Wiirtual.Earth – A WPF Virtual Earth 3D Experiment … featuring the Nintendo WII Mote

Disclaimer: this is a hack, an experiment, not a finished application - no guarantees are given and the code is probably pretty horrible. It might max out your computer or break something, so use this at your own risk. Also, be sure to check out the great work of the poeple whose projects/source code I have [...]

Design & Build A Complete WPF Application in Expression

Greetings … long time no read, I have been rather inactive for a long time now. Apologies for that, but I have been extremely busy with holding presentations and trainings around Expression and Silverlight.
And this is the reason for this post: this post is about a complete WPF Training Hands On Lab. It contains instructions [...]

Expression Web Beginner’s Tutorial

Here is a nice tutorial for Expression Web that shows how to build a complete web site with ASP.net and Expression Web. This was designed as part of a curriculum for High Schools that want to teach their students web design skills:
Your Learning Guide to Expression Web provides a convenient method to learn valuable Web [...]

A new WPF starter kit has been published!

Have you ever seen the New York Times Reader? It is one of the top WPF apps out there, allowing you to read the NYT on your computer. It is a totally different experience from going to a website. Microsoft has now released a new starter kit that gives you the opportunity to build your [...]

New year, new resolutions

A long time has passed since my last post – but anyway, the time before christmas is always very busy @ Microsoft. Right now, we are reviewing the first half of the year and looking at the results as well as planning the second half. Designer business looks actually pretty good, we are seeing quite [...]

MIX 08 Registration now open!

MIX 08, the conference that covers everything next web will take place March 5-7 2008 in glitzy Las Vegas. This is a great event where you can catch up on the latest Microsoft technologies and also see what others are doing with Silverlight and Expression – highly recommended! Here is what the people at Microsoft [...]

Free Expression Web eBook

UPDATE – thanks for the comment, I have changed the post accordingly – actually, it came to me too late that deep-linking directly to content  on other sites is not very good form … so apologies for that & please get the book on the web site.
If you are building your web site with Expression Web, [...]

Build a streaming media Vista sidebar gadget with Silverlight

Wow, I have been searching for a tutorial on how to build a Vista sidebar gadget in Silverlight for quite some time now (I think that the small screen real estate you have at your disposal when designing a sidebar gadget is the ultimate test of a designer’s creativity) - and just now I found this great webinar that not only [...]

TechNet WebCasts – served by Silverlight

Microsoft EMEA has launched a new webcast portal – TechNet Spotlight, based entirely on Silverlight. Spotlight offers great content and presentations from MS events world wide recorded in high quality video. This is a great place to brush up on some of Microsoft’s latest technologies – and it looks good, too. Link: TechNet Spotlight.

WPF & Expression video tutorials

Head over to http://www.contentpresenter.com/ and check out their range of video tutorials. They can be downloaded for offline viewing and run approx. 15 minutes per video. Topics covered include:

Building an Interactive 3D Video Player
Learn how to use the 3DTools library to place 2D controls onto 3D meshes while keeping their interactivity intact.
Reflections in Visual Studio and [...]