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Robbie Ingebretsen: "This is a creative experiment" "We didn't always look into best practices" Talks about the Integrator role. Nathan Dunlap: "Designers should probably use Visual Studio more" "It's a great tool to dive into the code,check the SDK..." Snippets are distributed as a Snippet installer VSI file. Silverlight code snippets WPF code snippets By the way, check Dr WPF's snippets too! To access the Nerd snippets in the code, simply type "nerd". Displays the list of all snippets. Custom Control to display image sequences, provided for free. "ImageSequencer.cs" Propery SourceFolder, points tothe folder containing the sequence of images Snippet "Storyboard" allows to modify values of a storyboard from code. Snippet "Sound player" provides a lightweight way to play sounds. Value converters Provides a default implementation Creating a new custom panel WrapPanel in Silverlight DeepZoom snippet for Silverlight, looks pretty cool! Provides easy zooming into a DeepZoom prepared image. Get Read More...
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The keynote is transmitted live at http://tinyurl.com/2x63xc Read More...
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Karen Corby NB: Code will be posted on Karen's blog User control, motivations Re-use Modularization Encapsulation Same concept as in WPF No more need for "InitializeFromXaml()", good news. The "XAML hook" is done for us by the framework KeyDown Event can now be handled on any component level, not just the application level like before Databinding in Silverlight, how much sweeter can it get. Can't wait to play with it... Wondering how well the MVVM pattern can be used in Silverlight. Oh yeah, flow layout is probably even sweeter than databinding. Accessibility of controls Keyboard tab, focus, directional navigation Screen reader support based on UIAutomation (check Mark Rideout's videos) Custom Control, motivations Separate the visual from the logic For default L&F add generic.xaml file set BuildAction to Resource remove CustomTool build action add ResourceDictionary with default L&F for the Custom control. Styling Tweek minor visual characteristics Major difference to WPF: Styles Read More...
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Silverlight 2 Beta 1 runtime Download Microsoft Silverlight Tools Beta 1 for Visual Studio 2008 (contains the SDK) Download Microsoft Expression Studio 2 Beta (contains Blend 2, Design 2, Web 2, Media 2 and Encoder 2) Download Microsoft Expression Blend 2.5 March 2008 Preview (can be installed side by side with Blend 2) Download Microsoft® Silverlight™ 2 Software Development Kit Beta 1 Documentation Download Source Code and Unit Tests for Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Controls Download Read More...
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WeatherBug New Silverlight application running on Nokia Cool app, "very easy to develop using Silverlight" Scott Guthrie Wrapping up and summarizing. Time to have lunch!! Read More...
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Cirque du Soleil Use WPF application to track cast information Cirque du Soleil recruiting ScottGu for their shows. Good idea. "Come see the Man Who Never Sleeps". Scott Guthrie Performance for WPF videos and image handling MUCH better. Pretty cool Write custom effects in WPF and they are pushed to the hardward for acceleration. (for example ripples, shadows, etc...) Effects applied to controls during runtime, physics engine calculation, all pushed to hardware for better performance. All these included in .NET 3.5 SP1 available this summer. "Let's talk about mobile", yes, let's! Silverlight available for Windows AND non-Windows mobile phones. Stimulant Silverlight application running on mobile phone. See where your friends are in real time. Photos and videos. Tell your friend you're on your way in real time. Shows current location in real time. "Rich intuitive user experience for mobile environment". Scott Guthrie "Trying to get Silverlight on as many mobile devices as possible" Microsoft Read More...
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Scott Guthrie about Silverlight Silverlight controls developedby MSFT are shipped as Open Source! Devigner role officially mentioned in ScottGu's slides! Yes I do exist! Show off new SL 2 applications AOL Builds new AOL email client using Silverlight. Using IsolatedStorage much faster and more advanced than using the browser cache. Scott Guthrie Enable user experience that doesn't exist today. Deep zoom. Based on research project. Navigates through very large images by downloading only portions of them Hard Rock and Vertigo AMAZING application: HardRock.com then look for Memorabilia. Collection of high def pictures (2 BILLIONS pixels), with amazing deep zoom abilities. Wow. Mind blowing. Wow, first time I am asked to install SL 2 Beta 1 :) Read More...
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Scott Guthrie: Silverlight 2 features: Cross browser cross platform version of .NET Multi language support WPF UI framework (as a subset). Use controls, layout management. Databinding support Skinning, styling Animation support Networking (REST, SOAP, etc...) Built in support for Sockets Integrated data support, including LINQ Local cache store High performance Small download, fast install(4.3 MB download all inclusive) Linux implementation of SL2 available. Includes Calendar control, Datagrid control... Very rich support for templating and skinning. Split view design editor in VS2008!! Remote debug Silverlight running on a Mac too CTP versions of VS2008 and Expression Studio shipping today. Read More...
