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		<title>Coffeehouse - Another Softie Leaving - Michael Swanson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>Thank you&nbsp;for all of the kind words! I always enjoyed working with the&nbsp;Channel 9 team on my videos, including the Countdown shows that I did with Jennifer for our MIX and PDC events. I'm not going far...I'm saying in the Seattle area, and I'm sure I'll run into many of you at future events.</p>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:42:23 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Coffeehouse - Is PDC 2009 Cancelled??</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>PDC09 is happening, and I just blogged about the places you can plug-in: <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mswanson/archive/2009/06/19/pdc09.aspx">
http://blogs.msdn.com/mswanson/archive/2009/06/19/pdc09.aspx</a>. As Charles mentions, Jennifer and I will start-up our &quot;Countdown to PDC&quot; show sometime around the time the conference site opens (early August). Sign-up for the e-mail list and join the Twitter
 conversation, and you'll be one of the first to know what's going on.</p>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:08:43 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Coffeehouse - Download all Mix09 videos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>Here you go: <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mswanson/archive/2009/03/26/mix09-keynote-and-session-videos.aspx">
http://blogs.msdn.com/mswanson/archive/2009/03/26/mix09-keynote-and-session-videos.aspx</a></p>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:12:12 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Coffeehouse - Microsoft.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>The 9 guy treatment is fantastic. I really love it. Great job!<br></p>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 05:40:34 GMT</pubDate>
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		<dc:creator>mswanson</dc:creator>
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		<title>Coffeehouse - TiVo Now Playing Gadget for Windows Vista</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>As far as I know, TiVo doesn't expose the To Do list programmatically. That's a bummer, because I'd love to be able to see what's scheduled to record using the gadget.</p>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 21:59:47 GMT</pubDate>
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		<dc:creator>mswanson</dc:creator>
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		<title>Coffeehouse - TiVo Now Playing Gadget for Windows Vista</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>Hello fellow niners! I'm sure that more than a few of you have TiVo HD units on your home network, right? Well, I wrote my first Vista gadget for the Windows Sidebar, and I thought that some of you might want to check it out.<br /><br /><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mswanson/archive/2007/12/02/tivo-gadget-for-vista.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/mswanson/archive/2007/12/02/tivo-gadget-for-vista.aspx</a><br /><br />As always, I'm very interested in feedback and suggestions.<br /><br />Enjoy!</p>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:03:46 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Coffeehouse - SEAMonster: A .NET-Based Seam Carving Implementation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<p><blockquote>
<div class="quoteAuthor">Bas wrote:</div>
<div class="quoteBody">Did you talk to the guys at Paint.NET yet? I'd love to see this in a future version.</div>
</blockquote>
<br>
<br>
I haven't talked to them myself, but there's already a post on their discussion forums about that idea. Once the project is submitted to CodePlex, I don't think it would take much effort for them to integrate this, since&nbsp;the logic is implemented as a reusable
 library.</p>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:41:06 GMT</pubDate>
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		<dc:creator>mswanson</dc:creator>
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		<title>Coffeehouse - SEAMonster: A .NET-Based Seam Carving Implementation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>Fellow geeks (and I mean that in the most complimentary way): I thought many of you would be interested in a free utility I just released called SEAMonster. It's a .NET-based implementation of the brilliant seam carving paper presented at this year's SIGGRAPH
 conference. You've probably already seen the video of their work, and if you haven't, you're in for a treat. It's inspirational stuff.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mswanson/archive/2007/10/23/seamonster-a-net-based-seam-carving-implementation.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/mswanson/archive/2007/10/23/seamonster-a-net-based-seam-carving-implementation.aspx</a><br>
<br>
I'd love an comments and suggestions. Note that the algorithm is computationally expensive, so working with large images will be glacially slow. As developers improve the algorithm, this situation should get a lot better.<br>
<br>
Enjoy!</p>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 05:58:21 GMT</pubDate>
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		<dc:creator>mswanson</dc:creator>
