Jaime Rodriguez

2/7/2020

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On Windows 8, Windows Phone and HTML5

This is not déjà vu(or a joke) -- we are finally executing on the training event we...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 03/07/2013

On December 13 and 14th, Microsoft and the Big Nerd Ranch team are having a two day training on...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 11/09/2012

This event has been post-poned to a soon to be announced date (it will be end of January). Apologies...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 11/09/2012

This coming Thursday (6/14) members of the Windows User Experience team are delivering an...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 06/12/2012

I have blogged before about the process to get a Windows 8 developer token early so you can reserve...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 06/08/2012

A few colleague evangelists are doing a series on MSDN Webcasts on building Windows 8 Metro style...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 05/10/2012

Two weeks ago, we announced an all day training for those Building metro style apps with C++.. Event...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 05/07/2012

Join the Microsoft Visual C++ and Windows teams in Redmond on May 18, 2012 for a free, all-day event...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 04/23/2012

Tuesday, the Windows Store blog announced that in the next significant Windows 8 preview release...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 04/19/2012

[I am traveling today, so it might be a one-off due to low band-width at the hotel, but in...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 03/08/2012

Yesterday, Microsoft released the Beta Ad SDK for Windows 8. This is an update to the SDK released...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 03/08/2012

it has been a long while since I last blogged. Why? I have immersed myself into the Windows 8 Metro...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 03/01/2012

Last week we did a video on background agents for the Inside Windows Phone show.. If you want to go...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 08/29/2011

With the Windows Phone (codenamed) Mango beta release, the Windows Phone team thrived to have great...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 06/10/2011

I hope I am not the only person who did not know this (apologies if that is the case)....

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 06/07/2011

In my last post, I teased that system tray in Mango is now customizable and data binding friendly...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 06/04/2011

A missing feature from Windows phone 7.0 was the ability to set the Background and Foreground color...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 06/03/2011

if you try using RichTextBox in the recently released Mango Beta tools, you might notice the control...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 06/01/2011

Thanks to those that attended our all-day Mobile Day event in...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 05/30/2011

With all the new coming features in Mango, I had to bring the show back.. Every Friday expect...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 05/27/2011

The past few days have been very exciting for Windows Phone developers: The Microsoft partnership...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 02/17/2011

I received a few questions about this post, and the nodo bits that were released last week, some of...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 02/10/2011

Two people asked on this post about communication between HTML and Silverlight, so I thought I would...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 02/07/2011

If you have a Windows Phone application that hosts the WebBrowser control and allows or encourages...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 02/04/2011

Yesterday, Kevin Marshall wrote a blog post with a good developer tip: to code defensively for...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 12/07/2010

I am writing this tiny demo app, that has a TextBox data bound to a ViewModel. I want the...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 12/05/2010

Yesterday I did a dry-run of my performance talk for today’s Silverlight fire starter. Conclusion...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 12/02/2010

For those of us who have multiple machines or re-install often and don’t like to download...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 11/27/2010

As you know, Silverlight does not have native support for decoding gif images. That is downer, but...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 11/23/2010

Kevan Hutson (or some one in his team) created this great ‘aggregation’ of reviews of...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 11/15/2010

Yesterday, I saw a few posts, tweets and personal emails from smart, professional developers who are...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 11/12/2010

A few tips for those using GeoCoordinateWatcher in Windows Phone 7. The data: GeoCoordinateWatcher...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 11/11/2010

I have uploaded my slides and demos from my teched sessions. Thanks for attending and...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 11/11/2010

On my way to TechEd Europe today, and just found out there is a room available to host a Windows...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 11/05/2010

For Silverlight applications, Windows Phone does a good job at abstracting the keyboard from the...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 11/05/2010

Monday’s blog post on running under screen lock generated a couple of questions around media...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 11/03/2010

Today, David Anson announced the second release of the Silverlight for Windows Phone ...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 11/02/2010

Last week, Microsoft published new Application content policies for Windows Phone 7 Apps. One of the...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 11/01/2010

The Windows Phone Marketpalce is upon us.. My apps are done and there are many, many apps getting...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 10/17/2010

Want to learn Windows Phone 7??? Booya!! Check out the line-up of events that our rocking...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 09/24/2010

Today, we are announcing a new Channel 9 show dedicated to Developing Windows Phone...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 09/03/2010

I will be doing a full-day pre-conference at TechEd EMEA covering Windows Phone 7 .. ...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 08/20/2010

Windows Phone is getting very impressive reviews, and all of them mention the great, innovative user...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 08/13/2010

Shane Guillet has been working on Silverlight performance since way back when it was called WPF/E......

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 08/06/2010

Congratulations to the WPF team in shipping the WPF ribbon control… You can download it, from:...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 08/04/2010

This week, MS learning did the first delivery of our Windows Phone 7 Jumpstart training. The...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 07/23/2010

To install the Windows Phone Developer Tools beta, you will first need to uninstall the older CTP...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 07/13/2010

There were a good number of breaking changes and new features introduced in the “beta”...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 06/28/2010

Today at Internet Week New York we are launching Expression Studio 4. This new version is shipping...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 06/07/2010

I had two long flights this week and I caught up with all my reading of internal Windows Phone...

Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 05/07/2010

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