Channel 9 Microsoft http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Jafa/Posts Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Jafa/Posts en Sun, 26 May 2013 05:48:23 GMT Sun, 26 May 2013 05:48:23 GMT Rev9 26 2 25 IE9 HTML5 Video and Site Pinning As part of the recent MSDN Unplugged event I presented around New Zealand demonstrating some of the new features of IE9 and emerging HTML5 capabilities.

This video shows how fast IE9 is using hardware acceleration for Canvas, SVG and video and compares to other browsers Firefox 4 RC, Chrome 10 and Chrome 12 canary builds.

This video introduces site pinning in IE9 and HTML5 video and shows you how to apply it in your web applications.

I have published a full description of the demos and links at http://bit.ly/dF0b6I

 

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/IE9-HTML5-Video-and-Site-Pinning As part of the recent MSDN Unplugged event I presented around New Zealand demonstrating some of the new features of IE9 and emerging HTML5 capabilities. This video shows how fast IE9 is using hardware acceleration for Canvas, SVG and video and compares to other browsers Firefox 4 RC, Chrome 10 and Chrome 12 canary builds. This video introduces site pinning in IE9 and HTML5 video and shows you how to apply it in your web applications. I have published a full description of the demos and links at http://bit.ly/dF0b6I   2547 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/IE9-HTML5-Video-and-Site-Pinning Wed, 23 Mar 2011 03:53:56 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/IE9-HTML5-Video-and-Site-Pinning Nigel Nigel 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/IE9-HTML5-Video-and-Site-Pinning/RSS ASP.NET MVC 3 Azure Chrome Firefox HTML 5 HTML5 IE9 MSDN Unplugged Video Three Screen & A Cloud New Zealand TechEd Keynote Demo During the keynote of Tech.Ed in New Zealand we demonstrated a media future vision built around the premise of live sport, windows phone 7, surface and live smooth streaming. Thanks to  NV Interactive, Sky TV, Michael Kordahi, Jordan Knight, John Papa and Nigel Watson for helping me pull it off.

Watch the whole keynote at http://www.msteched.com/2010/NewZealand/KEY001

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Three-Screen--A-Cloud-New-Zealand-TechEd-Keynote-Demo During the keynote of Tech.Ed in New Zealand we demonstrated a media future vision built around the premise of live sport, windows phone 7, surface and live smooth streaming. Thanks to  NV Interactive, Sky TV, Michael Kordahi, Jordan Knight, John Papa and Nigel Watson for helping me pull it off. Watch the whole keynote at http://www.msteched.com/2010/NewZealand/KEY001 1084 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Three-Screen--A-Cloud-New-Zealand-TechEd-Keynote-Demo Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:48:14 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Three-Screen--A-Cloud-New-Zealand-TechEd-Keynote-Demo Nigel Nigel 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Three-Screen--A-Cloud-New-Zealand-TechEd-Keynote-Demo/RSS Azure Azure Services Microsoft Surface MSNZ Silverlight Smooth Streaming Surface Tech Ed Tech.Ed TechEd 2010 Windows Phone 7 WP7 IIS Media Pack Live Smooth Streaming Windows Phone 7 Trade Me Developer Starter Kit Game is on! The New Zealand Windows Phone 7 application competition

Yes! All ready to go.

You can read more about our competition here:

www.microsoft.co.nz/wp7challenge

We have two competition categories: A Trade Me application or a "Free Style" one.

You can download this sample source code from here

Also, you can read more about the new Trade Me APIs here: http://developer.trademe.co.nz/

Please also check Trade Me's Trade mark's guidelines here:  http://www.trademe.co.nz/help/722/using-trade-mes-trade-marks-in-applications

And also check Trade Me's terms and conditions here: http://www.trademe.co.nz/help/721/api-terms-and-conditions

Good luck!

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Windows-Phone-7-Trade-Me-Developer-Starter-Kit Game is on! The New Zealand Windows Phone 7 application competition Yes! All ready to go. You can read more about our competition here: www.microsoft.co.nz/wp7challenge We have two competition categories: A Trade Me application or a "Free Style" one. You can download this sample source code from here Also, you can read more about the new Trade Me APIs here: http://developer.trademe.co.nz/ Please also check Trade Me's Trade mark's guidelines here:  http://www.trademe.co.nz/help/722/using-trade-mes-trade-marks-in-applications And also check Trade Me's terms and conditions here: http://www.trademe.co.nz/help/721/api-terms-and-conditions Good luck! 953 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Windows-Phone-7-Trade-Me-Developer-Starter-Kit Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:59:59 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Windows-Phone-7-Trade-Me-Developer-Starter-Kit Nigel Nigel 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Windows-Phone-7-Trade-Me-Developer-Starter-Kit/RSS MSNZ Windows Phone 7 WP7 Sample Windows Phone 7 Application for Trade Me I have built a basic Windows Phone 7 application (source and video below) that works against the open REST based API for Trade Me.

