October 2007 - Posts

• Silverlight Installation Tricks for Web Developers

  Recently we had to make a decision over on blendables.com.  The decision was whether or not to include Silverlight on the home page.  My initial reaction was that I didn’t want our users to experience an abrupt feel when hitting blendables.com for the first time without SL installed. Because of that I allowed SL to only [...] Posted Oct 30 2007, 12:38 AM by Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream Filed under: IM, Blog

• 10 Hut! - WPF Bootcamp

  Just in time for the weekend is the announcement of a great bunch of WPF learning material put out by Microsoft on a new WPF Bootcamp site.  Tim Sneath has the details over on his blog. Looks like there are 28 different sessions up that range  from "Building WPF Applications Part I" to "Visual Studio [...] Posted Oct 26 2007, 11:57 PM by Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream Filed under: IM, Blog

• Channel9 WPF - Starring Xceed DataGrid

  One of the things I’ve been a little disappointed with is the drop off of WPF promotion by Microsoft.  Granted they did a lot leading up to the .NET 3.0 release with Windows Vista in January 2007, I feel the shift to Silverlight promotion drowned a lot of that work. That’s why I’m glad to see [...] Posted Oct 23 2007, 04:33 PM by Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream Filed under: IM, Blog

• New Silverlight.net Showcase

  Darren David just posted a rundown of some of the new features he helped design into the new Silverlight.net showcase site.  I’d have to say my favorite feature of the new page is the left hand sidebar.  The tab switching is butter smooth and the animation when switching between Tag Cloud and Standard Filters [...] Posted Oct 18 2007, 09:40 PM by Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream Filed under: IM, Blog

• MS Developer Evangelist - SF

  Putting on SilverlightDevCampSF was a big task and something that could not have been done without the help of Anand Iyer the local SF developer evangelist.  He has a big area to cover here as he not only works  with SF but the entire Bay.  It looks like Microsoft is looking to get him some [...] Posted Oct 18 2007, 11:45 AM by Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream Filed under: IM, Blog

• WPF Y! Messenger

  Even though the Y! Messenger for Windows Vista is not on the portfolio list of Tim Sneath it is still one of the best consumer facing WPF applications.  I’m happy to see this is still moving along.  According to the Y! Messenger Blog the project is still in development which is a good sign.     Info on [...] Posted Oct 17 2007, 12:04 PM by Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream Filed under: IM, Blog

• electricrain StandOut - BetaTime

  Where are the WPF apps?  Over the past few weeks I have heard this question asked a bunch of times.  I know WPF is making inroads into the enterprise/business line space, but because of legal red tape etc many of these applications are never shown publicly.  This creates a hole in the marketing message of [...] Posted Oct 16 2007, 08:03 PM by Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream Filed under: IM, Blog

• Dr. Sneath strikes again - WPF Overview Prezo

  A few months back I mentioned how much  trouble I was having formulating a good marketing message for WPF.  I pointed specifically to needing a new name.  The Silverlight team has done a great job of marketing the new web technology almost to the detriment of WPF. It’s amazing what a few simple, concise messages can [...] Posted Oct 15 2007, 08:56 AM by Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream Filed under: IM, Blog

• Blendables Ships - And I’m still alive!

  Blendables is the product line I was brought on to launch over at IdentityMine.  It started in January as a loose compilation of controls and a powerpoint of the vision.  It’s been a fun 9 months and I’ve met a ton of great people.  This morning we announced the availability of our first mix of [...] Posted Oct 09 2007, 09:45 AM by Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream Filed under: IM, Blog