Channel 9 - Entries tagged with Silverlight 4 Microsoft http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 - Entries tagged with Silverlight 4 http://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/silverlight+4 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/Tags/silverlight+4 en Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:58:52 GMT Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:58:52 GMT Rev9 144 6 25 Touch Workshop Part 5 Touch Workshop Belgium Part 5

Speaker : Christophe De Baene

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/liese/Touch-Workshop-Part-5 Touch Workshop Belgium Part 5 Speaker : Christophe De Baene 3457 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/liese/Touch-Workshop-Part-5 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 06:02:17 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/liese/Touch-Workshop-Part-5 Anthony de Bruyn Anthony de Bruyn 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/liese/Touch-Workshop-Part-5/RSS Belgium BeLux fr-be ISV Multitouch Multi-touch NL-BE Silverlight 4 Silverlight 4.0 - Multitouch Touch Windows 7 – Multitouch Multi Touch Touch Workshop Part 4 Touch Workshop Belgium - Part 4

Speaker : Christophe De Baene

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/liese/Touch-Workshop-Part-4 Touch Workshop Belgium - Part 4 Speaker : Christophe De Baene 5062 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/liese/Touch-Workshop-Part-4 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 06:02:04 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/liese/Touch-Workshop-Part-4 Anthony de Bruyn Anthony de Bruyn 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/liese/Touch-Workshop-Part-4/RSS Belgium BeLux fr-be ISV Multitouch Multi-touch NL-BE Silverlight 4 Silverlight 4.0 - Multitouch Touch Windows 7 – Multitouch Multi Touch Touch Workshop Part 3 Touch Workshop Belgium - Part 3

Speaker : Christophe De Baene, RealDolmen

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/liese/Touch-Workshop-Part-3 Touch Workshop Belgium - Part 3 Speaker : Christophe De Baene, RealDolmen 3871 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/liese/Touch-Workshop-Part-3 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 06:01:51 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/liese/Touch-Workshop-Part-3 Anthony de Bruyn Anthony de Bruyn 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/liese/Touch-Workshop-Part-3/RSS Belgium BeLux fr-be ISV Multitouch Multi-touch NL-BE Silverlight 4 Silverlight 4.0 - Multitouch Touch Windows 7 – Multitouch Multi Touch Touch Workshop Part 2 What makes a great touch experience? Touch Workshop Belgium - Part 2

Session : What makes a great touch experience?

Speaker : Sigrid Vandenweghe, Human Interface Group

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/liese/Touch-Workshop-Part-2-What-makes-a-great-touch-experience Touch Workshop Belgium - Part 2 Session : What makes a great touch experience? Speaker : Sigrid Vandenweghe, Human Interface Group 2395 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/liese/Touch-Workshop-Part-2-What-makes-a-great-touch-experience Tue, 14 Jun 2011 06:01:38 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/liese/Touch-Workshop-Part-2-What-makes-a-great-touch-experience Anthony de Bruyn Anthony de Bruyn 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/liese/Touch-Workshop-Part-2-What-makes-a-great-touch-experience/RSS Belgium BeLux fr-be ISV Multitouch Multi-touch NL-BE Silverlight 4 Silverlight 4.0 - Multitouch Touch Windows 7 – Multitouch Multi Touch Introduction to Multitouch Development in Silverlight In this short video, Jennifer Marsman gives a quick introduction to multitouch development in Silverlight.  She briefly discusses the major differences between multitouch development in Silverlight and WPF, and then demonstrates a Silverlight multitouch code sample where an "Ouch" will appear wherever your finger touches the screen.  The code sample can be downloaded from her blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jennifer/archive/2011/05/23/introduction-to-multitouch-development-in-silverlight-webcast-on-channel-9.aspx. 

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Introduction-to-Multitouch-Development-in-Silverlight In this short video, Jennifer Marsman gives a quick introduction to multitouch development in Silverlight.  She briefly discusses the major differences between multitouch development in Silverlight and WPF, and then demonstrates a Silverlight multitouch code sample where an "Ouch" will appear wherever your finger touches the screen.  The code sample can be downloaded from her blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jennifer/archive/2011/05/23/introduction-to-multitouch-development-in-silverlight-webcast-on-channel-9.aspx.  317 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Introduction-to-Multitouch-Development-in-Silverlight Tue, 24 May 2011 02:19:42 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Introduction-to-Multitouch-Development-in-Silverlight Jennifer Marsman Jennifer Marsman 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Introduction-to-Multitouch-Development-in-Silverlight/rss Jennifer Marsman Multitouch Silverlight Silverlight 4 Silverlight 4.0 - Multitouch Multi Touch MSDN Radio: Silverlight, RIA and Windows Phone with Tim Huckaby This week we chat with Tim Huckaby about Microsoft Silverlight, Rich Internet Application (RIA), Windows Phone and Touch Interfaces. As the CEO of InterKnowlogy and a Microsoft expert, Tim has helped audiences explore what’s compelling and cool about the tools and technologies that developers need to do their jobs. Submit your questions via Twitter to Mike Benkovich @mbenko, or Mithun Dhar @mithund and append hash tag #msdnradio.

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. For previous and upcoming shows visit www.msdnradio.com.

Guest: Tim Huckaby, Founder, InterKnowlogy

Tim founded InterKnowlogy, experts in .NET and Microsoft Platforms, in 1999. He serves as its Chairman and as the Chairman of Actus Software. Tim has 30+ years’ experience including serving on a Microsoft product team as a dev lead on an architecture team on a Server Product. Tim is a Microsoft Regional Director, a Microsoft MVP and serves on many Microsoft councils and boards like the Microsoft .NET Partner Advisory Council.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/egibson/MSDN-Radio-Silverlight-RIA-and-Windows-Phone-with-Tim-Huckaby This week we chat with Tim Huckaby about Microsoft Silverlight, Rich Internet Application (RIA), Windows Phone and Touch Interfaces. As the CEO of InterKnowlogy and a Microsoft expert, Tim has helped audiences explore what’s compelling and cool about the tools and technologies that developers need to do their jobs. Submit your questions via Twitter to Mike Benkovich @mbenko, or Mithun Dhar @mithund and append hash tag #msdnradio.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. For previous and upcoming shows visit www.msdnradio.com.Guest: Tim Huckaby, Founder, InterKnowlogyTim founded InterKnowlogy, experts in .NET and Microsoft Platforms, in 1999. He serves as its Chairman and as the Chairman of Actus Software. Tim has 30+ years’ experience including serving on a Microsoft product team as a dev lead on an architecture team on a Server Product. Tim is a Microsoft Regional Director, a Microsoft MVP and serves on many Microsoft councils and boards like the Microsoft .NET Partner Advisory Council. 2044 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/egibson/MSDN-Radio-Silverlight-RIA-and-Windows-Phone-with-Tim-Huckaby Wed, 16 Feb 2011 22:28:22 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/egibson/MSDN-Radio-Silverlight-RIA-and-Windows-Phone-with-Tim-Huckaby MSDN Online Media MSDN Online Media 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/egibson/MSDN-Radio-Silverlight-RIA-and-Windows-Phone-with-Tim-Huckaby/RSS DPEField MSDNRadio RIA Silverlight 4 Windows Phone 7 WP7 MJPEG Decoder Last year the Coding4Fun/Channel 9 guys asked me to work on a few things for MIX10.  One of these items was a way to output a webcam stream to Windows Phone 7 for use with Clint's t-shirt cannon project you may have read about.  I figured the easiest way to accomplish this was by using a network/IP camera capable of sending a Motion-JPEG stream, which can be easily decoded and displayed that can display a JPEG image.  Thus, this library was born.

