Blog
November 25, 2019
My $6,000 Tesla Wall Connector: the story of bringing Electric Vehicle charging to a high-rise condo tower in Seattle
June 25, 2019
Scaling from 2,000 to 25,000 engineers on GitHub at Microsoft
April 10, 2018
My home network: Ubiquiti UniFi gear, fiber gigabit Internet, CAT6 and CAT3 wiring
February 28, 2017
Deploying Node.js apps in Azure App Service using private npm feeds from Visual Studio Team Services(Outdated)
February 24, 2017
Using mail2bug with Azure App Service, WebJobs and VSTS to handle support mail(Outdated)
November 18, 2015
From 20 to 2,000 engineers on GitHub: Azure, GitHub and our Open Source Portal
April 5, 2014
Introducing the Microsoft Azure Management Libraries(Outdated)
September 19, 2013
Installing an Infineon TPM in the Gigabyte GA-77X-UP5 TH motherboard(Outdated)
September 16, 2013
Creating a MongoDB replica set cluster w/Windows Azure Linux VMs(Outdated)
August 12, 2013
Windows Azure cross-platform command line improvements - Summer 2013(Outdated)
June 20, 2013
Windows Azure Management Portal background color themes(Outdated)
June 19, 2013
Creating secure Linux VMs in Azure with SSH key pairs(Outdated)
June 18, 2013
Adobe's Creative Cloud - I've been spending $2/day
June 18, 2013
Windows Azure Web Sites + custom SSL certificate for my app(Outdated)
April 29, 2013
Moving 4th & Mayor to Windows Azure Web Sites(Outdated)
April 13, 2013
Using the Windows Azure SDK for Node.js to create a Table Service Explorer(Outdated)
May 13, 2012
I reduced my cloud bill 9% this month by favoring my most active Windows Phone app users (Live Tiles, Leaderboards, Toasts)
March 28, 2012
A few 4th & Mayor things: Node cloud backend, Nokia Apps Madness, new markets & localization efforts
March 20, 2012
4th & Mayor - 1 Year Later
February 12, 2012
To the cloud!
January 31, 2012
Displaying static maps on the Windows Phone for performance and scenario wins(Outdated)
January 29, 2012
Windows Phone apps, built out of “the 3 P’s”: Panoramas, Pivots, and Pages
January 25, 2012
PhoneThemeManager: allow your app to have the Light, Dark, or Inverted theme with 1 line of code(Outdated)
January 22, 2012
Please ship your next Windows Phone app with GZip: speed requests 50-80%
January 15, 2012
A quick look at MetroRadio: quick spacing, margin, and icon tips for Windows Phone devs
January 14, 2012
A simple Windows Phone control for reading QR codes
December 12, 2011
My new Windows Phone Emulator theme–simple and sleek
December 7, 2011
MPNS module for Node: A simple push notification helper for the cloud
November 15, 2011
November release of the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit
October 31, 2011
Drive your application’s navigation through templated HyperlinkButtons and smart data binding to app-wide URIs
October 12, 2011
ScreenShots.cs: How to capture screenshots of your app on your device
October 7, 2011
MetroGridHelper: A helpful debugging assistant for designers and developers alike
October 5, 2011
Resizing images to square, aspect-ratio friendly bits with Node, Express, and ImageMagick
September 27, 2011
A note about remote URIs in Windows Phone secondary tiles
September 13, 2011
Friday at //BUILD/: Jeff Wilcox on Windows Phone Performance
August 17, 2011
Exploring the August 2011 Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit for ‘Mango’
July 7, 2011
Creating a global ProgressIndicator experience using the Windows Phone 7.1 SDK Beta 2
July 7, 2011
Building a detailed About page for your Windows Phone application
July 5, 2011
Excellent Silverlight for Windows Phone Performance Posts
June 28, 2011
4th & Mayor v2 is now released
June 9, 2011
Updated Silverlight Unit Test Framework binaries–compatible with the Mango phone tools beta
May 7, 2011
April was a busy month. Looking back and ahead…
April 17, 2011
Speaker evaluations: they’re important, please turn them in!
