Category Archives: z Silverlight Archives

  It is traditional when you return from a conference to file a "trip report" with your team. What follows is my trip report to you, with an emphasis on what I learned. I will not review, here, all that … Continue reading →

I’ve put together a very small photo essay of my trip to Mix, proving to myself (again) that phone cameras are incredibly convenient, and incredibly limited. All in all, it was a blast.

  Easily lost among all the exciting announcements here at Mix is some great news about the Silverlight Toolkit.  First, the March 2009 release for both Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3 is now available here This release includes six new … Continue reading →

Update on Video Source Code First, thanks for your patience. I’m happy to confirm that the source code for Element to Element Binding and Using 3d are all correct for the Beta release. In addition, we’ll be posting the source … Continue reading →

As of this morning I have uploaded five videos (with C# and VB source code) for Silverlight 3.  To have this ready at the moment of release I opted for most to build with pre-beta code. This note will review … Continue reading →

  You never know where you’ll end up discussing Silverlight… I recently had the extraordinary opportunity to spend an hour talking about Silverlight with Jeffry Houser and John Wilker on The Flex Show (my part starts 4 1/2 minutes into … Continue reading →

I’m very pleased to provide this link to a brief discussion with Erik Mork about the Bubble Chart from the Silverlight Toolkit, which I believe ties in nicely with this post from late December.     [Bubble chart from the … Continue reading →

    The latest craze among us geeks are the ill-named Nettops; – ill named because they’ve quickly exceeded the implicit assumption that they are best used for surfing the net and not much else.  These micro-laptops are now typically … Continue reading →

You’ll have noticed that some of our biz cards seem to have shrunk. This is the "moo card" phenomenon…. Moo is a very hip, very friendly site that will print almost anything for you, but what has clearly caught on … Continue reading →

I recently wrote a rant about the use (and overuse) of statistics, and pointed to the Twitter Influence Calculator (now Twitalyzer) as a working example of statistics of questionable value. I should have paused. It turns out that (a) they … Continue reading →

I am finishing up my tutorial on Hyper-video and in the more advanced section I discuss the idea of displaying a button when the video’s marker is hit, and then removing the button after a short time has passed. To … Continue reading →

  Eric Mork (of Sparkling Client) has created a site with videos using Joel Neubeck & Tim Heuer’s video player that makes terrific use of Hypervideo. Eric creates short teaching videos, and embeds markers in each.  When the video hits … Continue reading →