http://code.blob.core.windows.net/trademe/myauctions.zip (source)

Since then Trade Me has released a full featured API and we have created a Windows Phone 7 developer competition and a starter kit. Check it out athttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/velloso/archive/2010/10/01/game-is-on-the-new-zealand-windows-phone-7-application-competition.aspx

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Sample-Windows-Phone-7-Application-for-Trade-Me I have built a basic Windows Phone 7 application (source and video below) that works against the open REST based API for Trade Me. http://code.blob.core.windows.net/trademe/myauctions.zip (source) Since then Trade Me has released a full featured API and we have created a Windows Phone 7 developer competition and a starter kit. Check it out athttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/velloso/archive/2010/10/01/game-is-on-the-new-zealand-windows-phone-7-application-competition.aspx 112 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Sample-Windows-Phone-7-Application-for-Trade-Me Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:36:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Sample-Windows-Phone-7-Application-for-Trade-Me Nigel Nigel 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Sample-Windows-Phone-7-Application-for-Trade-Me/RSS MSNZ Windows Phone 7 WP7 New Zealand Windows Phone 7 Dev Training Events Last week we delivered a series of developer events for Windows Phone 7 in New Zealand. This is a highlight video of the sessions. Further detail of the events can be found at http://blogs.msdn.com/nigel/archive/2010/06/18/new-zealand-windows-phone-7-dev-training-events.aspx

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/New-Zealand-Windows-Phone-7-Dev-Training-Events Last week we delivered a series of developer events for Windows Phone 7 in New Zealand. This is a highlight video of the sessions. Further detail of the events can be found at http://blogs.msdn.com/nigel/archive/2010/06/18/new-zealand-windows-phone-7-dev-training-events.aspx 884 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/New-Zealand-Windows-Phone-7-Dev-Training-Events Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:10:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/New-Zealand-Windows-Phone-7-Dev-Training-Events Nigel Nigel 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/New-Zealand-Windows-Phone-7-Dev-Training-Events/RSS MSDN MSDN Events MVVM New Zealand Silverlight Unplugged Windows Phone Windows Phone 7 WP7 Microsoft Design Style Windows User Interface Jeff Atwood - aka Mr Codinghorror - talks to Pete Le Page about Webstock Part of the backstage video series created for Webstock and profiled at http://workit.co.nz

Jeff Atwood - aka Mr Codinghorror - is a technical evangelist who lives in Berkeley, CA with his wife, child, two cats, and a whole lot of computers. He was weaned as a software developer on various implementations of Microsoft's BASIC in the 80's, starting with his first microcomputer, the Texas Instruments TI-99/4a. Jeff continued on the PC with Visual Basic 3.0 and Windows 3.1 in the early 90's, although he also spent significant time writing Pascal code in the first versions of Delphi. Jeff is now quite comfortable in VB.NET or C#, despite the evils of case sensitivity. He considers himself a reasonably experienced Windows software developer with a particular interest in the human side of software development, as represented in my recommended developer reading list. Computers are fascinating machines, but they're mostly a reflection of the people using them. In the art of software development, studying code isn't enough: you have to study the people behind the software, too.

From 2005 to 2008, Jeff worked for Vertigo Software in Point Richmond, California. You can take a virtual tour of his old office if you'd like. He currently works full time on his blog while building stackoverflow.com in a joint venture with Joel Spolsky.