April 15, 2011
Windows Phone App Performance: My session from MIX11
April 5, 2011
My Focus-themed Windows Phone emulator theme
March 31, 2011
Analytics and automatic app feedback: A slippery but interesting slope for Windows Phone apps
March 25, 2011
Jeff Wilcox’s “Metro” design guide for developers, v1.00
March 20, 2011
Windows Phone, a great dev platform: adding leaderboards to 4th & Mayor in 30 minutes
March 20, 2011
4th & Mayor: the ultimate foursquare app for your Windows Phone
March 16, 2011
Upcoming speaking engagements on the Windows Phone
March 10, 2011
I’m developing my own Foursquare client for the Windows Phone
March 9, 2011
Using AutoCompleteBox in a Windows Phone Panorama or Pivot item
February 21, 2011
Windows Phone Pivot Control: Enable text wrapping for the Title
February 16, 2011
Introducing the February 2011 Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit
February 6, 2011
Notes on Silverlight and Phone Toolkits, Testing and Other Phone Stuff
December 5, 2010
A small but important UX improvement for ScrollViewer on the Windows Phone
December 3, 2010
PhoneHyperlinkButton updated: now supports web, email, text and phone call tasks
November 30, 2010
A quick and easy extension to HyperlinkButton for Windows Phone 7
November 16, 2010
MyPhotoApp: Sample project from my Windows Phone development series at Øredev
November 16, 2010
A quick look at the types of Windows Phone page transition animations
November 15, 2010
A less abrupt progress bar for Windows Phone developers
November 14, 2010
“The Future of Silverlight” keynote by ScottGu starts off the 12/2/10 FireStarter event
November 14, 2010
WP7 Panorama: Smoothly fading the background (and enabling fading when changing, too)
November 1, 2010
Silverlight and Windows Phone sessions at Øredev next week
October 3, 2010
Exploring Windows Phone Application Development Talk at JAOO Conference 4.10.10
September 22, 2010
Transition guide from phone.codeplex.com to the official Panorama & Pivot controls
September 22, 2010
Early Windows Phone media with the Silverlight Mobile team
September 16, 2010
Windows Phone Developers: Enjoy the new controls, toolkit, and final tools!
August 17, 2010
Exploring List capacities and growth on the Windows Phone
August 17, 2010
Windows Phone performance progress bar update: part 2, remember to turn IsIndeterminate off when not needed!
August 11, 2010
Blend tip: finding default styles using “Edit a Copy”
August 10, 2010
Panorama and Pivot controls for Windows Phone developers
August 7, 2010
TiltContentControl for Windows Phone
August 7, 2010
Creating high performance Windows Phone apps - THE WHITEPAPER
August 2, 2010
The high performance ProgressBar for Windows Phone (“PerformanceProgressBar”)
July 26, 2010
Frame rate counters in Windows Phone
May 27, 2010
Updated Silverlight Unit Test Framework bits for Windows Phone and Silverlight 3
May 21, 2010
How about a Zune-style ChildWindow?
May 21, 2010
Windows Phone? Sounds exciting!
May 15, 2010
Using Silverlight 4 features to create a Zune-like context menu
May 11, 2010
Deep dive on Silverlight unit testing at Tech Ed next month
May 3, 2010
Silverlight Unit Test Framework: New version in the April 2010 Silverlight Toolkit
April 2, 2010
Property change notifications for multithreaded Silverlight applications
April 1, 2010
Template parts and custom controls (quick tip)
March 29, 2010
Silverlight 4: New parser implementation. New parser features.