It has gone through quite a few changes and I have expanded it to easily display MJPEG streams on a variety of platforms.  The developer just references the assembly appropriate to their platform, adds a few lines of code, and away it goes.

Usage

For those that are just interested in the usage, it's as simple as this:

  1. Reference one of the following assemblies appropriate for your project:
    • MjpegProcessorSL.dll - Silverlight (Out of Browser Only!)
    • MjpegProcessorWP7.dll - Windows Phone 7 (XNA or Silverlight, performance maxes out around 320x240 @ 15fps, so set your camera settings accordingly)
    • MjpegProcessorXna4.dll - XNA 4.0 (Windows)
    • MjpegProcessor.dll - WinForms and WPF
  2. Create a new MjpegDecoder object.
  3. Hook up the FrameReady event.
  4. In the event handler, take the Bitmap/BitmapImage and assign it to your image display control:
  5. In the case of XNA, use the GetMjpegFrame method in the Update method, which will return a Texture2D you can use in your Draw method.
  6. Call the ParseStream method with the Uri of the MJPEG "endpoint".

That's it!  The source code and binaries above both include projects demonstrating how to use the library on each of these platforms.  As long as you set the appropriate reference, you can just copy and paste the code in the sample to get your project running (changing the Uri, of course).

public partial class MainWindow : Window
{
    MjpegDecoder _mjpeg;

    public MainWindow()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
        _mjpeg = new MjpegDecoder();
        _mjpeg.FrameReady += mjpeg_FrameReady;
    }

    private void Start_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
    {
        _mjpeg.ParseStream(new Uri("http://192.168.2.200/img/video.mjpeg"));
    }

    private void mjpeg_FrameReady(object sender, FrameReadyEventArgs e)
    {
        image.Source = e.BitmapImage;
    }
}

If that doesn't fit your needs, you can also access the Bitmap/BitmapImage properties directly from the MjpegDecoder object, or the CurrentFrame property, which will contain the raw JPEG data prior to being decoded.

A Word About Network/IP Cameras

I have tested this against several different cameras.  Each device has its own quirks, but all of them seem to work with this library with one exception:  several cameras will respond differently when an Internet Explorer user agent header is sent with the HTTP request.  Instead of sending down an MJPEG stream, it will send a single JPEG image as Internet Explorer does not properly support MJPEG streams.  Unfortunately, this causes the Silverlight processor to not work properly as the header cannot be changed from the Internet Explorer default.  When this happens, only a single frame will be sent, and the decoding will fail.  The only fix I have found is to use a different camera that doesn't work in this way.

What is MJPEG?

Pretty simply, it's a video format where each frame of video is sent as a separate, compressed JPEG image.  A standard HTTP request is made to a specific URL, and a multipart response is sent.  Parsing this multipart stream into separate images as they are sent results in a series of JPEG images.  The viewer displays those JPEG images as quickly as they are sent and that creates the video.  It's not a well documented format, nor is it perfectly standardized, but it does work.  For more information, see the MJPEG article on Wikipedia.

How Do I Find the MJPEG URL of My Camera?

Excellent question.  Not an excellent answer.  The user manual may mention the URL.  A quick internet search with the model number should get you a result.  Or, you can also try this company's lookup tool.

How Does It Work?

Glad you asked.  If you take a look at the project, you'll notice there isn't much code.  One single file is used with a variety of compiler directives to compile certain portions based on the platform assembly being generated.  The MjpegDecoder.cs/.vb contains the entire implementation.

First, an asynchronous request is made to the provided MJPEG URL inside the ParseStream method.  If we are in a Silverlight environment, the AllowReadStreamBuffering property must be set to false so the response returns immediately instead of being buffered.  Additionally, we need to register the http:// prefix to use the client http stack vs. the browser stack.  Finally, the request is made using the BeginGetResponse method, specifying the OnGetResponse method as the callback.  This will be called as soon as data is sent from the camera in response to our request.

public void ParseStream(Uri uri)
{
#if SILVERLIGHT
    HttpWebRequest.RegisterPrefix("http://", WebRequestCreator.ClientHttp);
#endif
    HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(uri);

#if SILVERLIGHT
    // start the stream immediately
    request.AllowReadStreamBuffering = false;
#endif
    // asynchronously get a response
    request.BeginGetResponse(OnGetResponse, request);
}

OnGetResponse grabs the response headers and uses the Content-Type header to determine the boundary marker that will be sent between JPEG frames.

private void OnGetResponse(IAsyncResult asyncResult)
{
    HttpWebResponse resp;
    byte[] buff;
    byte[] imageBuffer = new byte[1024 * 1024];
    Stream s;

    // get the response
    HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)asyncResult.AsyncState;
    resp = (HttpWebResponse)req.EndGetResponse(asyncResult);

    // find our magic boundary value
    string contentType = resp.Headers["Content-Type"];
    if(!string.IsNullOrEmpty(contentType) && !contentType.Contains("="))
        throw new Exception("Invalid content-type header.  The camera is likely not returning a proper MJPEG stream.");
    string boundary = resp.Headers["Content-Type"].Split('=')[1];
    byte[] boundaryBytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(boundary.StartsWith("--") ? boundary : "--" + boundary);
...

 

It then streams the response data, looks for a JPEG header marker, then reads until it finds the boundary marker, copies the data into a buffer, decodes it, passes it on to whoever wants it via an event, and then starts over.

...
    s = resp.GetResponseStream();
    BinaryReader br = new BinaryReader(s);

    _streamActive = true;

    buff = br.ReadBytes(ChunkSize);

    while (_streamActive)
    {
        int size;

        // find the JPEG header
        int imageStart = buff.Find(JpegHeader);

        if(imageStart != -1)
        {
            // copy the start of the JPEG image to the imageBuffer
            size = buff.Length - imageStart;
            Array.Copy(buff, imageStart, imageBuffer, 0, size);

            while(true)
            {
                buff = br.ReadBytes(ChunkSize);

                // find the boundary text
                int imageEnd = buff.Find(boundaryBytes);
                if(imageEnd != -1)
                {
                    // copy the remainder of the JPEG to the imageBuffer
                    Array.Copy(buff, 0, imageBuffer, size, imageEnd);
                    size += imageEnd;

                    // create a single JPEG frame
                    CurrentFrame = new byte[size];
                    Array.Copy(imageBuffer, 0, CurrentFrame, 0, size);
#if !XNA
                    ProcessFrame(CurrentFrame);
#endif
                    // copy the leftover data to the start
                    Array.Copy(buff, imageEnd, buff, 0, buff.Length - imageEnd);

                    // fill the remainder of the buffer with new data and start over
                    byte[] temp = br.ReadBytes(imageEnd);

                    Array.Copy(temp, 0, buff, buff.Length - imageEnd, temp.Length);
                    break;
                }

