Entries tagged with coding4fun - Channel 9

The Coding4Fun Show: WPF MediaKit with Jeremiah Morrill

Brian Peek — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:49:00 GMT

In this episode of the Coding4Fun Show, Brian Peek interviews Jeremiah Morrill who has written WPF MediaKit, an amazing library to quickly build DirectShow and MediaFoundation media player controls in WPF. It's amazingly powerful and, as a developer, can be used with just a few lines of XAML. In fact, you can create a full-blown DVD player or webcam capture control in your application each with a single XAML tag! Learn all about this great project, how it was written, and how to use it in your own creations.

And note that the output of the WPF MediaKit player is perfectly smooth in realtime. The capture application + encoding made for a "stuttery" output that's definitely not seen when running these demos in realtime.

The Coding4Fun Show: Advanced Rendering with Silverlight, Rick Barraza

Brian Peek — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:27:00 GMT

In this episode of the Coding4Fun Show, Brian Peek interviews Rick Barraza of Cynergy Systems, who has put together several very unique applications and accompanying tutorials demonstrating advanced rendering techniques using Silverlight 3. During the show, we discuss Silverlight 3, UX design, and the three demos he has created showing off advanced rendering techniques. For more on how these amazing demos were made, check out his (currently) three part series at his blog:

The Coding4Fun Show: MEF Utility Runner with Arian Kulp

Brian Peek — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:18:00 GMT

In this episode of the Coding4Fun Show, I interview Arian Kulp, creator of the MEF Utility Runner, a unified host for system tray utility applications. Learn a bit about MEF and how it can be leveraged to create a plugin architecture for any application, as well as how it was used to create the MEF Utility runner, and how you can write your own plugins for this application.

This Week C9: Scott Hanselman, Silverlight, Expression Studio 3, C#/CLI

Dan Fernandez — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:17:00 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Scott Hanselman and Dan talk about this week's news, including:

- Silverlight 3 & Expression Studio 3 are now available
    - Scott Guthrie & Christian Schormann
    - Scott Guthrie Silverlight 3 overview
    - Developer & Designer Therapy (fun)
- Hanselman relates how he took pictures of Scott's office and posted a pic on Twitter and people asked to see what was in Scott's fridge, which he thought was going too far.
- Dan talks about playing the part of the bear that greco-roman wrestles ScottGu
- Emil Protalinski - Ars Technica - Michael Jackson memorial streamed in Silverlight
- Kirill Osenkov - Undo Framework Samples
- Hanselman gives Dan advice on doing english dubbing imitations, Dan explains how his (pregnant) wife is now PREGOR - a beast that must be satiated.
- Sara Ford - CodePlex turns 3 years old, Breaks 10,000 project mark
- Miguel de Icaza - C# and the CLI now under Community Promise for cross-platform
- Brian Peek - How to build your first XNA Game Studio Session by building a Space Invaders clone from Facebook .NET Programmers Group (and the Coding4Fun book)
- Scott & Dan rant on being Brian Peek fans and that more people should follow his blog
- Microsoft Code Analysis Tool (CAT.NET) - IDE addin to identify security issues including Cross-site scripting, SQL Injection, XPath injection and more, via Greg Duncan
    - Scott discusses the XPath issues that people attributed to Bing, but that was also an issue in Google
- Paul Lakeland Import US Census Spatial Data into SQL Server 2008, via Greg Duncan
- Aaron Stebner - Wix v3.0 now available
- WPF team releases Chart Controls
- Somasegar - BizSpark hits 15,000 startups including StackOverflow, Sobees (including Bdule a TweetDeck-like app), and Curse
- Jaime's Amazing Motivational Posters
- Hanselminutes on 9 - Alpha Geek laptops
- Scott talks about the Creative Vado HD which he recommends

Picks of the week
- Dan's pick: David Sleeckx - Head Tracking and 3D WPF using a standard, built-in camera
- Scott's pick: HaaHa Show - Phil Haack and Scott Hanselman do a session in Norway where Phil is the hacker and Scott is the dev where they go back-and-forth to break in and mitigate against attacks

This Week C9: Speech Recognition, Army of 1, TweetCraft and more

Dan Fernandez — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:26:00 GMT

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

- Joel Bennett - Control your PC with your voice and PowerShell, via Alvin Ashcraft
- Frank La Vigne - Speech Recognition in WPF
- Dan Waters - Great 4-part series on Audio Programming
- Andrew Woodward - Doing Agile in a Team of One
- Leah Budley - UX Team of One, via Frank La Vigne
- Aaron Marten - Visual Studio 2010 User Interface Guidelines
- Corey Schuman - YouTube video in Silverlight 3, via Alvin Ashcraft
- Tina Wood - The History of Microsoft 1995
- Jaime Rodriguez - Best questions/answers in the WPF Discussions email alias
- MySpace Releases MSFast, a browser plugin for measuring CPU, memory, screenshost, HTML rendering, and more (download)
- Registering Preview Pane types using PreviewConfig, via Greg Duncan
- Alois Kraus - The differences between Logging and Tracing

Picks of the week
Brian's pick of the week: Habib Heydarian - Debugging a Unit Test Failure with the Historical Debugger
Dan's pick of the week: TweetCraft an in-game World of Warcraft Twitter client, including a gratuitous video trailer

PS - Happy fourth of July to our American viewers

TweetCraft - A World of Warcraft Twitter Client

Dan Fernandez — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:43:00 GMT

A gratuitious trailer for TweetCraft, a World of Warcraft Twitter client.

