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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 content.

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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 Silverlight...

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 rewritten...

While at MIX10, I met up with Robert Kihm, Director of Product Architecture at Aptify. We talked about how Aptify enables you to create metadata for an application as well as surface the UI, including bindings and validation rules across multiple user interfaces (Silverlight and Windows Forms shown),...

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, including ...

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 Web...and...

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 Series. ...

In February I popped on over to building 42 and met with my friend, Jeff Handley, who works on the WCF RIA Services team. Jeff talked about what it's like to work on RIA Services, sharing with the community, and openness at Microsoft. Then we chatted a bit about framework development vs. application...

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 front-end,...

In January, I spoke at the best of tech-ed and Convergence 2010 conference in Reykjavik, Iceland. The event was a huge success, bringing in one out of every 300 people in Iceland (just under 1200 people total)

While there, I met with Sig (Sigurjon Lydsson - Microsoft) and Jon (Gudmundur Jon Halldorsson...