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		<title>Coffeehouse - Mix07 Free Copy of Expression Studio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>First, I'm glad to see all of the excitement around MIX07! This is shaping up to be an amazing event, and I hope I get the chance to see everyone there.<br>
<br>
I'm responsible for the &quot;bits&quot; we hand out at the MIX07 conference, and I thought I'd take a moment to answer a couple of the questions that have been asked on this thread.<br>
<br>
<strong>Q. </strong>&quot;...when we hear X copies of Expression were sold will it include the number who got 'free' copies at conferences like mix?&quot;<br>
<strong>A. </strong>No. It’s a Special Edition and separate from what will be available to the general public.<br>
<br>
<strong>Q. </strong>&quot;Also is this built into the cost of the Mix07 conference or are they really free?&quot;<br>
<strong>A. </strong>They are really free. It is not part of the conference fee. Although the Expression team was already considering a giveaway, customer feedback always has an impact.<br>
<br>
Hope these answers help.<br></p>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:40:23 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Coffeehouse - Microsoft irony and double standards at it’s best.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<p><blockquote>
<div>JChung2006 wrote:</div>
<div>&#65279;In one sense, we're on teams that compete against each other, but on a much broader and more meaningful scale, we're all on the same team.</div>
</blockquote>
<br>
<br>
Completely agree, JChung. It was meant to apply to the case I was describing.</p>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2006 06:33:52 GMT</pubDate>
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		<dc:creator>mswanson</dc:creator>
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		<title>Coffeehouse - Microsoft irony and double standards at it’s best.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<p><blockquote>
<div>Sourcecode wrote:</div>
<div>&#65279;If that was truly the case then it would be FLA to XAML.</div>
</blockquote>
<br>
<br>
As I mentioned earlier in this thread, the FLA file format is proprietary and undocumented. Or if it is documented, that fact isn't made public. So, although I agree that converting from FLA to XAML would have been nice, there's no obvious way to accomplish
 this.<br>
<br>
As a result, the only reasonble way to get Flash content into XAML is to convert it from a SWF file. It really is that simple.<br>
<br>
Earlier in this thread, I referred to some large companies that had never received (or thought to ask for) the original FLA files. This &quot;lost assets&quot; argument has been brought up a few times in this same thread. I want to point out that
<strong>even if you still have the original FLA files</strong>, converting the assets from the published SWF file is still the best option.<br>
<br>
The only other option I can think of would be to convert the assets from whatever format they existed in before they were imported into the Flash authoring tool (yes, their tool also imports non-Adobe files). In a lot of cases, though, those assets were actually
<strong>created </strong>in the Flash authoring tool, so this strategy wouldn't work, and you'd be out of luck.</p>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Nov 2006 01:57:21 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Coffeehouse - Microsoft irony and double standards at it’s best.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<p><blockquote>
<div>Rossj wrote:</div>
<div>&#65279;Does it do conversions from XAML to SWF as well?</div>
</blockquote>
<br>
<br>
Completely fair question, and the—hopefully unsurprising—answer is no. To start with, my passion is for Microsoft products and technologies (I work for the company I love!). And for the same reason the quarterback on the other team doesn't throw passes to my
 guys, we're heading towards our own end zone. I'm sure the other team has their own plays and strategies. But at the end of the day, it's healthy competition that pushes innovation, and I'm happy to have it.<br>
<br>
From a technical perspective, <strong>writing</strong> a SWF file is different than reading it, and it would take quite a bit more effort. I'm not just talking about the bits and bytes but also the data formats. There was a company called Xamlon that wrote
 a XAML to SWF tool, but I just tried to pull up their web site, and they must be in the middle of retooling (<a href="http://www.xamlon.com/">http://www.xamlon.com/</a>).</p>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Nov 2006 20:08:39 GMT</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><blockquote>
<div>Cybermagellan wrote:</div>
<div>&#65279;So just as a question...<br>
<br>
Why build a converter? XAML doesn't have an &lt;object&gt; tag where you can specify the progid=&quot;Shockwave.Flash&quot;? That way you can run the native swf in your xaml app?<br>
</div>
</blockquote>
<br>
<br>
Great question, Cybermagellan. Indeed, if you just wanted to play back the Flash file as-is, using the Flash Player is a perfect solution.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
However, many companies would like to reuse some of the shape assets in other projects. For example, I can think of many companies who have traditionally used Flash to create quick, conceptual mock-ups of applications they might later build using other tools.