Joel is speaking at Webstock http://www.webstock.org.nz/10/speakers/atwood.php
]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Jeff-Atwood-aka-Mr-Codinghorror-talks-to-Pete-Le-Page-about-Webstock Part of the backstage video series created for Webstock and profiled at http://workit.co.nzJeff Atwood - aka Mr Codinghorror - is a technical evangelist who lives in Berkeley, CA with his wife, child, two cats, and a whole lot of computers. He was weaned as a software developer on various implementations of Microsoft's BASIC in the 80's, starting with his first microcomputer, the Texas Instruments TI-99/4a. Jeff continued on the PC with Visual Basic 3.0 and Windows 3.1 in the early 90's, although he also spent significant time writing Pascal code in the first versions of Delphi. Jeff is now quite comfortable in VB.NET or C#, despite the evils of case sensitivity. He considers himself a reasonably experienced Windows software developer with a particular interest in the human side of software development, as represented in my recommended developer reading list. Computers are fascinating machines, but they're mostly a reflection of the people using them. In the art of software development, studying code isn't enough: you have to study the people behind the software, too.From 2005 to 2008, Jeff worked for Vertigo Software in Point Richmond, California. You can take a virtual tour of his old office if you'd like. He currently works full time on his blog while building stackoverflow.com in a joint venture with Joel Spolsky.Joel is speaking at Webstock http://www.webstock.org.nz/10/speakers/atwood.php 453 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Jeff-Atwood-aka-Mr-Codinghorror-talks-to-Pete-Le-Page-about-Webstock Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:47:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Jeff-Atwood-aka-Mr-Codinghorror-talks-to-Pete-Le-Page-about-Webstock Nigel Nigel 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Jeff-Atwood-aka-Mr-Codinghorror-talks-to-Pete-Le-Page-about-Webstock/RSS codinghorror HTML 5 HTML5 Internet Explorer 8 Internet Explorer Internet Explorer 8 jeff atwood Pete Le Page Silverlight stackoverflow Webstock workit Intergen talk about the Ticket Direct Silverlight Kiosk http://workit.co.nz 

Interview with Chris Auld & Chris Klug about the Ticket Direct Silverlight Kiosk that was deployed recently to Warehouse stores in Christchurch to sell rugby tickets. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Intergen-talk-about-the-Ticket-Direct-Silverlight-Kiosk Part of the backstage video series created for Webstock and profiled at http://workit.co.nz Interview with Chris Auld & Chris Klug about the Ticket Direct Silverlight Kiosk that was deployed recently to Warehouse stores in Christchurch to sell rugby tickets. 585 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Intergen-talk-about-the-Ticket-Direct-Silverlight-Kiosk Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:46:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Intergen-talk-about-the-Ticket-Direct-Silverlight-Kiosk Nigel Nigel 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Intergen-talk-about-the-Ticket-Direct-Silverlight-Kiosk/RSS Chris Auld Chris Klug Intergen Kiosk Silverlight Silverlight 3 Ticket Direct Webstock workit NV Interactive - New Zealand Cricket Match Centre Silverlight IE8 Web Slice http://workit.co.nz

Going live today in time for tonight's match NV Interactive have launched the new NZC Match Centre IE8 web slice and desktop application to live score all of the local domestic and international cricket matches in a single place.

I caught up with Matt Pickering @ NV when I was down in Wellington last week for the Webstock conference where we talked about the project.

If you are using IE8 you can install the Web Slice by dropping down the green web slice icon on the http://blackcaps.co.nz homepage and selecting the NZC Match Centre at the top. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/NV-Interactive-New-Zealand-Cricket-Match-Centre-Silverlight-IE8-Web-Slice Part of the backstage video series created for Webstock and profiled at http://workit.co.nzGoing live today in time for tonight's match NV Interactive have launched the new NZC Match Centre IE8 web slice and desktop application to live score all of the local domestic and international cricket matches in a single place.I caught up with Matt Pickering @ NV when I was down in Wellington last week for the Webstock conference where we talked about the project. If you are using IE8 you can install the Web Slice by dropping down the green web slice icon on the http://blackcaps.co.nz homepage and selecting the NZC Match Centre at the top. 424 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/NV-Interactive-New-Zealand-Cricket-Match-Centre-Silverlight-IE8-Web-Slice Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:43:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/NV-Interactive-New-Zealand-Cricket-Match-Centre-Silverlight-IE8-Web-Slice Nigel Nigel 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/NV-Interactive-New-Zealand-Cricket-Match-Centre-Silverlight-IE8-Web-Slice/RSS Cricket HTML 5 HTML5 Internet Explorer 8 Internet Explorer Internet Explorer 8 Silverlight Silverlight3 Web Slice Webstock workit Dec MSDN Unplugged - Get ready for Visual Studio 2010
This session was presented by John-Daniel Trask during the December MSDN Unplugged sessions in New Zealand. Further details at http://www.microsoft.com/nz/events/unplugged/msdn-dec09.mspx ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Dec-MSDN-Unplugged-Get-ready-for-Visual-Studio-2010 Visual Studio 2010 will be released in early 2010 and promises to be a huge step forward from our development environment today. Coming with new programming languages, diagramming tools, testing enhancements, project types and a wealth of additional improvements, Visual Studio 2010 will provide benefits to all users. John-Daniel Trask will be presenting these new features and how Visual Studio 2010 can improve developer productivity and help your organisation deliver more robust solutions easier. John-Daniel will also be discussing changes being made to the editions of Visual Studio and MSDN subscriptions so that you'll be ready to run with Visual Studio 2010!This session was presented by John-Daniel Trask during the December MSDN Unplugged sessions in New Zealand. Further details at http://www.microsoft.com/nz/events/unplugged/msdn-dec09.mspx 3739 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Dec-MSDN-Unplugged-Get-ready-for-Visual-Studio-2010 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:06:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Dec-MSDN-Unplugged-Get-ready-for-Visual-Studio-2010 Nigel Nigel 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Dec-MSDN-Unplugged-Get-ready-for-Visual-Studio-2010/RSS MSDN MSDN Events Unplugged Visual Studio 2010 MSNZ UNPLUGGED - Windows Azure – All You Need To Know To Get Started! We started talking about Windows Azure at Microsoft's Professional Developer's Conference in 2008. Over the past 12 months we've listened to the feedback from the technology preview programme and we're launching Azure at PDC 2009. Watch and see how you can use it in your solutions. Learn about the benefits of building in the cloud and when and why it makes sense to businesses of all sizes. We'll take you through the announcements from PDC 2009 and walk you through some samples showing how you can get started taking advantage of the Windows Azure platform.

