OpenSpace Blog

Silverlight 2 is going to allow designers and developers to reuse their existing skills to create Rich Internet Applications. This video shows how Silverlight 2 could be used to build financial applications that go beyond the typical HTML-based applications common on the web today.

In this Open Space session, Patrico Jutard of Three Melons gives a demo of their Silverlight game engine. Watch the video to see some of the possiblities for developing casual internet games using Silverlight.

A couple guys from Veracity Solutions setup a demo of their cool project during an Open Space session. The demo shows a Windows Presentation Foundation application bound to the inputs of a Wii mote to allow the user to control whats on the screen. They modified a pair of gloves with LEDs to allow a…

SilverReader is another one of the European Silverlight Challenge winners that were sent to the US for MIX by INETA Europe. In this video, Radenko demonstrates his winning entry, an RSS Reader, and how he built it using Silverlight.

Krishna Kumar delivers the final Open Space session at MIX with some great information about Programming your Xbox 360. With XNA, any developer can create games for the PC or Xbox 360 (and eventually the Zune). Krishna demonstrates a game that XNA developers can use as a reference example, including…

Ryan Dunn interviews Istvan Cseri on SQL Server Data Services (SSDS). Istvan answers the question of why developers should care about SSDS. He also goes to the whiteboard to explain the high level architecture of a SQL Server Data Services solution.

Liam Cavanagh discusses how to use the Microsoft Sync Framework along with SQL Server Data Services to provide synchronization cabability across multiple applications. In the demonstration, he synchronizes between an Access database and Outlook contacts. However, by building new providers, any…

Jason Hunter and Jeff Currier gave a great Open Space session on SQL Server Data Services (SSDS). Jason is a Principal Development Lead for SSDS and Jeff is a Software Design Engineer.

In this video, Gilbok Lee demonstrates LOGI-CRAFTS, a logistics visualization application for the aviation industry using the richness of Silverlight.This video is a little hard to see (the video cameras we used are not great for capturing screens), but you can still get a really good idea of…

In this video, Michael Lehman talks about the new Software + Services Blueprints. These are downloadable and reuseable applications that show how to build Software + Services scenarios around Microsoft technology.