                // copy all of the data to the imageBuffer
                Array.Copy(buff, 0, imageBuffer, size, buff.Length);
                size += buff.Length;
            }
        }
    }
    resp.Close();
}

The ProcessFrame method seen above takes the raw byte buffer, which contains an undecoded JPEG image, and decodes it based on the environment.  However this isn't called in the case of XNA which we'll see in a moment:

private void ProcessFrame(byte[] frameBuffer)
{
#if SILVERLIGHT
    // need to get this back on the UI thread
    Deployment.Current.Dispatcher.BeginInvoke((Action)(() =>
    {
        // resets the BitmapImage to the new frame
        BitmapImage.SetSource(new MemoryStream(frameBuffer, 0, frameBuffer.Length));

        // tell whoever's listening that we have a frame to draw
        if(FrameReady != null)
            FrameReady(this, new FrameReadyEventArgs { FrameBuffer = CurrentFrame, BitmapImage = BitmapImage });
    }));
#endif

#if !SILVERLIGHT && !XNA
    // I assume if there's an Application.Current then we're in WPF, not WinForms
    if(Application.Current != null)
    {
        // get it on the UI thread
        Application.Current.Dispatcher.BeginInvoke((Action)(() =>
        {
            // create a new BitmapImage from the JPEG bytes
            BitmapImage = new BitmapImage();
            BitmapImage.BeginInit();
            BitmapImage.StreamSource = new MemoryStream(frameBuffer);
            BitmapImage.EndInit();

            // tell whoever's listening that we have a frame to draw
            if(FrameReady != null)
                FrameReady(this, new FrameReadyEventArgs { FrameBuffer = CurrentFrame, Bitmap = Bitmap, BitmapImage = BitmapImage });
        }));
    }
    else
    {
        // create a simple GDI+ happy Bitmap
        Bitmap = new Bitmap(new MemoryStream(frameBuffer));

        // tell whoever's listening that we have a frame to draw
        if(FrameReady != null)
            FrameReady(this, new FrameReadyEventArgs { FrameBuffer = CurrentFrame, Bitmap = Bitmap, BitmapImage = BitmapImage });
    }
#endif
}
 

In the case of Silverlight, the BitmapImage object has a SetSource method which takes a stream to be decoded and turned into the image.  In WPF, BitmapImage works differently.  In this case, BeginInit is called, then the StreamSource property is set to the stream of bytes, and finally EndInit is called.  In WinForms, the library will return a Bitmap object which can be initialized with the stream right in the constructor.

In the code above, I look at the Application.Current property to determine if the library is being used by a WPF project.  If that property is not null, it is assumed the library is being called from a WPF project.

When compiled as an XNA library, we have no use for a BitmapImage or a Bitmap…we need a Texture2D object.  The GetMjpegFrame method seen below is what is called by an XNA application during the Update method to pull the current frame:

public Texture2D GetMjpegFrame(GraphicsDevice graphicsDevice)
{
    // create a Texture2D from the current byte buffer
    if(CurrentFrame != null)
        return Texture2D.FromStream(graphicsDevice, new MemoryStream(CurrentFrame, 0, CurrentFrame.Length));
    return null;
}

Conclusion

And that's about it for the library.  Give it a try and please contact me with feedback or if you run into any issues.  Enjoy!

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/articles/MJPEG-Decoder Last year the Coding4Fun/Channel 9 guys asked me to work on a few things for MIX10.  One of these items was a way to output a webcam stream to Windows Phone 7 for use with Clint's t-shirt cannon project you may have read about.  I figured the easiest way to accomplish this was by using a network/IP camera capable of sending a Motion-JPEG stream, which can be easily decoded and displayed that can display a JPEG image.  Thus, this library was born. It has gone through quite a few changes and I have expanded it to easily display MJPEG streams on a variety of platforms.  The developer just references the assembly appropriate to their platform, adds a few lines of code, and away it goes. UsageFor those that are just interested in the usage, it's as simple as this: Reference one of the following assemblies appropriate for your project: MjpegProcessorSL.dll - Silverlight (Out of Browser Only!) MjpegProcessorWP7.dll - Windows Phone 7 (XNA or Silverlight, performance maxes out around 320x240 @ 15fps, so set your camera settings accordingly) MjpegProcessorXna4.dll - XNA 4.0 (Windows) MjpegProcessor.dll - WinForms and WPF Create a new MjpegDecoder object. Hook up the FrameReady event. In the event handler, take the Bitmap/BitmapImage and assign it to your image display control: In the case of XNA, use the GetMjpegFrame method in the Update method, which will return a Texture2D you can use in your Draw method. Call the ParseStream method with the Uri of the MJPEG "endpoint". That's it!  The source code and binaries above both include projects demonstrating how to use the library on each of these platforms.  As long as you set the appropriate reference, you can just copy and paste the code in the sample to get your project running (changing the Uri, of course). public partial class MainWindow : Window { MjpegDecoder _mjpeg; public MainWindow() { InitializeComponent(); _mjpeg = new MjpegDecoder(); _mjpe http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/articles/MJPEG-Decoder Thu, 10 Feb 2011 05:15:49 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/articles/MJPEG-Decoder Brian Peek Brian Peek 28 http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/articles/MJPEG-Decoder/RSS .NET .NET Framework Hardware Silverlight 4 Windows Forms WPF XNA XNA framework Silverlight TV 57: Performance Tuning Your Apps Application performance is a hot topic, and for good reason. User Experience is hugely important, but if your app is slow then everything degrades, including UX. In this episode, John talks to the Silverlight team's Mike Cook who shares several techniques that help tune Silverlight applications. With performance, it's all about knowing what tools to use and how to use them. Mike covers these topics and focuses on:

  • CPU Profiling in Visual Studio 2010
  • Memory Analysis
    o VMMap - 30,000 ft view of app memory
    o WinDbg + SOS Debug Extension - Managed memory analysis
    o XPerf Heap Instrumentation - Native memory analysis

You can find all of the links for the tools and information on how to use them in the relevant links listed below.

Relevant links:

Follow us on Twitter @SilverlightTV or on the web at http://silverlight.tv

 

 

 

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-57-Performance-Tuning-Your-Apps Application performance is a hot topic, and for good reason. User Experience is hugely important, but if your app is slow then everything degrades, including UX. In this episode, John talks to the Silverlight team's Mike Cook who shares several techniques that help tune Silverlight applications. With performance, it's all about knowing what tools to use and how to use them. Mike covers these topics and focuses on: CPU Profiling in Visual Studio 2010 Memory Analysiso VMMap - 30,000 ft view of app memoryo WinDbg + SOS Debug Extension - Managed memory analysiso XPerf Heap Instrumentation - Native memory analysis You can find all of the links for the tools and information on how to use them in the relevant links listed below. Relevant links: John's blog and on Twitter (@john_papa) Silverlight Performance Blog Silverlight Performance ForumVisual Studio Profiler Blog VMMapWinDbg SOS Xperf (Windows Performance Toolkit)Follow us on Twitter @SilverlightTV or on the web at http://silverlight.tv       1634 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-57-Performance-Tuning-Your-Apps Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:00:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-57-Performance-Tuning-Your-Apps John Papa John Papa 8 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-57-Performance-Tuning-Your-Apps/RSS Performance Silverlight 4 Silverlight TV 54: New Silverlight Training Series This week on Silverlight TV, John introduces a brand-new Silverlight Training Series first announced at the Silverlight Firestarter. Created by John Papa and Silverlight MVPs Corey Schuman and Dan Wahlin, this eleven lab series includes hands-on labs and video walk-throughs by Corey and Dan, as well as:

