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Category Archive for 'MIX'

Mango adds Beta and Private Marketplaces to Windows Phone 7 and neglects Enterprise

Posted in MIX, WP7 on Apr 15th, 2011

Corporations will not create internal Windows Phone 7 applications unless they have a way to restrict deployment of their apps to controlled list of registered phones.  As it stands today, it is not possible to do private deployments.  The next version of Windows Phone 7, known as Mango, aims to change that.  Microsoft previewed the [...]

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Open Source Fest at Mix11

Posted in .Net, Conferences, MIX, Shazzam on Apr 15th, 2011

Trade conferences are a steady companion for the tech industry. And it not just for tech people. Gathering together in crowd for annual events is a human need.  We all do it.  Look at the thousands of different conference held each year.   Las Vegas’s economy is anchored to this obvious pattern.  Well, Vegas also caters [...]

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Tim Heuer – Great summary of Silverlight 3 features

Posted in MIX, Silverlight on Mar 18th, 2009

The stream of product announcements and feature enhancements during the Mix09 keynote was non-stop.  I estimate that Scott Guthrie must have rattled off ninety or more of these tidbits in the two and a half hour Mix09 kickoff.  At a rapid pace Scott discussed IIS, Silverlight Expression Blend, the Microsoft Web Installer, adaptive streaming and many [...]

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Mix09 At the movies with 'Objectified'

Posted in Conferences, MIX on Mar 14th, 2009

Mix09 is coming next week.  I can’t wait to be there and see all the announcements about Silverlight 3. Since this is the main Microsoft RIA event it is loaded with enough Silverlight and WPF content to keep even an aged RIA veteran happy.  Mix is more than just technology news however.  The Mix team [...]

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Silverlight – Expression Blend 2.5 Beta is released

Posted in MIX, Silverlight on Mar 5th, 2008

A preview version of Expression Blend for designing Silverlight 2 applications is now available. http://silverlight.net/getstarted/#beta –Mix08–

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2000 Unit Tests released for Silverlight

Posted in MIX, Silverlight on Mar 5th, 2008

Microsoft is releasing several thousand unit tests for the Silverlight controls.  These will be released under an Open Source license. -Mix08-

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Flexible bandwidth switching in Silverlight

Posted in MIX, Silverlight on Mar 5th, 2008

What if your customers are watching a video on your site and their bandwidth is flaky? For the first five minutes they’ve got a solid high speed connection but then the bandwidth drops drastically.  What happens to the video playback?   Does it stall for a few seconds and then startup again? Silverlight 2.0 will intelligently [...]

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Expression Blend 2.5 coming this spring

Posted in Conferences, MIX, Silverlight on Mar 4th, 2008

Scott Guthrie writes another amazing article, this time about using Expression Blend 2.5.  His 40 page, 4,000 word post shows how to build a Silverlight chat application with the upcoming Expression beta.

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Secrets to be unveiled at Mix08

Posted in Conferences, MIX, Silverlight, WPF on Mar 4th, 2008

Soon, very soon, Microsoft will open the Mix08 information floodgates.  Microsoft employees and partners will be released from their NDA shackles and we’ll finally learn what’s been cooking in the Silverlight kitchen.  At Mix07 I heard an excited buzzing sound in the conference hallways as attendees discussed the ramifications of the Silverlight announcements.  Managed code. [...]

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Win a trip to MIX08

Posted in Conferences, MIX on Jan 30th, 2008

Think you’re the best CSS wrangler out there?  Do customers weep over the beauty of your web sites?  You say you can create a three column layout, using only CSS and div tags, before your next coffee break?  Do you want to spend a week in Las Vegas with several thousand new found UI friends? [...]

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