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Windows Phone Gaming Bootcamp

I’m doing the first presentation of my Windows Phone Gaming bootcamp today at the University of...

Date: 11/19/2010

Advanced Windows Phone 7 Design Tips and Tricks

I’m doing my first delivery of the Advanced WP7 Design Tips and Tricks tonight for the D2Sig user...

Date: 11/02/2010

Windows Phone at Houston TechFest

I’ll be at Houston TechFest tomorrow talking about Windows Phone development with Silverlight and...

Date: 10/08/2010

Getting Help – Microsoft Platform Ready

Did you know there are more than 4 million .Net developers worldwide? That number includes known...

Date: 07/30/2010

Azure Scale

I just completed a cool ‘Scaling Azure’ video on Channel 9 with my friend Joseph Fultz (Dallas MTC)...

Date: 04/08/2010

Awesome SketchFlow Book Available

Over this past last year I’ve had so many great discussions on SketchFlow, and what an amazing tool...

Date: 04/06/2010

Free Architect for Windows 7 (9/15 - 9/18)

Windows 7 is important to all of us in the PC ecosystem, and my team is striving to provide you with...

Date: 09/01/2009

Windows 7 Compatibility - We’re Here to Help

Did you know Windows 7 was released to manufacturing on July 22nd and is already available for...

Date: 08/06/2009

Application Skinning in WPF and Silverlight

Over the past two years we’ve seen some incredible applications built on WPF and Silverlight. But...

Date: 06/22/2009

Clean Prototyping with Compositions

By now you’ve hopefully seen SketchFlow and how it can help you conceptualize your projects before...

Date: 06/10/2009

The Role of Sketching in Software Development

It only been since 2006 that we seriously started to drive WPF adoption, and Silverlight 2 hit the...

Date: 05/26/2009

Silverlight and WPF Controls

WPF and Silverlight have been out for a while now, and the number of controls available for these...

Date: 05/26/2009

XAMLfest Going Online

Several of you joined us last October for the pilot XAMLfest in Houston Texas. The tour has grown up...

Date: 05/12/2009

Blend Tips and Tricks

I’ll be presenting Blend Tips and Tricks for application designers in a few venues over the next two...

Date: 04/06/2009

Always-Available Social Applications

There are several challenges that need to be solved when building social applications. The ability...

Date: 01/27/2009

Houston TechFest Tomorrow

It’s a rare occasion that I get out of bed before 10 AM on a Saturday. Even less common is that I’m...

Date: 01/23/2009

Launching a Smart Client from the Web - With Context!

SharePoint interest is growing with leaps and bounds, but there are still many scenarios that make...

Date: 11/10/2008

Virtual Earth in Silverlight with VIEWS

I recently had the honor of participate in Incubation Week out in Silicon Valley. Leading up to the...

Date: 07/01/2008

I finally turned a demo I do frequently for my ISVs into a MSDN Screencast:...

Date: 06/11/2008

Transitionals is Live!

Transitionals has finally been released to the public! I know it's been some time since I last...

Date: 04/29/2008

Houston, We've Got a Problem

I mentioned in my last post that Nick worked for a while at NASA. Well, last Thursday I had the...

Date: 04/07/2008

Let the Games Begin

At the 2008 product launch I had a chance to meet an interesting individual by the name of Nick...

Date: 04/07/2008

Hello CodePlex

The Transitionals project is up! Or at least it's created. You can try to visit it at...

Date: 03/21/2008

Click the Button

I'm so ready to click that thing -- Transitionals is ready to go! Since my last post, so many things...

Date: 03/17/2008

RandomTransitionSelector

I meant to blog about this Monday night when I wrapped it up, but it was after midnight and I was...

Date: 03/12/2008

Scrub and Pub

Okay, so I can't truly publish yet, but I did run the source code through the internal validation...

Date: 03/05/2008

Got Blog?

Tonight I got the Ms-PL license included in the solution and used my License Injector app to insert...

Date: 02/27/2008

0 Failed, 0 Skipped

Build succeeded. Time Elapsed 00:00:01.44 ========== Rebuild All: 2 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 skipped...

Date: 02/26/2008

Journey to the Source

Getting access to Microsoft source code is (not surprisingly) a long and arduous process. Actually,...

Date: 02/23/2008

It's Nice to Have Friends

My teammate (and dare I say friend?) John Pelak has teamed up to help me with this project. He's...

Date: 02/15/2008

The birth of Transitionals

So I’m up here in Redmond at TechReady. It’s a super secret event that we get to go to...

Date: 02/13/2008