By Tim Huckaby, 01/19/2012
Tim Huckaby reflects on Microsoft's announcements at the 2012 Consumer Electronic Show (CES). He also shares what he wants most from Microsoft for its Windows Phone 7, Xbox 360, ...
By Tim Huckaby, 12/15/2011
Silverlight 5 is now here, but many developers worry about the technology's future. Tim Huckaby shares his thoughts on Microsoft's strategic commitment to Silverlight, and talks ...
By Tim Huckaby, 12/13/2011
The approaching release of Windows 8 brings significant changes to the world of .NET developers: the touch-oriented Metro UI, Windows Runtime (WinRT), new versions of developer ...
By Tim Huckaby, 11/17/2011
Tim Huckaby talks about how Windows Runtime (WinRT) measures up to Silverlight's features.
By Tim Huckaby, 10/20/2011
Microsoft's BUILD conference has come and gone. Tim Huckaby explains how Windows Runtime (WinRT) will be useful to .NET developers in the near future with the availability of ...
By Tim Huckaby, 08/17/2011
Tim Huckaby says that the advent of the Microsoft Windows' Metro user interface, now in Windows Phone 7 and soon to be in Windows 8, means that the next generation of applications ...
By Tim Huckaby, 07/19/2011
Why all the fear, uncertainty, and doubt about what place Silverlight and other .NET technologies will have in Windows 8? In the absence of a clear explanation from Microsoft, Tim ...
By Tim Huckaby, 06/08/2011
Now that the US Department of Justice is no longer overseeing Microsoft's antitrust practices, will it turn its attention to Apple and Google, while Microsoft becomes more ...
By Tim Huckaby, 05/09/2011
Microsoft's 'native' HTML5 implementation, as described in the MIX11 keynote, is déjà vu all over again, says Tim Huckaby, who recalls a time not so long ago when developers had ...
By Tim Huckaby, 04/12/2011
Tim Huckaby gives his perspective and some tips on using Microsoft Expression Blend to build an animated application in Silverlight.
By Tim Huckaby, 03/01/2011
If you had asked Tim Huckaby a year ago whether the Windows Phone 7 mobile OS and smartphone would be as wildly successful as Silverlight, he would have answered, "no ...
By Tim Huckaby, 02/08/2011
In this companion piece to his podcast, Tim Huckaby delves into the fundamental natures of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight and offers guidance on when to use ...
By Tim Huckaby, 01/10/2011
A rich tools ecosystem is available to Silverlight developers. Visual Studio for Silverlight and Microsoft Expression Blend are the quintessential Silverlight development tools, ...
By Tim Huckaby, 12/07/2010
Silverlight 5 is packed full of new features (over 40 of them)—among them graphics improvements such as better 3D support, DRM advances, video enhancements, and desktop ...
By Tim Huckaby, 11/09/2010
Putting to rest the rumors that HTML5 is Silverlight's Jekyll-esque alter ego.
By Tim Huckaby, 10/06/2010
The reality is that, even though the major browser platforms already have HMTL 5 implementations in beta (including Microsoft’s IE9), the specification for HTML 5 is not even ...
By Tim Huckaby, 09/08/2010
I truly do believe the Windows Phone 7 has a shot to be a “game changer” in the enterprise, where the Blackberry dominates, for this simple reason: Silverlight. I just wish the ...
By Tim Huckaby, 08/11/2010
Visual Studio LightSwitch is a uniquely SKU’d version of Visual Studio that has tools to quickly build Silverlight applications through a series of wizard choices and ...
By Tim Huckaby, 07/14/2010
It’s so cool: Learn how to use and modify a free sample Silverlight application called SkyDive to simulate jumping out of an aircraft, spiraling down, and landing at a precise ...
By Tim Huckaby, 06/09/2010
At TechEd 2010 I’m giving a Silverlight beginners session. I have a number of resources to give out to the attendees including the source code for a Silverlight 4 CRUD application ...