wintellect-blogs|Aug 10, 2007

Our Community Loses a Friend

I was shocked and saddened this morning to learn that David Boschmans passed away suddenly. David worked for Microsoft Europe and was one of my best Microsoft pals on the other side of the pond. I’ve been exchanging e-mail with him in recent weeks getting ready for TechEd Europe in November. I knew he was…
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Blogs|Aug 8, 2007

Lessons from the Trenches: Visual Studio 2008 and Silverlight 1.1

I’ve been heads-down in Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 and the Silverlight 1.1 Alpha Refresh for the past several days. Now that I’ve come up for air, I’d like to share a few tips, tricks, and work-arounds for glitches in the current builds that other developers might find helpful. SILVERLIGHT.JS After you install the July…
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wintellect-blogs|Aug 8, 2007

Introducing SilverLife

In the October 1970 issue of Scientific American (“Mathematical Games: The Fantastic Combinations of John Conway’s New Solitaire Game ‘Life’,” p.120), Martin Gardner described a mathematical game devised by Cambridge University mathematician John Horton Conway. The game, which was appropriately named “Life,” simulated the birth, death, and regeneration of cells or organisms whose “universe” was…
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wintellect-blogs|Jul 31, 2007

MyComix Updated for Silverlight 1.0 Release Candidate

It’s been a while since I posted to the blog because I’ve been traveling–some for business, some for pleasure. I had a relaxing vacation in Hawaii with my wife and kids followed by a trip to Atlanta for Wintellect’s annual company retreat and am now back in the saddle digesting the latest updates to Silverlight…
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Blogs|Jun 19, 2007

Microsoft Hyderabad

The last few weeks have been travel-heavy for me. First there was TechEd in Orlando. Then I was home for a few days before heading to India for a return visit to Microsoft’s Hyderabad campus. The Microsoft campus is a sparkling jewel on the outskirts of the town of Hyderabad. It boasts big beautiful buildings, great cafeterias,…
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Blogs|May 23, 2007

MyComix Update

I made some minor modifications to the MyComix Silverlight viewer. I wasn’t happy with the look of the drop-down info panel, so I crufted up a new design in Expression Blend. I also added a simple animation that allows comic book covers to pop into view (as opposed to simply appearing out of nowhere) once the…
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wintellect-blogs|May 18, 2007

Updated Silverlight Viewer (and Source)

I did a little rearchitecting on MyComix’s Silverlight viewer tonight and added a new feature, too. Now when you move the mouse into the region of the window above the top of the comic book, a partially transparent info panel containing pertinent information about the comic slides into view. To check it out, go to http://mycomix.training.atmosera.com/Spotlight.aspx?Item=1845 and have…
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wintellect-blogs|May 18, 2007

Watch Silverlight Go Zoom

We’ve been keeping the airways hot here at Wintellect. First there was Devscovery Denver. Then came MIX in Las Vegas, Devscovery New York, and a trip to Redmond, all in consecutive weeks. I’m looking forward to having (most of) a couple of weeks at home before heading to TechEd and then back to India. Below are…
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wintellect-blogs|May 5, 2007

A Touch of Silverlight

I’ve been playing with the Silverlight bits Microsoft published last week and am having a blast. I just finished adding a Silverlight viewer to MyComix. To check it out, go to http://mycomix.training.atmosera.com and click a comic book cover. (Make sure you’re in thumbnail view, because I only have the Silverlight viewer wired into that view.) You…
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Blogs|May 1, 2007

MIX Update: WPF vs. Silverlight

I’ve heard a lot of talk around MIX this week about Silverlight obsoleting WPF. Developers are asking “why would I develop a WPF app when I could do the same thing with Silverlight and have it run in a browser?” I can think of two big reasons why WPF is still relevant: 1) WPF has…
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wintellect-blogs|May 1, 2007

The Day the Web Changed: NET in the Browser!

MIX 07 opened yesterday and I believe we’ll look back on that day as the day that the Web changed. Microsoft made several announcements, not the least of which is that Silverlight, formerly known as “WPF/E,” will include a cross-platform version of the CLR that runs in the browser. What does it mean? It means…
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Blogs|Apr 9, 2007

Announcing MyComix

For a couple of years now, I’ve been showing an ASP.NET 2.0 sample app named MyComix to conference audiences and promising that I would make it available for downloading. I finally found the time to clean up the source code, and the app is now live and available for downloading at http://mycomix.training.atmosera.com. MyComix is, first and foremost, a…
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