What is the Silverlight Toolkit? The Silverlight Toolkit is a collection of Silverlight controls, components and utilities made available outside the normal Silverlight release cycle. It adds new functionality quickly for designers and developers, and provides the community an efficient way to help shape product development by contributing ideas and bug reports. This first release [...]

The new Microsoft .NET Logo launched today.  Expect to see the new logo all over the place over the next few weeks.  The original logo was designed in early 2000, and officially launched with the release of Microsoft .NET 1.0 in January of 2002.  I really like the new logo as it goes fairly well [...]

We’ve had a lot of new readers to the blog lately which is fantastic.  We now receive over 30,000 visitors a month, over 3,500 RSS Subscribers, 1,200 developers signed up for the Software Development in the Real World Newsletter, and nearly 200 members on TwitterDevs.  With new visitors comes a problem, mainly the fact that [...]

Silverlight 2 was finally released to the world today!  Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of the .NET Developer Division at Microsoft made the official announcement today at 9am PDT. This is a significant event as it not only marks a huge milestone for the Microsoft Silverlight Team, but it also marks the date that Flash [...]

  Web 2.0 has given us some great moments, which thankfully have been captured in pictures and videos around the world.  There are however a few standout videos that really bring out the essence of what was Web 2.0.  Below is a short compilation of some of the most popular videos, that really explain what [...]