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Scott Guthrie: Strategic alliance with Move Network using SL2. Windows Media Services 2008: scalable solution, runs on top of WIndows server 2008, is free. Progressive download: IIS7 media pack shipped last week with Bit Rate Throttling and Web playlist, also free. Business opportunities with advertising in Silverlight John Harris, Senior PM on Expression: SL 2 advertisement demo New ad templates for Silverlight with built-in banners, including animations for appearance, etc... Move to Blend to position the actual ad in the place holder and animate it. Atlas ad managerhelps managing online advertising Expression Encoder 2 allows XAML based overlays, for example for advertising. Ari Paparo, DoubleClick Library "DartShell" for easier online advertising Exposes events for video handling (start, pause, midpoint, muted, etc...) Perkins Miller, NBC sports and olympics "Terrified about Beijing games starting in 150 days" "Most ambitious project online ever attempted" Content will be made available Read More...
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Dean Hachamovitch (IE General Manager) IE8: Select an address, choose "Live map" from a context menu and get a Live Map view of the place. Web slices: User can subscribe to parts of a web page. Hover on a part of the site, icon shows up, select a "web slice" and subscribe.Displays a new bookmark, live view of the web page "extract". Beta 1 of IE8 available for developers after the keynote Scott Guthrie Quick peep of live Silverlight sites. 1.5 million installations of Silverlight per day, should accelerate with SL2 SL2 Beta 1 available today Silverlight 2.0 now runs on mobile devices. Bandwidth can be an issue --> adaptive streaming added to SL2. Switch between bitrates automatically as CPU and bandwidth change. No need to write any code for that, SL takes care of it dynamically. Read More...
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Dean Hachamovitch (IE General Manager) CSS2.1. Demo in Firefox, Safari, looks the same. Opens in IE7 and it doesn't look the same.IE8 supposed to be the answer to that. First time showing IE8 to the public Focus on CSS and understanding standards the same way than developers are. Legacy web. Legacy pages developed for IE look bad in Firefox and in Safari. IE8 has a "Emulate IE7" button for legacy pages. In the future, IE8 should behave just like Firefox and Safari, at the risk of breaking legacy pages. Improving performance for rendering web pages and JavaScript. "We're not done", more to come. Back button for AJAX. Back button shows back the previous AJAX request. #Mix08 Read More...
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Ray Ozzie keynote: "Many amazing technologies available today, but I would like you to bet on us" Oh really? Scott Guthrie keynote: Just launched .NET 3,5, VS2008, IIS7, Windows Server 2008 Scott talks about the new features in ASP.NET 3.5, mentions LINQ IIS7 makes deployment and administration much better Dean Hachamovitch (IE General Manager) Introduces IE8 Cool T-shirt #Mix08 Read More...
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Ray Ozzie keynote: "Connected entertainment vision" Office offering: Desktop, Mobile and Web, all connected in a seamless experience. Office Live: Linking, sharing and tagging of documents for the social mesh. Connected business. CRM like MSFT Dynamics used by half a millions small firms worldwide. "Utility computing within the enterprise". Power of choice (again). XNA, .NET WPF, Silverlight, ASP.NET Expression Studio for designers Visual Studio for developers .NET in the middle of it all Read More...
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Ray Ozzie "can't talk much about the Yahoo deal". Ray talks about the community and its importance for the technology. Advertising is really important forMSFT strategy. "Ensure a vibrant advertising ecosystem on the web". "3 core principles that we are using" "Web as a hub, for our social experience and social mash", linking, sharing, tagging on the web will become familiar to all of us. "Number and variety of devices on the rise". Web as a hub to simplify our life in managing the devices. "Power of choice as the enterprise moves to embrace the cloud". Dedicated application servers, use of virtualization, storage grids, data center. Reshape data and content management. "The power of server-service symetry". "Needs to embrace a world of small pieces losely coupled". Applicatin design patterns are less tightly coupled than before. Losely coupled components and losely coupled systems. Operability is the key. XAML as a link. Extend the concepts beyond the browser and beyond the PC to the phone. Read More...
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So here we are, the breakfast was had, and now we're getting ready to listen to MIX08's keynote. I will do my best to post new information as we receive it. To make sure that you don't miss anything, check this page: http://hashtags.org/tag/mix08/ That's an interesting project: It scans through all the twitter feeds carrying the tag "#mix08" and aggregates them. Many tweeters here are using this setting, so it's a good way to keep track of what's happening in real time. I just regret that there is no RSS feed for the hashtag page, that would make things easier to follow. While we wait,we're being entertained by a 15 years old blues singer with a pretty amazing voice and great guitar skills. On the huge video screens, the various redesigns of the MIX web page are showing (it's a contest for designers, reworking the MIX webpage with prizes to win). I feel kind of like a groupie at a rock concert. Seeing Scott Guthrie on stage is always such an amazing experience. And if I believe what Brad Read More...
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