  • Lab source code in both VB and C#
  • Step by step lab documents
  • Offline kit containing all 11 labs, lab documents, source code, and links to videos
  • Videos with Dan, Corey, and John walking through the labs and offering tips

Relevant links:

Follow us on Twitter @SilverlightTV or on the web at http://silverlight.tv

 

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-54-New-Silverlight-Training-Series This week on Silverlight TV, John introduces a brand-new Silverlight Training Series first announced at the Silverlight Firestarter. Created by John Papa and Silverlight MVPs Corey Schuman and Dan Wahlin, this eleven lab series includes hands-on labs and video walk-throughs by Corey and Dan, as well as: Lab source code in both VB and C# Step by step lab documents Offline kit containing all 11 labs, lab documents, source code, and links to videos Videos with Dan, Corey, and John walking through the labs and offering tips Relevant links: John's blog and on Twitter (@john_papa) Corey's blog and on Twitter (@cschuman) Dan's blog and on Twitter (@danwahlin) Follow us on Twitter @SilverlightTV or on the web at http://silverlight.tv   456 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-54-New-Silverlight-Training-Series Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:00:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-54-New-Silverlight-Training-Series John Papa John Papa 11 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-54-New-Silverlight-Training-Series/RSS Corey Schuman Dan Wahlin Silverlight 4 Silverlight FireStarter MSDN Radio: Evangelism at Microsoft with Mark Hindsbo This week we sit down with Mark Hindsbo, Vice President of Developer and Platform Evangelism (DPE) for Microsoft US. Tune in to hear about Mark's passion for developers and how Microsoft is nurturing the developer ecosystem. Mark will also talk about his plans for helping developers build great software with Microsoft Silverlight, Windows Phone, Internet Explorer 9 and HTML5, and Windows Azure. This show is hosted by Mithun Dhar and Mike Benkovich.

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. Register today at and have a chance to call-in and talk with the experts on the air, or just tune in to the show. For previous and upcoming shows visit www.MSDNRadio.com.

Guest: Mark Hindsbo, Vice President, Developer & Platform Evangelism, Microsoft Corporation

Mark Hindsbo is the Vice President of Microsoft’s Developer & Platform Evangelism Group (DPE) in the US, and a member of the North American Leadership team. DPE is responsible for driving excitement and adoption of Microsoft technologies, with developers and other technical communities. Mark and his team works with customers and partners, throughout the United States, to build the next generation of software solutions.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/MSDN-Radio-Evangelism-at-Microsoft-with-Mark-Hindsbo This week we sit down with Mark Hindsbo, Vice President of Developer and Platform Evangelism (DPE) for Microsoft US. Tune in to hear about Mark's passion for developers and how Microsoft is nurturing the developer ecosystem. Mark will also talk about his plans for helping developers build great software with Microsoft Silverlight, Windows Phone, Internet Explorer 9 and HTML5, and Windows Azure. This show is hosted by Mithun Dhar and Mike Benkovich.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. Register today at and have a chance to call-in and talk with the experts on the air, or just tune in to the show. For previous and upcoming shows visit www.MSDNRadio.com.Guest: Mark Hindsbo, Vice President, Developer & Platform Evangelism, Microsoft CorporationMark Hindsbo is the Vice President of Microsoft’s Developer & Platform Evangelism Group (DPE) in the US, and a member of the North American Leadership team. DPE is responsible for driving excitement and adoption of Microsoft technologies, with developers and other technical communities. Mark and his team works with customers and partners, throughout the United States, to build the next generation of software solutions. 2060 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/MSDN-Radio-Evangelism-at-Microsoft-with-Mark-Hindsbo Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:08:48 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/MSDN-Radio-Evangelism-at-Microsoft-with-Mark-Hindsbo MSDN Online Media MSDN Online Media 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/MSDN-Radio-Evangelism-at-Microsoft-with-Mark-Hindsbo/rss Azure DPEField HTML 5 HTML5 IE9 Mike Benkovich Mithun Dhar MSDNRadio Silverlight 4 talk-radio Windows Phone 7 WP7 DPE Silverlight TV 53: T Minus 2 Weeks to the Silverlight Firestarter Only two weeks remain until the Silverlight Firestarter.

In this video, John and Scott Guthrie discuss the upcoming Silverlight Firestarter and what the folks watching it online and in person should expect to see and hear. The event kicks off with a keynote presented by Scott and the session agenda takes the audience on journey, showing how to develop business applications in Silverlight.

Relevant links:

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-53-T-Minus-2-Weeks-to-the-Silverlight-Firestarter Only two weeks remain until the Silverlight Firestarter. In this video, John and Scott Guthrie discuss the upcoming Silverlight Firestarter and what the folks watching it online and in person should expect to see and hear. The event kicks off with a keynote presented by Scott and the session agenda takes the audience on journey, showing how to develop business applications in Silverlight. Relevant links: John's blog and on Twitter (@john_papa) Scott's blog and on Twitter (@scottgu) Follow us on Twitter @SilverlightTV or on the web at http://silverlight.tv Register now for the Silverlight Firestarter, Dec 2, 2010!   344 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-53-T-Minus-2-Weeks-to-the-Silverlight-Firestarter Thu, 18 Nov 2010 08:45:39 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-53-T-Minus-2-Weeks-to-the-Silverlight-Firestarter John Papa John Papa 13 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-53-T-Minus-2-Weeks-to-the-Silverlight-Firestarter/RSS Scott Guthrie Silverlight 4 Silverlight FireStarter SilverLight 4.0 Silverlight TV 52: Entity Level Validation, Defining MetaData and Nested ComboBoxes with WCF RIA Services In this video, John sits down with Kyle McClellan of the WCF RIA Services team and responds to top questions from the RIA Services forums. Kyle runs through various scenarios and provides great guidance on how to identify and solve these issues. Here are some of the topics he covers:

  • How do I investigate exceptions thrown from my DomainContext?
  • How do I add a ComboBox to a DataGrid or DataForm?
  • How do I change the default metadata on an Entity when using the LinqToEntitiesDomainService?
  • How do I add cross-field validation to an Entity?

