I've become enamored with Silverlight behaviors lately because they provide a clean and easy-to-use mechanism for encapsulating complex behavioral logic and applying it to XAML elements. And I'm equally enamored with Silverlight pixel shaders, which allow Read More...

I'm currently preparing a couple of new talks for TechEd Europe , which takes place next month in Berlin. One of the talks is entitled "Cool Graphics, Hot Code: Ten Visual Effects to Make You the Envy of Your Peers." In it, I plan to present techniques Read More...

One of the most useful yet little-known new features of Silverlight 3 is one that has nothing to do with UIs: a brand new networking stack called the client HTTP stack , the client networking stack, or simply the client stack . Silverlight 2 introduced Read More...