Posted in All Tech, Microsoft, Silverlight, Tech Events, WPF, Windows Live on Mar 5th, 2008 No Comments »
Head over to Tim Sneath’s blog for a list of all download links related to the keynote this morning.
Posted in All Tech, Microsoft, Silverlight, Tech Events, WPF on Mar 5th, 2008 No Comments »
First let’s get to the obvious Silverlight announcements we “knew” were coming during this keynote:
- Silverlight 2.0 Beta is available!
- Expression Blend 2.5 (!) March Preview is available!
- [update] Silverlight Beta tools for Visual Studio 2008 are available
- formal announcement of Silverlight Mobile device support!
In my presentation last weekend I was asked about Silverlight [...]
Posted in All Tech, Microsoft, Silverlight, Tech Events, WPF, Windows Live on Mar 5th, 2008 No Comments »
I’ve just stepped out from the first Mix Keynote I’ve attended as a consultant rather than a Microsoftie. There was no real shocker in there, but it was a solid keynote and I am enthused by a couple of exciting announcements
Ray Ozzie began by saying he sees Mix08 as one of several milestones on a [...]
Posted in All Tech, Canada, Microsoft, Silverlight, Tech Events, WPF, Where on Mar 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
Thanks to everyone who came out to my WPF and Silverlight presentation at the Toronto CodeCamp event yesterday. It was great to have a chance to speak with so many interested and enthusiastic people who hung around after the talk.
Because the presentation was a riff on my What’s New in WPF 3.5 and Silverlight [...]
Posted in All Tech, Canada, Microsoft, Personal, Silverlight, Tech Events, WPF on Feb 25th, 2008 1 Comment »
I’m presenting at the Toronto Code Camp on Saturday about What’s new in Visual Studio 2008 for WPF 3.5 and Silverlight developers. My presentation will be an updated version of the presentation I gave at ObjectSharp’s Visual Studio 2008 At the Movies event, which hopefully you’ll find interesting and useful if you’re doing client-side [...]
Posted in All Tech, Microsoft, Silverlight, Tech Events, WPF on Feb 11th, 2008 No Comments »
1. Visual Studio 2008. Express Edition is free. But the story doesn’t end here…
2. Expression Blend 2. Current build is the December Preview. I’m guessing the next drop will happen around Mix08 in March. Does a much better job of visually editing XAML (for instance, elements in Resource Dictionaries) than [...]
Posted in All Tech, Canada, Microsoft, Silverlight, Tech Events, WPF on Feb 7th, 2008 4 Comments »
It was great to be part of ObjectSharp’s VS2008 at the Movies event this morning. Thanks to all of you who braved a quintessentially Canadian snowstorm to be there!
My favourite part of the WPF/Silverlight presentation was being able to show some of the work ObjectSharp has been doing with WPF and .NET 3.5 at Thermo [...]
Posted in All Tech, Canada, Microsoft, Silverlight, Tech Events, WPF on Jan 28th, 2008 1 Comment »
I’ve been knee-deep in code for the past month, and in the process I’ve refined my proverbial code pipeline and learned heaps about what it’s really like to build line-of-business WPF applications with Visual Studio 2008.
So I’m excited to have the chance to talk WPF and Silverlight at ObjectSharp’s “VS2008 at the Movies” event on [...]
Posted in All Tech, Microsoft, Silverlight on Jun 23rd, 2007 1 Comment »
Through Tim Sneath (who, at long last, I had the pleasure of meeting at Dublin’s IMTC) comes the most impressive Silverlight 1.1 Alpha demo I have seen since MIX07.
A company called NetikaTech has recreated a vast amount of the Windows Forms controls using Silverlight. And perhaps most impressively, there’s a mock-up of a Windows Forms Design Surface [...]
