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Visual Thesaurus – Mindware

When I wasn’t looking this Website/Mindware got a lot better. Visual Thesaurus is an on-line subscription tool (~$3/month) that you can also buy as a desktop utility, that allows you to put in a word and see its related words visually. I put in play and got back a blizzard of related words, (Click on...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-16-2008
Candidate for favorite new utility

I admit it, this has little to do with Silverlight per se, but it is such a useful utility, and I use it so much all day (including when I’m programming) that I thought I’d share it with you, at least briefly. Every time you copy anything to the clip board, it is captured to ClipTrack (though you can...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-14-2008
3 New Vids Post; 2 Move to the Top of my To-do List

I’m pleased to announce we’ve posted three new videos: Graphics and Brushes (never hurts to “brush up” on the fundamentals and I try to bring together what we were doing in 1.0 with what Blend brings to the party. Using Multiple Pages Part 2 covers passing data/parameters from one page to the next (and...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-12-2008
Programming Silverlight 2 – Jesse Liberty & Tim Heuer

I do not pre-announce books. That said, this book is likely to be of significant interest to this community, and so, now that it is officially listed on Amazon , I thought it reasonable to mention that it is on the way, and that Tim and I are exceedingly proud of it. Our goal in Programming Silverlight...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-31-2008
One of the most unusual books I’ve ever written

I’m pleased to announce the release of what may be one of the most unusual books I’ve ever written, Programming .NET 3.5 Briefly, it was our theory; generated long before I started work at Microsoft, that while there was good reason to write what I call “silo” books on each of the .NET technologies ...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-30-2008
One Team – 4 Books on ASP.NET 3.5

I just released Learning ASP.NET 3.5 which is very exciting, through I must quickly and freely admit that my co-authors did a fantastic job shouldering the bulk of the task of the massive re-write to bring this book fully up to date for ASP.NET 3.5. The Learning series is O’Reilly’s on-ramp, while the...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-30-2008
New Tutorial: DataBinding and Data Templates

I’m pleased to announce that we’ve posted a new tutorial: DataBinding and Data Templates Using Expression Blend available in HTML and pdf with source code. This should nicely complement the three new videos on DataBinding An overview of Databinding and Data Templates using Expression Blend DataBinding...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-30-2008
Camtasia Crash Tip Update

Back on July 3 I posted a Camtasia Crash Tip for those of you who use this terrific product for screen captures. Since then, unfortunately, I’ve been plagued by crashes, and it turns out that TechSmith, the wonderfully responsive folks who make the product have found the problem and a work around. ...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-28-2008
Four Twitter Silverlight Blogs

Because I’ve probably introduced more confusion than I have any right to, I’ll tell you quickly about 5 Twitter blogs I’m associated with… SilverlightNews – very popular and closely connected with one of the premier Silverlight aggregators: Silverlight Cream. Silverlight Events with a Twitter feed and...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-27-2008
Check out our new Learn page!

We listened, we heard, we acted. The new Learn page is designed to make it easier to get started, and easier to find what you are looking for. It is also pretty snazzy. I’ve shrunk it to point out a few features that I think will go a long way towards making life easier for folks trying to find...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-21-2008

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