Pete Brown

While at PDC09, I met up with Tor Langlo and Robby Ingebretsen who had just built a really cool closet configuration application using WPF and 3D. Think about going to a high-end home store, where the consultant sits down with you and helps configure a walk-in or other type of closet for your…

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…

In September, I met up on campus with Joel Barsotti. Joel, and the company SpectraCal, have created an awesome WPF application used for analyzing and calibrating various types of displays (computer screens, LCDs in stores etc.) When Joel first told me about the application, I was really excited…

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…

Pete Brown and his lovely assistant , Tim Heuer, interview Mike Wolf from Cynergy Systems at PDC09. Mike has built a Silverlight 4 demo application that uses the new webcam feature, and a png sequencer of his own design, to create stop-motion animation. Mike's Blog Tim's Blog Pete's Blog

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…

At Tech Ed 2011, David Pugmire and I had the pleasure of speaking with Ken Collins from Cogent. He demonstrated the Cogent DataHub WebView product—a product built using Silverlight and backed by cloud services. The product includes real-time information display from various sensors and industrial…

I caught up with Jon Galloway at PDC09, just before he joined our team at Microsoft. Jon is a developer on Witty Twitter, one of the first and longest-maintained WPF Twitter clients. Jon and Pete talk about the history of Witty Twitter, challenges of working with Twitter, how it works with WPF,…

While in the big hall at PDC09, I spoke with Mike Wolf and Rick Barraza from Cynergy Systems.They've been busy buiding some awesome WPF and Silverlight applications. This one, the Star Trek Experience, is a WPF application built for the Microsoft Surface. The application these guys built, in…

User Experience is important at Microsoft. One place where UX really shines is in Visual Studio, and the tooling and templates for Silverlight. In September, I had the pleasure of catching up with Tsitsi Gora, UX designer at Microsoft. We discussed what it's like to be a designer in developer…