Category Archives: z Silverlight Archives

  Today I had the pleasure (and technical glitch frustration) of delivering the first in a new series of webcasts.  I’m trying a number of new things in response to changes I’ve observed in the last few years, 1. I … Continue reading →

    That is, don’t believe anything I say when you ask me about Silverlight vs. some other technology such as… well the one people keep asking about is Flash (or Flex).  Here’s why. 1. Once a person has a … Continue reading →

This schedule was modified on July 4. The schedule will be kept up to date by a notice in the side bar under presentations which will link to a dedicated page outside the blog.    I am pleased to announce a … Continue reading →

Before I leave, I want to squeeze in one quick note about a problem a lot of folks are running into as they upgrade from Beta 1 to Beta 2. I’ll come back to this in more detail when I … Continue reading →

    I will be away for a few days. Please leave packages outside my blog, and someone feed the cat.           Thanks.

  Last night I had the opportunity to talk to a packed room at the Boston .NET User’s Group; an incredibly welcoming and most friendly group of some 150,000 screaming fans of all things Microsoft. I promised at the time … Continue reading →

I got to O’Hare at 1pm because the hotel I was staying at had the usual early check out time and it being Sunday there was no reasonable place to go.  When I got here I learned that my 6pm … Continue reading →

You have noticed, I’m sure, that there has been a flurry of blogging, videos and more since the release of Beta 2. That is all goodness, though it can be hard to know where to start; and the road map … Continue reading →

I’m pleased to announce that the following tutorials are now updated for Beta 2 and available for immediate download (but only the PDF versions and the code have been updated so far, the HTML versions are not yet updated) 1 … Continue reading →

Beta 2 includes a wealth of new controls including the Popup (that is new, right? It’s not that I just didn’t notice it before?). I received an email today asking if I’d do a short How Do I video on … Continue reading →

Beta 2 has been announced, and as you may know from Tim’s post and Karen Corby’s, one of the big and wonderful additions to Beta 2 is a new model for skinning Silverlight controls. There are a lot of other new … Continue reading →