http://www.wpflearningexperience.com Sounds From the School of Hard Knocks Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:42:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Microsoft has released the highly anticipated .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, along with Visual Studio 2008 SP1. This is not your regular service pack, it's chock full of new features and enhancements across almost all the major components of the .NET? framework. Here are the goodies: VS 2008 Service ... http://www.wpflearningexperience.com/?p=58 Expression Encoder is an application which allows you to "encode" a video for use with a Silverlight web application.? The term encode here principally means to compress the video to the extent appropriate for delivery via the intended delivery mechanism.? In general, encoding for Internet delivery will use ... http://www.wpflearningexperience.com/?p=57 Silverlight 2 includes a nifty new feature called Deep Zoom which lets you post a very large photo on the Internet which then exhibits remarkably responsive zooming and panning capability.? Microsoft's demonstration project is the Hard Rock Cafe memorabilia wall.? Given my ongoing interest in travel photography, Deep ... http://www.wpflearningexperience.com/?p=56 .csharpcode, .csharpcode pre { font-size: small; color: black; font-family: Consolas, "Courier New", Courier, Monospace; background-color: #ffffff; /*white-space: pre;*/ } .csharpcode pre { margin: 0em; } .csharpcode .rem { color: #008000; } .csharpcode .kwrd { color: #0000ff; } .csharpcode .str { color: #006080; } .csharpcode .op { color: #0000c0; } .csharpcode .preproc { color: #cc6633; } .csharpcode .asp { background-color: #ffff00; } .csharpcode .html { color: ... http://www.wpflearningexperience.com/?p=55 Mix is an annual event held by Microsoft to showcase and introduce their latest web and designer development technologies. It's being held right now (March 5-7) in Las Vegas. I recommend watching the Key Note which has great demos showcasing IE 8 Beta 1, Silverlight 2 Beta 1, Silverlight for Windows Mobile ... http://www.wpflearningexperience.com/?p=54 Missed a couple of weeks due to my trip to Asia.? Here are this week’s figures from Dice for progress in job postings for C# and WPF: WPF All of Dice: 125 Silicon Valley: 4 Blend All of Dice: 1 Silicon Valley: 0 Silverlight All of Dice: 30 Silicon Valley: 1 C# All of Dice: 7834 Silicon ... http://www.wpflearningexperience.com/?p=53 Fall term registration at Foothill College is now open again.? Classes begin on September 24 and run for twelve weeks until December 14.? We have a broad selection of .NET related classes this fall including ? Windows Presentation Foundation (CIS-019M) ? ? Expression Blend (with coverage of Silverlight) (CIS-019K) ? Windows Communication ... http://www.wpflearningexperience.com/?p=52 August 13, 2007 Here are this week’s figures from Dice for progress in job postings for C# and WPF: WPF All of Dice: 116 Silicon Valley: 7 Blend All of Dice: 1 Silicon Valley: 0 Silverlight All of Dice: 22 Silicon Valley: 2 C# All of Dice: 7516 Silicon Valley: 252 Continuing improvement this week in the figures for WPF ... http://www.wpflearningexperience.com/?p=51 Here are this week’s figures from Dice for progress in job postings for C# and WPF: WPF All of Dice: 98 Silicon Valley: 5 Blend All of Dice: 2 Silicon Valley: 0 Silverlight All of Dice: 15 Silicon Valley: 0 C# All of Dice: 7361 Silicon Valley: 245 Some more improvement this week in the figures for WPF. http://www.wpflearningexperience.com/?p=50 July 12, 2007 Here are this week’s figures from Dice for progress in job postings for C# and WPF: WPF All of Dice: 87 Silicon Valley: 4 Blend All of Dice: 4 Silicon Valley: 0 Silverlight All of Dice: 15 Silicon Valley: 1 C# All of Dice: 7240 Silicon Valley: 223 Very little change from week to week. http://www.wpflearningexperience.com/?p=49