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• My $6,000 Tesla Wall Connector: the story of bringing Electric Vehicle charging to a high-rise condo tower in Seattle
• Scaling from 2,000 to 25,000 engineers on GitHub at Microsoft
• My home network: Ubiquiti UniFi gear, fiber gigabit Internet, CAT6 and CAT3 wiring
• Deploying Node.js apps in Azure App Service using private npm feeds from Visual Studio Team Services
• Using mail2bug with Azure App Service, WebJobs and VSTS to handle support mail
• From 20 to 2,000 engineers on GitHub: Azure, GitHub and our Open Source Portal
• Introducing the Microsoft Azure Management Libraries
• Installing an Infineon TPM in the Gigabyte GA-77X-UP5 TH motherboard
• Creating a MongoDB replica set cluster w/Windows Azure Linux VMs
• Windows Azure cross-platform command line improvements - Summer 2013
• Windows Azure Management Portal background color themes
• Creating secure Linux VMs in Azure with SSH key pairs
• Windows Azure Web Sites + custom SSL certificate for my app
• Adobe's Creative Cloud - I've been spending $2/day
• Moving 4th & Mayor to Windows Azure Web Sites
• Using the Windows Azure SDK for Node.js to create a Table Service Explorer
• I reduced my cloud bill 9% this month by favoring my most active Windows Phone app users (Live Tiles, Leaderboards, Toasts)
• A few 4th & Mayor things: Node cloud backend, Nokia Apps Madness, new markets & localization efforts
• 4th & Mayor - 1 Year Later
• To the cloud!
• Displaying static maps on the Windows Phone for performance and scenario wins
• Windows Phone apps, built out of “the 3 P’s”: Panoramas, Pivots, and Pages
• PhoneThemeManager: allow your app to have the Light, Dark, or Inverted theme with 1 line of code
• Please ship your next Windows Phone app with GZip: speed requests 50-80%
• A quick look at MetroRadio: quick spacing, margin, and icon tips for Windows Phone devs
• A simple Windows Phone control for reading QR codes
• My new Windows Phone Emulator theme–simple and sleek
• MPNS module for Node: A simple push notification helper for the cloud
• November release of the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit
• Drive your application’s navigation through templated HyperlinkButtons and smart data binding to app-wide URIs
• ScreenShots.cs: How to capture screenshots of your app on your device
• MetroGridHelper: A helpful debugging assistant for designers and developers alike
• Resizing images to square, aspect-ratio friendly bits with Node, Express, and ImageMagick
• A note about remote URIs in Windows Phone secondary tiles
• Friday at //BUILD/: Jeff Wilcox on Windows Phone Performance
• Exploring the August 2011 Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit for ‘Mango’
• Building a detailed About page for your Windows Phone application
• Creating a global ProgressIndicator experience using the Windows Phone 7.1 SDK Beta 2
• Excellent Silverlight for Windows Phone Performance Posts
• 4th & Mayor v2 is now released
• Updated Silverlight Unit Test Framework binaries–compatible with the Mango phone tools beta
• April was a busy month. Looking back and ahead…
• Speaker evaluations: they’re important, please turn them in!
• Windows Phone App Performance: My session from MIX11
• My Focus-themed Windows Phone emulator theme
• Analytics and automatic app feedback: A slippery but interesting slope for Windows Phone apps
• Jeff Wilcox’s “Metro” design guide for developers, v1.00
• 4th & Mayor: the ultimate foursquare app for your Windows Phone
• Windows Phone, a great dev platform: adding leaderboards to 4th & Mayor in 30 minutes
• Upcoming speaking engagements on the Windows Phone
• I’m developing my own Foursquare client for the Windows Phone
• Using AutoCompleteBox in a Windows Phone Panorama or Pivot item
• Windows Phone Pivot Control: Enable text wrapping for the Title
• Introducing the February 2011 Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit
• Notes on Silverlight and Phone Toolkits, Testing and Other Phone Stuff
• A small but important UX improvement for ScrollViewer on the Windows Phone
• PhoneHyperlinkButton updated: now supports web, email, text and phone call tasks
• A quick and easy extension to HyperlinkButton for Windows Phone 7
• A quick look at the types of Windows Phone page transition animations
• MyPhotoApp: Sample project from my Windows Phone development series at Øredev
• A less abrupt progress bar for Windows Phone developers
• WP7 Panorama: Smoothly fading the background (and enabling fading when changing, too)
• “The Future of Silverlight” keynote by ScottGu starts off the 12/2/10 FireStarter event
• Silverlight and Windows Phone sessions at Øredev next week
• Exploring Windows Phone Application Development Talk at JAOO Conference 4.10.10
• Early Windows Phone media with the Silverlight Mobile team
• Transition guide from phone.codeplex.com to the official Panorama & Pivot controls
• Windows Phone Developers: Enjoy the new controls, toolkit, and final tools!
• Windows Phone performance progress bar update: part 2, remember to turn IsIndeterminate off when not needed!
