The Mindjet Labs

Last year I created and uploaded a demonstration project to Popfly that converted a Word 2007 Document to a WPF FlowDocument.  The best example of a FlowDocument can be seen in the New York Times Reader , an instance of Syndicated Client Starter...(read more)

Next week I will be in New York City meeting customers and I will be holding a free half-day mini-workshop  at the Microsoft office on 6th Avenue to teach people about building Silverlight and WPF applications with Expression Studio and Visual Studio. ...(read more)

I love using Expression Blend.  With both a design education (architecture) and a career in software development, I've become somewhat of an expert on using Microsoft's Expression Blend for designing WPF and Silverlight user experiences.  Over...(read more)

I have been using a Lenovo T60p computer with Windows Vista since I joined Microsoft last year.  Lenovo has a great System update utility that keeps the service packs and applets up to date.  Recently the update utility installed a new version...(read more)

I just posted the recording of the webinar that I did today showing a Word 2007 Add-in that creates WPF Flow Documents (using the FlowDocument class): https://www112.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/view?id=74SMQS Here's an example of where I've used it to...(read more)

One of the challenges with creating online documentation is readability, especially with long documents.  Most of the time, we end up printing out documents instead of attempting to read them online.  One we print them out we lose the ability to easily search for text, one of the great aspects of online documents.  Creating a great ...

Back in July, I created a simple grid of when to use which Microsoft presentation technology.  I did this in response to a workshop I ran at one of my customer's offices.  David Chappell just wrote a whitepaper, Introducing WPF explaining WPF and as part of it he also explains when to use which presentation technology, but in much more ...

Four guys out of Bulgaria just built this .Net application for mind mapping.  It looks really cool with a very fresh look!  It was built with WPF and all our latest technology like Silverlight.   I can't wait to try it out when it goes beta on November 1st.  What amazing things could happen if Mindjet would hire these ...

Yesterday I was visiting an IT department of a media company that was developing internal applications for their internal network users.  They asked a great question about when to use which presentation technologies, now that Microsoft has WPF, WPF XBAP, Silverlight, and ASP.Net+AJAX.  Here is my comparison matrix: WPF WPF XBAP ...

I was having dinner with a friend yesterday (non-Microsoft) who manages a software development team and he told me that he was excited about the potential of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Expression Blend for his company's products.  With that excitement also came some questions about how he could ...