Channel 9 Microsoft http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/jbienz/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/jbienz/Posts en Tue, 21 May 2013 22:54:45 GMT Tue, 21 May 2013 22:54:45 GMT Rev9 13 1 25 Consistent UX, Composite Apps and Windows 7 with Jack Henry In this screencast we visit with Ken Schultz of Jack Henry to see how WPF 4 and other technologies are helping them create a consistent user experience across a large set of applications. We take a look at their “Xperience” composite application shell, and we get to see how they’ve integrated into the Windows 7 taskbar for user favorites and for launching composite apps.

 

To learn more about Jack Henry and the banking products they offer, visit:

www.jackhenry.com

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Consistent-UX-Windows-7-Jack-Henry In this screencast we visit with Ken Schultz of Jack Henry to see how WPF 4 and other technologies are helping them create a consistent user experience across a large set of applications. We take a look at their “Xperience” composite application shell, and we get to see how they’ve integrated into the Windows 7 taskbar for user favorites and for launching composite apps.   To learn more about Jack Henry and the banking products they offer, visit: www.jackhenry.com 898 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Consistent-UX-Windows-7-Jack-Henry Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:33:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Consistent-UX-Windows-7-Jack-Henry Jared Bienz Jared Bienz 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Consistent-UX-Windows-7-Jack-Henry/RSS Composite Taskbar User Experience Windows 7 WPF 4 Multi-Touch How-To and Digital Signage with Symon In this video we visit with Keith Roller from Symon Communications and see how they’re leveraging Windows 7 and multi-touch in their cool digital signage players. Then we spend a few minutes learning how you too can take advantage of multi-touch in your own solutions, using managed code or an Expression Blend behavior.

 

For more information about Symon Communications and their digital signage solutions, visit www.symon.com.

 

For more information about using multi-touch in your own solutions, check out this excellent 3-part series by Anson Tsao:

 

Multi-touch in WPF 4 - Part 1 - Post-beta 2, touch enabled controls, Surface controls for Windows 7.

Multi-touch in WPF 4 - Part 2 - RAW touch in WPF, similarities with Silverlight 3 and 4 multi-touch.

Multi-touch in WPF 4 - Part 3 - Using the manipulation processor for each processing of pinch, zoom, rotate, etc. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Multi-Touch-How-To-and-Digital-Signage-with-Symon In this video we visit with Keith Roller from Symon Communications and see how they’re leveraging Windows 7 and multi-touch in their cool digital signage players. Then we spend a few minutes learning how you too can take advantage of multi-touch in your own solutions, using managed code or an Expression Blend behavior.   For more information about Symon Communications and their digital signage solutions, visit www.symon.com.   For more information about using multi-touch in your own solutions, check out this excellent 3-part series by Anson Tsao:   Multi-touch in WPF 4 - Part 1 - Post-beta 2, touch enabled controls, Surface controls for Windows 7. Multi-touch in WPF 4 - Part 2 - RAW touch in WPF, similarities with Silverlight 3 and 4 multi-touch. Multi-touch in WPF 4 - Part 3 - Using the manipulation processor for each processing of pinch, zoom, rotate, etc. 607 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Multi-Touch-How-To-and-Digital-Signage-with-Symon Tue, 11 May 2010 02:28:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Multi-Touch-How-To-and-Digital-Signage-with-Symon Jared Bienz Jared Bienz 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Multi-Touch-How-To-and-Digital-Signage-with-Symon/RSS .NET 4.0 .NET Framework 4.0 Multi-touch Windows 7 WPF WPF 4 Scaling Web Sites with Azure and Local Cache In this screencast we learn how Microsoft teamed up with Symon Communications to build a scalable content delivery system for mobile devices. This Proof of Concept was created to help with Symons digital signage network, but the caching mechanism could potentially benefit anyone looking to leverage Windows Azure for massive scale. Joshua Kurlinski from Symon talks about the problems we needed to solve, and Joseph Fultz from the Dallas MTC (Microsoft Technology Center) walks us through the solution we created in depth.

