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Archive for tag:
MIX10
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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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I've known Dave for a while. He's a great contributor to the
community of Silverlight developers. His site and daily link
post, Silverlight Cream, has become the go-to source to find good
Silverlight content and good bloggers.
While at MIX10, I caught up with Dave and asked him just want
went in to putting out Silverlight Cream as often as he does. Watch
the video to learn more.
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This is Windows Client Developer roundup #18.
Starting with this issue, I'll be combining the WPF and
Silverlight sections, in recognition of the shared nature and dual
applicability of many of the posts, and breaking out the topics
more by topic area than just technology.
The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of
interest to Windows Client Developers, including...
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There's no question that MIX is my favorite conference. I love
the topics, I love the people.
During the final hours of MIX10, I ran around randomly shoving a
camera in front of people and putting them on to the spot to tell
me their "Favorite thing at MIX." Watch to see why MIX
is more than just the sessions, more than just Silverlight and
Windows Phone, more than the Next Web......
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This is Windows Client Developer roundup #17, the post-MIX10
edition.
You can
find my own MIX10 recap here.
The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of
interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF, Surface, Windows 7, XNA,
Windows Forms, Silverlight and Windows Phone.
If you have something interesting you've done or have run across,
please send me the UR...
Published
Monday, March 22, 2010 |
Tagged:
.NET, WPF, Silverlight, Commodore, Surface, WindowsClient, WindowsClientRoundup, Windows-Phone, MIX10 |
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Conference Overview
I've attended every MIX starting with the first one in 2006. Every
year, this has been the event I most look forward to. Not only do I
love the topics, but I know more folks here than just about any
conference. This is the conference that defines the xaml-dev
community.
While the conference is evolving (size, content, community
contribution), I think it still re...
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A month ago I recorded this video with Expression Blend PM Pete
Blois. Pete is a great guy to talk with, especially if you're
interested in Expression Blend. We chatted about Silverlight 4,
Silverlight for Windows Phone (and the Blend designer for that),
how multitargeting works in Blend, and about rooler, Pete's great
tool for measuring, screen cap and more.
PS. Yes, I used roole...
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This is Windows Client Developer roundup #16, the last one
before all the MIX festivities. Sending this one out a day early so
I can make my flight on Sunday. In preparation for all the coolness
at MIX,
make sure you have your Silverlight/WPF/XNA development toolbox up
to date.
I'll be at MIX10 this week. Be sure to watch the keynote
at MIX (usually broadcast live), as well as the s...
Published
Sunday, March 14, 2010 |
Tagged:
.NET, WPF, Silverlight, XNA, Surface, WindowsClient, WindowsClientRoundup, Windows-Phone, MIX10 |
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Most Microsoft events have a few custom applications built for
them. You never really hear much about them, and perhaps don't even
think about them as custom apps, but there they are, in the keynote
showing tweets, or before sessions (in this case) showing trivia
questions.
MIX has been my favorite conference since I first attended in 2006. Last year I had a
blast and entered the show...