Some of the topics we'll cover include:
• Architecting for the cloud (including some lessons learned from early adopters)
• The End-to-end experience including tools, debugging and deployment.
• The Windows Azure portal, including reporting and billing.
• How to develop Azure applications with PHP and native code

Presented by NZ Microsoft Developer Evangelists, Mike Zeff and Ryan Tarak.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/MSNZ-UNPLUGGED-Windows-Azure--All-You-Need-To-Know-To-Get-Started We started talking about Windows Azure at Microsoft's Professional Developer's Conference in 2008. Over the past 12 months we've listened to the feedback from the technology preview programme and we're launching Azure at PDC 2009. Watch and see how you can use it in your solutions. Learn about the benefits of building in the cloud and when and why it makes sense to businesses of all sizes. We'll take you through the announcements from PDC 2009 and walk you through some samples showing how you can get started taking advantage of the Windows Azure platform. Some of the topics we'll cover include:• Architecting for the cloud (including some lessons learned from early adopters)• The End-to-end experience including tools, debugging and deployment.• The Windows Azure portal, including reporting and billing.• How to develop Azure applications with PHP and native code Presented by NZ Microsoft Developer Evangelists, Mike Zeff and Ryan Tarak. 5152 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/MSNZ-UNPLUGGED-Windows-Azure--All-You-Need-To-Know-To-Get-Started Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:57:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/MSNZ-UNPLUGGED-Windows-Azure--All-You-Need-To-Know-To-Get-Started Nigel Nigel 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/MSNZ-UNPLUGGED-Windows-Azure--All-You-Need-To-Know-To-Get-Started/RSS Unplugged Windows Azure FTW IE6, IE7, IE8, Chrome & Firefox running together on Windows 7
More details at bit.ly/virtualXP ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/FTW-IE6-IE7-IE8-Chrome--Firefox-running-together-on-Windows-7 When you buy Windows 7 (pro or ultimate) you get Windows XP "virtualized" for free. What this means that if you are web developer you can finally have IE6, IE7, IE8 all running alongside each other as hardware support virtual applications. More details at bit.ly/virtualXP 588 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/FTW-IE6-IE7-IE8-Chrome--Firefox-running-together-on-Windows-7 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:10:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/FTW-IE6-IE7-IE8-Chrome--Firefox-running-together-on-Windows-7 Nigel Nigel 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/FTW-IE6-IE7-IE8-Chrome--Firefox-running-together-on-Windows-7/RSS Chrome Firefox FTW Google Internet Explorer 6 Internet Explorer 7 Internet Explorer 8 Internet Explorer 8 Virtual Application Virtual Machines Virtual PC Virtualized virtualXP Windows 7 Windows XP Windows7 XP Mode HTML 5, Standards and Developer Features in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 http://microsoft.co.nz/unplugged

This session is presented by Giorgio Sardo (Technical Evangelist working with Internet Explorer) http://blogs.msdn.com/giorgio/

