The 2010 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference is being held this year in our Nation's Capital from July 11th through July 15th. This is our second proud year of building the DWPC website and supporting the event. On the website you’ll find tons of information, news, and tools to support you while you're there. You'll also have easy access to […]

I did some Silverlight 4 context menu (right-click) research recently.  It led me to create the attached sample application.  This simple app uses the Windows 7 and Cosmo (aka Metro) Silverlight 4 themes that Tim Heuer published on his blog.  This app simply makes them dynamically switchable at runtime.  It uses the most simple and standard ways of doing so […]

  Desktop wallpapers can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. However, if you use some specific wallpaper for a long period of time, it becomes harder to draw inspiration out of it. That’s why we have decided to supply you with smashing wallpapers over 12 months. And to make them a little bit more distinctive from the usual crowd, we’ve decided to em […]

In modern web interface design, no other principle has been heralded and pushed onto us as much as the concept of user-centered design. User-centered design tells us that we should do everything we can to make our user interfaces as easy to use and as intuitive as possible. However, a big part of designing user interfaces [...] […]