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 …
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 …
May
07
Ok, so a few weeks ago I posted about my plans to attend the MSDN Roadshow 2008 in Manchester and I said that I would post about the event once I had attended. So as promised here is that very post along with some useful links; Firstly, the venue for this years event was excellent. …
Mar
11
Just registered for the 2008 MSDN Roadshow in Manchester on 1st May At last years event, I particularly enjoyed a demo around WPF/E, which ofcourse has now been released as Silverlight. Well, this years event looks to be even better. Below is the event summary from the Microsoft web site; Microsoft is pleased to present …