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-52-Entity-Level-Validation-Defining-MetaData-and-Nested-ComboBoxes-with-WCF-RIA-Servi In this video, John sits down with Kyle McClellan of the WCF RIA Services team and responds to top questions from the RIA Services forums. Kyle runs through various scenarios and provides great guidance on how to identify and solve these issues. Here are some of the topics he covers: How do I investigate exceptions thrown from my DomainContext? How do I add a ComboBox to a DataGrid or DataForm? How do I change the default metadata on an Entity when using the LinqToEntitiesDomainService? How do I add cross-field validation to an Entity? Relevant links: John's blog and on Twitter (@john_papa) Kyle's blog and on Twitter (@KyleMcClellan) More about RIA Services  RIA Services Forums Follow us on Twitter @SilverlightTV or on the web at http://silverlight.tv Register now for the Silverlight Firestarter, Dec 2, 2010!   1267 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-52-Entity-Level-Validation-Defining-MetaData-and-Nested-ComboBoxes-with-WCF-RIA-Servi Fri, 12 Nov 2010 23:20:16 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-52-Entity-Level-Validation-Defining-MetaData-and-Nested-ComboBoxes-with-WCF-RIA-Servi John Papa John Papa 15 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-52-Entity-Level-Validation-Defining-MetaData-and-Nested-ComboBoxes-with-WCF-RIA-Servi/RSS Silverlight 4 WCF RIA Services Silverlight TV 51: Debugging and Deploying WCF RIA Services In this video, John sits down with Saurabh Pant of the WCF RIA Services team and responds to some of the most common issues customers encounter when deploying WCF RIA Services. Saurabh runs through various scenarios and provides great guidance on how to identify and solve these issues. Here are some of the topics he covers:

  • Deploying to IIS
  • The important role of the web.config file
  • Debugging various deployment scenarios
  • Browsing to the svc file to check various issues

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-51-Debugging-and-Deploying-WCF-RIA-Services In this video, John sits down with Saurabh Pant of the WCF RIA Services team and responds to some of the most common issues customers encounter when deploying WCF RIA Services. Saurabh runs through various scenarios and provides great guidance on how to identify and solve these issues. Here are some of the topics he covers: Deploying to IIS The important role of the web.config file Debugging various deployment scenarios Browsing to the svc file to check various issues Relevant links: John's blog and on Twitter (@john_papa) More about RIA Services  RIA Services Forums Follow us on Twitter @SilverlightTV or on the web at http://silverlight.tv Register now for the Silverlight Firestarter, Dec 2, 2010!   1156 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-51-Debugging-and-Deploying-WCF-RIA-Services Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:58:39 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-51-Debugging-and-Deploying-WCF-RIA-Services John Papa John Papa 18 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-51-Debugging-and-Deploying-WCF-RIA-Services/RSS Silverlight 4 WCF RIA Services MSDN Radio: Exploring the Possible post PDC10 Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference (PDC) is where the biggest platform announcements are made and information about developer trends and targets for tools, solutions, and technologies is released. Last year Windows Phone, Microsoft Silverlight 4, and Azure were just a few of the highlights. Join us as we talk with Microsoft’s experts and take a look at this year’s conference and what new things developers need to know about. This show is hosted by Mike Benkovich and Mithun Dhar.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/MSDN-Radio-Exploring-the-Possible-post-PDC10 Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference (PDC) is where the biggest platform announcements are made and information about developer trends and targets for tools, solutions, and technologies is released. Last year Windows Phone, Microsoft Silverlight 4, and Azure were just a few of the highlights. Join us as we talk with Microsoft’s experts and take a look at this year’s conference and what new things developers need to know about. This show is hosted by Mike Benkovich and Mithun Dhar.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. Visit www.MSDNRadio.com for previous and upcoming shows.Guest: Brian Prince, Senior Architect Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation 1801 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/MSDN-Radio-Exploring-the-Possible-post-PDC10 Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:14:13 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/MSDN-Radio-Exploring-the-Possible-post-PDC10 MSDN Online Media MSDN Online Media 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/MSDN-Radio-Exploring-the-Possible-post-PDC10/rss Brian Prince Cloud Mike Benkovich Mithun Dhar MSDNRadio PDC10 PDC 2010 Silverlight 4 Windows Azure Windows Phone 7 Kung Fu Silverlight at PDC 2010: Patterns and Practices with MVVM and RIA Services There are tons of great videos available for you to peruse from PDC10, so instead of adding to the confusion we decided to have SIlverlight TV take a break for a week andinstead give you a chance ot catch up on some great videos. There are some great choices to look on Silvelright, WPF, and Windows Phone 7 including Patterns and Practices with MVVM and RIA Services. Don't forget to vote for your favorites using the PDC player.

Enjoy the great content and we'll see you next week!

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Kung-Fu-Silverlight-at-PDC-2010-Patterns-and-Practices-with-MVVM-and-RIA-Services There are tons of great videos available for you to peruse from PDC10, so instead of adding to the confusion we decided to have SIlverlight TV take a break for a week andinstead give you a chance ot catch up on some great videos. There are some great choices to look on Silvelright, WPF, and Windows Phone 7 including Patterns and Practices with MVVM and RIA Services. Don't forget to vote for your favorites using the PDC player. Enjoy the great content and we'll see you next week! http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Kung-Fu-Silverlight-at-PDC-2010-Patterns-and-Practices-with-MVVM-and-RIA-Services Sun, 31 Oct 2010 05:19:12 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Kung-Fu-Silverlight-at-PDC-2010-Patterns-and-Practices-with-MVVM-and-RIA-Services John Papa John Papa 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Kung-Fu-Silverlight-at-PDC-2010-Patterns-and-Practices-with-MVVM-and-RIA-Services/rss MVVM Silverlight 4 WCF RIA Services Silverlight TV 50: The State of Silverlight with Scott Guthrie John sits down with Scott Guthrie, Corporate VP at Microsoft, to discuss the state of Silverlight. Scott discusses the impact of Silverlight in applications including Windows Phone 7, the history of releases, and what his favorite features are with Silverlight and Windows Phone 7. Scott talks about how Windows Phone and Silverlight together focus on optimizations such as using the GPU and using the off thread capabilities and he gives some advice for building applications with Silverlight and Windows Phone. You can catch more of Scott at PDC on Oct 28/29 and also at the keynote of the Silverlight Firestarter on Dec 2.

Also, let's all congratulate Scott and his family on the new addition to his family!

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-50-The-State-of-Silverlight-with-Scott-Guthrie John sits down with Scott Guthrie, Corporate VP at Microsoft, to discuss the state of Silverlight. Scott discusses the impact of Silverlight in applications including Windows Phone 7, the history of releases, and what his favorite features are with Silverlight and Windows Phone 7. Scott talks about how Windows Phone and Silverlight together focus on optimizations such as using the GPU and using the off thread capabilities and he gives some advice for building applications with Silverlight and Windows Phone. You can catch more of Scott at PDC on Oct 28/29 and also at the keynote of the Silverlight Firestarter on Dec 2. Also, let's all congratulate Scott and his family on the new addition to his family! Relevant links: John's blog and on Twitter (@john_papa) Scott's blog and on Twitter (@scottgu) Follow us on Twitter @SilverlightTV or on the web at http://silverlight.tv Register now for the Silverlight Firestarter, Dec 2, 2010! http://jpapa.me/slfs10   1143 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-50-The-State-of-Silverlight-with-Scott-Guthrie Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:17:52 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-50-The-State-of-Silverlight-with-Scott-Guthrie John Papa John Papa 33 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-50-The-State-of-Silverlight-with-Scott-Guthrie/RSS FireStarter PDC10 PDC 2010 Scott Guthrie Silverlight 4 Silverlight FireStarter Windows Phone 7 Silverlight TV 49: Creating Rich Interactive Prototypes with Sketchflow - Part 2 Janete Perez rejoins Silverlight TV to complete her 2 part series on Sketchflow (you can watch Janete in Part 1 of her Sketchflow series here). up. This time Janete walks through the creation of a prototype that includes a workflow, navigation through the screens, interactive behaviors, and much more to create a social media application to share and communicate with her friends.

