Channel 9 - Entries tagged with Silverlight 3

WEI Share: Share your Windows 7 Experience Index

Larry Larsen — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:56:00 GMT

WEI Share ("We Share") is a Coding4Fun code sample that takes your Windows Experience Index score and shares it with the world (anonymously) to an Azure website with a Silverlight front end and lets you post your WEI score to Facebook for bragging rights.

Why would you want to share your WEI score with the world? First, this gives us a place to compare WEI scores across a wide range of hardware and even see how many touch points a multitouch computer may give you. Second, a computer's speed is dependent on the efficiency of the drivers. Sometimes WEI scores go up, sometimes they go down. This will allow you to judge the score that various versions of a driver may give you.

You can run WEI Share at www.WEIShare.net and download the source code at WEIShare.codeplex.com (coming later this week).

WEI Share: Share your Windows 7 Experience Index

Larry Larsen — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:34:00 GMT

City of Lakewood, CO Delivering Better User Experience with WPF and Silverlight

US Public Sector DPE Team — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:37:00 GMT

Here’s an interview with our government customer City of Lakewood, CO about couple of their Line-of-Business applications. One of them is “Building Permit System” leveraging WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation), and second one is “EzMaps” built with Silverlight 3 (cross-platform and cross-browser plug-in supporting all modern browsers).

Interview covers some of their thought-process, architecture best practices and demo of both the applications. You could directly jump to 12:25 (minutes:seconds) in case you wish to simply check out the demo of the applications.

Government customers (or partners working with government customers) can check out the blog article here and consider subscribing to the public sector blog.

Thanks,
Microsoft US Public Sector DPE Team

MSDN Radio: What you need to know about Silverlight

MSDN Online Media — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:21:00 GMT

This week on MSDN Radio Mike Benkovich talks with Tim Heuer, a Microsoft Silverlight Program Manager that you may know by his video series that helps developers leverage the power of Silverlight to build exciting user experiences.

MSDN Radio is a weekly Developer talk-show that helps answer your questions about the latest Microsoft news, solutions, and technologies. We dive into the challenges of deciphering today’s technology stack. Attendees can dial-in during the show to talk with the hosts on the air. To register for upcoming shows visit www.MSDNRadio.com.

Host and Guest: Mike Benkovich, Senior Developer Evangelist and Tim Heuer, Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation

Mike Benkovich delivers technical presentations around the U.S. as a developer tools evangelist on the MSDN team. He's worked in a variety of roles including architect, project manager, developer, and technical writer. Mike is a published author with WROX Press and APress, exploring how developers get the most from their SQL databases.

Tim Heuer is a program manager for Microsoft Silverlight, he helps build the worldwide Silverlight community and is very passionate about the platform and technology in general. Having over 16 years of experience with Microsoft Web technologies, Tim is excited about the opportunities that Silverlight brings for developers and designers and wants to ensure that everyone has the best information and tools available to them for success.

ARCast.TV - IHI Shines Silverlight on Healthcare Improvement

Bob Familiar — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:58:00 GMT

Recently Bob Familiar had the pleasure of sitting down with Michael Iantosca, CEO of eDefine, Paul Hamnett, VP of Engineering at the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI.org), and Kerri Sweeney, Director of Development at IHI, to learn about a new Silverlight based solution they have created for the healthcare quality industry called the Improvement Map.

This video includes an overview of IHI.org from Paul Hamnett and an in depth review of the application, the architecture and a demo from Kerri Sweeney and Michael Iantosca.

There is a case study that details IHI's Silverlight solution here and an architecture deep dive here.

Intergen talk about the Ticket Direct Silverlight Kiosk

Nigel — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:46:00 GMT

Part of the backstage video series created for Webstock and profiled at http://workit.co.nz

Interview with Chris Auld & Chris Klug about the Ticket Direct Silverlight Kiosk that was deployed recently to Warehouse stores in Christchurch to sell rugby tickets.

geekSpeak Recording - Silverlight Testing with Jeremy Likness

MSDN Online Media — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:26:00 GMT

In this episode of geekSpeak, Jeremy Likness focuses on the Microsoft Silverlight Unit Testing Framework. Jeremy shows us how to design Silverlight applications to take advantage of unit testing (SOLID and DRY principles), building not only view models but also views that can be tested. Jeremy also explains how to use the test surface to unit test controls and some fundamentals of testing in general, such as strategies for dividing test classes and methods and creating stubs and mocks. This geekSpeak is hosted by Glen Gordon and Rachel Appel.

