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• MIX08 Keynote Live Blog

  I'm going to try to keep up a live blog this morning through the keynote to provide folk with an Engadget-style blow-by-blow account of proceedings. Keep hitting refresh on this entry to see the latest news as it comes. 9:30am - Ray Ozzie is on stage promptly. In a few minutes, we'll show you IE8 and Silverlight 2. Wanted to first spend some time framing the big picture so that these individual releases don't seem random. Advertising is the economic engine that powers the Internet, and it's innovation in experiences that provide the fuel. Online advertising is predicted to increase from $40bn to $80bn over the next three years. Microsoft will do our part to ensure a vibrant ad ecosystem on the web. 9:35am - Three core principles driving our strategy: Firstly, thinking of the web as a hub of our social, technology and personal experiences. Linking, tagging and sharing will become as commonplace as File / Open and Save. The quaint concept of one PC or device per person will give way to a Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 05, 2008 12:40 PM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: WPF, Windows Live, presentation, silverlight 2.0, mix08, ie, sql server

• Attend the WPF Virtual Bootcamp - no need to register!

  People frequently ask me how they can learn WPF quickly. Now the technology has been on the market for a while, there are a number of different choices: books from the likes of Petzold , Moroney , Nathan , MacDonald , Anderson and Sells/Griffiths , classroom training from companies like Pluralsight , Wintellect , Developmentor and IdentityMine , and online tutorials like those from Nibbles or lynda.com . I'm excited to announce another choice today: we've made available a three-day virtual training course that covers all aspects of WPF as part of MIX University, and it's completely free ! This course was delivered here on campus in Redmond earlier this year for a small invited audience, and as we drew up the syllabus and speaker list, we realized we had something special on our hands. You'll hear a keynote from Ian Ellison-Taylor , the general manager responsible for WPF, Silverlight and client platform tools; introductory sessions on core WPF topics from external luminaries like Ian Griffiths Read More... Posted Friday, October 26, 2007 5:49 PM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: WPF, screencast, events, silverlight, blend, lab, training, presentation, cider

• The Zero-Effort Guide to Preparing a Great WPF Presentation

  A couple of months ago, I posted a couple of presentations on Silverlight, with the intention of making it easy for others to liberally borrow content for their own internal or external presentations on the subject. They seemed to go down pretty well if the number of blog post views is to be believed. But in all the years I've been blogging about WPF, I've never posted a stock WPF presentation, and indeed, when I give a presentation on WPF, I very rarely show slides. The great thing about evangelizing a technology like WPF is that it really sells itself - you just have to show a few example applications like the New York Times Reader , the great sample apps from Thirteen23 , Family.Show or the Scripps C-ME application , and people quickly get a sense of the kinds of application you can build. Despite that, I still get regular requests both internally and externally for a presentation that provides a high-level overview of WPF: why it's valuable, how customers are using it, how each of the Read More... Posted Friday, October 05, 2007 2:04 PM from Tim Sneath | 1 Comments Filed under: WPF, presentation