She covers several topics including these:

  • Creating a Sketchflow project for Windows Phone 7
  • Using behaviors
  • Creating navigation between screens
  • Creating a workflow 
  • Creating and using sample data 
  • Enabling user to provide feedback
  • Previewing transitions
  • Including visual states
  • Creating revisions of the prototype
  • Generating documentation

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-49-Creating-Rich-Interactive-Prototypes-with-Sketchflow-Part-2 Janete Perez rejoins Silverlight TV to complete her 2 part series on Sketchflow (you can watch Janete in Part 1 of her Sketchflow series here). up. This time Janete walks through the creation of a prototype that includes a workflow, navigation through the screens, interactive behaviors, and much more to create a social media application to share and communicate with her friends. She covers several topics including these: Creating a Sketchflow project for Windows Phone 7 Using behaviors Creating navigation between screens Creating a workflow  Creating and using sample data  Enabling user to provide feedback Previewing transitions Including visual states Creating revisions of the prototype Generating documentation Relevant links: John's blog and on Twitter (@john_papa) Janete's blog and on Twitter (@janetep) Expression product site Expression Community site Blend Team blog Toolbox site Follow us on Twitter @SilverlightTV or on the web at http://silverlight.tv Register now for the Silverlight Firestarter, Dec 2, 2010! 1757 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-49-Creating-Rich-Interactive-Prototypes-with-Sketchflow-Part-2 Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:00:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-49-Creating-Rich-Interactive-Prototypes-with-Sketchflow-Part-2 John Papa John Papa 18 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-49-Creating-Rich-Interactive-Prototypes-with-Sketchflow-Part-2/RSS Silverlight 4 SketchFlow Windows Phone 7 SIlverlight TV 47: Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Performance Tips Performance is always a critical topic in development, especially when it comes to a mobile device. Jeff Wilcox shares several performance tips and dives deep into how he made the ProgressBar perform even better. Jeff retemplated the ProgressBar control via a style and made it very simple to apply to all instance in a project. Jeff and John also discuss the roles of the compositor thread and the UI thread on Windows Phone 7 with Silverlight.

He covers several topics including these:

  • Flying pigs
  • 3 steps to apply the ProgressBar performance enhancements
  • UI thread and the Compositor thread
  • Cross thread issues
  • Styling the progress bar
  • Converters

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/SIlverlight-TV-47-Silverlight-and-Windows-Phone-7-Performance-Tips Performance is always a critical topic in development, especially when it comes to a mobile device. Jeff Wilcox shares several performance tips and dives deep into how he made the ProgressBar perform even better. Jeff retemplated the ProgressBar control via a style and made it very simple to apply to all instance in a project. Jeff and John also discuss the roles of the compositor thread and the UI thread on Windows Phone 7 with Silverlight. He covers several topics including these: Flying pigs 3 steps to apply the ProgressBar performance enhancements UI thread and the Compositor thread Cross thread issues Styling the progress bar Converters Relevant links: John's blog and on Twitter (@john_papa)Jeff's PerformanceProgressBar codeJeff's blog and on Twitter(@JeffWilcox)Jeff's Windows Phone 7 Tips John's Windows Phone 7 book Follow us on Twitter @SilverlightTV or on the web athttp://silverlight.tv  772 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/SIlverlight-TV-47-Silverlight-and-Windows-Phone-7-Performance-Tips Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:00:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/SIlverlight-TV-47-Silverlight-and-Windows-Phone-7-Performance-Tips John Papa John Papa 5 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/SIlverlight-TV-47-Silverlight-and-Windows-Phone-7-Performance-Tips/RSS Silverlight 4 Windows Phone 7 Silverlight TV 46: What's Wrong with my WCF Service? WCF is an integral part of the communication stack for Silverlight applications, but sometimes things go wrong, very wrong. How do you fix those issues. In this episode of Silverlight TV, Yavor Georgiev from the WCF and Silverlight team shows you how to identfy the problems with your WCF services and how to fix them. He covers several topics including these:

  • Setting up your service
  • Debugging issues with "add service reference"
  • Handling Faults: How to get exceptions propogated from the sderver to Silverlight
  • How to use Fiddler to use with WCF
  • Using the new relative address feature in Silverlight 4

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-46-Whats-Wrong-with-my-WCF-Service WCF is an integral part of the communication stack for Silverlight applications, but sometimes things go wrong, very wrong. How do you fix those issues. In this episode of Silverlight TV, Yavor Georgiev from the WCF and Silverlight team shows you how to identfy the problems with your WCF services and how to fix them. He covers several topics including these: Setting up your service Debugging issues with "add service reference" Handling Faults: How to get exceptions propogated from the sderver to SilverlightHow to use Fiddler to use with WCF Using the new relative address feature in Silverlight 4 Relevant links: John's blog and on Twitter (@john_papa)The Silverlight Web Services team blogJohn's MSDN Magazine article on faults and SilverlightYavor's MIX talk on debuggingDebugging walkthroughMore details on faults http://www.fiddler2.com/ Fiddler extension for binary WCF Silverlight messagesFollow us on Twitter @SilverlightTV or on the web athttp://silverlight.tv  1549 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-46-Whats-Wrong-with-my-WCF-Service Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:01:35 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-46-Whats-Wrong-with-my-WCF-Service John Papa John Papa 19 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-46-Whats-Wrong-with-my-WCF-Service/RSS Debugging fiddler Silverlight 4 WCF Yavor Georgiev Silverlight TV 43: Applying Animations and States to Your Application On this episode, John Stockton demonstrates how to create animations for Silverlight using Storyboards in Expression Blend. He explores the roles that the storyboards, visual states, behaviors, keyframes, transforms, and easings play in animations. This is a great demonstration of how to add a realistic and natural feel to animations. 

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-43-Applying-Animations-and-States-to-Your-Application On this episode, John Stockton demonstrates how to create animations for Silverlight using Storyboards in Expression Blend. He explores the roles that the storyboards, visual states, behaviors, keyframes, transforms, and easings play in animations. This is a great demonstration of how to add a realistic and natural feel to animations.  Relevant links: John's blog and on Twitter (@john_papa) Follow us on Twitter @SilverlightTV or on the web at http://silverlight.tv/  Are you developing with Windows Phone 7? You can pre-order Learning Windows Phone Programming today, by Jaime Rodriguez, Yochay Kiriaty and John Papa! Or check out the book's web site. 1686 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-43-Applying-Animations-and-States-to-Your-Application Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:00:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-43-Applying-Animations-and-States-to-Your-Application John Papa John Papa 6 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-43-Applying-Animations-and-States-to-Your-Application/RSS Animation Silveright Silverlight Silverlight 4 Storyboards Bytes by MSDN: Scott Guthrie and Tim Huckaby discuss new Silverlight 4 features & .NET 4

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About Scott

Scott Guthrie is corporate vice president of Microsoft's .NET Developer Platform, where he runs the development teams responsible for delivering Microsoft Visual Studio developer tools and Microsoft .NET Framework technologies for building client and Web applications.

A founding member of the .NET project, Guthrie has played a key role in the design and development of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework since 1999. Guthrie is also responsible for Microsoft's Web server platform and development tools teams. He has also more recently driven the development of Silverlight—a cross browser, cross platform plug-in for delivering next generation media experiences and rich Internet applications for the Web.