The geekSpeak webcast series brings you industry experts in a "talk-radio" format hosted by developer evangelists from Microsoft. These experts share their knowledge and experience about a particular developer technology and are ready to answer your questions in real time during the webcast.

Guest Presenter: Jeremy Likness, Consultant, Wintellect

Jeremy Likness is a senior consultant for Wintellect with 15 years of experience developing enterprise applications. He has worked with software in multiple vertical industries ranging from insurance, health and wellness, supply chain management, and mobility. Jeremy's primary focus for the past decade has been building highly scalable Web-based solutions using the Microsoft technology stack.

Prior to Wintellect, Jeremy was director of information technology and served as development manager and architect for AirWatch, LLC, where he helped the company grow and solidify its position as one of the leading wireless technology solution providers in the United States by managing the development of their product portfolio, which includes public HotSpot solutions and a management console for enterprise grade wireless networks, mobile devices, and their consumers. A fluent Spanish speaker, Jeremy served as director of information technology for Hispanicare, where he architected a multilingual content management system for the company's Hispanic-focused online diet program. Jeremy accepted his role there after serving as development manager for Manhattan Associates, a software company that provides supply chain management solutions.

CRM Innovation makes importing data as simple as drag and drop

John O'Donnell — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:12:00 GMT

In this video Jerry and Chris from http://www.crminnovation.com talked to us about their new Data2CRM tool which leverages Silverlight to make it very easy to work with data import tasks, and it supports CRM Online too! Now data import is as simply as drag and drop.

Enjoy the show!

John O'Donnell Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation
http://blogs.msdn.com/jodonnell
http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde
http://www.twitter.com/jodonnel

This Week on C9: VS2010 RC, Winter Olympics, Valentine's Day

Dan Fernandez — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:35:00 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including:

Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate RC is now available for everyone to download
- Interesting because: The RC Editor performance is much improved over Beta 2
Charles Torre - Charles interviews Jason Zander on Visual Studio 2010 RC release
- Interesting because: Jason talks about the performance improvements and even how he and Scott Guthrie went and bought low-end PCs for testing Visual Studio 2010
Jason Zander - Q&A on what's included in VS 2010 RC
- Interesting because: Answers questions like which Silverlight versions are supported (3 is, 4 isn't), that the bits expire June 30, 2010, and that no Express Editions will be released
Kirill Osenkov - Stress testing VS 2010 RC
- Interesting because: Kirill talks about being part of the Perf SWAT team and how they ran stress tests of Visual Studio running 8 hours a day for 5 days
Scott Guthrie - ASP.NET MVC 2 (RC2) Available
- Interesting because: RC2 includes some API changes and this version works with VS 2008 and VS 2010 (see Phil's post for installing with VS 2010)
Scott Hanselman - Setting up IIS 7 Smooth Streaming and Silverlight
- Interesting because: It's a great walkthrough for everything you'll need to setup smooth streaming
Code Project - Wiimote as a Windows 7 Sensor Driver, via Greg Duncan
- Interesting because: This shows how to build a driver for the sensor and location platform
Jeremiah Morrill - Silverlight 4 hack to use native desktop CLR without COM
- Interesting because: This (potentially evil) hack enables you to inject a native DLL into the Silverlight out-of-browser process
Jason Haley - Azure Table Query Project (on CodePlex)
- Interesting because: It's a simple, easy-to-use tool for seeing your Azure table data
Roger Doherty - SQL Server 2008 R2 Developer Training Kit
- Interesting because: Includes hands-on labs and videos for SQL developers including T-SQL, Filestream, PowerPivot, and StreamInsight
Saluse MediaKit for Silverlight - Silverlight based decoder for MP3 files, via Coding4Fun
- Interesting because: It's a Silverlight MP3 decoder so you can add things like audio effects or use an equalizer
LiveSide Bing Maps for the Winter Games
- Interesting because: This includes the medal count, Tweets, event information as it's happening, and more
LiveSide - NBCOlympics.com to provide Silverlight streaming including HD quality and DVR-style controls, 1,000+ hours of video, and more
- Interesting because: If you're in the US and Canada (NBC doesn't have a worldwide content license), this is a great way to watch the Olympics

