Oct
16
I have been incredibly busy the last few months and some of the things I have been working on are applications for Windows Phone 7. Today saw the publication of the first of my applications to the Windows Phone 7 marketplace, Christmas Presents. Christmas Presents is a simple but effective application that will allow you to manage all …
May
19
After reading Carl Dickinson’s post on Mando Group Labs about the Bing Silverlight Control, I wanted to give it a try myself. I decided to set about using the Bing Silverlight control to display available hotels from LateRooms.com. LateRooms.com have an affiliate scheme that exposes the availability of hotels via XML feeds (you do need …
Apr
29
The Silverlight Tour comes to the UK – and it’s called the Masterclass! This 3 day hands-on training with both designer and developer tracks looks awesome and (uniquely) has two expert trainers per course. Currently scheduled in London, Manchester, and the Midlands for June, all courses also come with the chance to win an xbox …
Apr
08
With the recent announcements regarding Silverlight 4 and Windows Phone 7 Development, I thought I would share a few links to some sites I have found useful, both recently and in the past when starting to work with Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 dev using Silverlight. Windows Phone 7 Dev WP7 Panorama App   http://blogs.claritycon.com/blogs/design/archive/2010/03/30/building-the-elusive-windows-phone-panorama-control.aspx Twitter …
Oct
20
Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4.0 Beta 2 has now been released to members of MSDN, with a public download available from Wednesday. Beta 2 brings many improvements to the table, including improvements in Sharepoint, WPF, ASP.NET, WinForms, as well as improvements to the core IDE and testing tools. I saw some of these IDE improvements at …
Sep
25
Ok, so this is not exactly a surprise to many people, but as posted on the Expression team blog, the Silverlight team have announced that Silverlight will be integrated into Windows Mobile 7, the reboot of the mobile OS from Microsoft. According to the Silverlight team, they are totally commited to having Silverlight work on …
Sep
16
Scott Guthrie, Microsoft’s Corporate Vice Presedent and all round .Net Guru is coming to Manchester, UK, later this month to talk about what’s new with Visual Studio 2010, ASP.Net 4.0, Silverlight 3 and upcoming improvements to the MVC Framework! Seating for this event, entitled Guathon 2009,  is very limited and as such you can only join the …
Jul
26
Expression Web 3, part of Expression Studio from Microsoft has now been released and is available for purchase / download. MSDN license holders should find Expression Studio including Expression Web 3 available for download now from the MSDN web site, whilst everyone else can take advantage of free trials (the Expression Web 3 trail can be …
Jul
01
UPDATE: Expression Web 3, Sliverlight 3 and Expression Studio 3Â have now been released, which you can read about in my post, “Expression Web 3 Released” here. I received an email this morning inviting me to an exclusive launch event for Silverlight 3 and Expression 3. Unfortunately I am out of the country, but the launch …
Mar
18
As Next Best Geek reported earlier, it looks like the Silverlight 3 Beta SDK and Tools for VS 2008 have been made available for download. There was also a link to a new Blend Preview, but the link appears to be broken. Maybe this is being saved for after certain annoucnements at Mix09. Anyway, get youself over to these …