Gokhan discusses how he used the Starter Kit as a base for learning about DirectX programming, and demonstrates how he used the Visual Studio Shader Designer to create some of the effects in his app.

• [00:00] - Gokhan and Roberto talk about the app and Gokhan's experiences with DirectX and the Starter Kit
• [10:56] - Gokhan demos the Virtual Experiment Laboratory app
• [14:32] - Behind the scenes - making a dynamic sprite with the Visual Studio Shader Designer
• [18:37] - Behind the scenes - making an animated flame with the Visual Studio Shader Designer

Come watch the Starter Kit and the Visual Studio graphics tools in action to create rich 3D user interfaces for your app.

For more information, you can find Gokhan on Twitter: @gokhansengun.

Roberto is also on Twitter: @robertos_br. Please let us know if you have an app on the Store that uses the VS 3D Starter Kit!

In this episode, Roberto Sonnino, a software developer on the Visual Studio team, walks through creating a dice rolling app with the Starter Kit, and shows that the same code can be recompiled for Windows RT and Windows Phone 8 devices.

The accompanying walkthrough is published on the Visual C++ team blog as a three part series:

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3

Table of contents

[00:00] GoingNative(); //Ale and Charles talk about the status of the VC++ 2012 CTP and introduce the show's topic,  the 3D Starter kit written by our guest, C++ developer Roberto Sonnino.
[02:55] Ale and Charles interview Roberto Sonnino about his 3D Starter Kit.
[30:16] ~GoingNative();// Ale and Charles destruct the show.

That's why we invested in DirectX to hardware accelerate almost every aspect of the user experience. Graphics is literally at the core of every Windows 8 experience.

For more information on graphic improvements in Windows 8, see the reference links here:

• Hardware accelerating everything: Windows 8 graphics
• Windows Graphics APIs

See also related videos here:

• Windows 8 for Gaming

Here, I chat with Giorgio and Ari Bixhorn (aka Bix) about this modern graphic novel written in HTML5 and powered by IE9. What's going on behind the graphics, anyway? What led to the use of HTML5's Canvas versus, say, CSS3 Transforms to create the stunning graphics with lightning bolts flashing in the background? What did they do to compensate for Canvas being a mostly "dumb" graphical surface? How did the overcome bandwidth constraints when loading several high res images?

Tune in.

Welcome back to C9, Boris! It's always a treat to converse with you. Keep up the fantastic work—there's lots of dark matter out there that needs more light!

This is one of the typically open-minded-with-candor conversations with the C++ team that have become the norm here on C9 lately. True C9 Old School. Much thanks to the VC++ team for being so open and helpful, and for truly listening to what the VC++ community wants and needs.

Enjoy!

Related links:

Boris' infamous post on rebuilding C++ intellisense and the hard decision that was made to remove intellisense support for C++/CLI for one release of VC++ => http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2009/05/27/rebuilding-intellisense.aspx

Updated information from Tony Goodhew on the state of C++/CLI today and going forward in the next release of VC++ => http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2011/03/03/10136696.aspx

A younger Charles interviews Boris in 2005 =>http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/VC-2005-IDE-Tips-and-Tricks (WMV only. Sorry about that—it's an old post!) 

Here, Ai->Canvas creator, Mike Swanson, spends some quality time with me digging into the details inside and behind this very useful tool. We cover many areas including, but not limited to, the plug-in's architecture, performance characteristics, design decisions, native code to JavaScript conversion tactics and implementation, etc. Mike spends most of his time where a Going Deep guest must: at the whiteboard. He also demos his latest conversion technology and I must say, it is really impressive. Mike is a great engineer.

You can jump right into the rabbit hole with us here.

Tune in.

Enjoy. Learn.

• Fluid Dynamics in Silverlight
• Advanced Render Techniques with WriteableBitmaps
• Rendering Vector Fields in Silverlight

In Windows Vista, the Windows Imaging Component introduced an extensible framework for working with images and image metadata. The image formats supported by the Windows Imaging Component include JPEG, PNG, and TIFF, and the supported metadata formats include XMP and EXIF. With Windows 7, Windows Imaging Component broadens its standards compliance by providing support for progressive image decoding, expanded PNG features, GIF metadata, and metadata that spans APPn segments.

