Manuel Clement and others - Introducing Sparkle | scobleizer

TroyGoode

Those are clearly the coolest radio buttons ever.

Chadk
excuse me - do you has a flavor?

(I hope that the guys from the videos will see this question)

How does this work? Is it just like a designer, like the one in visual studio, that we do Windows forms in, but we just get the possibilty to draw some stuff?

Should developers get this tool?

Will we be able to add custom controls(Like custom buttons, or another control that we might want to do), and use them in the program?

One thing, that would be critical, in order for me to buy this cool program, is really that, JUST like in the visual studio designer, that you get this small "grids"(The small lines, that makes you able to place items at a specefic place, compared to other controls), when you resize/moves items.

How about the price? Will normal users, that is just hobbyist, be able to buy this?

Karim
Trapped in a world he never made!

Jobs: And then I want to see the 4th quarter figures for --

(Jobs bows his head, clutches his chest)

Igor: Is everything alright, master?

Jobs: I just sensed... someone using the phrase "Macintosh-style." Unleash the lawyers. Immediately.

Igor: Yes, master.

Larsenal
ready to give an answer

Very nice. A lot of the tools for doing visual tweaking seem to be thought out quite well.

Admittedly, this is a bit of topic, BUT after being wowed....

Will there be a programatic way to rasterize XAML and save as a PNG or JPEG? I'd love to be able to programatically do some XAML data binding to create say a graph or some other type of data visualization and then spit that out as a PNG on my web app.

UlsterFry
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Chadk wrote:

How does this work? Is it just like a designer, like the one in visual studio, that we do Windows forms in, but we just get the possibilty to draw some stuff?

To me it looks like MS's version of MM Flash, only it exports to XAML instead of swf.
Have to say, it looks very cool.

Scott Williams

I'm a little confused after seeing the video and the description. Is Sparkle going to be built into Expression, or a separate project? Will there be a version of Visual Studio with this built in? When will it be released?

Kosher

Yeah it totally reminds me of the good old days when we used to work with flash for the client ui and create asp pages that output XML.

Now we have this amazing designer tool, my designer friends are going nuts, and a great data store (WinFS)...

So many people pour their lives into their work and now we have the tools that not only let us express our true talents but the platform is huge!

Kudos to the team at MS for making a sick implementation of what so many envisioned but juts couldn't do.

This gave me some motivation to create an article on how to export Alias Maya models to direct (.x) files and use them in your avalon UI. Just wish I had the Sparkle editor so I could really crang out some results Smiley

Kosher,
ThomasGoddard.com

PeterH
Iomesus

Hmm, I got an error message, that's a first for a Channel 9 video:

C00D11BB: Cannot play the file

Windows Media Player cannot play the file because the specified protocol is either not supported by the Player or not supported by the server.

If you encountered this error by clicking a link on a Web page, the link might not be valid.

If you encountered this error by typing a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) in the Open URL dialog box, try opening the file by using a different transport protocol (for example, "http:" or "rtsp:").

A list of protocols that are supported by the Player and the correct syntax follows:

mms://server/filename (for example, a file with a .wma, .wmv, .asf, or .mp3 extension)
http://server/filename
rtsp://server/filename
mms://server/sami.asf?SAMI=http://server/sami/sami_demo.smi (SAMI file)

If Windows Media Player supports the protocol and you still cannot play the content, verify that the Player is configured to use all of its supported protocols.

To configure protocol settings

On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Network tab.
In the Streaming protocols area, select all the protocol check boxes.

Note Image Note

The supported protocols can be used only to stream digital media files. Windows Media Player cannot be used as a browser.

Error ID = 0xC00D11BB, Condition ID = 0x00000000

PatriotB

I watched the introduction video at http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/demos.aspx and, when they were showing Expression Web Designer, it was Frontpage! Is Frontpage being renamed/transitioned into Expression Web Designer? Or is EWD a plugin for Frontpage? Or something else...?