• Exploring List capacities and growth on the Windows Phone
• Blend tip: finding default styles using “Edit a Copy”
• Panorama and Pivot controls for Windows Phone developers
• Creating high performance Windows Phone apps - THE WHITEPAPER
• TiltContentControl for Windows Phone
• The high performance ProgressBar for Windows Phone (“PerformanceProgressBar”)
• Frame rate counters in Windows Phone
• Updated Silverlight Unit Test Framework bits for Windows Phone and Silverlight 3
• Windows Phone? Sounds exciting!
• How about a Zune-style ChildWindow?
• Using Silverlight 4 features to create a Zune-like context menu
• Deep dive on Silverlight unit testing at Tech Ed next month
• Silverlight Unit Test Framework: New version in the April 2010 Silverlight Toolkit
• Property change notifications for multithreaded Silverlight applications
• Template parts and custom controls (quick tip)
• Silverlight 4: New parser implementation. New parser features.
• Displaying 2D QR barcodes in Windows Phone applications
• “Peppermint” MIX demo sources
• No March 2010 release of the Silverlight Toolkit
• Data binding user settings in Windows Phone applications
• Making that corporate office a little more personal
• Silverlight Toolkit and the Windows Phone: WrapPanel, and a few others
• Building Silverlight 3 and Silverlight 4 applications on a .NET 3.5 build machine
• Unit Testing Silverlight & Windows Phone Applications – talk now online
• Insert Tag Snippet plugin for Windows Live Writer (that works with Windows 7)
• A syntax highlighting TextBlock for Silverlight 3
• Ready to test those Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Series apps?
• Code signing Visual Studio 2010 extensions (VSIX)
• Getting started with code signing for under $100
• Column guides for Visual Studio 2010: An extension
• AutoCompleteBox: Now with 100% more WPF
• Helpful Silverlight Snippets
• C# regions sure can be useless
• Walkthrough: The power of the November 2009 Silverlight Toolkit testing tools
• Taking the Silverlight Control Browser sample Out-of-Browser ... plus a tutorial
• BusyIndicator: David Poll’s ActivityControl is now in the Silverlight Toolkit November 2009 Release
• Application Library Caching – November 2009 Silverlight Toolkit
• The Silverlight Toolkit – now in the Microsoft Web Platform Installer
• Round-tripping Silverlight 3 projects with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010
• Application Library Caching support for the Silverlight Toolkit
• Silverlight Toolkit October 2009 Release
• Creating a two dimensional barcode control for Silverlight 3
• Adding ToArgb() to the Silverlight Color class
• Silverlight Toolkit in the wild – Sunday Night Football player
• A Silverlight HighlightingTextBlock implemented in Visual Basic
• Creating a highlighting text block for Silverlight 3, revisited
• Custom Control Development: Simple code guidelines
• Silverlight 3 unit test framework binaries available
• Python and Ruby, Silverlight, and testing
• What's Jeff been up to?
• Three great screencasts on Silverlight unit testing
• Silverlight 2 unit test framework binaries updated
• WPF Toolkit: Charting release
• Engineering Excellence recognition for the Silverlight Unit Test Framework
• Is it worthwhile to keep AutoCompleteBox's DropDownOpening and Closing events?
• Do you have any feedback on the AutoCompleteBox API?
• Sharing Source and Skills - Source download
• Highlighting AutoCompleteBox improvements thanks to Silverlight 3
• What's new with the Silverlight AutoCompleteBox
• Building Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3 Beta applications on the same machine
• The Silverlight Toolkit grows up a little with an install experience
• Sharing skills and code with Silverlight and WPF: MIX ‘09 session video and deck
• Gravatar control for Silverlight and WPF - source and control binaries
• A prototype tool for designers and developers: converting XAML to ISM themes and back again
• Blog update: improved community features
• MIX’09 – the intersection of design & technology… Silverlight Toolkit FTW!
• Asynchronous test support - Silverlight unit test framework and the UI thread
• CloudFront. Cloud Files. Others?
• Unscientific SSD build time comparison
• The Silverlight Toolkit team is on top of your feedback
• SSD rocks my development environment
• Silverlight MsBuild tricks - video
• Building Silverlight code on machines without the SDK (guide & video)
• Customizing AutoCompleteBox to update SelectedItem on commit, without changing the control
• UniformGrid for Silverlight
• MergeDefaultStyles build task improves control development (w/source)
• NUnit & the Silverlight unit test framework
• AutoCompleteBox tip: Writing a new text filter in VB
• A bunch of AutoCompleteBox posts
• Using the Silverlight Toolkit? Let us know!
