Jared Bienz's Blog
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
Silverlight Image Search
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