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Date: 10/31/2010
Announcing "101 Windows Phone 7 Apps"
As I tweeted the other day, my new Windows Phone 7 book is now available for pre-order. Here's the...
Date: 10/31/2010
WPF 4 Unleashed!
I've been seriously neglecting my blog, but I just wanted to point out that WPF 4 Unleashed is now...
Date: 07/20/2010
Silverlight 2 Unleashed Available for Pre-Order
I told someone awhile back, "Don’t worry, there will be a Silverlight 2 Unleashed. The...
Date: 09/16/2008
Popfly Games: Now With High Score Tracking!
Yesterday afternoon we updated Popfly with arguably the most fun feature yet for both viewers and...
Date: 07/18/2008
New Game Creator features are now live!
A few hours ago we released our 20th major update to Popfly, which includes our first update to the...
Date: 06/13/2008
Popfly Game Creator Sample: Type Type Revolution
I'm here at Maker Faire, getting ready to demo the Popfly Game Creator, and here's a new game I just...
Date: 05/03/2008
Popfly Game Creator! (What I've been doing the last 6 months)
At the end of last year, my team was nice enough to let me start working on a Silverlight-based...
Date: 05/02/2008
.NET Rocks!
I was fighting off a cold and perhaps not always thinking straight, but here I am on episode #314 of...
Date: 02/07/2008
Petzold strikes again!
(Or, rather, struck again last summer.) I just found Jeff's post about receiving a book from Petzold...
Date: 12/29/2007
Today's ego boosts
PC World has just named Popfly one of the "25 Most Innovative Products of the Year" WPF Unleashed...
Date: 12/28/2007
Popfly public beta!
As Steve Ballmer announced this morning, Popfly (my day job) is now open to the public! All you need...
Date: 10/18/2007
View and Edit Live Silverlight Examples
Silverlight 1.0 Unleashed is days away from shipping. To celebrate, you can (1) pre-order your copy...
Date: 10/09/2007
Silverlight 1.0 Unleashed is now available (sort of)
I'm going through the very last revisions, but in parallel the book has now appeared on Safari as a...
Date: 09/07/2007
Silverlight 1.0 Unleashed!
It's now official and on Amazon! As indicated by the (temporary) cover, it will be in full color,...
Date: 07/30/2007
WPF Unleashed, with Yaks!
I got the following email this morning that astounded me. I thought I'd share (with the author's...
Date: 06/27/2007
A guessing game created with Popfly
The credit for this idea goes to Tim Rice, a superstar developer I have the pleasure of working with...
Date: 05/18/2007
Yes, I'm on the Microsoft Popfly Team!
It's been an exciting year! As John sums up, I joined him almost a year ago (when he was a team of...
Date: 05/18/2007
Petzold vs. Nathan? Books Like PowerPoint Presentations? Books Like Blogs?
Last week a coworker brought this article by Jeff Atwood to my attention: Coding Horror: How Not To...
Date: 04/30/2007
The WPF Challenge
Check it out. From the man who thinks I use too many exclamation points! (It's true. I like...
Date: 02/14/2007
WPF Unleashed is flying off the shelves... even the shelf in my office!
I suppose I should be flattered. It seems that someone swiped my copy of WPF Unleashed out of my...
Date: 02/05/2007
WPF Unleashed is now available!
I got my hands on two copies while on vacation and gave them to family members, but now that I'm...
Date: 01/05/2007
Thoughts from the author of cards.dll
I got an email the other day that I thought I'd share (with permission from the author and with...
Date: 12/04/2006
WPF Unleashed: The perfect stocking stuffer!
This weekend I entered the final phase of tweaking and reviewing, so WPF Unleashed is on the verge...
Date: 11/13/2006
This one's for John...
John said I need to update my blog. Since he's currently my manager, I guess I should listen to him....
Date: 09/01/2006
A new job... and we're hiring!
I'm happy to report that I've recently joined a new team at Microsoft: John Montgomery's...
Date: 06/23/2006
WPF Unleashed!
It's official... my WPF book now has a title, a temporary cover, and is listed on Amazon: The...
Date: 05/17/2006
.NET and COM: Available once again in non-electronic form
As I mentioned in my earlier post, my .NET and COM book is now being printed on-demand and can be...
Date: 05/15/2006
Aero Glass inside a WPF Window
Recently Tim shared some code for extending Windows Vista Aero "Glass" inside a Windows Forms...
Date: 05/04/2006
My encounter with another Adam Nathan
I felt a bit like Dave Gorman when I recently got an e-mail out of the blue from another Adam...
Date: 05/02/2006
This just in: .NET and COM is coming back in print!
A few months ago I mentioned that my .NET and COM book went out of print. Well, after getting...
Date: 04/20/2006
WPF Book Update (and SD West 2006)
Long time no blog, but I’ve got a good excuse. Since my last post, I’ve become a father! This event,...
Date: 03/16/2006
Windows Vista: More little things in the December CTP
In August I mentioned some of the little improvements in Windows Vista Beta 1 that made using my...
Date: 12/20/2005
The passing of one book and the birth of another
It's official... I got a letter informing me that .NET and COM, almost four years after its release,...
Date: 12/12/2005
WPF developer/designer cooperation in action!
Nate Dunlap is an awesome designer. Check out what he did with the Windows Media Player...
Date: 11/02/2005
Using COM Interop to Create a WPF Visualization for Windows Media Player
It had been awhile since I've given a talk on COM Interop & PInvoke, but last week I did just...
Date: 10/24/2005
XAML Video Playing Cards
On XAMLshare I just put the source for the video playing cards I showed in my PDC talk and on the...
Date: 09/16/2005
That mysterious "proprietary" blackout in the PDC keynote webcast...
...was a parody video with Napoleon Dynamite and Bill Gates. It's too bad it couldn't be broadcast,...
Date: 09/13/2005
Light up with WPF: The Video
Now playing on Channel 9: https://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=114690 This covers one item...
Date: 09/13/2005
The best screenshots from the PDC...
...come from Mike Hall: this and this. Tags: PDC, PDC05
Date: 09/13/2005
Light up on Windows Vista: The "Top 10" List
PDC attendees got a "top 10" poster, but the details are now live on MSDN: "10 things you can do to...
Date: 09/13/2005
Where I'll be @ PDC
I don't know my entire schedule yet, but the following are some definite places & times where...
Date: 09/11/2005
The artwork of PDCs through the years
As you might now, this PDC will be the 11th one. I've put together the logos from PDCs past...
Date: 09/09/2005
There goes my dream of being a rock star...
For anyone that was wondering about the fate of my audition, I got the following response today:...
Date: 09/09/2005
Announcing www.winfxhearts.com!
To correspond with my PDC talk about making an application "light up" on Windows Vista, I've created...
Date: 09/08/2005
Testing...1...2...3...
This is a test.
Date: 09/07/2005
SLAR v2 is out!
Volume 2 of the book that Brad affectionately calls the "SLAR" has been published! He stopped by my...
Date: 09/06/2005
Could YOU be the next Microsoft Idol?
Every year that I've been at Microsoft (except last year!) we've had a huge company meeting in...
Date: 09/06/2005
The transformation of Jim Miller
Jim Miller, one of the CLR's brilliant architects, has been known to go months being clean shaven...
Date: 09/02/2005
GooglePark
I came across this on Channel9 and couldn't resist linking to it:...
Date: 08/28/2005