The Mindjet Labs

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)