Today, Guthrie directly manages the development teams that build the Common Language Runtime (CLR), ASP.NET, Silverlight, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), IIS, Commerce Server, and the Visual Studio Tools for Web, Client, and Silverlight development.

Guthrie graduated with a degree in computer science from Duke University.

Stuff Scott recommends you check out

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Bytes+by+MSDN/Bytes-by-MSDN-Scott-Guthrie-and-Tim-Huckaby-discuss-New-Silverlight-4-Features--NET-4 Heard the latest announcements at PDC 09? Tune in with Scott Guthrie as he gives Tim Huckaby an overview of the exciting new features now available in Silverlight 4 and the .NET Framework 4.Click here for Visual Studio DownloadsAbout ScottScott Guthrie is corporate vice president of Microsoft's .NET Developer Platform, where he runs the development teams responsible for delivering Microsoft Visual Studio developer tools and Microsoft .NET Framework technologies for building client and Web applications. A founding member of the .NET project, Guthrie has played a key role in the design and development of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework since 1999. Guthrie is also responsible for Microsoft's Web server platform and development tools teams. He has also more recently driven the development of Silverlight—a cross browser, cross platform plug-in for delivering next generation media experiences and rich Internet applications for the Web. Today, Guthrie directly manages the development teams that build the Common Language Runtime (CLR), ASP.NET, Silverlight, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), IIS, Commerce Server, and the Visual Studio Tools for Web, Client, and Silverlight development. Guthrie graduated with a degree in computer science from Duke University.Stuff Scott recommends you check out Scott Guthrie's blog Follow Scott Guthrie on Twitter: twitter.com/scottgu Listen in on Scott Guthrie's keynote at PDC Download Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2! CLR INSIDE OUT - Exploring the .NET Framework 4 Security Model Silverlight 4 Beta 2 Announcement Download Silverlight 4 SDK Beta! Get ahead: Channel 9 - Silverlight 4 training course Silverlight Blogs 434 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Bytes+by+MSDN/Bytes-by-MSDN-Scott-Guthrie-and-Tim-Huckaby-discuss-New-Silverlight-4-Features--NET-4 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:03:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Bytes+by+MSDN/Bytes-by-MSDN-Scott-Guthrie-and-Tim-Huckaby-discuss-New-Silverlight-4-Features--NET-4 Bytes by MSDN Bytes by MSDN 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Bytes+by+MSDN/Bytes-by-MSDN-Scott-Guthrie-and-Tim-Huckaby-discuss-New-Silverlight-4-Features--NET-4/RSS .NET 4.0 .NET Framework 4.0 Bytes by MSDN Silverlight 4 Bytes by MSDN: Brad Abrams and Billy Hollis discuss Silverlight 4
About Brad

Brad Abrams was a founding member of both the Common Language Runtime, and .NET Framework teams at Microsoft Corporation where he is currently the Product Unit Manager of the Application Framework team which is responsible for delivering the developer platform that powers Rich Internet Applications and core innovations in the .NET Framework. Specific technologies owned by this team include parts of Silverlight, the Managed Extensibility Framework.

Brad has been designing parts of the .NET Framework since 1998 when he started his framework design career building the BCL (Base Class Library).  Brad was also the lead editor on the Common Language Specification (CLS), the .NET Framework Design Guidelines, and the libraries in the ECMA\ISO CLI Standard.

Brad co-authored Programming in the .NET Environment, and was editor on .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference, Volume 1 and Volume 2 and the Framework Design Guidelines.

Brad graduated from North Carolina State University in 1997 with a BS in Computer Science. Find recent musings from Brad on his blog.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Bytes+by+MSDN/Bytes-by-MSDN-Brad-Abrams-and-Billy-Hollis-discuss-Silverlight-4 Tune in with Brad Abrams and Billy Hollis as they discuss the latest Silverlight 4 release and the exciting new features and functionalities now available.About Brad Brad Abrams was a founding member of both the Common Language Runtime, and .NET Framework teams at Microsoft Corporation where he is currently the Product Unit Manager of the Application Framework team which is responsible for delivering the developer platform that powers Rich Internet Applications and core innovations in the .NET Framework. Specific technologies owned by this team include parts of Silverlight, the Managed Extensibility Framework. Brad has been designing parts of the .NET Framework since 1998 when he started his framework design career building the BCL (Base Class Library).  Brad was also the lead editor on the Common Language Specification (CLS), the .NET Framework Design Guidelines, and the libraries in the ECMA\ISO CLI Standard. Brad co-authored Programming in the .NET Environment, and was editor on .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference, Volume 1 and Volume 2 and the Framework Design Guidelines. Brad graduated from North Carolina State University in 1997 with a BS in Computer Science. Find recent musings from Brad on his blog.Stuff Brad recommends you check out Brad Abrams' blog Brad Abrams' book Brad Abrams' session at PDC: "Building Amazing Business Applications with Microsoft Silverlight and Microsoft .NET RIA Services" Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Silverlight 4 Beta (now includes RIA Services) 304 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Bytes+by+MSDN/Bytes-by-MSDN-Brad-Abrams-and-Billy-Hollis-discuss-Silverlight-4 Sat, 28 Aug 2010 10:36:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Bytes+by+MSDN/Bytes-by-MSDN-Brad-Abrams-and-Billy-Hollis-discuss-Silverlight-4 Bytes by MSDN Bytes by MSDN 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Bytes+by+MSDN/Bytes-by-MSDN-Brad-Abrams-and-Billy-Hollis-discuss-Silverlight-4/RSS Bytes by MSDN Silverlight 4 Silverlight TV 42: Apply and Customize the New Silverlight Themes Tsitsi Gora, UX Designer at Microsoft, appears on the show to announce the new Silverlight themes that her team has been working on. Tsitsi demonstrates the new themes available for download and explains the scenarios they had in mind when they created the themes. The new themes include:

  • Jet Pack
  • Cosmopolitan
  • Windows 7
  • AccentColor

She also takes a deep look at the cosmopolitan theme and shows how you can customize it, if need be. Tsitsi wraps up by demonstrating some tips you can use to maintain design consistency in your application, including how to apply a simple behavior to your TextBox and content presenters. Tsitsi drops a ton of great design tips throughout this episode—you don't want to miss it.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-42-Apply-and-Customize-the-New-Silverlight-Themes Tsitsi Gora, UX Designer at Microsoft, appears on the show to announce the new Silverlight themes that her team has been working on. Tsitsi demonstrates the new themes available for download and explains the scenarios they had in mind when they created the themes. The new themes include: Jet Pack Cosmopolitan Windows 7 AccentColor She also takes a deep look at the cosmopolitan theme and shows how you can customize it, if need be. Tsitsi wraps up by demonstrating some tips you can use to maintain design consistency in your application, including how to apply a simple behavior to your TextBox and content presenters. Tsitsi drops a ton of great design tips throughout this episode—you don't want to miss it.Relevant links: John's blog and on Twitter (@john_papa) Tsitsi's blog post Follow us on Twitter @SilverlightTV or on the web at http://silverlight.tv   Are you developing with Windows Phone 7? You can pre-order Learning Windows Phone Programming, by Jaime Rodriguez, Yochay Kiriaty, and John Papa, today! Or, check out the book's web site. 1168 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-42-Apply-and-Customize-the-New-Silverlight-Themes Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:48:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-42-Apply-and-Customize-the-New-Silverlight-Themes John Papa John Papa 13 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-42-Apply-and-Customize-the-New-Silverlight-Themes/RSS Design Silveright Silverlight Silverlight 4 Themes Tsitsi Gora Silverlight TV 41: Top Tips for WCF RIA Services
  1. Entity Framework
  2. LINQ to SQL
  3. nHibernate
  4. Your own custom business objects
Other topics Dinesh walks step-by-step through include:
  • hooking RIA Services up to your own POCO classes
  • adding role-based authorization
  • how to determine what objects will be exposed by RIA Services to the client
  • adding validation
  • identifying keys and associations for entities
  • indicating when to return object graphs
  • how to use the Composite attribute to bundle objects graphs
This is a great deep dive by one of the masterminds behind WCF RIA Services.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-41-Top-Tips-for-WCF-RIA-Services On this episode, Dinesh Kulkarni shares his top tips for creating streamlined and performant WCF RIA Services applications. He walks through some key decision points while creating domain services (server side) for a Silverlight and RIA Services application. Among the tips Dinesh discusses are some of the benefits of creating the minimal number of entities, operations, and amount of data required for your application. He also discusses how to connect RIA Services to: Entity Framework LINQ to SQL nHibernate Your own custom business objects Other topics Dinesh walks step-by-step through include: hooking RIA Services up to your own POCO classes adding role-based authorization how to determine what objects will be exposed by RIA Services to the client adding validation identifying keys and associations for entities indicating when to return object graphs how to use the Composite attribute to bundle objects graphs This is a great deep dive by one of the masterminds behind WCF RIA Services.Relevant links: John's blog and on Twitter (@john_papa) Nhibernate and RIA Services sample  PDC 2009 talk using same nhibernate sample: Mastering WCF RIA Services Dinesh's blog and on Twitter (@di_Ku) Follow us on Twitter @SilverlightTV or on the web at http://silverlight.tv  Are you developing with Windows Phone 7? You can pre-order Learning Windows Phone Programming today, by Jaime Rodriguez, Yochay Kiriaty and John Papa! Or check out the book's web site. 1780 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-41-Top-Tips-for-WCF-RIA-Services Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:00:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-41-Top-Tips-for-WCF-RIA-Services John Papa John Papa 8 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-41-Top-Tips-for-WCF-RIA-Services/RSS Dinesh Kulkarni Silverlight Silverlight 4 WCF RIA Services Windows Phone 7 Jump Start (Session 12 of 19): Working with Media This session covers using media in your Windows Phone 7 applications and games. Topics include media in XNA overview, displaying pictures, and playing music.

The Windows Phone 7 Jump Start video training is for all developers interested in developing applications or games for the new Windows Phone 7 Platform. The ~14 ½ hour course is based on the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Developer Training Kit and taught by Microsoft MVP's and Microsoft Press Authors, Andy Wigley and Rob S. Miles. The Designing for Windows Phone 7 session is taught my Microsoft Design experts, Jon Harris and Bryan Agnetta.  The training is wrapped up with an audio podcast with a panel of Microsoft experts answering the questions posed throughout the training.

Watch these entertaining sessions and complete the labs found on Channel 9 (http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/WP7TrainingKit/) to gain development skills using both Microsoft XNA and Microsoft Silverlight.

For copies of the student files and links to demo code, you can go to the Windows Phone 7 Born To Learn Forum (http://borntolearn.mslearn.net/wp7/m/default.aspx).

Updated! Session 1: Introduction
Session 2: Building a Silverlight Application, Part 1
Session 3: Building a Silverlight Application, Part 2
Updated! Session 4: The Application Bar
Session 5: Building XNA Games for the Windows Phone 7 Platform, Part 1
Session 6: Building XNA Games for the Windows Phone 7 Platform, Part 2
Updated! Session 7: Isolation Storage
Updated! Session 8: The Application Lifecycle
Updated! Session 9: Launchers and Choosers
Updated! Session 10: Push Notifications
Session 11: Marketing your Windows Phone Applications
Session 12: Working with Media

New Sessions:
Session 13: Panorama and Pivots
Session 14: XNA Deep Dive, Part 1
Session 15: XNA Deep Dive, Part 2
Session 16: Location and Bing Maps
Session 17: Optimizing for Performance
Session 18: Designing Apps Using Expression Blend & Metro
Session 19: Ask the Experts podcast

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/egibson/Windows-Phone-7-Jump-Start-Session-12-of-12-Final-Silverlight-Topics-and-Wrap-Up This session covers using media in your Windows Phone 7 applications and games. Topics include media in XNA overview, displaying pictures, and playing music. The Windows Phone 7 Jump Start video training is for all developers interested in developing applications or games for the new Windows Phone 7 Platform. The ~14 ½ hour course is based on the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Developer Training Kit and taught by Microsoft MVP's and Microsoft Press Authors, Andy Wigley and Rob S. Miles. The Designing for Windows Phone 7 session is taught my Microsoft Design experts, Jon Harris and Bryan Agnetta.  The training is wrapped up with an audio podcast with a panel of Microsoft experts answering the questions posed throughout the training. Watch these entertaining sessions and complete the labs found on Channel 9 (http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/WP7TrainingKit/) to gain development skills using both Microsoft XNA and Microsoft Silverlight. For copies of the student files and links to demo code, you can go to the Windows Phone 7 Born To Learn Forum (http://borntolearn.mslearn.net/wp7/m/default.aspx).Updated! Session 1: IntroductionSession 2: Building a Silverlight Application, Part 1Session 3: Building a Silverlight Application, Part 2Updated! Session 4: The Application BarSession 5: Building XNA Games for the Windows Phone 7 Platform, Part 1Session 6: Building XNA Games for the Windows Phone 7 Platform, Part 2Updated! Session 7: Isolation StorageUpdated! Session 8: The Application LifecycleUpdated! Session 9: Launchers and ChoosersUpdated! Session 10: Push NotificationsSession 11: Marketing your Windows Phone ApplicationsSession 12: Working with MediaNew Sessions:Session 13: Panorama and PivotsSession 14: XNA Deep Dive, Part 1Session 15: XNA Deep Dive, Part 2Session 16: Location and Bing MapsSession 17: Optimizing for PerformanceSession 18: Designing Apps Using Expression Blend & MetroSession 19: Ask the Experts podcast 2197 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/egibson/Windows-Phone-7-Jump-Start-Session-12-of-12-Final-Silverlight-Topics-and-Wrap-Up Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:20:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/egibson/Windows-Phone-7-Jump-Start-Session-12-of-12-Final-Silverlight-Topics-and-Wrap-Up MSDN Online Media MSDN Online Media 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/egibson/Windows-Phone-7-Jump-Start-Session-12-of-12-Final-Silverlight-Topics-and-Wrap-Up/RSS Andy Wigley DPEField Rob Miles Silveright Silverlight Silverlight 4 Windows Mobile Windows Phone Windows Phone 7 Jump Start XNA XNA Framework XNA framework