 If they then decide to build those applications, it's very convenient for them to be able to take not only the shape data, but also the positioning data from a frame in the mocked-up SWF file. Because WPF is a vector-based system (with full support for bitmaps,
 of course), this ends up saving a lot of time and effort.<br>
<br>
The example animations I showed in the Channel 9 interview aren't likely candidates for conversion. Those animations play just fine in the Flash Player.</p>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Nov 2006 19:17:28 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Coffeehouse - Microsoft irony and double standards at it’s best.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<p><blockquote>
<div>Harlequin wrote:</div>
<div>Or is it that the Adobe licence doesn't give anyone enough information to decompile the swf format unless a price is paid? And this was circumvented without said payment?</div>
</blockquote>
<br>
<br>
I mentioned this in an earlier response, but I'll mention it again. Adobe charges no fee for access to their Flash file specification. It's completely free.<br>
<br>
<blockquote>
<div>Sourcecode wrote:</div>
<div>My point is that a company (MS) provided a tool to do so; is it ethical? I felt that such a tool provided by a company such as MS encourages copyright infringement.</div>
</blockquote>
<br>
<br>
I also want to clarify that this is a completely after-hours personal project (which is why it's hosted on my personal domain). No Microsoft resources or time were used in the creation of the tool.</p>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Nov 2006 18:32:41 GMT</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Good discussion, guys, and I'm happy to participate. Of course, you probably know where I stand on this issue. The top request that I receive for converters is easily SWF to WPF/XAML. But, it's not that folks want to wholeheartedly convert everything,
 because that doesn't often make sense. They want to use some of their existing assets in a new WPF application. After all, WPF isn't primarily an animation system...it's a way to develop next-generation applications and user experiences.<br>
<br>
I'm obviously not an Adobe/Macromedia spokesperson (perhaps someone from Adobe can add to this discussion), but I'll tell you what I currently understand about the FLA and SWF file formats. The FLA file format is a proprietary and closed format, and as far
 as I know, there is no specification available for it. The SWF is simply the published version of a FLA file. The file specification is available at (seemingly) no cost from Adobe, so price isn't the issue. But, if anything is documented and available, it
 is clearly the SWF format.<br>
<br>
Although I can't peer into the FLA file and make any sense of it, I'd speculate that it contains a lot of useful authoring information that would make a conversion (like the one SWF2XAML implements) much more straightforward. As a matter of fact, it's the first
 thing I looked at when I began my experimentation months ago. By the way, there is nothing that I've seen in the SWF format that ever encrypts or scrambles the content for protection.<br>
<br>
Another way to think about the relationship between FLA and SWF is this: in Photoshop, I save my project files with a PSD file extension (Photoshop's native format), but when I publish them, I can publish to a number of formats: JPG, GIF, PNG, etc. There's
 nothing inherently &quot;protected&quot; about the bits in these files. As a matter of fact, any standard web browser can parse and display them. But, just because you can right-click on an image on a web page and select &quot;Save As...&quot;, does that mean that web browsers
 were built to enable people to steel copyrighted material from others? Of course not.<br>
<br>
There is a clear difference between a tool's features and abilities and what a person can legally do with the tool. For example, photocopiers, VCRs, and cameras aren't (by themselves) illegal. But, a person can certainly perform illegal acts with all of them.<br>
<br>
In the case of the companies I'm referring to (who I'd name, except I'm not sure they'd want me to), they simply don't have the original FLA files. There's nothing nefarious about their motives. You'd recognize every one of the companies, and I doubt you'd
 believe that their motives were anything but legitimate.<br>
<br>
The SWF2XAML tool is simply a way to reduce the challenges a customer or partner may have in reusing their assets.</p>]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for the heads-up regarding COLLADA, eddwo. It's not&nbsp;something I've heard requests for, but based on the Wikipedia article, it sounds like a very useful format. Off to investigate...</p>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:39:28 GMT</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Think you can write a tool that converts from a popular 2D or 3D file format to WPF/XAML? Interested in winning a Dell XPS M1710 laptop? If yes, check out the contest we launched today:
