Listen to the Show! Scott Guthrie and Craig Shoemaker take some time out of PDC 2008 to discuss Silverlight and highlights from the keynote address. Scott shares about current-day Silverlight integrations with Live Mesh, living through the Olympics and what might be expected from Silverlight in the future...

Listen to the Show! Jesse Liberty , the "Silverlight Geek", wants to help you dive deeper into Silverlight 2.0. Tackling practices like working with multi-page applications and clever ways to handle Silverlight payload, Jesse helps take you beyond the intro. Want to Learn Silverlight 2.0? Joe Stagner...

Listen to the Show! Famed developer, speaker and author Billy Hollis joins the show today to discuss why developers need to avoid stagnation and keep pressing forward. Billy also shares some pragmatic wisdom of how to approach building on a rich UI platform. Billy's Advice For Approaching WPF and Silverlight...

Listen to the Show! My week spent in Orlando at TechEd 2008 was time well spent. Tradeshows like these are a great opportunity to meet smart people who are often delivered by the plane-load. One of the highlights of the show was being able to see Bill Gates give his final keynote address. Before his...

New Pixel8 Podcast: Jose Farjardo ’s " Digg Mashup " demonstrates how end-to-end Silverlight development is possible. From the branded Silverlight install screen to some fresh design details this application is easy for n00bs and power users to use alike. Jose is building a reputation for putting a unique...

Listen to the show here! John Gossman , Microsoft Architect for WPF and Silverlight, discusses his experiences watching WPF mature into the powerful framework it is today. John tells us about the trials and tribulations of building Expression Blend on a primitive WPF platform. He also discusses the value...

The web was a-buzz after MIX this year with the strong commitment the Olympic Games is making to Silverlight . The team demonstrated a stunning system that will perhaps for the first time make television on over the internet and on the computer not only a viable option, but a compelling alternative....

Over the years I have spent a fair amount of time thinking about design patterns surrounding the presentation layer . Just as your values as a grown-up are often determined by experiences you have as a child – I think my interest in these patterns stem from frustrations I had as a newbie developer. When...

While the attendees of PDC09 likely expected to hear a plethora of announcements regarding Silverlight 3 all hopes were dashed when Scott Guthrie quickly glossed over advancements in Silverlight 3 to make time to talk about... the Silverlight 4 beta ! This episode of Pixel8 Tim Heuer ( @timheuer ) and...

Josh Blake of Infostrat joins Pixel8 to discuss NUI development in .NET. Josh is the author of the upcoming book Multitouch on Windows from Manning . Reaching far beyond theory and the niche market of Microsoft Surface, NUI development is now possible with Silverlight and WPF development on Windows 7...