Come and learn how to build a website that gets the most out of IE8. Discover how to use the new integrated Developer Tools, Microsoft Expression SuperPreview and Fiddler to build and debug cross-browser-compatible layout designs. Learn how to build new Accelerators, Web Slices and Visual Search Providers that extend the reach of your content. Demo, demo, demo. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/HTML-5-Standards-and-Developer-Features-in-Microsoft-Internet-Explorer-8 Shot in Wellington, New Zealand on Friday the 18th Sep as part of the Microsoft Unplugged series of events http://microsoft.co.nz/unpluggedThis session is presented by Giorgio Sardo (Technical Evangelist working with Internet Explorer) http://blogs.msdn.com/giorgio/Come and learn how to build a website that gets the most out of IE8. Discover how to use the new integrated Developer Tools, Microsoft Expression SuperPreview and Fiddler to build and debug cross-browser-compatible layout designs. Learn how to build new Accelerators, Web Slices and Visual Search Providers that extend the reach of your content. Demo, demo, demo. 4814 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/HTML-5-Standards-and-Developer-Features-in-Microsoft-Internet-Explorer-8 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:43:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/HTML-5-Standards-and-Developer-Features-in-Microsoft-Internet-Explorer-8 Nigel Nigel 5 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/HTML-5-Standards-and-Developer-Features-in-Microsoft-Internet-Explorer-8/RSS HTML 5 IE 8 Developer Tools Internet Explorer 8 Internet Explorer 8 MSDN MSDN Events Unplugged Rich Client Applications and Windows 7 for Developers http://blogs.msdn.com/mikezeff)

This session was delivered as part of the NZ MSDN Unplugged events http://www.microsoft.com/nz/events/unplugged/msdn-may09.mspx ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Rich-Client-Applications-and-Windows-7-for-Developers Windows 7 contains many new features for developers that allow you to create very rich applications for your users, including the ability to touch-enable your own applications. This session will cover how you can take advantage of new Windows 7 features using .NET 3.5 to build rich client applications and we’ll also take a look at what’s coming in .NET 4.0. Presented by ISV Developer Advisor, Mike Zeff (http://blogs.msdn.com/mikezeff) This session was delivered as part of the NZ MSDN Unplugged events http://www.microsoft.com/nz/events/unplugged/msdn-may09.mspx 4815 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Rich-Client-Applications-and-Windows-7-for-Developers Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:18:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Rich-Client-Applications-and-Windows-7-for-Developers Nigel Nigel 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Rich-Client-Applications-and-Windows-7-for-Developers/RSS .NET 4.0 .NET Framework 4.0 Multi-touch Windows 7 WPF WPF 4 UNPLUGGED Silverlight 3 Line of Business with RIA Services May Preview I have previously written about the UNPLUGGED road trip that Mike, Nathan and I have been on.

I also mentioned that I would be making a screen cast and sharing the source code from the Silverlight 3 Line of Business demo that I delivered. The demo that I presented was based on Scott Morrison’s two sessions from Tech.Ed North America.

Watch a video of my session using Smooth Streaming.

The source code for these presentations is available below:

I also updated my presentation to cover the May release of RIA Services from http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/RiaServices (this site also includes tutorials and white papers).

Blog post http://tr.im/silverlight3LOB

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/UNPLUGGED-Silverlight-3-Line-of-Business-with-RIA-Services-May-Preview I have previously written about the UNPLUGGED road trip that Mike, Nathan and I have been on. I also mentioned that I would be making a screen cast and sharing the source code from the Silverlight 3 Line of Business demo that I delivered. The demo that I presented was based on Scott Morrison’s two sessions from Tech.Ed North America. Watch a video of my session using Smooth Streaming. The source code for these presentations is available below: WUX 303: Building Data-Driven RIAs with Microsoft ASP.NET and Microsoft Silverlight WUX 308: Delivering Rich User Experiences for Business Applications with Microsoft Silverlight 3 I also updated my presentation to cover the May release of RIA Services from http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/RiaServices (this site also includes tutorials and white papers). Blog post http://tr.im/silverlight3LOB 3339 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/UNPLUGGED-Silverlight-3-Line-of-Business-with-RIA-Services-May-Preview Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:55:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/UNPLUGGED-Silverlight-3-Line-of-Business-with-RIA-Services-May-Preview Nigel Nigel 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/UNPLUGGED-Silverlight-3-Line-of-Business-with-RIA-Services-May-Preview/RSS Line of Business LOB MSDN New Zealand RIA RIA Services Silverlight Silverlight 3 Unplugged Expression For Art's Sake, Wellington, NZ 20-23rd of April - Final Presentations
This is a video summary of the final presentations a video summary of the rest of the event is available at http://tr.im/EFASintro