 

To learn more about Symon Communications, visit www.symon.com.

If you’d like to learn more about this solution, you can read this article on Josephs blog.

You can also follow Jared on his blog.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Scaling-Web-Sites-with-Azure-and-Local-Cache In this screencast we learn how Microsoft teamed up with Symon Communications to build a scalable content delivery system for mobile devices. This Proof of Concept was created to help with Symons digital signage network, but the caching mechanism could potentially benefit anyone looking to leverage Windows Azure for massive scale. Joshua Kurlinski from Symon talks about the problems we needed to solve, and Joseph Fultz from the Dallas MTC (Microsoft Technology Center) walks us through the solution we created in depth.   To learn more about Symon Communications, visit www.symon.com. If you’d like to learn more about this solution, you can read this article on Josephs blog.You can also follow Jared on his blog. 1275 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Scaling-Web-Sites-with-Azure-and-Local-Cache Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:09:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Scaling-Web-Sites-with-Azure-and-Local-Cache Jared Bienz Jared Bienz 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Scaling-Web-Sites-with-Azure-and-Local-Cache/RSS Azure Windows Azure Software Escrow as a Service with EPS, Silverlight and Azure EPS Software and Code Magazine. Markus talks about how they created a unique software escrow service (Tower48.com) using Silverlight and how they architected their solution to run on Windows Azure. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Software-Escrow-as-a-Service In this video we visit with Markus Egger of EPS Software and Code Magazine. Markus talks about how they created a unique software escrow service (Tower48.com) using Silverlight and how they architected their solution to run on Windows Azure. 1078 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Software-Escrow-as-a-Service Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:08:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Software-Escrow-as-a-Service Jared Bienz Jared Bienz 2 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Software-Escrow-as-a-Service/RSS Silverlight Silverlight 3 Silverlight 4 Software + Services Windows Azure Creating Lookless Controls for WPF and Silverlight This screencast is a continuation of a previous screencast entitled “Skins for WPF and Silverlight”. In this session we go beyond skinning built-in controls and learn what’s required to create our own skinnable (or ‘lookless’) controls.

This screencast assumes existing knowledge about styles and templates, so if you aren’t up to speed on those topics please consider watching the skinning screencast first.

The sample demonstrated in this screencast can be downloaded here.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Creating-Lookless-Controls-for-WPF-and-Silverlight This screencast is a continuation of a previous screencast entitled “Skins for WPF and Silverlight”. In this session we go beyond skinning built-in controls and learn what’s required to create our own skinnable (or ‘lookless’) controls. This screencast assumes existing knowledge about styles and templates, so if you aren’t up to speed on those topics please consider watching the skinning screencast first. The sample demonstrated in this screencast can be downloaded here. 866 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Creating-Lookless-Controls-for-WPF-and-Silverlight Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:50:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Creating-Lookless-Controls-for-WPF-and-Silverlight Jared Bienz Jared Bienz 3 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Creating-Lookless-Controls-for-WPF-and-Silverlight/RSS Expression Expression Blend Silverlight WPF Skins for WPF and Silverlight In this screencast we'll cover the topics needed to create custom skins for WPF and Silverlight. Topics include Resources, Templates, Styles and Dictionaries, and we'll see how each builds upon the other to provide a very rich and flexible skinning system on these platforms.

The sample project demonstrated in this screencast can be downloaded here.

