A Dullard's Guide
Information on development, Silverlight, HD DVD, HDi, and whatever else Amy feels is missing from the interblags.
I Guess This Is Goodbye
The doctors predicted my expiration for August 2018 and much to my delight and surprise, they were...
Date: 11/29/2018
Response 400 (Bad Request) on Long Url
My team owns a REST service that takes a series of IDs as input and responds with documents....
Date: 02/06/2014
Unblocking Build Failure When Moles Not Installed
I have a solution that references a framework project and its tests. The test project uses Microsoft...
Date: 01/26/2012
Visual Studio 2010 RC Now Available
You can now download the Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate at...
Date: 02/10/2010
Visual Studio 2010 and Silverlight 3 SDK
Visual Web Developer in Visual Studio 2010 has support in box for Silverlight 3 development and...
Date: 10/21/2009
Silverlight 3 Tools Prerequisite: Visual Web Developer
Technorati Tags: Silverlight Tools,Visual Studio 2008 One of the prerequisites for Silverlight 3...
Date: 07/17/2009
Michael Jackson's Memorial
1.6 million people registered for tickets to the service in which Stevie Wonder, Mariah Carey,...
Date: 07/07/2009
Silverlight Tools Installation Error Codes
[Edited to included updated Silverlight 3 Tools] When the Silverlight Tools fail to install, a log...
Date: 03/19/2009
Upgrading a Web Project from Silverlight 2 to Silverlight 3
When upgrading a project from Silverlight 2 to Silverlight 3 Beta, the asp:Silverlight and object...
Date: 03/18/2009
Switching from Silverlight 3 Tools to Silverlight 2 Tools
Silverlight 2 projects can't be created with the Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Studio 2008. When...
Date: 03/18/2009
ASP.NET Web Development Server Stops Working
A Windows Defender and Microsoft Forefront Client Security signature file (1.53.256.0) was released...
Date: 03/13/2009
Trouble installing Silverlight Tools
The reported issues with installation of Silverlight Tools has been relatively low. But, there have...
Date: 10/17/2008
Check This Box
You've seen the checkbox on nearly all products from Microsoft. "I would like to improve the...
Date: 10/09/2008
Installing Silverlight Tools RC0 Without English Visual Studio
The release candidate for Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio is currently available for the English...
Date: 09/30/2008
Silverlight Tools Release Candidate Now Available!
The first release candidate of Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is now available for...
Date: 09/26/2008
Silverlight Help in Visual Studio
The Silverlight SDK comes with a large collection of help documents to help you get started writing...
Date: 09/09/2008
Problems Creating a New Silverlight Project after Tools Installation
SYMPTONSWhen creating a new Silverlight project or opening an existing Silverlight project, you...
Date: 08/21/2008
Silverlight Tools Must be Updated After Installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1
Today, Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 was released. This service pack includes support for SQL...
Date: 08/11/2008
Sliding Puzzle, Silverlight 1.0 Edition
If you're an HDi developer who spends anytime reading this blog or the MSDN forum, you've probably...
Date: 04/25/2008
A Year
Today is my one-year anniversary at Microsoft. There have been a lot of changes for me in the last...
Date: 04/09/2008
Tokens Gone
Wow. The Xbox 360 HD DVD emulator was WAY more popular than we had imagined. Josh processed...
Date: 03/18/2008
Xbox 360 HD DVD Emulator Request Update
Any of you who made requests for the Xbox 360 HD DVD emulator last week should have received at...
Date: 03/11/2008
Overwhelmed
Okay, so it turns out that offering the emulator for free was WAY more popular than we had...
Date: 03/05/2008
Xbox 360 HD DVD Emulator Now Available
The Xbox 360 HD DVD Emulator is now available! The emulator is downloaded through Xbox LIVE...
Date: 12/13/2007
Exception Handling
An HD DVD player may throw exceptions during the execution of script, and if not caught will result...
Date: 12/07/2007
Error Codes, Toshiba Edition
If you know what an error code means, it can be immensely helpful in diagnosing the problem with...
Date: 11/27/2007
Error Codes, Xbox Edition
If you know what an error code means, it can be immensely helpful in diagnosing the problem with...
Date: 11/27/2007
Advanced Subtitles
In HD DVD subtitling can be done via a subpicture stream or an Advanced Subtitle. An advanced...
Date: 11/21/2007
Virtual Keyboards
The input tag has four options for mode: password, singleline, multiline or display. When an input...
Date: 10/24/2007
HD DVD Script Object Model
Have you ever been working on an HDi project and needed to look up a method name in Annex Z, but you...
Date: 10/24/2007
Dynamic Content
Today's sample was created upon a request from my very nice and hard working office-mate Chris. Last...
Date: 10/18/2007
HD DVD FAQs
General Why is Microsoft involved in HD DVD?Microsoft supports HD DVD because the mandatory player...
Date: 10/17/2007
Saving Resume Information, part II
In a previous post, I stated that when you press the stop button on your player, you have 2 seconds...
Date: 09/24/2007
Very Simple Network Example
I have received a couple requests for an example of networking, so I put something very basic...
Date: 09/20/2007
Saving Resume Information
If you've purchased a DVD player in the last few years or used a software player, likely you've...
Date: 08/19/2007
Persistent Storage Management
One of the great features mandatory on every HD DVD player is at least 128 MB of persistent storage....
Date: 08/15/2007
Blackjack
Today's game example is inspired by Ocean's 13 (available on HD DVD this fall). Blackjack is one of...
Date: 07/31/2007
Making the Most of Markup
Before I started working on HDi, I was a web developer. I found the transition to HDi pretty easy...
Date: 06/26/2007
Sliding Puzzle
There have been a lot of JavaScript games created for the web. And, because HDi is based on web...
Date: 06/01/2007
Launching the Simulator from Visual Studio
When you're building your HDi applications, you can use the BUILD_PROJECT.BAT file you downloaded...
Date: 05/15/2007
Have you noticed I like Batch Files?
I am a big fan of automating where I can. I am not a big fan of remembering command line arguments....
Date: 05/14/2007
ACAs are Your Friend
As you have noticed, every resource that you use - script, markup, images, audio, etc - must be...
Date: 05/09/2007
IntelliSense - It's a Good Thing.
As you begin working on your playlists, manifests, and markup xml files, you will find attaching the...
Date: 05/07/2007
Dissecting "Chapters"
Hello World is a very basic application. But, now let's take a look at one of the samples that has a...
Date: 05/04/2007
Regarding Fonts in HD DVD
In my last post I mentioned that you can use an OpenType font if you wish to include dynamic text in...
Date: 05/03/2007
Dissecting Hello World
Lets open up the Hello World sample that came with Jumpstart and go through the components that make...
Date: 05/03/2007