View the projects and more detail at http://tr.im/EFASwlg ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Expression-For-Arts-Sake-Wellington-NZ-20-23rd-of-April-Final-Presentations What do you get when you invite 17 companies together and throw a bunch of new stuff in their face and ask them to use it? Well, in Wellington, it was called Expression for Art’s Sake. This was a bit of an ‘artist in residency’ program where Microsoft invited some companies to bring their developer and designer staff to this event to learn a little bit about Expression Blend 3 and Silverlight 3. This is a video summary of the final presentations a video summary of the rest of the event is available at http://tr.im/EFASintro View the projects and more detail at http://tr.im/EFASwlg 2189 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Expression-For-Arts-Sake-Wellington-NZ-20-23rd-of-April-Final-Presentations Tue, 19 May 2009 21:35:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Expression-For-Arts-Sake-Wellington-NZ-20-23rd-of-April-Final-Presentations Nigel Nigel 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Expression-For-Arts-Sake-Wellington-NZ-20-23rd-of-April-Final-Presentations/RSS Design Designer EFAS Expression Expression Blend Expression Blend 3 Silverlight Silverlight 3 Expression For Art's Sake, Wellington, NZ 20-23rd of April
This is a video summary of the first 2 1/2 days a video summary of the final presentations is available at http://tr.im/EFASpres.

View the projects and more detail at http://tr.im/EFASwlg ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Expression-For-Arts-Sake-Wellington-NZ-20-23rd-of-April What do you get when you invite 17 companies together and throw a bunch of new stuff in their face and ask them to use it? Well, in Wellington, it was called Expression for Art’s Sake. This was a bit of an ‘artist in residency’ program where Microsoft invited some companies to bring their developer and designer staff to this event to learn a little bit about Expression Blend 3 and Silverlight 3. This is a video summary of the first 2 1/2 days a video summary of the final presentations is available at http://tr.im/EFASpres. View the projects and more detail at http://tr.im/EFASwlg 4180 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Expression-For-Arts-Sake-Wellington-NZ-20-23rd-of-April Tue, 19 May 2009 21:35:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Expression-For-Arts-Sake-Wellington-NZ-20-23rd-of-April Nigel Nigel 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Expression-For-Arts-Sake-Wellington-NZ-20-23rd-of-April/RSS Design Designer EFAS Expression Expression Blend Expression Blend 3 Silverlight Silverlight 3 NZsynth Building a Clickable Mosaic with DeepZoom and Silverlight 2 images that people have already tagged as New Zealand to construct a demo from our shipping Silverlight 2 technology. I spent 3 days building a "demo-ware" prototype and presented it during a keynote slot at WEB09.

Following that we held a Silverlight 3 camp over 3 1/2 days. At the camp Tim (a devloper from Wellington) improved my original prototype to make the image tiles clickable. I then took Tims work and adapted it to make a version two of my original design.

Read more and grab the source code at http://tr.im/nzsynth and http://tr.im/nzsynthV2 

Enjoy! ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/NZsynth-Building-a-Clickable-Mosaic-with-DeepZoom-and-Silverlight-2 It started as a conversation about "crowd sourcing" images that people have already tagged as New Zealand to construct a demo from our shipping Silverlight 2 technology. I spent 3 days building a "demo-ware" prototype and presented it during a keynote slot at WEB09. Following that we held a Silverlight 3 camp over 3 1/2 days. At the camp Tim (a devloper from Wellington) improved my original prototype to make the image tiles clickable. I then took Tims work and adapted it to make a version two of my original design. Read more and grab the source code at http://tr.im/nzsynth and http://tr.im/nzsynthV2  Enjoy! 2037 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/NZsynth-Building-a-Clickable-Mosaic-with-DeepZoom-and-Silverlight-2 Sun, 17 May 2009 20:11:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/NZsynth-Building-a-Clickable-Mosaic-with-DeepZoom-and-Silverlight-2 Nigel Nigel 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/NZsynth-Building-a-Clickable-Mosaic-with-DeepZoom-and-Silverlight-2/RSS Deep Zoom Flickr PhotoSynth Silverlight 2 Smooth Streaming WCF WEB09 Take your Applications to the Cloud and Beyond – PDC, Visual Studio, Azure, Office 14 and Windows 7 This MSDN UNPLUGGED session shares principles, practices, patterns and tools announced at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles, October 2008.