Picks of the week
- Dan's pick: Laura Foy's Channel 9 Valentine's Day video
- Brian's pick: Brian's recap post on all things Visual Studio 2010

Pete at Reykjavik: Silverlight, Azure, RIA Services Event Site in 8 days

Pete Brown — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:40:00 GMT

In January, I spoke at the best of tech-ed and Convergence 2010 conference in Reykjavik, Iceland. The event was a huge success, bringing in one out of every 300 people in Iceland (just under 1200 people total)

While there, I met with Sig (Sigurjon Lydsson - Microsoft) and Jon (Gudmundur Jon Halldorsson - Landsbankinn) and talked about the awesome site they built for the event.

The site is 100% Silverlight, powered by WCF RIA Services, with data and app hosted in Azure. They built out the first functional and usable version in 8 days. The site supports registration, general event info, scheduling, speaker bios, track info etc. - everything you'd expect to see in an event site.

Gudmundur Jon Halldorsson - Twitter, (gudmundurjon -AT- hotmail DOT com)
Sigurjon Lydsson - (v-siglyd -AT- microsoft DOT com)
Pete Brown - Blog, Twitter

The site is still live and running at http://fenrisevents.cloudapp.net/

MSDN Tiki Hut Roadshow, Silverlight Edition

MSDN Online Media — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:13:00 GMT

Join us for this special Microsoft Silverlight Edition of the MSDN Tiki Hut Roadshow. With the ever expanding buzz around Silverlight 3, we've had a ton of requests to dive deeper into what makes Silverlight 3 a 'must have' skill set in your toolbox. Accordingly, we are back on the road to give you an entire session dedicated just to Silverlight.

ARCast.TV Special - An Architects Perspective on Silverlight 3 featuring Tim Heuer

Bob Familiar — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:24:00 GMT

Many .NET developers are becoming more and more interested in the Rich Internet Application development space, and in particular Silverlight. In this session we will step back from a detailed implementation technology and take a higher level look at Silverlight from the architect’s perspective. We will discuss the types of applications where Silverlight makes sense and some scenarios where Silverlight may not be the appropriate technology. We will also delve into some of the architectural decisions that the architect must consider when writing applications for this platform and where some of the tradeoffs may lie. - Tim Heuer

Ribbit for Silverlight - Overview

SkiExtreme — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:57:00 GMT

Ribbit, a wholly owned subsidiary of British Telecom based in Silicon Valley, recently released Ribbit for Silverlight. Ribbit for Silverlight is an innovative approach to platform adoption in the world of cloud computing: give developers and designers a set of tools that allow them to rapidly develop applications that use platform services. The initial controls give developers and designers the ability to initiate phone calls, conference calls, check on voice mail and send SMS messages from the PC or browser to mobile and desktop phones.

These videos contain a conversation between Crick Waters, SVP of BT/Ribbit, and Joseph Hofstader, Microsoft Architect/Evangelist. This conversation describes the potential that Ribbit for Silverlight brings to web designers and application developers who wish to integrate communications features into their applications.

Ribbit for Silverlight SMS Control

SkiExtreme — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:02:00 GMT

Ribbit, a wholly owned subsidiary of British Telecom based in Silicon Valley, recently released Ribbit for Silverlight. Ribbit for Silverlight (R4SL) is an innovative approach to platform adoption in the world of cloud computing: give developers and designers a set of tools that allow them to rapidly develop applications that use platform services. The initial controls give developers and designers the ability to initiate phone calls, conference calls, check on voice mail and send SMS messages from the PC or browser to mobile and desktop phones.

