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To help prepare your applications for Windows 7, download the Windows 7 Training Kit for Developers. The kit includes code, videos and labs for both native Win32 C++ developers and .NET developers covering the new features available in Windows 7.

Erik Mork from the Sparkling Client podcast has posted a 10-minute episode on Projects that Benefit from Prism. Erik interviews Shawn Wildermuth and from the Patterns and Practices team Bob Brumfield and David Hill who all have opinions on when its best to…

For every download of Internet Explorer 8 from the Browser for the Better site, Microsoft will donate 8 meals to Feeding America.  That's pretty cool and it reminds me of the i'm MAKING A DIFFERENCE initiative with Messenger.

Josh Smith posted a tutorial on creating and displaying a matrix using a custom control in WPF.  Not only does he use the control, he explains how it works and the thinking behind the architecture.  And as expected from Josh, there si a full seperation of model, control and a template …

Posting the final few pieces today on the new Visual Studio Designer for WPF and Silverlight, we are up to 7 videos spanning 79 minutes and 5 seconds of content covering WPF 4 Beta 1. Videos include: An overview of WPF 4 Beta 1 XAML in .NET 4 Multi-touch in WPF 4 Beta 1 Deployment in .NET 4…

Although you may not speak German, the smooth experience of the Konfigurator comes through via the images and motion.  You can check out a video of the Konfigurator in action or start using it to customize your own Mazda.  Keep an eye out for the Deep Zoom of the interiors,…

A new version of Deep Zoom Composer is available that offers many new requested features.  Along with better memory usage one feature I'm most looking forward to checking out is the added Navigation functionality.  Zooming into a collection of pictures is nice, but if I can do…

Cory Plotts has taken on Robby Ingebretsen's original challenge and has created a Photoshop style blend modes library for WPF.  This means that using Cory's library you can use Blend modes you are familiar with from Photoshop while developing a WPF Application. Familiar modes like…

Jesse Liberty, our official Silverlight Geek, walks us through his first Silverlight 3 application built with Visual studio 2010 Beta 1 running on Windows 7 RC.  Yes it works!  Check out his Example-Code Quality Guarantee.

Nick Petterssen from Electric Rain demonstrates how to use ZAM 3D with Blend to create true 3D content for WPF. Once the 3D object is then added to the scene he shows how to animate it using the familiar Storyboard objects used for animating 2D objects.