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Family.Show app shows of WPF, source code is available

Posted Wednesday, May 23, 2007 7:05 PM by James Senior
Saving the best to last :-) The Vertigo crew were commissioned by Microsoft to create an app in WPF that showed off some of the technology. What they came up with was a an app that helps build and visualise family trees. Apparently genealogy is the fastest Read More...
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HD Panoramic Photo Viewer from MS Research

Posted Tuesday, May 22, 2007 4:34 PM by James Senior
Wow the innovation keeps on happening ( back story to lack of MS Innovation)... today via the Virtual Earth blog I found a rather cool video which shows off the work of the MS Research team that are doing stuff with HD Photos that size up to 4 Gigapixels Read More...
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New York Times Reader in Silverlight on a Mac

Posted Wednesday, May 16, 2007 8:57 AM by James Senior
Shock horror, but here's some innovation from Microsoft ( back story from comments in this post ). The New York Times Reader which was originally a Vista launch app based on WPF has been ported to Silverlight on the Mac. Now because WPF and Silverlight Read More...
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Convert Flash SWF to XAML for WPF and Silverlight

Posted Thursday, May 10, 2007 6:19 PM by James Senior
It was only a matter of time...... I first heard about Electric Rain at the launch event for Expression in the UK and the chaps from the product team did their presentation using their software, a very sexy WPF based slide shower called Standout . Now Read More...
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Upcoming Microsoft Events for developers

Posted Friday, May 04, 2007 3:42 PM by James Senior
Some interesting events coming up soon including how to develop applications using Silverlight and Windows Live: Web Design and Development with Silverlight (Formerly Code-Named “WPF/E) and Windows Live: Reading, 16 May 2007 MSDN: Visual Studio “Orcas” Read More...
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Silverlight - release your style

Posted Monday, April 16, 2007 4:52 PM by James Senior
Light up the Web Silverlight (codename WPF/E) is Microsoft’s answer to Adobe’s Flash (estimated to be running rich web based experiences on 95% of the world’s PCs and Macs). The goal is to provide the most natural and seamless method with which to design Read More...
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Expression on MSDN

Posted Wednesday, April 04, 2007 2:11 PM by James Senior
To all those who asked and provided feedback, thank you. Your voice has swayed the vote and Expression Web is now available on MSDN Premium subscription. It's a start - Expression Design and Media aren't on there because they aren't related to developer Read More...
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UK Web Agency Blog - it looks like Expression

Posted Monday, February 19, 2007 1:08 PM by James Senior
Andrew Shorten has just created the "Microsoft blog for and about UK Web Agencies". His first post is about getting started with designing rich User Experiences on the Microsoft platform and technologies like WPF, WPF/E, Expression et. al. I've been playing Read More...
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WPF/E CTP (Feb 2007)

Posted Monday, February 05, 2007 10:12 AM by James Senior
This little blighter slipped out the door on the 2nd and I didn't even realise! Lucky Mike Taulty has got his ear to the ground and spotted the release and also a rather nice Vista environment built with WPF/E. Kind of makes the www.seewindowsvista.com Read More...
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Geeks bearing gifts

Posted Friday, February 02, 2007 10:47 AM by James Senior
Today at DesignerUtopia I was fortunate enough to sit in on the session delivered by Tjeerd Hoek, User Experience Design Director on Windows Vista. One of the interesting things he talked about was how they collected feedback from families using good Read More...
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XAML, it sounds like "camel"

Posted Thursday, February 01, 2007 2:21 PM by James Senior
Robby Ingebretsen from Identity Mine presented at the Microsoft Designer Utopia event today in London and showed off an application they had created - Roxio Studio 9.5 - that shows off the WPF framework and significantly improves the user experience over Read More...
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Whistle-stop tour of Expression Web Designer

Posted Friday, November 24, 2006 2:42 PM by James Senior
Scoble has posted this really nice demo of Expression Web Designer by the product manager. Wayne Smith menions "standards" at least four or five times in the first two minutes - looks like they've put creating compliant web sites at the center of the Read More...
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Give Microsoft feedback on the Windows User Interface

Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 8:32 AM by James Senior
I just got an email from corp asking me for feedback on the Windows User Interface. It asked me to see what friends, family and colleagues thought about it. I'd thought it would be good to get your input too! Here are the questions they asked: We need Read More...
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BBC Vista Demo

Posted Thursday, September 21, 2006 3:04 PM by James Senior
Something that was demoed a while back at the Mix06 event was the BBC gadget running on Vista. It shows off the Presentation Foundation brilliantly and it's great to see a UK partner like the BBC pioneering Vista through our early adopter program. Check Read More...
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I want my desktop to look beautiful, even if I can't see it

Posted Tuesday, September 05, 2006 3:00 PM by James Senior
At the moment I'm on training in Paris, learning about advanced .NET & all things code-like. One of the fellow delegates who also works at Microsoft UK is Saqib Shaikh who sits in the Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) group as a developer. One of Read More...
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