This video features David Pallmann, Director of Neudesic's Custom Application Practice demonstrating the R4SL SMS Control.

Ribbit for Silverlight - Active Call Control

SkiExtreme — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:01:00 GMT

Ribbit for Silverlight - Dialpad Control

SkiExtreme — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:58:00 GMT

Ribbit for Silverlight - Message Log Control

SkiExtreme — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:56:00 GMT

Ribbit for Silverlight - Call Button and Login Controls

SkiExtreme — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:50:00 GMT

Ribbit for Silverlight - Account Configuration Control

SkiExtreme — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:47:00 GMT

MSDN Flash Podcast 016 - Real Time Web and Silverlight

Eric Nelson — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:05:00 GMT

Phil Leggetter and I discuss the real time web and consuming real time data from a Silverlight client using HTTP server push.

Full show notes and an article on the same topic can be found at http://bit.ly/msdnpodcast016

Thanks for listening.

Software Escrow as a Service with EPS, Silverlight and Azure

Jared Bienz — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:08:00 GMT

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.

What's different about the 3 versions of Rx? Part 1: Silverlight 3

Jeffrey van Gogh — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:22:00 GMT

Today we released Reactive Extensions for .NET 3.5 SP1, Silverlight 3 and .NET 4 Beta 2. In this 3 part video, I'll go over the small differences in each of the three releases.

This first video will focus on Silverlight 3.

Prism & Silverlight: Part 10 - A Larger Example - "Email Client"

Mike Taulty — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:31:00 GMT

This is part 10 of a series of screencasts illustrating some of the ideas found in "Prism" or the "Composite Application Guidance" from the Patterns and Practices team that can be used to build Silverlight applications in a way that lends itself to testability and modularity.

In talking to customers building business applications with Silverlight I find that Prism (and it's friend Unity) is frequently mentioned but not everyone has seen it and so I thought I would explore it myself and capture some of the results of that exploration here.

We start off with some fairly basic code which we move towards making use of dependency injection and modularity;

and then we move that code into the Silverlight world and try to illustrate some specific areas of Prism;

and then finally we try and bring some of these concepts together in a longer, more realistic example of a simple Email application built using the Prism framework - warning, this is a much longer session but I wanted something that draws things together;

Part 10: A Larger Example: "Email Client"

The recommendation would be that you watch the 10 screencasts in order but if that feels like too long a process or if you're already very familiar with concepts like dependency injection and containers like Unity then perhaps watch the last screencast first and then refer back to the previous screencasts if certain areas need more illumination.

I put the source code for Video 10 here for download as it's a bigger set of source and something you might want to explore after the video - this does not necessarily represent "best practise" but is, instead, just meant to illustrate some of the Prism ideas.

Prism & Silverlight: Part 8 - Loosely Coupled Events

Mike Taulty — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:30:00 GMT

This is part 8 of a series of screencasts illustrating some of the ideas found in "Prism" or the "Composite Application Guidance" from the Patterns and Practices team that can be used to build Silverlight applications in a way that lends itself to testability and modularity.

In talking to customers building business applications with Silverlight I find that Prism (and it's friend Unity) is frequently mentioned but not everyone has seen it and so I thought I would explore it myself and capture some of the results of that exploration here.

We start off with some fairly basic code which we move towards making use of dependency injection and modularity;

and then we move that code into the Silverlight world and try to illustrate some specific areas of Prism;

Part 10: A Larger Example: "Email Client"

Prism & Silverlight: Part 7 - Commands

Mike Taulty — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:30:00 GMT

This is part 7 of a series of screencasts illustrating some of the ideas found in "Prism" or the "Composite Application Guidance" from the Patterns and Practices team that can be used to build Silverlight applications in a way that lends itself to testability and modularity.

In talking to customers building business applications with Silverlight I find that Prism (and it's friend Unity) is frequently mentioned but not everyone has seen it and so I thought I would explore it myself and capture some of the results of that exploration here.

We start off with some fairly basic code which we move towards making use of dependency injection and modularity;

and then we move that code into the Silverlight world and try to illustrate some specific areas of Prism;

Part 10: A Larger Example: "Email Client"