Jesse Liberty is the official Silverlight Geek. What does that mean? Why should you care? And what does he think about Expression Blend? In this interview Jesse attempts to answer those stories…

UPDATE: there's a new WPF Designer video showing the features added to Beta 2 now available. Check it out and let us know what you think! Mark Wilson-Thomas demonstrates how the new WPF and…

UPDATE: there's a new WPF Designer video showing the features added to Beta 2 now available. Check it out and let us know what you think! Mark Wilson-Thomas demonstrates the new Styling and…

UPDATE: there's a new WPF Designer video showing the features added to Beta 2 now available. Check it out and let us know what you think! Mark Wilson-Thomas and Jaime Rodriguez discuss the…

Supercomputers and robots with frickin' lasers! Laurence Moroney tells the tale of the creation of the NASA Photosynths of the International Space Station and the Mars Science Laboratory. And the…

Jossef Goldberg explains how the deployment of your client applications will be easier in .NET 4. The new Client Profile and improved Visual Studio feature integration are shown off as we walk…

Nikola, previously on showing his Shock game, is back with a new interesting project, a Motion Capture Viewer written in Silverlight. Along with entertaining us with dancing stick figures, Nikola…

Jaime Rodriguez sat down with Anson Tsao to discuss the new Multi-touch capabilities of WPF available in WPF 4 Beta 1. Multiple inputs are exposed through existing and new input events, along with…

Yochay Kiraity has been working with the team to create Managed Code APIs making it even easier for .NET developers to take advantage of new features in Windows 7. In this video, Yochay…

Yochay Kiraity has been working with the team to create Managed Code APIs making it even easier for .NET developers to take advantage of new features in Windows 7. In this video, Yochay…

This isn't your Grandpa's XAML! XAML in .NET 4 is much more than just a Reader and Writer and also is now being consumed by many technologies including Silverlight, WCF, WF and of course WPF. Rob…

Jaime Rodriguez sat down with Ian Ellison-Taylor and Kevin Gjerstad to talk about WPF 4 Beta 1. The topics they cover include graphics and text improvements, Windows 7 integration, how WPF relates…

Windows 7 includes unique features that can really light up your application and create new possibilities. Yochay Kiraity has been working with the team to create Managed Code APIs making it even…

This is a personal invite from James Senior to attend the Live Services Hackathon in San Francisco on May 27, 2009. Bring your code and work with the Live Services engineers to add Instant…

After a short break for the show, Karl Shifflett is here to welcome us back with wide open arms, a Hawaiian shirt and a demonstration of the new features in Visual Studio 2010 for WPF development.…

Another opportunity I had at MIX09 was to talk to the guys from DevExpress about the controls they are working on. Azret Botash explains how they are going after the features that people say can't be…

Koen Zwikstra has created a very useful tool for Silverlight application development called SilverlightSpy. Load the tool, point it to a web page with a Silverlight application and the dissection…

Grant Hinkson, the Director of Experience Design at Infragistics, is a big fan of the creative tool from Adobe called Fireworks. An issue, or some people may say an opportunity, arose 3 years ago when…

During MIX09 I had the opportunity to sit down with the guys from ComponentOne and take a look at the controls available in their new Studio for Silverlight 2009 release. Along with a full-featured…

Pete Brown brought along some fun toys to MIX09 written in the Silverlight 3 Beta which he demonstrates in this video. The first toy is a Commodore64 emulator running print commands and the Dr. Who…

Jaime Rodriguez came back from MIX09 and thought "Hey, I bet my WPFFX library could run in the new Silverlight 3 beta". So he added a few #ifdefs, compiled and waa-laa! The WPFFX library …

Colaab is a Silverlight-based review and collaborative environment packed with features. What is a collaborative environment? Its one of those things you need, but don't quite have a name for. …

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 has been released today at MIX09! Phil Haack stopped by the studio last week to explain what makes this version 1 of the MVC Framework for ASP.NET and spends a little time explaining…

Unni Ravindranathan takes on a tour of the new Expression Blend 3 Preview released at MIX09. Not only has Blend been updated to support Silverlight 3, but many new features have been added including…

Bill Reiss is building games in Silverlight, but he also likes to build games in XNA. The obvious move then is to create a library that allows you to run XNA games within Silverlight. And no code…

As proclaimed by Ward Bell from IdeaBlade, "Silverlight is Ready for Business". Business Application development, that is. Ward walks us through a quick demonstration of building an…

What's the difference between Live Services, Live Framework and Live Mesh? James Senior has arrived to explain how you can use Live Services in your applications today and how you can plan future …

Nikola Mihaylov has written a game in Silverlight called Shock. This is not just a "fun project over the weekend" game. There are multiple game modes, music playlists, leaderboards,…

The question was simple - "What can you build with Silverlight or WPF in 10k?" Many attempted to dazzle the judges and the community, but only few could win and only one would be granted…

Composite Application Guidance, affectionately known as Prism, version 2 has been released. Prism provides guidance and code that can help you build modular applications that can adapt to constant…

