So lately I have been looking into these two web sites a lot more and it isn’t always easy to figure out which one is used for what.  So I thought I would try to explain it here. Code Gallery is a community-enabled Web site where you can share developer Read More......( read more )

Lots of people are pointing to the release of Flash "Light" on Windows Mobile by Microsoft and claiming that this is to "hold people over" until Silverlight gets here. That is just utter BS. Who the hell has ever used a Flash Light site on their phone? Hell, who really uses Windows Mobile to do any web...

Ozzie has been regarded as the thinker who will take the place of Gates and set the tone for the direction of the company's software. I think that's a pretty huge burden. Generally speaking, he's got the right idea in the bigger picture, that the PC over time is replaced by a combination of devices and...

A few people didn’t like my proclaimation that Flash is dead. This is understandable. It is a bit premature to make such claims, but the Silverlight model is pretty amazing. As someone who works with Flash on an ongoing basis, I thought I'd chime in with a more in depth look at the issues....

Hola amigos. El Microsoft eXperts RoadShow de Latinoamerica empezo el dia de hoy. Revisen sus fechas y ciudades en el presente listado. No se lo pierdan. País Ciudad Fecha Hora Lugar Registro Perú Tacna 24-Nov 14:00 Auditorio del Colegio Médico del Perú Aquí Perú Lima 25-Nov 8:00 Auditorio Cibertec Aquí...

The Twitterworld or (Twittersphere or whatever silly shit someone made up today) was all abuzz about the release of Silverlight 3 today, and I was shocked at how quickly it made the trends and how overwhelmingly it was positive. I kind of knew it was coming already for various reasons (spelled NDA),...

Hello again, There is a question that I often see on Silverlight’s forum. It’s about the contextual menu (right click). The current answer is that it’s not possible to surcharge them like we can do in Flash. Maybe in the next version of Silverlight… However I’m gonna show you a solution I created for...

Re, Ok the title is not really explicit but in this post we’re going to see an image control which display the busy pointer that we saw in my previous post , until the image be loaded. First we create the Xaml composed with two controls: an image and the Busy pointer. < UserControl x:Class ="xxx...

Hello everyone, Today, I’d like to present you my entry for the MIX 10K Coding Challenge . For those who don’t know this challenge, the rules are really simple. You have to submit an application whose the source code’s size is less than 10 kilobytes. The technologies allowed are Silverlight, HTML5 and...

Hello everyone, Today I’m gonna present you a control which can be really useful, since you can find him in Windows: the busy mouse pointer. This control is used for notice the user than something is happening. The code for this control is quite simple. #region Dependency Properties public bool IsBusy...