May 21, 2010I am very excited to announce that this year I will be presenting three unique sessions at Silverlight Connections in Las Vegas, Nevada Nov 1-4, 2010. I have never got the pleasure of attending this conference and look forward to being a part of three days of in-depth sessions on Silverlight and WP7. DESIGN LDS203: [...]
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April 29, 2010Today Microsoft released the latest version of the Windows Phone 7 Developer tools. This version is free to the community and will will work correctly with Visual Studio 2010 final release. Click here to download the tools.
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July 1, 2009This morning I received an email that Microsoft has chosen to renew me as a MVP. I am thrilled to continue to have this opportunity. This years has been crazy as I continue to write my book, articles for Microsoft and learn what its like to be a consultant with Neudesic. I am very excited [...]
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May 22, 2009This week Microsoft published the latest issue of the Expression Newsletter. If you have not seen the newsletter its a great series of articles focused on using Silverlight and the Expression tools to create amazing rich interactive solutions. In this latest issue I was asked to contribute the fifth of a six part series of [...]
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March 20, 2009Each year at Tech-Ed they have a set of sessions called “Birds-of-a-Feather” these sessions are open discussions around topics that the community has interest in. No formal powerpoint presentations, just a moderator and a bunch of people that have similar interests. This year I submitted a topic that I would love to be included. If [...]
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March 20, 2009I have to say that without a doubt Mix09 was an amazing experience. Unfortunately I did not get to hit all of the session I would have liked to, but nonetheless I had some of the most inspiring conversations around Silverlight. Its hard to explain the vibe any other way than excited. This years sessions [...]
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March 1, 2009When I think back to where Silverlight was just a year ago, it is so exciting to see how far it has come and how much the community has embraced it. Recently I stumbled upon a nice Silverlight podcast called Sparkling client. Sparkling Client is a podcast by Eric Mork about Silverlight and other RIA [...]
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February 25, 2009I am very excited to announce that for the second year Terralever has the great honor of presenting a breakout session at Microsoft’s Mix 09 conference in Las Vegas, March 18-20 2009. Last year I had an amazing time presenting on our use of Silverlight as a Gaming Platform. If you have not had a [...]
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February 20, 2009When Silverlight 2 was first released, we all caught our first glimpse of a new layout control, the “Grid”. Back in the SL1.0 and SL 1.5 Alpha the community asked for more choices then just a Canvas and Microsoft delivered. In fact, they gave us three, the Canvas, Grid and StackPanel. Microsoft even took it [...]
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February 17, 2009Yesterday I was working on some Silverlight production and needed to create a custom UserControl that had some text. The trick was that I wanted the user placing the control to choose which color the text would be, inturn effecting the second key frame on a simple ColorAnimationUsingKeyFrames My animation was really simple, I wanted [...]
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