Pete Brown

With Windows 7, WPF 4, Silverlight 4, and the road paved by our multi-touch handheld devices, Multi-touch is really hitting mainstream. While at MIX10, I spoke with Josh Blake about NaturalShow, his multi-touch not-PowerPoint presentation approach, written in WPF. Josh uses multi-touch to…

At the 2010 MVP Summit in Redmond, I met up with the always-fun Microsoft MVP Bruno Sonnino. Bruno has developed a ton of great utilities over the years, including many for PC Mag. In this video, Bruno talks about DiskPie Pro 2, a utility originally written in Delphi and recently…

While on campus for the MVP Summit in February, I had a chance to visit Henry Sowizral over in building 41. Henry Sowizral is a Principal Architect in Microsoft Expression, and he and his team did something really cool: they converted an existing C/C++/MFC application to have a WPF…

Dave Campbell runs the super-popular SilverlightCream. SilverlightCream is the best place to find current and past blog posts related to Silverlight development. I caught up with Dave at MIX10 and asked him what went into putting together this daily list of excellent Silverlight…

Folks in the WPF world have long relied on Snoop to figure out what the heck is going on in their applications. Originally written by Pete Blois from the MS Expression team, Snoop provides information about all the elements, and even a slick 3D blown-out view of the visual tree. Cory Plotts has…

One of the more interesting uses for Silverlight is casual gaming. When you add Windows Phone 7 Series into the mix, it becomes even more exciting. At MIX10, I met up with Microsoft MVP and all around cool guy, Richard Costall. He showed me how, with no real changes, he was able to get his…

Creating your whole website using Silverlight isn't usually the approach you'll take--unless you happen to be a company specializing in Silverlight development. At MIX10, I caught up with Emil Stoychev, founder of SilverlightShow. His company, CompletIT, located in Sofia, Bulgaria, created a very…

In February, while up on campus for the MVP summit, I snuck over to the Expression side of building 41 and met with Pete Blois. Pete Blois is a Senior Program Manager Lead on the Expression Blend team. He's responsible for tooling for Silverlight, WPF, and now Silverlight for Windows Phone 7…

I recently ported my own site and blog from a combination of community server and custom code to the Umbraco open source CMS and Blog4Umbraco 4. There are several other sites at Microsoft that are following a similar path. At MIX10, I caught up with a bunch of dudes related to  Umbraco,…

During the final hours of MIX10, I ran around randomly shoving a camera in front of people and putting them on to the spot to tell me their "Favorite thing at MIX." Watch to see why MIX is more than just the sessions, more than just Silverlight and Windows Phone, more than the Next…