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Sorry - I temporarily fell off the blogging wagon. It's tough to keep it going - there's always new stuff to blog about, but finding the time to write and polish is more challenging. It's been a busy month with all the follow-up from MIX, a brief vacation, preparation for a European tour and lots of planning for our next financial year - it's a weak excuse, but I just got out of the rhythm. Anyway, I've got a whole heap of cool material queued up now and ready to post, so I'll start to push that out over the next few days. Anyway, I'm now in Europe for a couple of weeks, talking to customers and presenting Silverlight at a few different events. As I write this, I'm in Madrid, presenting at a local MIX-style event (given my background, there's a certain irony in that today my session was competing against the WPF session in the same time slot for developers). On Thursday June 7th, I'm in Dublin speaking at the Irish Microsoft Technologies Conference . I'll be delivering two sessions there, Read More...
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Head over to silverlight.live.com to create yourself a Silverlight Streaming account key and begin uploading your Silverlight applications and media. Silverlight Streaming allows you to upload up to 4GB of media content, with videos of up to ten minutes in length. The storage is "in the cloud" and files are globally cached. Here's a rough and raw walkthrough of how you can use it: Grab yourself the trial edition of Expression Media Encoder ; Take a video and encode it - make sure you go to the Output tab and choose a player template; At the end of the encode process, you should have a directory that contains the media file, some XAML and JavaScript files and any thumbnails that you've specified through the Markers tool-window. You'll need to remove any .html, .aspx, .media, .csproj or .config files from the output directory. You won't need these for the Silverlight Streaming service. Then you'll want to add a manifest that describes the Silverlight application; for a default player from Read More...
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For the last few months, I've been featuring a portfolio of great WPF applications that have shipped since we launched WPF. We turned some of those, plus a bunch of new ones, into a keynote "anthem" video that Ray Ozzie just showed. I thought I'd upload it to the Silverlight Streaming service for ease of distribution and so that you see all those cool WPF applications one more time. Check it out here... Read More...
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To coincide with the launch of the Silverlight 1.0 Beta, my team has been working hard on a great series of intermediate-level screencasts on Silverlight that are just hitting the wires now. Each video is about five minutes in length, and covers a "how to" topic. Using Silverlight Brushes for Color, Gradient and Video Using the Silverlight Downloader Object Basic Keyboard Input with Silverlight Adding Ink Support to a Silverlight-based Application 2D Geometries in Silverlight Building Video Overlays with Silverlight Creating a Video Scrubbing Control with Silverlight Using Silverlight for Full Screen Experiences Silverlight Event Handling with JavaScript Animating and Clipping Video with Silverlight Creating Vector Art for Silverlight with Expression Blend Animating Vector Art for Silverlight with Expression Blend Part I Animating Vector Art for Silverlight with Expression Blend Part II Animating Raster Art for Silverlight with Expression Blend Using Expression Blend to Control Silverlight Read More...
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I'm here at MIX07. Nice to finally be here -- one of the reasons my blog has been rather quiet of late has been the work in the run up to MIX. I've been involved in all kinds of fun stuff involving WPF, Expression Blend and Silverlight, which I'll finally be able to start highlighting. One of the projects I've been most fired up about is what I'm calling Flittrbook , a WPF screensaver mashup of Twitter, Flickr and Facebook that is running here at the conference. I worked with Tim Aidlin, a designer at Microsoft, to create a visualization of photos and twitters at MIX. It is now running as the screen saver on all the PCs at the show, in the blogger's lounge and the mashup lounge and on the big screens as people file in for the keynote. Flittrbook pulls a feed of anyone who is a follower of MIX07, any photo posted to Flickr tagged MIX07 and any photo posted to the Facebook official MIX07 event. I had a blast writing it and will be releasing a modified version shortly, source included, which Read More...
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Today at the Mix 07 conference, Microsoft is announcing a couple preview releases of Silverlight . Silverlight v1.0 Beta is the next in series to the two community technology previews (CTPs) released with the codename "WPF/E". Silverlight v1.1 Alpha is a sneak peek at some future functionality. While it is unusual to have two separate pre-release trains for a product, we believe that there's nothing like real code and real samples to demonstrate our feature set, roadmap and intent. The team has been aggressively cranking out code, delivering key features with tight deadlines. Please download the builds, play with them, build apps and tell us what you think. Here's an incomplete list of new features or enhancements in Silverlight 1.0 Beta: VideoBrush - Used to paint shapes and text with video content. WMS streaming support Media markers / script command support Playlist support (ASX subset) Improved video playback smoothness Cleaned-up animation model Animations now go in a Canvas.Resources Read More...
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Our flagship conference for web designers and developers, MIX , starts today in Las Vegas. This event is unlike any other Microsoft conference, with a fascinating mix of internal and external speakers even including a few that are openly hostile towards Microsoft! I know not everyone gets as frothed up about events like this as the blogosphere would have you believe. Neverthelesss, we're using this conference to make a number of major announcements: starting in less than ninety minutes... If you're attending, welcome: hope to catch up with many of you in the corridors and lounges at the venue. If you're not attending, the visitmix.com site will put you in the front seat with on-site video blogging, live keynote streaming and other sessions posted throughout the conference. What I really want to highlight, however, is three beautiful mash-up applications, written on the WPF platform, that demonstrate all the attributes for which we hope this conference will be known: great design, social Read More...
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