The Continuum Show

Silverlight Geek - An interview with Jesse Liberty

Adam Kinney — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:26:00 GMT

Jesse Liberty is the official Silverlight Geek. What does that mean? Why should you care? And what does he think about Expression Blend? In this interview Jesse attempts to answer those stories while remaining luminous.

WPF 4 Beta 1 Designer - Generating Master Detail Forms

Adam Kinney — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:05:00 GMT

UPDATE: there's a new WPF Designer video showing the features added to Beta 2 now available. Check it out and let us know what you think!

Mark Wilson-Thomas demonstrates how the new WPF and Silverlight Designer in Visual Studio 2010 enables rapid application development for business applications.

The WPF and Silverlight Designer in .NET Framework 4 Beta 1 has been through some major reconstruction. This is part 1 of a three part series. Check out part 2 covering Styling Improvements and part 3 discussing the future of the Designer.

And Mark would like you to know he is not a WPF Program Manager as the title video implies, rather he is a PM on the WPF and Silverlight Designer team in Visual Studio.

WPF 4 Beta 1 Designer - Styling Improvements

Adam Kinney — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:04:00 GMT

UPDATE: there's a new WPF Designer video showing the features added to Beta 2 now available. Check it out and let us know what you think!

Mark Wilson-Thomas demonstrates the new Styling and design features in the WPF and Silverlight Designer in Visual Studio 2010.

The WPF and Silverlight Designer in .NET Framework 4 Beta 1 has been through some major reconstruction. This is part 2 of a three part series. Check out part 1 covering Form Generation and part 3 discussing the future of the Designer.

And Mark would like you to know he is not a WPF Program Manager as the title video implies, rather he is a PM on the WPF and Silverlight Designer team in Visual Studio.

WPF 4 Beta 1 Designer – Looking Forward

Adam Kinney — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:03:00 GMT

UPDATE: there's a new WPF Designer video showing the features added to Beta 2 now available. Check it out and let us know what you think!

Mark Wilson-Thomas and Jaime Rodriguez discuss the current state and the future of the WPF and Silverlight Designer in Visual Studio 2010.

The WPF and Silverlight Designer in .NET Framework 4 Beta 1 has been through some major reconstruction. This is part 3 of a three part series. Check out part 1 covering Form Generation and part 2 covering Styling Improvements.

And Mark would like you to know he is not a WPF Program Manager as the title video implies, rather he is a PM on the WPF and Silverlight Designer team in Visual Studio.

Silverlight powered Photosynths for NASA

Adam Kinney — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:34:00 GMT

Supercomputers and robots with frickin' lasers! Laurence Moroney tells the tale of the creation of the NASA Photosynths of the International Space Station and the Mars Science Laboratory. And the best part is, even though you may not have supercomputers laying around the house, you can build your own Photosynth at Photosynth.net.

Deployment in .NET 4 Beta 1

Adam Kinney — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:08:00 GMT

Jossef Goldberg explains how the deployment of your client applications will be easier in .NET 4. The new Client Profile and improved Visual Studio feature integration are shown off as we walk through building a simple application and deploying it to a non-developer's computer. Form more information check out Jossef's blog on WPF Performance and the .NET Framework Client Profile.

A Motion Capture Viewer written in Silverlight

Adam Kinney — Fri, 29 May 2009 20:49:00 GMT

Nikola, previously on showing his Shock game, is back with a new interesting project, a Motion Capture Viewer written in Silverlight. Along with entertaining us with dancing stick figures, Nikola is also sharing the code, what he's learned and a primer on Motion Capture. Real 3D in action!

Multi-touch in WPF 4 Beta 1

Adam Kinney — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:51:00 GMT

Jaime Rodriguez sat down with Anson Tsao to discuss the new Multi-touch capabilities of WPF available in WPF 4 Beta 1. Multiple inputs are exposed through existing and new input events, along with new manipulation and inertia events.

For instructions on how to download and install Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 and WPF 4 Beta 1 check out this episode of 10-4.

Multi-touch .NET Library for Windows 7

Adam Kinney — Fri, 22 May 2009 17:54:00 GMT

Yochay Kiraity has been working with the team to create Managed Code APIs making it even easier for .NET developers to take advantage of new features in Windows 7. In this video, Yochay demonstrates the Multi-touch functionality built into Windows 7 and shows how to handle gestures.

- Download the Windows Touch: Developer Resources

This is Part 3 in a 3-Part Series covering the Managed Code APIs. Part 1 demonstrates the Sensor and Location Library and Part 2 demonstrates the Taskbar and Libraries Library.

- Download the Windows API Code Pack (for the other managed libraries)

Taskbar and Libraries .NET Library for Windows 7

Adam Kinney — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:34:00 GMT

Yochay Kiraity has been working with the team to create Managed Code APIs making it even easier for .NET developers to take advantage of new features in Windows 7. In this video, Yochay demonstrates the available Taskbar and Libraries functionality you can use to easily integrate your application with Windows.

This is Part 2 in a 3-Part Series covering the Managed Code APIs. Part 1 demonstrates the Sensor and Location Library and Part 3 demonstrates the Multi-touch Library.

Download the Windows API Code Pack

XAML in .NET 4

Adam Kinney — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:00:00 GMT

This isn't your Grandpa's XAML!

XAML in .NET 4 is much more than just a Reader and Writer and also is now being consumed by many technologies including Silverlight, WCF, WF and of course WPF. Rob Relyea and Mike Shim came by to talk about what's new in XAML for 2009 and beyond.

For instructions on how to download and install Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 check out this episode of 10-4.