Twitter is open source and includes:
- A Windows client written in C# and Windows Presentation Foundation
- A Warcraft AddOn written in FrameXML and Lua using AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft

The Coding4Fun Show: Physics Helper for Silverlight by Andy Beaulieu

Brian Peek — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:33:00 GMT

The Coding4Fun Show is a new series dedicated to interviewing people creating fun and interesting projects with a bit of "how to" mixed in.

In this first episode, I interview Andy Beaulieu, creator of the Physics Helper for Silverlight, Blend, and Farseer. Learn a bit about Andy and how to use his library to create some very powerful physics-based effects in your Silverlight applications with very little effort.

This Week on C9: jQuery, Win Mobile, Warcraft AddOn tools, and an Automed Bartender

Dan Fernandez — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 02:31:00 GMT

This Week on Channel 9, Clint Rutkas joins Dan Fernandez to discuss this week's developer news, including:

- March Madness on Demand - all 63 US college basketball games available streaming via Silverlight including 1.5Mbps streams (Note: Duke still sucks)
- Windows Mobile 6.5 launches including MyPhone
- Get updated IntelliSense support for jQuery 1.3.1, via Alvin Ashcraft
- Intro to jQuery Video - UI effects, DOM traversal, AJAX
- Duncan Mackenzie - New update to Oxite release available including how to skin Oxite tutorial by Nathan Heskew
- Brian Gorbett - Mesh + Silverlight Video Player
- Mike Snow - How to load a local image into Silverlight using a stream
- Tool to convert a Windows image to a VHD file
- Upload pictures to Facebook using Windows Live Gallery, via Sarah Perez
- Visual Studio CopySourceAsHTML Add-in has tons of features for specifying HTML source
- Josh Holmes - Three Essential Expression Blend Add-ins
Unify, Colorful Expression, and BlendSense (XAML IntelliSense)
- 15 Helpful .NET Extension Methods (consensus is they're not evil) via dotnetkicks
- New Channel 9 Show: Ping
- Clint's pick of the week: New version of Drunktender, an automated bartender and Clint meets Jimmy Kimmel at Maker Faire
- Dan's pick of the week: AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft Version 2 Beta 2 now available for Warcraft AddOn developers

Coding4Fun Demo - How to mask your voice using the Skype Voice Changer

Dan Fernandez — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:05:00 GMT

Mark Heath (of NAudio fame) recently published a how-to article for Coding4Fun that shows how he plugged into Skype's audio APIs to dynamically apply different sound effects to the audio stream to mask your voice.

To see it in action, we setup a Skype connection between me and Clint Rutkas. Clint screen captured his PC so you can see the Skype Voice Changer application, while I recorded Clint's voice with the sound effects applied.

Coding is fun :)

Coding4Fun with Brian Peek: WiiEarthVR is a Wiimote, Virtual Earth, WiiFit and VR Glasses

Dan Fernandez — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:45:00 GMT

At PDC, Brian Peek showed off his WiiEarthVR project. Simply, put, the Coding4Fun project is .NET code that combines:

- A Nintendo Wiimote controller to move forward or backwards
- Virtual Earth 3D
- A WiiFit board to "steer" by leaning left or right
- Vusix VR920 glasses that include two 640x480 LCDs

The images are combined in such a way as to provide a stereoscopic 3D-like view.

This week on C9: Oxite, Mona Lisa, Pool hacks, and Coding4Fun Gifts

Dan Fernandez — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:11:00 GMT

This Week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan discuss:

- Oxite: The open source ASP.NET MVC Content Management System (Adam Kinney's interview with the team)
- Roger Alsing uses Genetic Program to shape 50 polygons into the Mona Lisa
- Justin Needham and Matthew Straub use Windows CE to build a system that can predict the path of pool balls using a Webcam, projector, and mirrors
- Brian explains why you should use Live Search Cashback for holiday shopping
- Dan and Brian go through their favorite picks from the Coding4Fun Holiday Gift Guide

Top Picks
- Pico LCD 4x20 Programmable Display (Code it) ($49)
- SideWinder Keyboard for Gamers ($61)
- SideWinder Mouse for Gamers ($45)
- USB MSN Missile Launcher ($50)
- USB Endoscope (Code it) ($59)
- XNA Creator's Club (Code it)($99/year)
- Nabaztag, aka Brian the Build Bunny (Code it) ($99 - $199)
- Zune (Code it) ($99 - $249)
- Energy Detective Monitor ($189)
- Rock Band 2 (Code it) ($189.99)
- WowWee Rovio (Code it)($239.99)
- Erector Spykee (Code it "soon") ($247)
- .NET Micro Framework (Code it) ($400)
- HP EX470 MediaSmart Home Server (Code it) (449.99)
- Brian's pick of the week: Dual monitors + Synergy software as a poor man's KVM
- Dan's pick of the week: Install Live Mesh at home, on all of your PCs, and on your family's PC

Tis the season for giving so we're giving away a copy of Dan's book: Coding4Fun: 10 .NET Programming Projects for Wiimote, World of Warcraft, YouTube, and More to the first person to correctly answer our This Week on Channel 9 trivia question asked at the end of the show.