March 26, 2010
“Peppermint” MIX demo sources
March 26, 2010
Displaying 2D QR barcodes in Windows Phone applications
March 25, 2010
Data binding user settings in Windows Phone applications
March 25, 2010
No March 2010 release of the Silverlight Toolkit
March 24, 2010
Making that corporate office a little more personal
March 21, 2010
Silverlight Toolkit and the Windows Phone: WrapPanel, and a few others
March 20, 2010
Building Silverlight 3 and Silverlight 4 applications on a .NET 3.5 build machine
March 17, 2010
Unit Testing Silverlight & Windows Phone Applications – talk now online
March 10, 2010
Insert Tag Snippet plugin for Windows Live Writer (that works with Windows 7)
March 8, 2010
A syntax highlighting TextBlock for Silverlight 3
March 7, 2010
Ready to test those Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Series apps?
March 2, 2010
Code signing Visual Studio 2010 extensions (VSIX)
February 27, 2010
Getting started with code signing for under $100
February 26, 2010
Column guides for Visual Studio 2010: An extension
February 25, 2010
AutoCompleteBox: Now with 100% more WPF
February 10, 2010
Helpful Silverlight Snippets
December 9, 2009
C# regions sure can be useless
November 20, 2009
Walkthrough: The power of the November 2009 Silverlight Toolkit testing tools
November 19, 2009
Application Library Caching – November 2009 Silverlight Toolkit
November 19, 2009
BusyIndicator: David Poll’s ActivityControl is now in the Silverlight Toolkit November 2009 Release
November 19, 2009
Taking the Silverlight Control Browser sample Out-of-Browser ... plus a tutorial
November 4, 2009
The Silverlight Toolkit – now in the Microsoft Web Platform Installer
October 22, 2009
Round-tripping Silverlight 3 projects with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010
October 20, 2009
Application Library Caching support for the Silverlight Toolkit
October 19, 2009
Silverlight Toolkit October 2009 Release
September 30, 2009
Creating a two dimensional barcode control for Silverlight 3
September 23, 2009
Adding ToArgb() to the Silverlight Color class
September 14, 2009
Silverlight Toolkit in the wild – Sunday Night Football player
August 26, 2009
Custom Control Development: Simple code guidelines
August 26, 2009
Creating a highlighting text block for Silverlight 3, revisited
August 26, 2009
A Silverlight HighlightingTextBlock implemented in Visual Basic
July 16, 2009
Silverlight 3 unit test framework binaries available
July 8, 2009
Python and Ruby, Silverlight, and testing
July 1, 2009
Silverlight 2 unit test framework binaries updated
July 1, 2009
Three great screencasts on Silverlight unit testing
July 1, 2009
What's Jeff been up to?
June 29, 2009
WPF Toolkit: Charting release
June 1, 2009
Engineering Excellence recognition for the Silverlight Unit Test Framework
April 30, 2009
Is it worthwhile to keep AutoCompleteBox's DropDownOpening and Closing events?
April 6, 2009
Do you have any feedback on the AutoCompleteBox API?
April 3, 2009
Sharing Source and Skills - Source download
March 24, 2009
What's new with the Silverlight AutoCompleteBox
March 24, 2009
Highlighting AutoCompleteBox improvements thanks to Silverlight 3
March 23, 2009
The Silverlight Toolkit grows up a little with an install experience
March 23, 2009
Building Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3 Beta applications on the same machine
March 22, 2009
Sharing skills and code with Silverlight and WPF: MIX ‘09 session video and deck
March 9, 2009
Gravatar control for Silverlight and WPF - source and control binaries
March 8, 2009
Blog update: improved community features
March 8, 2009
A prototype tool for designers and developers: converting XAML to ISM themes and back again
March 7, 2009
MIX’09 – the intersection of design & technology… Silverlight Toolkit FTW!
March 4, 2009
Asynchronous test support - Silverlight unit test framework and the UI thread
February 17, 2009
CloudFront. Cloud Files. Others?
