AdamKinney

In this screencast, Laurence Moroney, “WPF/E” evangelist talks about the development technology stack for “WPF/E” and how the Expression and Visual Studio suites of tools can work together to create a simple application. This is a great primer in “WPF/E” – everything you wanted to know but…

In this screencast, Laurence Moroney, “WPF/E” evangelist steps through some very rich and compelling demos of what is possible with “WPF/E”. First is a really cool page turning visualization that can be used as a photo viewer. Then a couple of cross-platform video players are demonstrated in IE…

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…

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…

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 session, you'll see how to work with a MediaElement to animate its ambient properties. Download the sample code By clicking the link above you accept the  license.

Understanding the event handling model is vital to building interactive experiences. In this video, you'll see how events are hooked up to controls. Download the sample code By clicking the link above you accept the  license.