Presented by http://tr.im/MarkCarroll and http://tr.im/MikeZeff
 
Using computers in the cloud can make a great deal of sense. Instead of provisioning part or all of your infrastructure you can instead exploit Internet-accessible servers and let others worry about keeping systems up to scratch. But why just stop at the cloud? Some applications may have their code and data both operating in the cloud, others may run inside an organisation storing data in the cloud or relying on other cloud infrastructure services. Applications that run on desktops and mobile devices can use services in the cloud to synchronise information across many systems or in other ways. Whatever approach makes sense exploiting and extending the cloud’s capabilities can open up new choices for applications hosting, storage and interoperability.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/PDC-Unplugged-MSDN This MSDN UNPLUGGED session shares principles, practices, patterns and tools announced at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles, October 2008. Presented by http://tr.im/MarkCarroll and http://tr.im/MikeZeff   Using computers in the cloud can make a great deal of sense. Instead of provisioning part or all of your infrastructure you can instead exploit Internet-accessible servers and let others worry about keeping systems up to scratch. But why just stop at the cloud? Some applications may have their code and data both operating in the cloud, others may run inside an organisation storing data in the cloud or relying on other cloud infrastructure services. Applications that run on desktops and mobile devices can use services in the cloud to synchronise information across many systems or in other ways. Whatever approach makes sense exploiting and extending the cloud’s capabilities can open up new choices for applications hosting, storage and interoperability. 5515 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/PDC-Unplugged-MSDN Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:15:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/PDC-Unplugged-MSDN Nigel Nigel 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/PDC-Unplugged-MSDN/RSS Azure MSDN Office 14 PDC Unplugged Visual Studio Windows 7 Silverlight 2 and the Louis Vuitton Pacific Series
Check out http://lvps09.com and watch this screencast to learn more . A few things in the end made this application very flexible and extended my experiences with building production code in Silverlight 2. This screencast gets into the nitty gritty details of this project... more details at http://blogs.msdn.com/nigel/archive/2009/02/03/louis-vuitton-pacific-series-2009-auckland-new-zealand-the-silverlight-story.aspx ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Silverlight-2-and-the-Louis-Vuitton-Pacific-Series It is not everyday that the best sailors on the planet set up shop 150 metres from your work and race each other over a two week period but that is exactly what is happening for me right now. Check out http://lvps09.com and watch this screencast to learn more . A few things in the end made this application very flexible and extended my experiences with building production code in Silverlight 2. This screencast gets into the nitty gritty details of this project... more details at http://blogs.msdn.com/nigel/archive/2009/02/03/louis-vuitton-pacific-series-2009-auckland-new-zealand-the-silverlight-story.aspx 1701 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Silverlight-2-and-the-Louis-Vuitton-Pacific-Series Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:40:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Silverlight-2-and-the-Louis-Vuitton-Pacific-Series Nigel Nigel 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Silverlight-2-and-the-Louis-Vuitton-Pacific-Series/RSS Deep Zoom Expression Expression Blend Expression Encoder Silverlight Silverlight 2 XAML Next Generation User Experiences - WPF 3.5 SP1 Windows Presentation Foundation is now becoming mainstream with real world applications being delivered using WPF to create engaging new user experiences as well as accelerate development times. Join John-Daniel Trask in exploring what WPF offers developers and end users as he demonstrates building line of business applications with WPF while highlighting the techniques and pattern you will need to understand to effectively use this fantastic technology.

Finally, John-Daniel will discuss how Silverlight 2 fits into the user experience for modern web applications and what you need to understand to transition between these two platforms.

Read more from JD on his blog http://blog.bluecog.co.nz/

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Next-Generation-User-Experiences-WPF-35-SP1 Windows Presentation Foundation is now becoming mainstream with real world applications being delivered using WPF to create engaging new user experiences as well as accelerate development times. Join John-Daniel Trask in exploring what WPF offers developers and end users as he demonstrates building line of business applications with WPF while highlighting the techniques and pattern you will need to understand to effectively use this fantastic technology. Finally, John-Daniel will discuss how Silverlight 2 fits into the user experience for modern web applications and what you need to understand to transition between these two platforms. Read more from JD on his blog http://blog.bluecog.co.nz/ 4522 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Next-Generation-User-Experiences-WPF-35-SP1 Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:27:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Next-Generation-User-Experiences-WPF-35-SP1 Nigel Nigel 2 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Next-Generation-User-Experiences-WPF-35-SP1/RSS Customising IE8 to Drive Users to Your Website I think there is a real opportunity to innovate on top of IE8 and provide your innovations packaged up to your customers next year when IE8 is launched.

Please now sit back and join me for the next 45 minutes while I go end-to-end on customising IE8!

