Pete Brown

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

At MIX10, I spoke with Wirestone Principal UX Architect David Kelley about a prototype retail experience he's built in WPF and Silverlight. The experience is based around the concept of small updatable product price tags (actually screens) that can both be updated in real-time and react to the…

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…

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…

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 

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,…