This is another video in a series of Windows 7 Graphics videos:

·         Windows 7 Graphics Architecture Overview - Part 1

·         Windows 7 Graphics Architecture Overview - Part 2

·         Windows 7 Graphics Architecture Overview - Part 3

You can find additional information about Windows 7 Graphics in the:

·         Developer for Windows MSDN page

·         E7 blog post Engineering Windows 7 Graphics Performance

·         PDC session recordings:

·         Windows 7: Writing Your Application to Shine on Modern Graphics Hardware (PDC)

·          Windows 7: Introducing Direct2D and DirectWrite (PDC)

·         Windows 7: Unlocking the GPU with Direct3D

Part II -- Icon Overlay:
In this part I show you how to implement custom Icon Overlays in the taskbar indicating the happiness (happy/unhappy) of your application. In your applications you can use this to

1. Can indicate the status of your application or provide other useful information (such as online/offline, sign in status, status of your application).
2. Dynamically change the icon.

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GLenz/Windows-7-Taskbar-in-10-Minutes-Part-II-Icon-Overlay/The source code is available here.

You can find the other parts of the screencast series @

Part I -- ProgressBar and Status:
In the first part of my screencast series I develop an application that allows to

1. Show the progress of the applications work in the taskbar.
2. Indicate the status (Paused, Normal, No determinate, Error).
3. Dynamically change the status based on events.

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GLenz/Windows-7-Taskbar-in-10-Minutes-Part-I-Progress-Bar/ . The source code is available here .

The Windows API Code Pack can be downloaded here.

The other parts of the screencast series can be viewed @

Part IV -- Preview and Window Peek:  
In the last part of the screencast series I show you how to develop an application that

1. Allows you to show a clipped Taskbar Preview of your application, on a defined location of your application window.
2. Dynamically changes the size of the preview image in the Taskbar.
3. Change the preview image to show a custom Icon instead.
4. Show a custom Window Peek Bitmap of your application when hovering with the mouse over the Taskbar Preview.

The source code is available here.
You can download the managed wrappers for the Windows 7 API from the Vista Bridge web page.

Part III -- JumpList:
In this part I show you how to develop an application that

1. Creates a custom category for the Jumplist.
2. Allows you to add Items to the custom Jumplist category (in this case text files, opened in Notepad when selected).
3. Add user tasks to the Jumplist such as opening the calculator or notepad when selected.
4. Add a separator to the Jumplist to group items.

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GLenz/Windows-7-Taskbar-in-10-Minutes-Part-III-Jumplists/ . The source code is available here.

I hope you found the series of Screencasts useful and to the point .

Also, check out my blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/glenz .

• Part 1
• Part 3

You can find additional information about Windows 7 Graphics in the:

·         Developer for Windows MSDN page

·         E7 blog post Engineering Windows 7 Graphics Performance

·         PDC session recordings:

·         Windows 7: Writing Your Application to Shine on Modern Graphics Hardware (PDC)

·          Windows 7: Introducing Direct2D and DirectWrite (PDC)

·         Windows 7: Unlocking the GPU with Direct3D

This is the first of three overview videos and the first in a long series of videos about Windows 7 Graphics.

You can find additional information about Windows 7 Graphics in the:

·         Developer for Windows MSDN page

·         E7 blog post Engineering Windows 7 Graphics Performance

·         PDC session recordings:

·         Windows 7: Writing Your Application to Shine on Modern Graphics Hardware (PDC)

·          Windows 7: Introducing Direct2D and DirectWrite (PDC)

·         Windows 7: Unlocking the GPU with Direct3D

• Part 2
• Part 3

You can find additional information about Windows 7 Graphics in the:

• Developer for Windows MSDN page
• E7 blog post Engineering Windows 7 Graphics Performance
• PDC session recordings:
  • Windows 7: Writing Your Application to Shine on Modern Graphics Hardware (PDC)
  •  Windows 7: Introducing Direct2D and DirectWrite (PDC)
  • Windows 7: Unlocking the GPU with Direct3D

• Creating Sound using MediaStreamSource in Silverlight 3 Beta
• Using Blur to make Dialogs Pop in Silverlight 3
• Silverlight 3 – Perspective 3d Transforms – PlaneProjection
• Silverlight 3 – The Bitmap API / WriteableBitmap
• Silverlight 3 – BasedOn Styles
• Silverlight 3 – Taking Silverlight Out of the Browser
• Silverlight 3 – UI Element to Element Binding
• Silverlight 3 – Creating Video from Raw Bits using a MediaStreamSource
• Silverlight 3 – Drop Shadows and Glows with Pixel Shaders
• Announcing Silverlight 3! SL3 Post Index

After shooting the video, we realized we didn't show all of the effects and any of the transitions.  To see the library in action check out the WPF Effects Library Demo video.