An overview of WPF 4 Beta 1

Adam Kinney — Wed, 20 May 2009 18:11:00 GMT

Jaime Rodriguez sat down with Ian Ellison-Taylor and Kevin Gjerstad to talk about WPF 4 Beta 1. The topics they cover include graphics and text improvements, Windows 7 integration, how WPF relates to Silverlight and more.

For instructions on how to download and install Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 check out this episode of 10-4.

Sensor and Location .NET Library for Windows 7

Adam Kinney — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:43:00 GMT

Windows 7 includes unique features that can really light up your application and create new possibilities. Yochay Kiraity has been working with the team to create Managed Code APIs making it even easier for .NET developers to take advantage of these features. In this video, Yochay demonstrates code using Accelerometers and Light Sensors.

This is Part 1 in a 3-Part Series covering the Managed Code APIs. Part 2 demonstrates the Taskbar and Libraries Library and Part 3 demonstrates the Multi-touch Library.

Download the Windows API Code Pack

Live Services Hackathon in San Francisco on May 27 2009

Adam Kinney — Tue, 19 May 2009 04:19:00 GMT

This is a personal invite from James Senior to attend the Live Services Hackathon in San Francisco on May 27, 2009. Bring your code and work with the Live Services engineers to add Instant Messaging, Friends lists and more to your website.

WPF Design Surface Improvements in Visual Studio 2010

Adam Kinney — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:16:00 GMT

After a short break for the show, Karl Shifflett is here to welcome us back with wide open arms, a Hawaiian shirt and a demonstration of the new features in Visual Studio 2010 for WPF development. This is definitely IDE wizardry at its best, making it easier for the developer while creating and maintaining quality code.

RichText Editor in Silverlight and more from DevExpress

Adam Kinney — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:00:00 GMT

Another opportunity I had at MIX09 was to talk to the guys from DevExpress about the controls they are working on. Azret Botash explains how they are going after the features that people say can't be done and doing them. In this video he demos their Silverlight-based Rich text Editor along with their WPF-based Datagrid.

Silverlight Spy - Visual Debugging Silverlight Applications

Adam Kinney — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:00:00 GMT

Koen Zwikstra has created a very useful tool for Silverlight application development called SilverlightSpy. Load the tool, point it to a web page with a Silverlight application and the dissection begins. It has a little bit funcitonality from of all of your favorite tools like Snoop, Fiddler, FireBug and Reflector but made specifically for Silverlight.

Fireworks to XAML Panel

Adam Kinney — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:50:00 GMT

Grant Hinkson, the Director of Experience Design at Infragistics, is a big fan of the creative tool from Adobe called Fireworks. An issue, or some people may say an opportunity, arose 3 years ago when he started to work on WPF projects. How can he use his favorite design tool with this new technology? Resourcefully, he ended up writing his own Panel for Fireworks that solved the problem.

The Fireworks to XAML Panel has since been updated to work with both WPF and Silverlight and is available for free for you to use.

A look into the ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight

Adam Kinney — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:31:00 GMT

During MIX09 I had the opportunity to sit down with the guys from ComponentOne and take a look at the controls available in their new Studio for Silverlight 2009 release. Along with a full-featured datagrid and richtextbox, they demoed a BitMap API and Effects running in Silverlight 2, which we had just announced for Silverlight 3. The other feature that really stood out for me was the fact that they were supporting the same themes as the Silverlight Toolkit. Even if you're using controls from different assemblies, you still want them to look cohesive and this is what theme support can provide.

Pete Brown, Silverlight Wizard in Action

Adam Kinney — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:48:00 GMT

Pete Brown brought along some fun toys to MIX09 written in the Silverlight 3 Beta which he demonstrates in this video. The first toy is a Commodore64 emulator running print commands and the Dr. Who game. The second toy, or in this case maybe tool would be more applicable, is his audio synthesizer which generates sound dynamically within Silverlight.

Since MIX09, Pete has been very busy posting tutorials on some of the newest features available in Silverlight 3:

WPFFX running in the Silverlight 3 Beta

Adam Kinney — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:58:00 GMT

Jaime Rodriguez came back from MIX09 and thought "Hey, I bet my WPFFX library could run in the new Silverlight 3 beta". So he added a few #ifdefs, compiled and waa-laa! The WPFFX library is running in the Silverlight 3 beta and we have video to prove it.

Jaime has all of the details in his blog post about the success.

Colaab, review and collaborate in Silverlight

Adam Kinney — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:45:00 GMT

Colaab is a Silverlight-based review and collaborative environment packed with features. What is a collaborative environment? Its one of those things you need, but don't quite have a name for. You could say a workflow tool but its more than that. Its a way to create and review assets with a team spread across the world. But that's not all it does.

The guys at Colaab are experimenting with how far they can push their application, as well as how far they can push Silverlight.

ASP.NET MVC 1 with Phil Haack

Adam Kinney — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:15:00 GMT

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 has been released today at MIX09! Phil Haack stopped by the studio last week to explain what makes this version 1 of the MVC Framework for ASP.NET and spends a little time explaining the MVC pattern. Phil then demos the scaffolding functionality which allows you to quickly build a functional website based on your existing data services.

First Look at Expression Blend 3

Adam Kinney — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:02:00 GMT

Unni Ravindranathan takes on a tour of the new Expression Blend 3 Preview released at MIX09. Not only has Blend been updated to support Silverlight 3, but many new features have been added including improved graphic design tools, Intellisense, TFS integration and improved extensibility.

SilverSprite - XNA Games in Silverlight

Adam Kinney — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:51:00 GMT

Bill Reiss is building games in Silverlight, but he also likes to build games in XNA. The obvious move then is to create a library that allows you to run XNA games within Silverlight. And no code changes to the XNA games would be ideal. That's exactly what Bill has done, and the code library's name is SilverSprite.