February 16, 2009
Unscientific SSD build time comparison
February 12, 2009
The Silverlight Toolkit team is on top of your feedback
February 11, 2009
SSD rocks my development environment
January 27, 2009
Silverlight MsBuild tricks - video
January 25, 2009
Building Silverlight code on machines without the SDK (guide & video)
January 20, 2009
Customizing AutoCompleteBox to update SelectedItem on commit, without changing the control
January 18, 2009
UniformGrid for Silverlight
January 13, 2009
MergeDefaultStyles build task improves control development (w/source)
January 7, 2009
NUnit & the Silverlight unit test framework
January 5, 2009
Using the Silverlight Toolkit? Let us know!
January 5, 2009
A bunch of AutoCompleteBox posts
January 5, 2009
AutoCompleteBox tip: Writing a new text filter in VB
January 4, 2009
My most popular Silverlight posts in '08
January 3, 2009
'09 blog housekeeping & thanks
December 17, 2008
AutoCompleteBox - SelectedItem design change - source code download
December 17, 2008
Silverlight ListBox with text searching
December 16, 2008
Help us improve the Silverlight Toolkit CodePlex site
December 15, 2008
Adding page up and down support to AutoCompleteBox
December 14, 2008
AutoCompleteBox without cycling navigation
December 14, 2008
R# integration for the Silverlight unit test framework
December 11, 2008
Silverlight AutoCompleteBox: What's new in the December release
December 10, 2008
Silverlight Charting: Creating rich data point tooltips
December 9, 2008
Reid Borsuk releases an MD5 implementation for Silverlight 2 in pure open source goodness
December 9, 2008
Silverlight unit test framework - updated source and binaries now available
December 9, 2008
Announcing the availability of the Silverlight Toolkit December 2008 release
December 7, 2008
Creating a testable WebClient for Silverlight unit testing
November 24, 2008
AutoCompleteBox control: The missing guide
November 20, 2008
Managed Html Controls source code
November 18, 2008
Build a highlighting AutoCompleteBox (like IE8 and Firefox 3) in 5 minutes
November 13, 2008
Toolkit posts: "Silverlight in Style," dependency properties in WPF and Silverlight, and TreeView expansion
November 6, 2008
Silverlight 2 Unleashed by Laurent Bugnion
November 5, 2008
Editable Silverlight ComboBox
November 4, 2008
Silverlight Unit Test Framework source code released
November 3, 2008
Getting Expression Encoder 2 SP1's media player template to work with CDNs and cross-domain embedding
November 3, 2008
Unblocking downloaded CHM documentation files on Windows Vista
November 1, 2008
Renaming Xap to Zip is dead. Long live renaming Xap to Zip!
November 1, 2008
Successful .Xap deployment with your CDN: Set the application/x-silverlight-app MIME type
October 30, 2008
AutoCompleteBox: The 5 things you need to know
October 30, 2008
Introducing the AutoCompleteBox
October 30, 2008
AutoCompleteBox: Video introduction
October 28, 2008
Sorry boss, I just released the new Silverlight Controls source code to the world.
October 25, 2008
Download reference docs for the Silverlight Unit Test Framework
October 24, 2008
Silverlight unit testing templates updated
October 23, 2008
Awesome controls are coming for the Silverlight platform
October 5, 2008
Client-side HTML controls for Silverlight 2
September 30, 2008
Silverlight Unit Test Framework: New features & download for RC0
September 29, 2008
Silverlight Unit Test Framework: Breaking changes from Beta 1 to Release Candidate
September 28, 2008
If you can do it in JavaScript, you can do it in managed Silverlight .NET code
September 25, 2008
Silverlight Unit Test Framework will be updated for the Release Candidate tomorrow
September 25, 2008
Using IELaunchURL in C# to launch a protected mode Internet Explorer 7 window
September 25, 2008
Using IELaunchURL to launch and retrieve the PID of a protected mode IE7 window
September 15, 2008
Microsoft Silverlight unit test framework now on MSDN Code Gallery
August 24, 2008
Quickly resize the Silverlight plugin to zero pixels in size
August 20, 2008
LINQ follow-up: a little more work was needed
August 19, 2008
LINQ really is hot stuff for .NET developers.
