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Brazil rocking Windows 1.01

Posted Tuesday, March 24, 2009 5:55 PM by James Senior
Well their website for their IT Pro/Developer event is anyway! Check it out here!  Way retro! Nice work guys. http://www.puertadeenlace.net/run09/ Oh and check out the Silverlight version of Windows 7 too… Read More...
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Obama

Posted Saturday, November 08, 2008 9:11 AM by James Senior
They were saying at Web 2.0 that Obama won the election because of the web.   Well, there was probably a bit more to it than that but it certainly helped.  Being in San Fran on election nice was quite special and walking around at 8pm PST when Read More...
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Quake 2 in Silverlight – sweet!

Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 3:34 AM by James Senior
One of the last PC games I remember playing was Quake 2 – I know I know, it’s been a while.  The wizards over at http://www.innoveware.com/ have converted this classic into Silverlight – amazing! Oh yeah and now they want to know what you want them Read More...
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Hard Rock still rocking in Silverlight

Posted Thursday, October 23, 2008 3:08 PM by James Senior
The Hard Rock site just got a revamp with more items – there are now 500 items!  There’s also a nice widget to embed that you can embed in your own site!  Check the bad boy out for yourself: Hard Rock Memorabilia site If you’re a flash guru Read More...
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From Flash to Silverlight

Posted Tuesday, September 09, 2008 9:59 AM by James Senior
One of the most common things we get asked about is how designers and developers can take their Flash skills and apply them to Silverlight.  We’ve been listening to you and have come out with “Project Rosetta” – a website and set of tutorials that Read More...
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Silverlight and WPF Workshop in NYC next week

Posted Thursday, August 28, 2008 3:40 PM by James Senior
Cool workshops event in NYC being run by my colleagues state side in New York: Overview of Silverlight & WPF Designer developer workflow using XAML Expression Studio to craft Silverlight and WPF User Experiences Styling and Skinning Data Binding Using Read More...
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Crazy Olympic Silverlight Stats

Posted Thursday, August 14, 2008 3:58 PM by James Senior
Came across this cool article on eWeek about the online coverage by NBC of the Olympics powered by Microsoft Silverlight , there are some pretty mind-boggling statistics about the use throughput of data and the number of downloads of the plugin.  Read More...
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Obama gets Deep Zoom

Posted Tuesday, July 08, 2008 10:34 PM by James Senior
Interesting little project this one, created from over 12,000 thumbnails of photos uploaded by supporters Obama’s campaign created this image. Check out their page here . Deep Zoom is the technology included in Silverlight 2.0 that allows you to create Read More...
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Silverlight 2 Beta 2 shipping this week and other tidbits

Posted Tuesday, June 03, 2008 6:35 PM by James Senior
Announcements aplenty at TechEd 2008 in Orlando today.  Somasegar's been writing about his keynote with Bill Gates and Silverlight 2 Beta 2 is shipping this week with a go-live license for production! This means you can legally land apps in production Read More...
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Moonlight Available (that's Silverlight for Linux)

Posted Thursday, May 15, 2008 1:08 PM by James Senior
The interop momentum is growing now with news of the release of Moonlight which is in a nutshell Silverlight for Linux allowing designers and developers to create rich experiences and applications once and land them on Windows and now Linux.  Moonlight Read More...
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Healthcare Silverlight Demo

Posted Tuesday, May 13, 2008 8:43 AM by James Senior
Loving the work from the team in the UK on this demo app to show off Microsoft's Common User Interface for healthcare applications based in Silverlight 2.  Follow the demo guides and it'll take you through all the key aspects of the app. Check it Read More...
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Silverlight in the enterprise

Posted Tuesday, April 15, 2008 10:15 AM by James Senior
By "enterprise" I of course mean "business".  Many partners have asked me over the past couple of months about best tactics to manage the deployment of Silverlight effectively within their businesses.  Tim Sneath has posted Read More...
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Grand Canyon and Deep Zoom

Posted Monday, March 10, 2008 10:36 PM by James Senior
One of the technologies announced at Mix 08 this year was Deep Zoom as part of Silverlight 2.  It allows you to zoom into incredible amounts of detail in high resolution photos and cleverly only brings back the amount of data you need based on your Read More...
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T5M - possibly the coolest Silverlight app to date

Posted Friday, December 07, 2007 4:20 PM by James Senior
T5M (The 5th Medium) is an online magazine that merges the worlds of print and video in a very rich way.  It's a good example of how we see Silverlight being used in the future too with a combination of Ajax being used for some parts of the UI and Read More...
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Windows Live PhotoZoom

Posted Wednesday, December 05, 2007 5:41 PM by James Senior
Via the LiveSide guys , I came across this neat video of software that allows users to zoom smoothly around photos and get more detail in a really rich way. This technology is based upon Silverlight and uses a technology called Seadragon which we first Read More...
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