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• MIX08 for Non-Attendees

  At last, the mad rush is over. The run-up to a conference like MIX is always frantic: for me, the first three weeks in February involved a constant juggle of competing priorities. With the exception of one last-minute firedrill, the worst was over by late Friday afternoon. Now it's the calm before the storm; it's too late to fix bugs, to rewrite labs, to rearrange the schedule! Instead, it's a perfect time to write a few blog entries. I'm looking forward to meeting a number of you at the event (do stop me and say hi if you see me!), but I know that the vast majority of folk reading this aren't able to join us in Las Vegas for various reasons. It's therefore my goal over the next few days to relay as many of the highlights as schedule permits. So what's worth looking out for over the next day or two? Firstly, if you haven't seen Scott Guthrie's blog over the last week, you should check out his two most recent posts on Silverlight 2. I never understood how Scott managed to write such in-depth Read More... Posted Monday, March 03, 2008 3:01 PM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: humor, Expression, screencast, silverlight, lab, silverlight 2.0, mix08

• Attend the WPF Virtual Bootcamp - no need to register!

  People frequently ask me how they can learn WPF quickly. Now the technology has been on the market for a while, there are a number of different choices: books from the likes of Petzold , Moroney , Nathan , MacDonald , Anderson and Sells/Griffiths , classroom training from companies like Pluralsight , Wintellect , Developmentor and IdentityMine , and online tutorials like those from Nibbles or lynda.com . I'm excited to announce another choice today: we've made available a three-day virtual training course that covers all aspects of WPF as part of MIX University, and it's completely free ! This course was delivered here on campus in Redmond earlier this year for a small invited audience, and as we drew up the syllabus and speaker list, we realized we had something special on our hands. You'll hear a keynote from Ian Ellison-Taylor , the general manager responsible for WPF, Silverlight and client platform tools; introductory sessions on core WPF topics from external luminaries like Ian Griffiths Read More... Posted Friday, October 26, 2007 5:49 PM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: WPF, screencast, events, silverlight, blend, lab, training, presentation, cider

• Some Great Silverlight Controls

  The Silverlight 1.1 alpha bits don't currently have much in the way of controls. The infrastructure is there (you can derive from System.Windows.Control, for instance), and we include a few early sample controls (button, slider and so on, including source code) with the SDK, but the full set of controls won't come until the next public release. In the meantime, Tim Heuer pointed me at an interesting set of controls that have been developed by an organization called NETiKA Technologies. If you go to this demo page , you'll see that they've somehow taken a pretty broad set of Windows Forms controls and implemented them for Silverlight (and Flash). Or at least, I think that's what they've done. It's not entirely clear what's going on under the covers here, since the code you write starts off as a Windows Forms application that the toolkit cross-compiles to Silverlight. The demos are pretty impressive - a little slow (it is alpha code running on alpha code, to be fair), but particularly the Read More... Posted Friday, June 22, 2007 7:21 PM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: Controls, screencast, Sample, silverlight, RIA

• Silverlight Screencasts

  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... Posted Monday, April 30, 2007 12:54 PM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: screencast, silverlight, mix07