You may have noticed the new look for the Twilight Twitter Badge on my blog a few weeks ago. I wanted to add a few new looks for the badge and got one of them done but then decided I need to spend some more time on it before releasing it because I didn’t like the way the code was turning out. ...

Josh Holmes has a great post about going the the mattresses to prove ROI for your application.  His post, “Moving From Cost center to Strategic Partnerâ€�, is well-written and is dead on the money. During my interview process at Microsoft, my interviews focused predominantly on two themes: ho...

Hard to believe that the NCAA Mens’ Basketball March Madness Tournament is just around the corner — but it is, and this year CBS Sports is adding a high-quality viewing option to its March Madness On Demand (MMOD) video player. The new player uses Microsoft’s Silverlight (CBS has a...

Moonlight, implementarea free si open-source a framework-ului de aplicatii web Silverlight a ajuns la versiunea 1.0 anunta coordonatorului proiectului Mono Project, Miguel de Icaza pe blogul sau. Dupa cum mentioneaza si Miguel, Moonligh 1.0 trece toate testele de regresie impuse de Microsoft, deveni...

I am excited to announce that Novell today released version 1.0 of Moonlight, and is making it available for download at no cost with support for most major Linux distro’s (including openSUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Fedora, Red Hat, and Ubuntu). For those unfamiliar with it, Moonlight is a joint e...

In this post, I'm going to describe an implementation of ICollectionView for Silverlight that allows you to add sorting, filtering, grouping and selection tracking to any Selector based control (such as ListBox or ComboBox). To demonstrate the implementation, I’ve built a sample application th...

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I think Silverlight represents the likely future of computing for most of us. And by “us�, I mean both Windows and web developers on the Microsoft platform (and maybe beyond). I think we’re at a point of convergence, where two industry trends are coming together in a way that makes Silverlight...

There is a nice Easter Egg in Silverlight 2 Hard Rock Memorabilia application, demonstrating power of the Deep Zoom technology. Here is how it works: open the Memorabilia Home Page and press "V". You are photo of the Beatles figures now. Start to zoom-out - wow, the photo is inside of framework, whi...

A lot, it turns out. Some long-time readers may remember my post of a year or two back where I set a fun little challenge to test what could be accomplished with just a single element of XAML. In the preparation for MIX09, the team created a competition that offered slightly more room for creativity...