• My most popular Silverlight posts in '08
• '09 blog housekeeping & thanks
• Silverlight ListBox with text searching
• AutoCompleteBox - SelectedItem design change - source code download
• Help us improve the Silverlight Toolkit CodePlex site
• Adding page up and down support to AutoCompleteBox
• R# integration for the Silverlight unit test framework
• AutoCompleteBox without cycling navigation
• Silverlight AutoCompleteBox: What's new in the December release
• Silverlight Charting: Creating rich data point tooltips
• Announcing the availability of the Silverlight Toolkit December 2008 release
• Silverlight unit test framework - updated source and binaries now available
• Reid Borsuk releases an MD5 implementation for Silverlight 2 in pure open source goodness
• Creating a testable WebClient for Silverlight unit testing
• AutoCompleteBox control: The missing guide
• Managed Html Controls source code
• Build a highlighting AutoCompleteBox (like IE8 and Firefox 3) in 5 minutes
• Toolkit posts: "Silverlight in Style," dependency properties in WPF and Silverlight, and TreeView expansion
• Silverlight 2 Unleashed by Laurent Bugnion
• Editable Silverlight ComboBox
• Silverlight Unit Test Framework source code released
• Unblocking downloaded CHM documentation files on Windows Vista
• Getting Expression Encoder 2 SP1's media player template to work with CDNs and cross-domain embedding
• Successful .Xap deployment with your CDN: Set the application/x-silverlight-app MIME type
• Renaming Xap to Zip is dead. Long live renaming Xap to Zip!
• AutoCompleteBox: Video introduction
• Introducing the AutoCompleteBox
• AutoCompleteBox: The 5 things you need to know
• Sorry boss, I just released the new Silverlight Controls source code to the world.
• Download reference docs for the Silverlight Unit Test Framework
• Silverlight unit testing templates updated
• Awesome controls are coming for the Silverlight platform
• Client-side HTML controls for Silverlight 2
• Silverlight Unit Test Framework: New features & download for RC0
• Silverlight Unit Test Framework: Breaking changes from Beta 1 to Release Candidate
• If you can do it in JavaScript, you can do it in managed Silverlight .NET code
• Using IELaunchURL to launch and retrieve the PID of a protected mode IE7 window
• Using IELaunchURL in C# to launch a protected mode Internet Explorer 7 window
• Silverlight Unit Test Framework will be updated for the Release Candidate tomorrow
• Microsoft Silverlight unit test framework now on MSDN Code Gallery
• Quickly resize the Silverlight plugin to zero pixels in size
• LINQ follow-up: a little more work was needed
• LINQ really is hot stuff for .NET developers.
• Visual Studio unit testing intro
• Using a value converter to bind to Visibility in the Silverlight data grid
• My Silverlight 2 blog roadmap for Summer '08
• FJCore source available: Client-side JPEG resizing for Silverlight 2 Beta 2
• Mid-July miscellaneous content post
• Getting browser screen & window information in a Silverlight 2 app
• Silverlight unit test framework download for Silverlight 2 Beta 2
• Unit testing templates for Microsoft Silverlight 2 Beta 2
• Tech-Ed 2008: Building a great Microsoft Silverlight application talk on 6/6/08, 4:30pm in Blue Theater 2
• Dennis Dietrich: Stressing the importance of internationalization
• Storing text in the clipboard using Silverlight 2
• Code display: Moving back from screen captures to text
• Book Review: Pro C# 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Platform
• Accessing JavaScript arrays using the HTML DOM interop
• Homepage “link cloud" application
• Unit Testing with Silverlight 2
• Silverlight unit test project templates
• Video walkthrough of the Silverlight 2 control unit tests
• Some great Silverlight posts on the DataGrid, HtmlTextBlock, right clickin’, and more
• Silverlight 2: Introducing Microsoft.Silverlight.Testing
• Silverlight 2: Updated HtmlExtensions.cs utility class
• Silverlight 2: Download the source, unit tests and unit test framework
• Silverlight 2: MD5 hash string provider implementation
• Why I'm looking forward to MIX this year
• Help define, develop and test Microsoft's rich client platform - join the team!
• Starbucks to become chill once again?
• Blog Upgrade
• Book Review: Pro JavaScript Design Patterns by Harmes and Diaz
• Multiple clocks: Great travel tool built into Windows Vista
• Creating MD5 hash strings in Silverlight v1.1
• A Beautiful Morning in Redmond
• A managed Silverlight button that resembles the underlying operating system
• Using Google Analytics with rich (managed) web applications in Silverlight
• Useful managed HTML DOM methods for Microsoft Silverlight
• Fluxify: A client-side photo resize and upload tool for Silverlight v1.1
• Some fresh air for my blog!
• Adobe CS3 Web Premium is great!
• Debugging managed Silverlight applications on a web server: Make sure that PDB can be served!
• Injecting JavaScript into a web page using HtmlElement (Silverlight v1.1 MIX CTP)
• Silverlight v1.1 authoring and debugging tips for Visual Studio 2005
• A simple XML DOM interface for use with the Silverlight 1.1 Alpha
• Talking about integrating Silverlight with existing sites and workflows
• Silverlight: a great new tool for every web developer's toolbox
• Vista's "Restore Previous Versions" feature is a lifesaver
• Comparing recent Intel processor power usage at home
• Book Review: "Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries"
• Perform a full IIS 7 + ASP.NET install from the command prompt
• Upgrading ASP.NET Applications to the Integrated Pipeline
• Windows Vista RTM: Making it happen for ASP.NET
• Quick guide: Installing ASP.NET v1.1 on Windows Vista
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