Today, the Windows Phone 7 Dev tools shipped! As you may (or may not) know – Silverlight is platform for anyone building Windows Phone 7 apps. Netflix app demo (built on Silverlight!) To read more about Windows Phone 7 Dev … Continue reading
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Silverlight 4 Ships Today!
We shipped today! WAAHOO!!! And this time, we’ve packaged up all the dev tools (including the runtime) in one package. So after you’ve installed Visual Studio 2010, go get Silverlight Tools here!
Silverlight 4 RC & Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP!
Go download the Silverlight 4 RC! Runtime (PC, Mac) Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 Expression Blend 4 Beta Silverlight Toolkit WCF RIA Services Just a few of my favorite new SL4 RC features since the Beta: Full screen … Continue reading
MIX10
I’m so excited about MIX10! Here’s a list of key Silverlight sessions. If you’re not in Vegas, catch the keynotes (live!) and sessions (24hours delayed) at http://live.visitmix.com. Time Session Speaker Room Mon 11:30 – 12:30pm Microsoft Silverlight 4 Overview: What’s … Continue reading
Some Recent Notable Silverlight Posts
A couple folks on my team have recently started blogs. If you haven’t already, check it out! David Poll (blog) On-demand loading of assemblies with Silverlight Navigation – Revisited for Silverlight 4 Beta Opening up Silverlight 4 Navigation: Introduction to … Continue reading
Silverlight 4 Links
Here’s a set of interesting Silverlight 4 links… Bits & Tools Visual Studio 2010 Beta Silverlight 4 Beta Tools For Visual Studio 2010 Developer Runtime (Windows, Mac) Note: Runtime gets installed with the SL4 Beta Tools Expression Blend Preview … Continue reading
PDC Session: Silverlight 4 Beta Overview
Thank you to everyone who came to my overview talk yesterday! My session video has already been posted online. You can also download the deck here. You can find online all the other Silverlight PDC session videos. As promised, … Continue reading
Silverlight 4 Beta Ships Today!
As our VP ScottGu just announced in the PDC Keynote, Silverlight 4 Beta ships today! Get the bits here. If you’re at PDC, I’ll be giving the Silverlight 4 Beta Overview session in an hour (CL01, 11:30am Hall F). Here … Continue reading
Top 100 Global Brands of 2009
BusinessWeek published an article on the top global brands this year. It’s interesting to see who made this list – some of them are pretty obvious (e.g. Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon). Others make total sense, but I probably wouldn’t … Continue reading
Bing Visual Search Released!
And it uses Silverlight! Bing Visual Search enables you to search the web using images as your “keywords” (as opposed to well, word keywords). Check it out here.
Whatcha Think? New Silverlight Features…
Thanks to Joe for calling out the new Silverlight feature request tracker. Tim Heuer and Scott Barnes have set up this list up to help us get feedback from the community. We’re definitely looking closely at this list! Please cast … Continue reading
Updated FlickrViewr for Silverlight 3
Now using ChildWindow, Validation UI and more! Go here to see the app and get the code.