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While on campus in September, I met up with Tsitsi Gora, a user
experience designer in developer division at Microsoft. Tsitsi has
worked on the in-tool experience for Silverlight, as well as some
of the Silverlight business application templates.
If you're interested in user experience or Silverlight, definitely check out this video.
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When I was on campus in May, John and I recorded an episode of
Silverlight.TV. Topic was Silverlight printing and reporting,
including the codeplex project I created at http://silverlightreporting.codeplex.com.
John's Silverlight.TV show is an awesome way to pick up both
news and info on Silverlight, and quick nuggets of information.
Thanks to John for taking the time to intervie...
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With Windows 7, WPF 4, Silverlight 4, and the road paved by our
multi-touch handheld devices, Multi-touch is really hitting
mainstream.
While at MIX10, I spoke with Josh Blake about NaturalShow, his
multi-touch not-PowerPoint presentation approach, written in WPF 4. Josh
uses multi-touch to navigate through a really clever way of
presenting material. I'd try and describe it, but i...
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Creating your whole website using Silverlight isn't usually the
approach you'll take--unless you happen to be a company
specializing in Silverlight development.
At MIX10, I caught up with Emil Stoychev, founder of
SilverlightShow. His company, CompletIT, located in Sofia,
Bulgaria, created a very slick animated website entirely in
Silverlight. It has everything from background ani...
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At MIX10, I spoke with Wirestone Principal UX Architect David
Kelley about a prototype retail experience he's built in WPF and
Silverlight.
The experience is based around the concept of small updatable
product price tags (actually screens) that can both be updated in
real-time and react to the presence of a person standing near
them.
Very cool stuff. I'm always interested in se...
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Content management of images, especially in publication
scenarios where multiple crops and sizes of one image must all be
available and associated together, is not a simple problem to
solve.
At Mix10, I caught up with Pete Miller from Conde Nast Digital
and Alex Norcliffe from Xeed. (Alex
is also on the Umbraco core project team.)
We talked about the challenges around content m...
Published
Thursday, April 15, 2010 |
Tagged:
.NET, WPF, Silverlight, ASP.NET, WindowsClient, Umbraco, Channel9, Windows-Phone, MIX10 |
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Folks in the WPF world have long relied on Snoop to figure out
what the heck is going on in their applications. Originally written
by Pete Blois from the MS Expression team, Snoop provides
information about all the elements, and even a slick 3D blown-out
view of the visual tree.
Cory Plotts has taken over Snoop development and added a bunch
of enhancements - some his own, and some...
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One of the more interesting uses for Silverlight is casual
gaming. When you add Windows Phone 7 Series into the mix, it
becomes even more exciting.
At MIX10, I met up with Microsoft MVP and all around cool guy,
Richard
Costall. He showed me how, with no real changes, he was able to
get his Silverlight game Manic Miner to run on the Windows Phone 7
Series. In fact, he did the port...
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At the 2010 MVP Summit in Redmond, I met up with the always-fun
Microsoft MVP Bruno Sonnino. Bruno has developed a ton of great
utilities over the years, including many for PC Mag.
In this video, Bruno talks about DiskPie
Pro 2, a utility originally written in Delphi and recently
rewritten in .NET using WPF. Check out the neat use of transitions
and the sharp use of 3D c...
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I recently published two new interview videos on Channel 9, both
with product team folks here at Microsoft. You'll also see that
I've redone the video overlays to bring them in line with my site
theme. Love it? Hate it? Let me know.
Henry Sowizral
The first is with Henry Sowizral. Henry and I
chat about what it takes to take a real application, with tons of
legacy C, C++ and even a...
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Here’s a list of videos I’ve put on various sites lately. The first set includes videos I’ve done for WindowsClient.net, to help folks learn how to build cool applications on Windows. The second set are some of the interviews I did at PDC09, showing cool apps folks have built in WPF and Silverlight. More of both will be coming soon, WindowsClient.net How do I: Use Windows 7 Taskbar Progre...
