The Mindjet Labs

IE8 Forward/Back in a Silverlight 2 (Beta 2) Application

Synergist — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:01:43 GMT

Yesterday I posted here , an application , with source code about how to do forward/back navigation with IE8 and a Silverlight 1.0 application and said that I would be coming up with a Silverlight 2 (Beta 2) application that does the same type of thing...( Read More......(read more)

How IE8 Will Enables Silverlight Deep Linking and Browser Back/Forward Navigation

Synergist — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:29:12 GMT

One of new features in the next version of Internet Explorer (IE8) was created specifically for AJAX applications and can add significant functionality to Silverlight applications as well. Here is the description of the feature (from Better AJAX...( Read More......(read more)

Meet Me at the Bandwidth Music | Technology Conference

Synergist — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:44:07 GMT

On August 14 and 15th, I will be speaking at the Bandwidth Music | Technology Conference in San Francisco. I'll be part of a panel discussion on "Upcoming Release: The electronic gadgets and digital doodads which will influence the musical...( Read More......(read more)

Updating a Silverlight 2 Application from Beta 1 to Beta 2

Synergist — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 05:38:20 GMT

On my system, I had Silverlight 2 Beta 1, Visual Studio 2008, Expression Blend 2.5 March Preview, and the Visual Studio Tools for Silverlight 2 Beta 1. I did not uninstall anything. I installed the Microsoft Silverlight Tools Beta 2 for Visual Studio...( Read More......(read more)

Ticking in Silverlight Clock + Source Code

Synergist — Sun, 25 May 2008 04:49:56 GMT

A few people have asked how I got the second hand to tick in the Silverlight timepiece that I build; looking at the animation XAML that I posted, you would think that the the second hand would have a smooth movement and you would be right. I actually...( Read More......(read more)

Beauty with Silverlight

Synergist — Sat, 24 May 2008 22:16:50 GMT

I created something cool that I'd like to share with you. Imagine if your company had a beautiful luxury product that had intricate workings and you wanted to show how it worked as well as have a way for the product's owners and fans to show it...( Read More......(read more)

Starting Silverlight Library for Photobucket.com

Synergist — Mon, 19 May 2008 18:54:51 GMT

If you are a blogger, you probably have heard of Photobucket.com a site for storing your media files (images, video, audio). As you can see from this interview on Channel 9 , Photobucket has just released a new API . If you know me by now,...( Read More......(read more)

Your Digital Lifestyle: Girl from Mars

Synergist — Fri, 16 May 2008 22:31:11 GMT

Last year I saw this video at a Microsoft event. I think you'll get a kick out of it. The band is Magneta Lane ( MySpace , FaceBook , Zune.net ) doing a cover of Girl from Mars . Your Digital Lifestyle: Girl from Mars Video: Your Digital Lifestyle:...( Read More......(read more)

Free Expression Blend 2.5 and Silverlight 2 Training for Designers May 20 & 21 in San Francisco

Synergist — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:22:09 GMT

I know it's short notice, but next week I am running a 2-day training on Expression Blend 2.5 and Silverlight 2 in San Francisco for Interactive Designers . I have a few openings left so if you are interested in coming May 20 and 21 to the Microsoft...( Read More......(read more)

Published Media Overlay Designer Source Code to MSDN Code Gallery

Synergist — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:49:25 GMT

Earlier this year, I created a demo that showed how to synchronized video and animation in Silverlight and put it on my $2.95/month hosted dev server . At the Mix in March, I actually demonstrated it in the Silverlight and Advertising session. ...( Read More......(read more)

Fixing Unknown Server Tag 'asp:Silverlight'

Synergist — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:40:30 GMT

When building Silverlight 2 projects in Visual Studio 2008 I found that I was getting errors on building the ASP.net page: Unknown Server Tag 'asp:Silverlight' It turns out that I was getting the error because my project was on a network drive. ...( Read More......(read more)

SnapStream Enterprise - Recording and Searching TV

Synergist — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:54:00 GMT

If you have ever heard of Beyond TV and thought that it might be a great product for the enterprise, you're in luck because SnapStream, the creators of Beyond TV just released SnapStream Enterprise for recording and searching TV. One of my media...( Read More......(read more)

Updated Outlook Macro for Creating Appointments

Synergist — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:59:00 GMT

Last year I created a simple macro for Microsoft Outlook 2007 that automatically created an appointment from an email , adding the recipients to the appointment invite. Apparently there has been quite a bit of interest in this, most recently someone asked...( Read More......(read more)

My Facebook Friends who are Also on Twitter

Synergist — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:18:57 GMT

Lauren Cooney at IBM came up with this idea on her blog : What I'd like to see? An app that utilizes the Open APIs that Facebook and Twitter have so that I can figure out which of my 500 FB friends use Twitter. Anyone interested in building this for Web...( Read More......(read more)

Interviewed on Web2.0.TV

Synergist — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:27:51 GMT

When I was at South by Southwest, I did lots of talking about Silverlight. Here is an interview that I did for Web2Point0.TV about Silverlight: http://web2point0.tv/video.php?id=227...( read more ) Read More......(read more)