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Expression Blend 3 March CTP Installer’s Bug…

RizwanSharp — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:26:40 GMT

Yesterday I was installing Microsoft Expression Blend 3 March CTP on my Windows 7 Box. After following 2-3 Screens in the setup wizard, following screen came:

God! What to do next? Where is the next button? Where to click. Literally I clicked every single pixel of this screen but nothing happened :(. Neither did I know if installer is doing something or downloading some updates to be installed. I kept the installer running for next 3-4 hours and do my own work hopping that it’ll proceed but nothing happened :D. Then I posted a question on Expression Blend’s forum here. Prasad suggested to hit the “Enter” while focusing the Screen. I did so and it took a few more seconds and setup proceeded to finish :D.

I was installing it on Windows 7 Build 2007 and don’t know if problem comes on Windows XP and Vista too.

If anyone of you is facing this problem then don’t wait for hours like me :$ just hit the Enter and you’ll be done!

Happy Designing & Coding!

Best Regards,

Rizwan a.k.a RizwanSharp

Silverlight 3 Has Arrived...

RizwanSharp — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:47:21 GMT

Just a quick post to announce that Silverlight 3 Beta has arrived. Third version of Silverlight seems very much promising. A lot of new features has been added to this release even then plugin size is almost 30-40 KB smaller than it was for Silverlight 2. Microsoft has also released new versions of Tools for Visual Studio and Expression Blend. I could not stop myself from downloading the tools right away and having some hand ons with it. You can have a look on complete set of changes and enhancements over here:

http://silverlight.net/getstarted/silverlight3/default.aspx#whatsnew

Download the tools from here:

http://silverlight.net/getstarted/silverlight3/default.aspx

I'll be posting more and more about Silverlight 3 in coming weeks cuz I'm really excited about this release

Stay Tuned!

Best Regards,

Rizwan

Microsoft MVP Award 2008

RizwanSharp — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:46:13 GMT

Yes, I have been awarded Microsoft MVP Award once again for my contributions in C# community. It is second time that I'm getting this award. Last time, I got it for the same C#.

I came to know about this last (4/1/2008) evening No! it was not an April Fool trust me it was as real as it was last year . I thank everyone who supported me in doing this, thank God to give me courage to have more time working for knowledge sharing and learning, my fiancee who always loved and appreciated what I've been doing, my parents who pray a lot for me, Microsoft, Charlie Calvert (C# Community PM) and ofcourse the people who asked questions on forums .

Best Regards,

Rizwan a.k.a RizwanSharp