Part 2 is also available, “Creating Lookless Controls for WPF and Silverlight”.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Skins-for-WPF-and-Silverlight In this screencast we'll cover the topics needed to create custom skins for WPF and Silverlight. Topics include Resources, Templates, Styles and Dictionaries, and we'll see how each builds upon the other to provide a very rich and flexible skinning system on these platforms. The sample project demonstrated in this screencast can be downloaded here. Part 2 is also available, “Creating Lookless Controls for WPF and Silverlight”. 1215 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Skins-for-WPF-and-Silverlight Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:42:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Skins-for-WPF-and-Silverlight Jared Bienz Jared Bienz 8 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Skins-for-WPF-and-Silverlight/RSS Expression Expression Blend Silverligt User Experience WPF Live Framework and Always-Available Social Applications The Live Framework is a set of libraries and services for building connected applications that can reach millions of users. Live Mesh is a set of services for synchronizing user and application data between multiple devices and multiple people.

This screencast provides an introduction to these frameworks and demonstrates how they can be used to develop Always-Available social applications.

Download Sample Files

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Live-Framework-and-Always-Available-Social-Applications The Live Framework is a set of libraries and services for building connected applications that can reach millions of users. Live Mesh is a set of services for synchronizing user and application data between multiple devices and multiple people. This screencast provides an introduction to these frameworks and demonstrates how they can be used to develop Always-Available social applications. Download Sample Files 575 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Live-Framework-and-Always-Available-Social-Applications Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:35:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Live-Framework-and-Always-Available-Social-Applications Jared Bienz Jared Bienz 3 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Live-Framework-and-Always-Available-Social-Applications/RSS Azure Azure Platform Azure Services Live Framework Live Mesh Silverlight 2 Social Social Networks Social Media Triggers vs. Visual State Manager The Visual State Manager is on a very short list of features that exist on Silverlight today but do not exist on Desktop WPF. This short screencast introduces the Visual State Manager and illustrates the value it adds to the Silverlight platform. It shows how the Visual State Manager can be used in control templates as well as full application screens.

 

John Gossman from the WPF team blogged that the Visual State Manager will be added to WPF in the future. He has not indicated when an officially supported WPF version will be available but he did supply a working sample that is compatible with its Silverlight 2 Beta 2 counterpart.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Triggers-vs-Visual-State-Manager The Visual State Manager is on a very short list of features that exist on Silverlight today but do not exist on Desktop WPF. This short screencast introduces the Visual State Manager and illustrates the value it adds to the Silverlight platform. It shows how the Visual State Manager can be used in control templates as well as full application screens.   John Gossman from the WPF team blogged that the Visual State Manager will be added to WPF in the future. He has not indicated when an officially supported WPF version will be available but he did supply a working sample that is compatible with its Silverlight 2 Beta 2 counterpart. 1093 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Triggers-vs-Visual-State-Manager Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:38:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Triggers-vs-Visual-State-Manager Jared Bienz Jared Bienz 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Triggers-vs-Visual-State-Manager/RSS Silverlight Triggers Visual State Manager WPF Virtual Earth Mapping in Silverlight with VIEWS on CodePlex. Join us for a quick lap around VIEWS and learn how you can add mapping to your applications without getting deep into JavaScript.

Download: Sample Files ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Virtual-Earth-Mapping-in-Silverlight-with-VIEWS  VIEWS (the Virtual Earth Wrapper for Silverlight) provides a fully managed wrapper around Virtual Earth for Silverlight applications. VIEWS has its roots in Microsoft Research but now lives as an open source project on CodePlex. Join us for a quick lap around VIEWS and learn how you can add mapping to your applications without getting deep into JavaScript. Download: Sample Files 840 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Virtual-Earth-Mapping-in-Silverlight-with-VIEWS Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:25:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Virtual-Earth-Mapping-in-Silverlight-with-VIEWS Jared Bienz Jared Bienz 4 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Virtual-Earth-Mapping-in-Silverlight-with-VIEWS/RSS Silverlight Image Search with LINQ to XML

This screencast demonstrates using Silverlight 2 and LINQ to XML to create an Image Search application. We even learn a little Expression Blend and .Net 3.5 in the process.

