XAML and UI, whever it is found. Phone, Surface, Silverlight or WPF
Posted in Conferences on Apr 24th, 2007
More and more conferences are embracing the blogger community. Several recent Microsoft conferences have tried making it easier for attendees, conference staff and reporters to blog the event. Jeff Sandquist (Microsoft, Channel 9) just emailed me some information the Mix07 Blogzone. The Mix07 BlogZone (aka Blogger Lounge) If you’re planning on live blogging a conference you probably have [...]
Posted in Conferences on Apr 24th, 2007
I’m going to the Mix07 conference next week. This is my first time, couldn’t make it last year, and I’m really looking forward to the conference. For the last week I’m been deluged with email describing some of the new events or invitations to dinner, lunch and coffee. I’m going to be busy, how about you? Microsoft is [...]
Posted in Silverlight, WPFe on Apr 16th, 2007
This week is the National Association of Broadcasters conference. Microsoft used the conference as an opportunity to announce the new name for WPFe. After waiting months for this announcement I’m happy to to say that Microsoft picked a good name — Silverlight. I thought the plan was to reveal the name at Mix07. I was [...]
Posted in Code Examples, WPF on Apr 10th, 2007
I managed to get the the webserver working correctly and the XBAP is deployed for the AutoCenter slider article.
Posted in WPF on Apr 10th, 2007
The WPF API’s work hard to abstract away the grungy details of rendering pixels to the computer screen. It’s still work to build nice looking user interfaces but it’s getting easier to think about the design instead of worrying about video buffers and framerates. The complexity is still there, but someone at Microsoft is dealing [...]
Posted in WPF on Apr 9th, 2007
This is really a simple little trick that I needed for a WPF application recently. It’s so simple that I didn’t think about posting to WpfWonderland. I showed it so someone yesterday and they asked why I didn’t write about it. So here it is. If you find it useful leave me a comment and I’ll [...]
Posted in Games, Silverlight, WPFe on Apr 6th, 2007
I think that compelling applications always drive platform adoption. Give me a cool app that I can’t resist and I’ll do what it takes to get on your platform. I’ll buy a Mac/PC, download the .NET framework, install the Java runtime in my browser or click a link to install Flash. Your customers will do that in a [...]
Posted in WPF on Apr 6th, 2007
I ran into Bill Wolff at the MVP summit last month (March 2007). I told him about my WPF talk I’ve been giving around the US and how much I’ve enjoyed speaking about WPF. Bill is a get-it-done guy so when I told him I’d be in Philly the week of April 9th he jumped into action. [...]
Microsoft has received a steady chorus of requests from the MSDN crowd. “Please include Expression Blend in MSDN!”. We’ve lobbied long and hard and Microsoft listened. Today Microsoft announced that both Expression Web and Expression Blend will be in MSDN. Excellent news! From Soma Somasegar Based on this feedback, I am pleased to say [...]
