Ed Blankenship

Happy New Year - Microsoft MVP

After waking up from a very long but extremely fun night on New Year's Eve (which ended up being my housewarming party as well since all of my friends were in town,) I was surprised to find an e-mail in my inbox: Congratulations! We are pleased to present Read More...

New Position

Ever since I started at Infragistics , I had been working in the User Experience Group (under the Evangelism umbrella) primarily with WPF & WinForms.  As some of you know, I wasn't too fond with WPF at the beginning :) but now I love it.  Read More...

Tangerine - WPF Exemplar

It's been a while since I last blogged something but that's because I've been hard working on our latest exemplar at Infragistics . It's a WPF "reference application" and is released.... RIGHT NOW! So if you want to learn some good techniques about including Read More...

Come Hear Us! - ReMIX 2007 in Boston

Grant Hinkson (our Director of Visual Design at Infragistics) and I will be doing our talk "Meeting in the Middle - Designer/Developer Interaction in WPF." It looks like we have the first breakout session on Tuesday, October 9 at 9:00 AM. Take a look Read More...

Come Hear Us! - Northern Jersey - UX and WPF

Come check us out if you'll be in the area! Ambrose Little and I will be giving our WPF and UX talk on Thursday, August 2 at the New Jersey Microsoft Developer's Group in Iselin, NJ. We've got some exciting new stuff if you've already heard this talk Read More...

Speaking at TECH Bash in the Poconos

Saturday, May 19th I'll be speaking in the Poconos in Pennsylvania at TECH Bash 2007 . If you'll be in the area, make sure you attend! Session Topic: Humanizing Software: Creating Better User Experience with WPF Session Description: End Users today expect Read More...

Silverlight Streaming Service

Announced at MIX this morning... Microsoft is giving people the opportunity to host up to 4GB!!!! of video. That's crazy awesome! Go visit the site for more info: https://silverlight.live.com Microsoft® Silverlight™ Streaming by Windows Live™ is a companion Read More...

Special Offer for MSDN Subscribers

If you are an MSDN subscriber, have you checked out the Subscriber Downloads site recently? Take advantage of that special offer including xamDataGrid for FREE! The offer is at the top of the main page and also on the right side. Read More...

Book Review - Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed

Right now there are limited training resources for learning WPF and pretty much a non-existence of proven patterns and practices. All of these assets will eventually come to the developer community as more people adopt the technology. For right now, I Read More...