Brian Goldfarb's Blog
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New official Silverlight Blog
earlier this week, as part of MIX09, we launched an official Silverlight team blog. ...
Date: 03/22/2009
Off to MIX
MIX is here, I hop on a plane to vegas in 16 hours. See you there – it is going to be...
Date: 03/14/2009
CBS Chooses Silverlight for March Madness
As a huge Duke Basketball fan this win is particularly gratifying :) a few great articles...
Date: 02/17/2009
More IIS7 goodness: Application Request Routing (ARR)
Application Request Routing (ARR) v1 released today! The ARR feature is a free IIS7 extension that...
Date: 02/17/2009
MIX09 – Register by Feb 27 and save $300
MIX09 is going to be amazing. I can’t give away the details, but as the keynote owner for...
Date: 02/17/2009
Microsoft Web Platform Installer Release Candidate – Now works with XP and Windows 2003!
I'm going to blatantly steal Bill Staples words since they were so good :) "I’m...
Date: 11/25/2008
MSN Germany with Silverlight wins IPTV Award 2008 - coolness
I just heard some great news from Europe: MSN Germany received the “IPTV Award 2008” for...
Date: 11/17/2008
Give us feedback on Silverlight 2!
My team pulled this together, help them pick your brain! Give us feedback on Silverlight 2...
Date: 11/17/2008
Styling a Silverlight Twitter Application with Expression Blend 2
We've done some amazing work with Expression Blend 2 for designers and now with the final release of...
Date: 11/15/2008
>Play 2008
I'm speaking at >Play this year. The show actually started earlier this morning, but...
Date: 11/15/2008
IIS7 Extensions - URLRewrite and more
https://www.iis.net/extensions The team just launched a new redesigned extensions page to make it...
Date: 11/13/2008
How to Use the Facebook Developer Toolkit 2.0 for .NET
I have been exchanging mail with Bill Konrad about how we can improve the Facebook Developer Toolkit...
Date: 11/08/2008
MUST SEE: MSNBC Election 2008 Electoral Map
If you watch MSNBC and have ever seen Chuck Todd of MSNBC and his Surface applications for...
Date: 11/03/2008
Silverlight + IIS Smooth Streaming is WOW
On Tuesday last week we announced a partnership with Akamai to deliver a solution for some of the...
Date: 11/01/2008
Silverlight Toolkit - Already 10k downloads!
We announced this awesome toolkit with the RTM of Silverlight 2 and shipped the first drop at PDC,...
Date: 11/01/2008
Open Source apps on Windows - made easy!
Today we launched the new Microsoft.com/Web website for web developers and web professionals. This...
Date: 10/15/2008
Are you a Silverlight rockstar? Get a killer job.
A great agency in Seattle, ramp group is looking for a rockstar Silverilght developer -- see JD...
Date: 07/14/2008
Get the early skinny on Silverlight 2
ScottGu has been burning the midnight oil (literally!) to pull together an incredibly detailed...
Date: 02/22/2008
Halo3 in HD with Silverlight
https://halo3.msn.com/videosHD.aspx I've been buried in Silverlight fun... but check this out.
Date: 08/28/2007
Help Vinay... It's easy
I'm not one to spread causes, but I comment on this one because for two reasons. (if you don't want...
Date: 07/16/2007
Off To Asia
Yes I've been pretty delinquent in posting to the blog lately -- I blame it on too much work... but...
Date: 06/15/2007
Silverlight is here!
Ok, so I've been quiet, but I can explain it -- I've been working really really hard on Silverlight...
Date: 04/16/2007
A new job for me, better products for you
And hopefully some more time to blog :) This week we re-organized our team so that we could better...
Date: 03/12/2007
Scott Guthrie debuts in Red vs Blue
Words can't describe just how cool this is :) And a pretty hot looking "WFP/E" video player to boot...
Date: 03/06/2007
Microsoft employees meet their famous counterparts
Danielfe decided to put together a great post about how some of us look like famous people (not that...
Date: 02/27/2007
MSL Ships ASP.NET AJAX Clinic
After an amazing herculean effort by MSL they have released the official ASP.NET AJAX Training...
Date: 02/22/2007
ASP.NET AJAX and SharePoint 2007
Lot's of questions about this topic and we just posted some content to help See ScottGu's blog post...
Date: 02/21/2007
Refactor! for ASP.NET Beta released
After seeing the amazing success and interset in the great Refactor! for VB applications last year,...
Date: 02/02/2007
New improvements to iis.net: The IIS.net DownloadCENTER
We are always hard at work improving the experience around our online properties. IIS.net has been...
Date: 02/01/2007
Using the Microsoft AJAX Library with PHP
Steve Marx has been working behind the scenes on building out a community project to create native...
Date: 01/23/2007
ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 is here!!!
It has been a bumpy and exciting ride the last few weeks with the Web Platform and Tools group as...
Date: 01/23/2007
Community Recognition System now Live
One area that we have been focusing a lot of energy is continuing to improve our online community...
Date: 01/12/2007
AJAX Security Webcasts
Joe Stagner was able to secure two of best counter-hacker he knows (Caleb Sima and Billy Hoffman...
Date: 01/12/2007
Which Superhero are you?
Found this cool quiz from Frank Shaw @ TheGlassHouse, I'm Spiderman, which super hero are you? Your...
Date: 12/30/2006
ASP.NET AJAX RC 1 is here! Download now
We are making great progress with ASP.NET AJAX and are definitely winding down to the home stretch....
Date: 12/14/2006
Great new ASP.NET training from Total Training
I got a mail from the folks over at Total Training today letting me know that Set 1 of their awesome...
Date: 12/11/2006
IIS7 Beta Hosting at DiscountASP
I got an email yesterday from Takeshi over at DiscountASP and they just launched free IIS7 Beta...
Date: 12/05/2006
Get "WPF/E" onto a Web Page in seconds using ASP.NET AJAX Extenders
Kudos to the ASP.NET AJAX Toolkit team for creating a killer extender to simplify getting a "WPF/E"...
Date: 12/05/2006
"WPF/E" CTP and Expression Studio Announced
For the past several months I've been spending more and more of my time at work focused on our...
Date: 12/04/2006
Running IE6 & IE7 on one machine, the right way
We have heard tons of feedback about the need for developers to run both IE6 and IE7 on their...
Date: 11/30/2006
RTW of the CSS Friendly Adapters
Update: great article by Scott Mitchell on how to use these things went up If you’re not a fan of...
Date: 11/29/2006
Microsofft AJAX Library class browser from Eilon!
Once upon a time (in the CTP days), Wilco wrote a nice class browser that has been used for a while...
Date: 11/24/2006
Patterns & Practices: Web Client Software Factory
The P&P folks are busily working on a great software factory (similar to the Smart Client...
Date: 11/17/2006
MIX is coming back to Vegas in 2007!
Ahh MIX! It was an amazing show last year and we are bringing it back again, same amazing venue,...
Date: 11/07/2006
At Connections in Las Vegas
Just got into Las Vegas, and I must say THEHotel is the best hotel in the strip (still). I'll be at...
Date: 11/05/2006
Coding4Fun v2 (redesigned) is now live
DanielFe and team shipped a new design for Coding4Fun -- it ROCKS, definitley check it out Get more...
Date: 11/03/2006
Microsoft and Zend Announce Collaboration to Enhance PHP on IIS/Windows
I'm being lazy and stealing verbatim from Keith's post (Update: also check out ScottGu's great post...
Date: 11/01/2006