, many times duplicate posts, but I also get the chance to find blog entries I would normally miss. A grouping of …
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Robby Ingebretsen stopped by on Halloween last week to not only discuss the holiday of tricks and treats but also the interesting story behind designers, developers and integrators. Robby has done a lot of thinking and work in this space, especially since joining Identity Mine where…
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Download 1.1 Now Performance Improvements A week ago, I posted the first version of the Xbox Friends Watch Gadget. I received a lot of great feedback and feature suggestions. The most noticeable was the excessive amount of memory consumed for some people. I've gone through and …
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Frank La Vigne has organized a Silverlight DevCamp in Washington, D.C. this Saturday November 3rd. He has the full details on his blog and has been twittering speakers and their session descriptions. "51 Attendees and Growing!" On November 10th there will also be a Silverlight DevCamp ta…
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