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 [...]

Microsoft released the official PDC 2008 and Windows 7 Promotional Video today finally after a huge amount of hype.  We tried to reach Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates for comments but our phone calls went un-answered.  Chances are they are stuck trying to figure out what to do with the new boy band sensation.  The [...]

After years of waiting, PDC is finally here!  Registration opened up today at www.microsoftpdc.com.  In the past, these events have served for significant announcements and events.  This year will be no exception.  Expect detailed announcements around Silverlight, Mesh, and other Microsoft Live services!  When you mix in Microsoft’s operating system announcements, their services platform, mobility, [...]