<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mswanson/archive/2006/08/29/729501.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/mswanson/archive/2006/08/29/729501.aspx</a></p>]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><blockquote>
<div>Escamillo wrote:</div>
<div>&#65279;
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<td><strong>mswanson wrote:</strong> <i>&#65279;
<p>You've probably heard a lot about the new features in Windows Vista. But have you seen any of the cool stuff that our customers and partners are doing
<strong>on top</strong> of Windows Vista? We worked with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000643/">
Tom Skerritt</a> (MASH, Alien, Top Gun, Contact, etc.) and 20 of our early adopters to build a site that shows the kinds of applications that can be built with our new technology. Think of them as short teasers for an upcoming generation of software:
<a href="http://www.seewindowsvista.com">www.seewindowsvista.com</a>.</p>
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Cool site.<br>
Did you get a chance to ask Tom Skerritt what's the hold-up in getting <em>Picket Fences</em> out on DVD?
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<br>
Too funny, Escamillo! <img src='http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/content/images/emoticons/emotion-1.gif' alt='Smiley' /> I did ask him which of his projects he is most proud of. His answer was
<em>A River Runs Through It</em>, which also happens to be one of my favorites.</p>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2006 07:40:53 GMT</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Probably true, Michael. But, many of the developers who worked on those applications probably came up-to-speed on the technologies via Channel 9! <img src='http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/content/images/emoticons/emotion-1.gif' alt='Smiley' /></p>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2006 07:06:03 GMT</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>You've probably heard a lot about the new features in Windows Vista. But have you seen any of the cool stuff that our customers and partners are doing
<strong>on top</strong> of Windows Vista? We worked with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000643/">
Tom Skerritt</a> (MASH, Alien, Top Gun, Contact, etc.) and 20 of our early adopters to build a site that shows the kinds of applications that can be built with our new technology. Think of them as short teasers for an upcoming generation of software:
<a href="http://www.seewindowsvista.com">www.seewindowsvista.com</a>.</p>]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Have a cool Windows Vista and/or WinFX application that provides clear business or consumer (or both) value? Think it makes sense to highlight in a video? Tight timeline, but check out the details on
<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mswanson/archive/2006/04/05/569655.aspx">my blog post</a>.</p>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2006 06:26:33 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Coffeehouse - PDC download site down?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>After talking with our vendor, there were some scheduled outages for maintenance and upgrades. They tried to perform these during &quot;down time,&quot; but owing to the global developer audience that is accessing the content, no time ends up being ideal.</p>
<p>Regarding FireFox, I have heard about some compatibility issues, so you might try downloading the sessions directly. If you can't get to the main user interface, try this list:
<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mswanson/articles/pdc05sessiondownloads.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/mswanson/articles/pdc05sessiondownloads.aspx</a></p>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2005 19:42:38 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Coffeehouse - PDC download site down?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>Although the site seemed to be responding properly when I checked it this afternoon (and again just now), I am working with our vendor to determine what issues we may be experiencing. When I know more, I'll post an update. Thanks for your patience.</p>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2005 05:16:59 GMT</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Very strange that it isn't working in IE. We tested it with IE6 and IE7 on both XP, 2003, and Vista. Do you have a unique configuration? Regardless, I'm glad that the list is helpful.</p>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2005 06:45:45 GMT</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>A few people have asked me for direct links to the PDC05 downloadable sessions. So, to make life a little easier, I
<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mswanson/articles/pdc05sessiondownloads.aspx">put a list together</a> that you might find useful.</p>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2005 05:22:42 GMT</pubDate>
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