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Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution licenses TV shows and movies to broadcasters around the world.  In 30 days, a team of Silverlight and .NET developers at Fox built an app for Windows 8 and published it to the Windows Store.  The FoxFast app for Windows 8 is for their worldwide broadcast...

Ball Silverlight Design Contest
In this tutorial you will download the assets and code needed to start building a watch for the Ball Silverlight Contest.

1. Download and install  Microsoft Expression Studio 4 (includes Expression Blend 4).
2. Download the Ball Trainmaster Cannonball...

Ball Silverlight Design Contest
In this tutorial you will learn how to prepare your watch for submission to the Ball Silverlight Contest.

1. Download and install Microsoft Expression Studio 4 (includes Expression Blend 4).
2. Download the Ball Trainmaster Cannonball Watch from the...

Ball Silverlight Design Contest
In this tutorial you learn how to use template binding to set the watch's date indicator.

1. Download and install Microsoft Expression Studio 4 (includes Expression Blend 4).
2. Download the Ball Trainmaster Cannonball Watch from the Expression Gallery...

Ball Silverlight Design Contest
In this tutorial, you will see how to animate day and night modes using the Visual State Manager as well as how to use visual effects to simulate glowing visual elements.

1. Download and install Microsoft Expression Studio 4 (includes Expression Blend 4). ...

Ball Silverlight Design Contest
In this tutorial you see how to use a repeating radial gradient to create concentric circles on the watch face.

1. Download and install Microsoft Expression Studio 4 (includes Expression Blend 4).
2. Download the Ball Trainmaster Cannonball Watch from...

Ball Silverlight Design Contest
In this tutorial you will see how to use an ellipse with a dash pattern to draw the second marks on the watch face.

1. Download and install Microsoft Expression Studio 4 (includes Expression Blend 4).
2. Download the Ball Trainmaster Cannonball Watch...

Ball Silverlight Design Contest
In this demonstration you will see how to animate the second hand so that the watch tells the correct time.

1. Download and install Microsoft Expression Studio 4 (includes Expression Blend 4).
2. Download the Ball Trainmaster Cannonball Watch from the...

Ball Silverlight Design Contest
In this tutorial you will learn how to trace the visual elements that make up a watch.

1. Download and install Microsoft Expression Studio 4 (includes Expression Blend 4).
2. Download the Ball Trainmaster Cannonball Watch from the Expression Gallery...

At NAB Michael Scherotter sat down with Chris Gorman (CTO) and Don Levy (VP, Media & Entertainment) from Cinnafilm to learn about their Pixel Strings GPU Engine and their Dark Energy software, some very cool image processing technology for film and video processing.
You can...