Larry Larsen

Last month we held an invitation-only Silverlight Pivot Summit on campus. They were kind enough to let us record it for Niners. We'll air the five parts throughout the week. Jeff Weir walks you through how to build a compelling design for your Silverlight PivotViewer Collection.  We…

Last month we held an invitation-only Silverlight Pivot Summit on campus. They were kind enough to let us record much of it for Niners. We'll air the five parts throughout the week. Andrew Cox and Ralph Ruiz walk you through The Silverlight PivotViewer Control and how to embed your…

Digital Lens is a project out of Microsoft's Israel Innovation Labs that allows designers and developers to get an idea of what their applications will look like to visually impaired users. This consideration might not be the first step in your testing (though it should be), but Federal…

Today we announced the availability of the Facebook and Windows Live Messenger plug-ins for the Outlook Social Connector in Microsoft Office. Outlook users can now connect their Facebook accounts and their Windows Live Messenger accounts to their inboxes, making it possible for people to add…

Today we announced the availability of the Facebook and Windows Live Messenger plug-ins for the Outlook Social Connector in Microsoft Office. Outlook users can now connect their Facebook accounts and their Windows Live Messenger accounts to their inboxes, making it possible for people to…

In this video, Brian Goldfarb and Brett Brewer stop by to discuss the new Silverlight PivotViewer control release. In addition to discussing its immediate availability, they talk about tech transfers between labs and product groups like Silverlight. For those of you who haven’t heard of it yet,…

Angus Logan from the Windows Live Messenger team stopped by to tell us about the Live Messenger Connect API, what devs can do with it and where to get it. There is a controls playground where you try some of the controls. For more info or to get the SDK go…

In this video, Rob Mauceri, Group Program Manager for Internet Explorer, shows some of the new developer samples available in the third build of the IE9 Platform Preview available on the IE Test Drive. 

In this video, Seth McLaughlin, Program Manager for Internet Explorer, looks at a how developers can use HTML5 Canvas in the third build of the IE9 Platform Preview. This developer sample demonstrates a real-world example using Amazon.com and shows the value of hardware accelerated Canvas. This…

In this video, Paul Cutsinger, Principal Program Manager for Internet Explorer, looks at how developers can use HTML5 Canvas in the third build of the IE9 Platform Preview. This sample, which demonstrates the value of GPU-powered Canvas, is available along with the third IE9 Platform Preview on…