MIX09

As hard as it might be to believe, not everybody is using Visual Studio as their development platform. Then what if they want to develop a Silverlight application? Is notepad their only option?Fortunately not. Vijay Rajagopalan did a session at MIX09 earlier this year which shows how we've been…

Phil Haack had a session at MIX09 who's name caught my eye: "ASP.NET MVC Ninjas on Fire Black Belt Tips", which I suppose was part of the intent. I asked Phil to drop by and share with us some of the details about what MVC is, how it can help you develop websites. After watching this…

Virtual Earth continues to evolve and support a very robust programming model which allows developers to create unique and interesting mapping applications. One of the most recent developments is that there is a brand new Virtual Earth Mapping control which uses Silverlight for rendering. This…

A quick video of some outtakes from Scott Guthrie's intro video at MIX 2009.  

This time lapse video shows how the MIX09 crew sets up and tears down the general session hall from empty room to setup, to rehearsals, to the live event, to tear down.

A Vista sidebar gadget was designed and created for the Chip Ganassi Racing team. This video walks through each stage of the process that we used at projekt202 to go from concept to finished project. Built by:  - Jeffrey McLean (Lead Designer, All development, Video compilation, Video…

An overview of the Physics Helper Library, which allows you to draw objects in Expression Blend 2, and have those objects translated directly into Physics objects using the Farseer Physics Engine. This can be a great timesaver for creating games, as it is traditionally difficult to line up…

Stimulant is an interaction design and development studio that specializes in new interaction paradigms on emerging hardware. Microsoft Surface is an important part of our core offering. This is a short reel of our publicly-showable Microsoft Surface projects we created between 2008 and 2009.…

By leveraging the power of .NET combined with the EMOTIV thought control headset soon to be released later this year, users are able to control the WPF application using thought control alone. Navigation and interactions are based on the user thinking the commands directly. Built by: -…

Cycle-exact Commodore 64 emulator written in C#, much ported from C++ Frodo emulator. Done just to prove Silverlight can do almost anything. Most C64 hardware is emulated and it’s running off real C64 ROM images. Display is a MediaStreamSource 50fps video I’m generating from raw emulated…