August 16, 2008
Visual Studio unit testing intro
July 13, 2008
Mid-July miscellaneous content post
July 13, 2008
FJCore source available: Client-side JPEG resizing for Silverlight 2 Beta 2
July 13, 2008
My Silverlight 2 blog roadmap for Summer '08
July 13, 2008
Using a value converter to bind to Visibility in the Silverlight data grid
June 24, 2008
Getting browser screen & window information in a Silverlight 2 app
June 11, 2008
Silverlight unit test framework download for Silverlight 2 Beta 2
June 6, 2008
Unit testing templates for Microsoft Silverlight 2 Beta 2
June 3, 2008
Tech-Ed 2008: Building a great Microsoft Silverlight application talk on 6/6/08, 4:30pm in Blue Theater 2
May 30, 2008
Dennis Dietrich: Stressing the importance of internationalization
May 21, 2008
Code display: Moving back from screen captures to text
May 21, 2008
Storing text in the clipboard using Silverlight 2
April 15, 2008
Book Review: Pro C# 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Platform
April 10, 2008
Accessing JavaScript arrays using the HTML DOM interop
April 1, 2008
Homepage “link cloud" application
March 31, 2008
Unit Testing with Silverlight 2
March 25, 2008
Silverlight unit test project templates
March 20, 2008
Some great Silverlight posts on the DataGrid, HtmlTextBlock, right clickin’, and more
March 20, 2008
Video walkthrough of the Silverlight 2 control unit tests
March 7, 2008
Silverlight 2: Introducing Microsoft.Silverlight.Testing
March 5, 2008
Silverlight 2: MD5 hash string provider implementation
March 5, 2008
Silverlight 2: Download the source, unit tests and unit test framework
March 5, 2008
Silverlight 2: Updated HtmlExtensions.cs utility class
March 2, 2008
Help define, develop and test Microsoft's rich client platform - join the team!
March 2, 2008
Why I'm looking forward to MIX this year
February 11, 2008
Blog Upgrade
February 11, 2008
Starbucks to become chill once again?
January 28, 2008
Book Review: Pro JavaScript Design Patterns by Harmes and Diaz
November 6, 2007
Multiple clocks: Great travel tool built into Windows Vista
October 24, 2007
Creating MD5 hash strings in Silverlight v1.1
October 11, 2007
A Beautiful Morning in Redmond
October 1, 2007
Using Google Analytics with rich (managed) web applications in Silverlight
October 1, 2007
A managed Silverlight button that resembles the underlying operating system
September 30, 2007
Useful managed HTML DOM methods for Microsoft Silverlight
September 21, 2007
Fluxify: A client-side photo resize and upload tool for Silverlight v1.1
September 18, 2007
Adobe CS3 Web Premium is great!
September 18, 2007
Some fresh air for my blog!
August 17, 2007
Debugging managed Silverlight applications on a web server: Make sure that PDB can be served!
July 18, 2007
Injecting JavaScript into a web page using HtmlElement (Silverlight v1.1 MIX CTP)
June 19, 2007
Silverlight v1.1 authoring and debugging tips for Visual Studio 2005
May 1, 2007
A simple XML DOM interface for use with the Silverlight 1.1 Alpha
April 16, 2007
Silverlight: a great new tool for every web developer's toolbox
April 16, 2007
Talking about integrating Silverlight with existing sites and workflows
March 31, 2007
Vista's "Restore Previous Versions" feature is a lifesaver
March 16, 2007
Comparing recent Intel processor power usage at home
February 16, 2007
Book Review: "Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries"
January 29, 2007
Perform a full IIS 7 + ASP.NET install from the command prompt
December 11, 2006
Upgrading ASP.NET Applications to the Integrated Pipeline
November 9, 2006
Quick guide: Installing ASP.NET v1.1 on Windows Vista
November 9, 2006
Windows Vista RTM: Making it happen for ASP.NET
July 11, 2005
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