I just concluded a week in Shanghai and begin the journey home tomorrow. I had the pleasure of working with a lot of very smart (and very polite) Microsoft developers in Beijing and Shanghai these past two weeks and will be bringing home a lot of fond Read More...

Yesterday I was asked how one can do mousewheel zooms in Silverlight 1.1 given that 1.1 doesn’t provide any mechanism for registering managed handlers for mousewheel events. It can still be done, thanks to the fact that Silverlight 1.1 permits managed Read More...

I arrived in Beijing last night for the start of a two-week stint in China. This morning I spent a few hours sightseeing. Work doesn’t start until tomorrow, and I figured that rather than spend the day in the hotel room, I should get out and sample the Read More...

My newest Wicked Code column in MSDN Magazine is now online. The title is "Silverlight Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices," and it contains useful information for building better Silverlight apps. I previewed one of the topics discussed in the column in Read More...

I took a break from Silverlight to spend some time with Microsoft's new ASP.NET MVC framework. It's one of the features of the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview , and as such, it offers a tantalizing glimpse at what the ASP.NET of the future might look like. Read More...

What a week! I returned home after a week in India only to come down with the crud that's going around. Between the congestion and the jet lag, I've had way too little sleep this week. But I did manage to get a few things done. A pal at Microsoft clued Read More...