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Silverlight and HPC Enable On-Demand Engineering Design [Silverlight and HPC Enable On-Demand Engineering Design]

Mike Ormond — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:35:00 GMT

dezineforce (http://www.dezineforce.com) recently completed a proof-of-concept with Microsoft to look at how they could overhaul their user experience using Silverlight 3.

dezineforce offer a scalable, on-demand engineering design capability over the web. Backed by a powerful HPC cluster, their front-end web interface is currently built using HTML and AJAX. They were keen to explore opportunities to build an enhanced experience for their users.

In this video I chat to some of the people involved in the project to get their perspective on the project and the results.

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Glenn Pittaway on SDL

Mike Ormond — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:30:00 GMT

I'm posting this on behalf of Andrew Fryer who usually posts to TechNet but today has something developer focused for us:

"Glenn Pittaway the Group Program Manager for the Secure development Lifecycle (SDL) talks about the past present and future of SDL. The SDL methodology is at the core of all development work that has an internet facing element (i.e. virtually everything!) at Microsoft. You might argue that this gives this gives Microsoft developers an edge over the competition as they can write more secure code more quickly, however these same SDL resources are also publicly available so you can adopt the same approach in your organisation."

Scott Guthrie at Vista Squad on ASP.NET MVC Part 2 [Scott Guthrie at Vista Squad on ASP.NET MVC Part 2]

Mike Ormond — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:16:00 GMT

On 3rd July 2009, ScottGu happened to be in London and couldn't resist an invitation to do a special ASP.NET MVC session for the Vista Squad user group at the Microsoft offices in Reading.

Part 1 of this video can be found here.

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Scott Guthrie at Vista Squad on ASP.NET MVC Part 1 [Scott Guthrie at Vista Squad on ASP.NET MVC Part 1]

Mike Ormond — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:39:00 GMT

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(More) Suteki Shop and Mike Hadlow [(More) Suteki Shop and Mike Hadlow]

Mike Ormond — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:13:00 GMT

An interview with Mike Hadlow, developer of Suteki Shop and owner of Suteki Ltd. Suteki Shop is an ASP.NET MVC open source eCommerce application. We chat about "suteki", ASP.NET MVC, open source, why Suteki Shop and open frameworks.

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Suteki Shop and Mike Hadlow [Suteki Shop and Mike Hadlow]

Mike Ormond — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:12:00 GMT

An interview with Mike Hadlow, developer of Suteki Shop and owner of Suteki Ltd. Suteki Shop is an ASP.NET MVC open source eCommerce application. We chat about ASP.NET MVC, TDD, technology choices, pros, cons etc etc

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C# 4.0 New Features - Optional Parameters [C# 4.0 New Features - Optional Parameters]

Mike Ormond — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:15:00 GMT

There are many new language features in C# 4.0. This short screencast focuses on explaining a single feature (Optional Parameters) and demo'ing that feature in action using the VS2010 CTP.

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C# 4.0 New Features - Named Parameters [C# 4.0 New Features - Named Parameters]

Mike Ormond — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:15:00 GMT

There are many new language features in C# 4.0. This short screencast focuses on explaining a single feature (Named Parameters) and demo'ing that feature in action using the VS2010 CTP.

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C# 4.0 New Features - COM Interop Enhancements [C# 4.0 New Features - COM Interop Enhancements]

Mike Ormond — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:07:00 GMT

There are many new language features in C# 4.0. This short screencast focuses on explaining a single feature (COM Interop Enhancements) and demo'ing that feature in action using the VS2010 CTP.

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Creating 3D Models for WPF Pt4 - Smooth texture to WPF application [Creating 3D Models for WPF Pt4 - Smooth texture to WPF application]

Mike Ormond — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:33:00 GMT

3D has traditionally been complex and challenging but with the advent of WPF, incorporating 3D into your applications is much more realistic. These 4 videos walk through the process of building a very simple 3D application.

I start by creating a re-usable 3D model of a yoghurt pot in Blender with textured surfaces representing interchangeable product artwork. This model is then imported into a WPF application via Expression Blend. I add some animation and user interaction via the 3D tools library on CodePlex and show how easy it is to switch the imagery to represent different products.

For an idea of what the final application looks like, visit my blog post or click here for the xbap.

Links to other parts:

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

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Creating 3D Models for WPF Pt3 -Colourful model to smooth textures [Creating 3D Models for WPF Pt3 -Colourful model to smooth textures]

Mike Ormond — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:31:00 GMT

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Creating 3D Models for WPF Pt2 - Blocky model to colourful model [Creating 3D Models for WPF Pt2 - Blocky model to colourful model]

Mike Ormond — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:09:00 GMT

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Creating 3D Models for WPF Pt1 - Blank paper to blocky outline [Creating 3D Models for WPF Pt1 - Blank paper to blocky outline]

Mike Ormond — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:56:00 GMT

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Silverlight 2 Beta 2 - More on the asp:MediaPlayer Control [Silverlight 2 Beta 2 - More on the asp:MediaPlayer Control]

Mike Ormond — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:13:00 GMT

A screencast demonstrating the use of some of the rich features of the ASP.NET MediaPlayer control such as chaptering, closed caption support and markers.

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Silverlight 2 Beta 2 - The asp:MediaPlayer Control [Silverlight 2 Beta 2 - The asp:MediaPlayer Control]

Mike Ormond — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:12:00 GMT

An introduction to the MediaPlayer ASP.NET server control that allows you to embed a rich Silverlight media player in an aspx page.

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Silverlight 2 Beta 2 - Handling Media Events [Silverlight 2 Beta 2 - Handling Media Events]

Mike Ormond — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:11:00 GMT

The MediaElement exposes a number of useful events so you can react to changes in media state and markers in the video stream. In this screencast we take a look at some of these events and how to handle them.

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Silverlight 2 Beta 2 - Embedding Video and Audio [Silverlight 2 Beta 2 - Embedding Video and Audio]

Mike Ormond — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:10:00 GMT

How to embed video and audio content in your Silverlight 2 application with the MediaElement control.

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Silverlight 2 Beta 2 - The asp:Silverlight Control [Silverlight 2 Beta 2 - The asp:Silverlight Control]

Mike Ormond — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:05:00 GMT

A screencast describing the <asp:Silverlight> control, an ASP.NET server control making it really simple to host Silverlight content. This control ships in the Silverlight 2 SDK.

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