 

The source code is available and this simple has been updated to work with Silverlight 2 Beta 2 and .Net 3.5 SP1. Download Here:

Silverlight Image Search Sample

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Silverlight-Image-Search-with-LINQ-to-XML This screencast demonstrates using Silverlight 2 and LINQ to XML to create an Image Search application. We even learn a little Expression Blend and .Net 3.5 in the process.   The source code is available and this simple has been updated to work with Silverlight 2 Beta 2 and .Net 3.5 SP1. Download Here: Silverlight Image Search Sample 1380 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Silverlight-Image-Search-with-LINQ-to-XML Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:22:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Silverlight-Image-Search-with-LINQ-to-XML Jared Bienz Jared Bienz 3 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Silverlight-Image-Search-with-LINQ-to-XML/RSS Service Enabling Workflows Part three in my short series on Workflow Foundation covers service enabling workflows. Service enabling a workflow doesn’t necessarily mean WCF, though WCF is certainly an option. In this screencast we look at leveraging services to enable activities that can run in various host environments.

This is a continuation from part 2, so you may want to view that screencast first if you haven’t seen it.

Part 1:   From Code Activity to Custom Activity

Part 2:  Activity Defaults and Validation

Files: Service Enabled Sample Files [Updated]

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Service-Enabling-Workflows Part three in my short series on Workflow Foundation covers service enabling workflows. Service enabling a workflow doesn’t necessarily mean WCF, though WCF is certainly an option. In this screencast we look at leveraging services to enable activities that can run in various host environments. This is a continuation from part 2, so you may want to view that screencast first if you haven’t seen it. Part 1:   From Code Activity to Custom Activity Part 2:  Activity Defaults and Validation Files: Service Enabled Sample Files [Updated] 684 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Service-Enabling-Workflows Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:53:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Service-Enabling-Workflows Jared Bienz Jared Bienz 8 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Service-Enabling-Workflows/RSS Activity Defaults and Validation This is part two in my short series on writing custom activities for the Workflow Foundation. In this screencast I cover data defaults and validation for your custom activities.

This is a continuation from part 1, so you may want to jump over and view that now if you haven’t seen it already.



Part 1:   From Code Activity to Custom Activity

Part 3:  Service Enabling Workflows

Files:      Part 2 Project Files
 

Jared Bienz
ISV Architect Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation
Sites of Interest: MSDN Events | US ISV Team Blog

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Activity-Defaults-and-Validation This is part two in my short series on writing custom activities for the Workflow Foundation. In this screencast I cover data defaults and validation for your custom activities. This is a continuation from part 1, so you may want to jump over and view that now if you haven’t seen it already. Part 1:   From Code Activity to Custom Activity Part 3:  Service Enabling Workflows Files:      Part 2 Project Files   Jared Bienz ISV Architect Evangelist Microsoft Corporation Sites of Interest: MSDN Events | US ISV Team Blog http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Activity-Defaults-and-Validation Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:49:14 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Activity-Defaults-and-Validation Jared Bienz Jared Bienz 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/Activity-Defaults-and-Validation/RSS From Code Activity to Custom Activity With the new workflow extensions added to .Net 3.5, some of the ISVs I work with have expressed a renewed interest in the Workflow Foundation. This screencast is the first in a series of short clips intended to help developers begin writing activities quickly.

Part 2 is now up: Activity Defaults and Validation

Jared Bienz
ISV Architect Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation
Sites of Interest: MSDN Events | US ISV Team Blog

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/From-Code-Activity-to-Custom-Activity With the new workflow extensions added to .Net 3.5, some of the ISVs I work with have expressed a renewed interest in the Workflow Foundation. This screencast is the first in a series of short clips intended to help developers begin writing activities quickly. Part 2 is now up: Activity Defaults and Validation Jared Bienz ISV Architect Evangelist Microsoft Corporation Sites of Interest: MSDN Events | US ISV Team Blog http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/From-Code-Activity-to-Custom-Activity Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:57:43 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/From-Code-Activity-to-Custom-Activity Jared Bienz Jared Bienz 2 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/jbienz/From-Code-Activity-to-Custom-Activity/RSS