Creating A Silverlight Blog That Doesn’t Suck by Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek

Want to stand out from the crowd? Provide me with information I can't get elsewhere.... You have to focus on what your blog has to offer that is different, new, interesting, better than all the other blogs available, or I return to my original question...

Two Incredible, Indispensable, Free Utilities by Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek

Here are two free utilities that are so incredibly valuable, it is stunning that they are both free (one is licensed under the Gnu Public License and the other is open source). HTTrack This application will crawl a web site for you and download as much...

Why Developers Should, Must, Do Care About The New Expression Blend by Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek

Okay, tough love: if you are serious about Silverlight development, the days of using one Integrated Development Environment for all you work are…. over.  The benefits of adding Expression Blend to your toolkit, and getting serious about learning...

Getting Started With Silverlight: A Path Through The Learning Material by Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek

I often receive email saying, more or less, “I am starting Silverlight, can you tell me what to read first.” We are working hard on creating a path through all the material for Getting Started. For now, I’d recommend the following: 1. Go to the GetStarted...

Code Rush Vs. ReSharper by Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek

Its funny how sometimes there are pairs of products that contend for “best” and yet seem to be so evenly matched that the decision is often arbitrary, a pick made based on what your friends use, what you used first, which commercial (or Evangelist) is...
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New hard drive means re-install everything by Method ~ of ~ failed by Tim Heuer

I recently found a good deal on a 7200 RPM 500GB latpop drive and decided to upgrade myself to that. I’ve been operating on a 150GB drive for a long time and hadn’t been cleaning up old projects, encodings, etc. so it was running thin on space. This was...
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What tools are the minimum to get started in Silverlight? by Method ~ of ~ failed by Tim Heuer

Help me out with a bit of some research here. In your opinion…what tools (from Microsoft) are the MINIMUM needed to get started with Silverlight? I’m not talking about full-blown MVVM, MEF loading, Live Smooth Streaming applications…I’m talking about...
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FavIcons, Internet Zones and Projects from a Trustworthy Source by Scott Hanselman

You ever download some code or a Visual Studio project from the web then start getting warned that the download might be evil? When you open a project file that was downloaded from the Internet Zone, you'll get a dialog like this from Visual Studio...
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SmallestDotNet Update - Now with .NET 4 support and an includable JavaScript API by Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen

A few years back I wrote a post on the size of the .NET Framework . There's historically been a lot of confusion on the site of the .NET Framework. If you search around on the web for ".NET Framework" or ".NET Framework Redistributable"...
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NewsFlash: Computers are Faster Than Before - Importing Digital Video from Tape and Making a DVD by Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen

The Wife and I travelled all over the world before we had kids (and all over the world after, actually...both boys have been on three continents) and amassed a huge pile of Video Tapes of our travels. I started with a Sony Digital 8 camera that recorded...
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Fixing Quiet or Low Audio output on the PDC Tablet PC - Acer 1240P Convertible by Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen

I finally got my hands (via eBay) on one of the Tablet PCs that were given away at PDC this year (effectively a custom Acer 1240P Convertible). It's fabulous. I easily upgraded the memory to 4GB for about $40 and that makes little netbook a nice portable...
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Fixing Quiet or Low Audio output on the PDC Tablet PC - Acer 1420P Convertible by Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen

I finally got my hands (via eBay) on one of the Tablet PCs that were given away at PDC this year (effectively a custom Acer 1420P Convertible). It's fabulous. I easily upgraded the memory to 4GB for about $40 and that makes little netbook a nice portable...
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2009 Blogged - Greatest Hits by Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen

While I (really) unplugged in December of 2009, you can access a nice calendar of all my 2009 posts (as well as other years) at this link . In 2008 I published a Greatest Hits post that I will keep updated, but here's a list of links to the posts...
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The (Near) Final Word on Multi-Monitor Taskbars for Windows 7 - Ultramon vs. DisplayFusion by Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen

Wow, this was the longest time I've ever gone without blogging. It was very interesting being (reasonably) unplugged. I was even more unplugged this time than last year when we spent Christmas in South Africa (where I was blogging near-daily over...
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