AdamKinney

Last week, David Shadle and I met up with three gentlemen Arnie Lund, UX Community lead for IT, Monty Hammontree, Director of User Experience for Developer Products, and Dennis Wixon, User Research Manager for Microsoft Game Studios.  who were all speakers at the World Usability Day…

You may be a developer who sometimes does layout or has to spend time slicing images to stuff into your UI.  Or you may be a designer who wants to get that control to function a certain way, so much that you crack open the code.  These hybrid tasks exist and in my…

Now that HALO 3 has been released, my Xbox 360 and I are hanging out together again, Xbox Live is in the picture too.  Why?  Best answer could be HALO 3 multiplayer mode, and what's better than multiplayer mode?  Multiplayer mode with friends. This resulted in a perfect opportunity…

Last week I met up with Pascal Bourque from Xceed.  Pascal is senior developer who has been developing with WPF for two years.  Xceed is a controls company famous for their free WPF Datagrid. We talk about what its like to develop a rich control using WPF, mainly focusing on the…

Here is Beau Ambur's session from the SilverlightDevCamp in San Francisco. He walks us through his iPhone replica he made for MIX 07 UK and then Top Banana, an app for editing videos with a very interesting UI. I think Beau is interesting speaker who always seems to have great…

This weekend I attended the SilverlightDevCamp in San Francisco and met R. Tyler Ballance of Slide.com.  The DevCamp ran Friday night and then all day Saturday, but by the end of the first day Tyler was working on re-implementing one of their current Flash apps in Silverlight.  Right…

Brief walkthrough on using Blend to style a WPF application originally created with VS 2008 Cider designer;  see how you can seamlessly go back and forth between the two tools to get the best out of a developer (intellisense, code wiring, etc.) and designer ( styling, templating) tools for…

"Cider" is the codename for the WPF designer in Visual Studio 2008.  This screencast covers some of the new features in Cider and walks you through building a small application to apply the features. This part 1 in a 2 part series, part 2 is available here:…

Although WPF is less than a year old, we’re already putting the finishing touches to an update that will add some neat features and improvements, improve internationalization support and increase performance. In this video, Charles Torre (and Dr Sneath, when he finally turns up) sit down with…

In this screencast, Tim Sneath shows you how you can use Expression Blend to overlay an image with alpha-channel on top of Silverlight video content; this is a great way to provide a non-intrusive advertising model as well as to generate some neat graphical effects for videos.