The MIX Online team has released their latest issue covering the topic of data and information visualization. Along with two articles on building infographics and future thinking around…

Robby Ingebretsen came by to explain what Kaxaml is and how it can be useful to you when developing XAML-based applications. Not only does he introduce the tool, but he also touches on some of the…

This week during the Presidential Inauguration, Silverlight was used by both CBS and the official Presidential Inauguration Committee site to stream the event live. Steven Woodward and Ben Waggoner…

What is MVVM and why do people keep talking about it? Karl Shifflett explains why its buzz worthy and why you should consider it as a design pattern for your application development. Karl discusses…

PhotoSuru is a new photo viewing sample from the WPF team. The sample provides a unique way to browse a collection of photos, taking advantage of WPF features such as Pixel Shaders, Adaptive Layout…

As a follow-up to part 1, Jaime Rodriguez meets up with Unni Ravindranathan from the Expression Blend team. They open the source code project for Blend inside of Blend (endless loop? possibly, but…

Ever wonder how the experts organize their XAML-based projects? With the help of Jaime Rodriguez, the WPF guy on my team, we've put together a 3 part video series on XAML Guidelines. The videos…

When ASP.NET MVC hit like Preview 3 or 4, quite a few of us were saying "We should get together and build new blog software based on MVC, it would be so fun!". Well as good ideas go…

Karl Shifflett brought one of his favorite Hawaiian shirts and his XAML Power Toys in to the studio and it was time to play. Karl demonstrates how to use his Visual Studio Add-In to instantly…

Gilbert Corrales quickly fixes invalid and unfriendly HTML and CSS using Aggiorno, a code refactoring tool that runs as a plug-in for Visual Studio. I really like the Smart Search and Replace…

Walt Ritscher walks us through building a custom WPF Pixel Shader Effect using Shazzam, his latest creation. Along the lines of other useful tools mentioned, Kaxaml and LINQPad, Shazzam is free to…

Vladimir Milev and Todd Anglin show us the new Charting and Gauge controls from Telerik. The Charts are very flexible and run in 2D and 3D mode, you can even use your own custom models for the 3D…

Pascal Bourque demonstrates a prototype of the next Datagrid from Xceed. They've improved the datagrid by paying attention to perceived response times and adding some modern functionality like…

Jason Beres takes us on a journey through time and space using the new Timeline, Map and Zoombar controls from Infragistics. The Timeline and Zoombar make an interesting pair when combined with…

SurfaceDJ from Vectorform was one of my favorite applications shown at PDC. Not only does it involve Multi-touch, Surface and music; but it is an example of a new form of collaborative application. …

On a whirlwind tour of the IdentityMine booth provided by Kurt Brockett and Meg McAllister, we get to see their Surface Photo Sharing app, their Photo Slideshow app using NextWindow touch screens and…

You may not be able to write Quake in .NET, but with the UT3 Bots Starter Kit you could write your Bot in .NET for Unreal Tournament 3. James Lissiak demonstrates how to write a simple Bot and the…

On the last day of PDC, I caught up with Paul Dawson and Matthew Adams to discuss the work Conchango has done for Tesco, one of the largest online grocery retailer. The goal of the WPF-based…

In this video, I'm running a preview version of QuakeLight a Silverlight-based port of Quake. Its very impressive to see an old-school classic game come to life in Silverlight 2. Stunned, along with…

WPF 3.5 SP1 offers killer graphic capabilities that were demonstrated in the last video with David Teitlebaum. In this video, David has dropped by to help us announce the WPF Pixel Shader…

After shooting the WPF Effects Library interview with David Teitlebaum and realizing we didn't show all of the effects and any of the transitions, we put together this short video. Very little …

3D functionality is becoming a more popular component in UI technologies and has been greatly improved in WPF 3.5 SP1. Upon hearing this some people (Niners even) are known to question "what is…

Nikola Mihaylov came by the studio to explain what a WPF Pixel Shader really is and the code involved and making one. He has a great post on his blog explaining how to get started with Pixel…

Project Rosetta is a site dedicated to helping designers and developers build applications in Silverlight while taking advantage of skills they already know. In this interview, I caught up with Rick…

Originally noticed as "a beautiful user experience in an enterprise application", Lawson Smart Office provides a distinctive personalized experience for someone managing their…

Eric Schmidt drops by to tell stories about the NBCOlympics.com site launch and answer a few questions from the viewers. Why is it US Only? Where is the FullScreen mode? How does the streaming…

NBCOlympics.com is one of the most ambitious projects on the web and one of the largest Silverlight applications today. Eric Schmidt takes us on a technical tour of how the site works and how it was…

Phil Haack, one of the driving forces behind ASP.NET MVC, provides the lowdown on what MVC is, what's new in Preview 4 and how you can help shape the next version. He also takes a call from his wife,…

This is the beginning of a new show on Channel 9 focused on the world of UI technologies available from Microsoft. This includes some of your favorites like WPF, Silverlight, ASP.NET, Expression, IE8…