I’ve adapted a syntax highlighting engine to generate a syntax highlighting TextBlock control for Silverlight. This control has built-in syntax highlighting C#, C++, JavaScript, VB.NET, XAML/XML. In the future, once Silverlight 4 is out, I’ll of course...(read more)

With only one week until MIX10, we wanted to give you a heads-up on all the news coming out of the conference, and highlight some of the great Silverlight sessions that every developer should attend. For those of you that don’t know, MIX is Microsoft...(read more)

The Grinder is a Java load testing framework that makes it easy to run a distributed test using many load injector machines. It is freely available under a BSD-style open-source license.

Expo, of which Microsoft is a Gold sponsor and one of the biggest exhibitors (out of over 70 leading Cloud companies exhibiting), came out of the corner swinging. Specifically Microsoft's CEO, Steve Ballmer, gave a speech on Thursday to computer science students at the University of Washington. He discussed what’s ahead for computing, with a focus on how cloud computing will change the way people and businesses use technology.

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[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] This a quick post to announce a few upcoming events for those in the UK. I’ll be presenting in Glasgow, Scotland on March 25th...(read more)

At MIX 10 this year, Tues. 3/16 at 2pm: Learn from Jeff Wilcox how to create and maintain Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Series applications using the Silverlight Unit Test Framework....( read more )...(read more)

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When someone asked me how to rotate the axis labels of a chart from the Data Visualization package of the Silverlight Toolkit / WPF Toolkit earlier today, I realized it was time for a quick blog post. Because when I've answered a question two or three...(read more)

It has been 7 weeks since Silverlight TV kicked off its first episode with Keith Smit h. Since then we have posted a total of 12 shows on a variety of topics. Here are some interesting numbers from the show: 12 The number of episodes we have aired in...(read more)

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Thanks to everyone who filled up our Design Tools and Techniques Workshop for MIX10. Here are the results. I wanted to share with you as they show interesting trends on what people are interested in learning more related to Silverlight and Blend. The...(read more)

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[Updated and expanded on March 5]   For this week’s release of the Silverlight HyperVideo Platform we are committed to having configuration information retrieved from a database. To accomplish this we need (want?) Smooth-streaming videos that we...(read more)

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  For this week’s release of the Silverlight HyperVideo Platform we are committed to having configuration information retrieved from a database. To accomplish this we need (want?) Smooth-streaming videos that we can use to illustrate the relationship...(read more)

Tonight, there is a live QA session about Windows Phone 7 Series @wp7dev, on Twitter, 6pm...( read more )...(read more)

Yes, I know, there have been sooooo many rumors everywhere. But this evening Charlie Kindel, evangelist-in-chief for all things Windows Phone 7 Series, shared a little more about the strategy of the new platform, just in time to set the stage for Mix...(read more)

In this small survey you will find the different topics that Archetype, Adam Kinney and I will be covering during the workshop. We have 3 areas we want to cover at the MIX10 Design Tools and Techniques Workshop: 1) Design Concept 2) Interactive Design...(read more)

I’ve created my list of favorites tools and libraries and posted them to the Downloads page on the Project Rosetta site. After posting the updated list yesterday I realized I missed two big ones: SilverSprite and Balder. Breaking the new list down into...(read more)