Check my blog for code samples - http://tr.im/ie8custom ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Customising-IE8-to-Drive-Users-to-Your-Website I think there is a real opportunity to innovate on top of IE8 and provide your innovations packaged up to your customers next year when IE8 is launched. Please now sit back and join me for the next 45 minutes while I go end-to-end on customising IE8! Check my blog for code samples - http://tr.im/ie8custom 2777 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Customising-IE8-to-Drive-Users-to-Your-Website Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:43:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Customising-IE8-to-Drive-Users-to-Your-Website Nigel Nigel 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Customising-IE8-to-Drive-Users-to-Your-Website/RSS Developing Compelling Silverlight User Experiences with Expression Studio 2 - TechEd NZ Presented at Tech.Ed New Zealand.

Expression Studio 2 delivers powerful tools to create natural and engaging user experiences. In this session you’ll learn how the Expression tools works together to streamline user experience design. With a focus on designing for Silverlight, I will walk through Expression Encoder, Expression Blend and Expression Web – highlighting the new features. I will finish the session by demonstrating how Expression Blend 2 SP1 can be used with Visual Studio 2008 to assemble user interface components for Silverlight 2 applications.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Developing-Compelling-Silverlight-User-Experiences-with-Expression-Studio-2-TechEd-NZ Presented at Tech.Ed New Zealand. Expression Studio 2 delivers powerful tools to create natural and engaging user experiences. In this session you’ll learn how the Expression tools works together to streamline user experience design. With a focus on designing for Silverlight, I will walk through Expression Encoder, Expression Blend and Expression Web – highlighting the new features. I will finish the session by demonstrating how Expression Blend 2 SP1 can be used with Visual Studio 2008 to assemble user interface components for Silverlight 2 applications. 3401 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Developing-Compelling-Silverlight-User-Experiences-with-Expression-Studio-2-TechEd-NZ Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:19:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Developing-Compelling-Silverlight-User-Experiences-with-Expression-Studio-2-TechEd-NZ Nigel Nigel 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Developing-Compelling-Silverlight-User-Experiences-with-Expression-Studio-2-TechEd-NZ/RSS Jonas Follesø - Silverlight 2 for Developers - Tech.Ed NZ  
The theme of the talk was diving, and for the demos Jonas worked on a dive log application.

Read more at http://jonas.follesoe.no/TechEd2008NdashSilverlight2ForDevelopers.aspx and http://jonas.follesoe.no/PortingTheSilverlightDiveLogApplicationToWPF.aspx

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Jonas-Folleso-Silverlight2 The session was designed to give developers who want to build “real applications” a good starting point. It’s a level 300 talk (advanced), so it skips the basic introduction. That being said you don’t need to be a Silverlight expert to find the session useful. The talk covered things like CRUD applications using WCF, how to implement a Presentation Model/ViewModel, how to use IoC and DI in Silverlight, and how to do unit testing in Silverlight.   The theme of the talk was diving, and for the demos Jonas worked on a dive log application. Read more at http://jonas.follesoe.no/TechEd2008NdashSilverlight2ForDevelopers.aspx and http://jonas.follesoe.no/PortingTheSilverlightDiveLogApplicationToWPF.aspx 3911 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Jonas-Folleso-Silverlight2 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:55:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Jonas-Folleso-Silverlight2 Nigel Nigel 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/Jonas-Folleso-Silverlight2/RSS Tech.Ed New Zealand - Web Panel Discussion ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/TechEd-New-Zealand-Web-Panel-Discussion At Tech.Ed 2008 in New Zealand speakers from the web track Scott Hanselman, Jonas Follesø, Nigel Parker, Harry Pierson, Jorke Ordolphi and Trent Mankelow were asked to discuss Web Futures and take questions from the audience about what is on their mind. 4375 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/TechEd-New-Zealand-Web-Panel-Discussion Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:43:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/TechEd-New-Zealand-Web-Panel-Discussion Nigel Nigel 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/TechEd-New-Zealand-Web-Panel-Discussion/RSS MSNZ Unplugged IE8 With Matt Heller unplugged session for those who were unable to attend the road show - we hope you find this useful. (length - 51 minutes).

More at http://tr.im/ie8nz ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/MSNZ-Unplugged-IE8-With-Matt-Heller We delivered a road show across New Zealand over the course of 7 days. Matt delivered 17 sessions, visited Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch and spoke to over 750 Web Developers. We recorded the Auckland unplugged session for those who were unable to attend the road show - we hope you find this useful. (length - 51 minutes). More at http://tr.im/ie8nz 3060 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/MSNZ-Unplugged-IE8-With-Matt-Heller Sat, 25 Oct 2008 19:57:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/MSNZ-Unplugged-IE8-With-Matt-Heller Nigel Nigel 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Jafa/MSNZ-Unplugged-IE8-With-Matt-Heller/RSS