The German trial versions of Microsoft Expression Studio are now available. The full versions will be available in about 6 weeks, Expression Web is already available. Expression Blend (Windows, 180 days) Expression Media (Windows/Mac, 60 days) Expression Design (Windows, 60 days) Expression Web (Windows...

Well, the year 2007 is nearly at the end and I have my short wish list for Microsoft Silverlight . The following (maybe not complete) unsorted list would be nice to see in 2008 with the next CTP or final version: When building Silverlight 2.0 Web applications I must be able to consume services (REST...

I got a lot of feedback for my last post about Silverlight features that are currently missing . Because it is Christmas time we are allowed to wish everything we want, what we get is another thing. Here are some additional features currently missing and are maybe important for everyone. Socket Support...

Some weeks ago Microsoft already published a preview version of the Microsoft Download Center. Now, there is a new URL for the preview version (which is now called beta): http://www.microsoft.com/beta/downloads/ . Well, I run the Fiddler tool to calculate the download size of all files (JavaScript, XAML...

More than half a year ago Dave Campbell , Luis Abreu and I had a discussion about the 1px line width problem in Silverlight and WPF . A short summary of the problem when drawing lines with 1px and using an anti-alias effect: The example above is built with rectangles in the first line of boxes. The second...

You may have noticed that the Silverlight web site at Microsoft.com has been updated. Well, I looks nicer than before, I like it. The system requirements are available here . For those of you that are trying to watch the virtual launch event ( Heroes Happen Here ) of Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008...