This Week on C9: Live Wave 3, Coding4Fun - the book, Johnny Chung Lee, and Rise

Dan Fernandez — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 09:04:00 GMT

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

- Windows Live Wave 3 updates (0 - 1:20)
- Dan's Coding4Fun book is out, includes cool endorsement from Alex Albrecht, co-host of Diggnation (1:20 - 2:57)
- The Coding4Fun book contributors include some very cool people including Brian Peek, Johnny Chung Lee, Gabor Ratky, Clint Rutkas, and Dan Fernandez (2:57 - 5:22)
- Dan does a live demo of InnerTube, a sample app to download multiple videos from YouTube, converts them to MP4 and/or WMV and add them to Zune and/or iTunes (5:22 - 13:06)
- Spec# Design by Contract MSI is now available for Visual Studio 2008, via Alvin Ashcraft (13:06 - 15:10)
- Yochay Kiraty's Windows Developer Blog launches, shows off Windows Vista Bridge samples (15:10 - 15:40)
- The new free ASP.NET Charting control includes pie charts, line graphs, bar charts and lots more (15:40 - 16:45)
- Sarah Perez on Channel 10 gives a rundown on Silverlight 3 including h.264 support, 3D, GPU, and more (16:45 - 18:39)
- Live Labs: Seadragon AJAX - Build Deep Zoom applications directly with AJAX (18:39 - 19:55)
- Rob Miles's Coding4Fun article on using the .NET Micro Framework to control Holiday Lights based on RSS feeds (19:55 - 21:14)
- Charles Torre video with Rico Mariani - Answering Niner questions (21:14 - 22:10)
- Brian's Pick of the week: RiSE - Research in Software Engineering, the team that does Spec#, Chess, Pex, etc (22:10 - 23:22)
- Dan's Pick of the week: Video clip of Johnny Chung Lee's TED Demo showing off his Wiimote hacks (23:22 - 29:50)

** - News we just missed - the Channel 9 Dev team and the Mix Online team just published Oxite, an open source Content Management System built using ASP.NET MVC

Coding4Fun with Clint Rutkas: The Segway Skateboard

Dan Fernandez — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:54:00 GMT

Clint Rutkas, our Coding4Fun Content Strategist and Academic Developer Evangelist shows off how he built a self-balancing Segway Skateboard in C#, and with all mad scientist projects, hilarity ensues.

UT3 Bots for .NET

Adam Kinney — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:17:00 GMT

You may not be able to write Quake in .NET, but with the UT3 Bots Starter Kit you could write your Bot in .NET for Unreal Tournament 3. James Lissiak demonstrates how to write a simple Bot and the Silverlight-based visualization for real-time game information.

Gabor Ratky and Attila Kisko: AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft

Dan Fernandez — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:26:00 GMT

Gabor Ratky and Attila Kisko from EPAM Systems are two of the developers building AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft.

AddOn Studio is a free developer tool built on top of the Visual Studio Shell that brings a Visual Studio-like experience to creating Lua addons for World of Warcraft. In the video, you'll hear Gabor and Attila discuss how they build the key features Visual Studio developers expect including a visual designer, properties Window, a language service including a Lua parser and much more. You'll of course see a demo of an early version of AddOn Studio which is now an open beta!

This Week on Channel 9: Clint Rutkas stops by, Project Velocity, Live Writer SDK, C9 bytes on IIS 7.0 and F#, and shameless self-promotion

Dan Fernandez — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:51:00 GMT

This Week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian are joined by Clint Rutkas and we discuss:

Clint talks about MS 101 (0 - 1:00)
SQL Server 2008 RC0 is now available (and we don't know why some teams start with a zero based array and others don't) (1:00 - 2:30)
CTP of Project codename "Velocity" available, a Distributed object cache for Windows (2:30 - 3:40)
New CTP for the Windows Live Writer SDK including a Twitter and DiggThis example and another Live Writer plug-in by Alik Levin for building Blog Post Templates (3:40 - 5:28)
Scott Hanselman's BabySmash app makes Lifehacker (5:28 - 6:36)
Drew Robbins demos the IIS 7.0 Admin Pack (6:36 - 9:58)
Luke Hoban demos visualizing data using F# (9:58 - 13:23)
Templex a Template Process Library for Team Foundation Server (13:23 - 15:04)
Codeplex now include syntax highlighting for source code (15:04 - 16:00)
xgamer posts on CamSpace in the Coffeehouse with demo goodness (16:00 - 17:57)
Brian and Clint viciously throw 9 guys at Dan's head...in slow motion (17:57 - 18:11)
Zafer Savas releases a cool Codeproject article showing eye tracking with a Web cam using C++ (18:46 - 19:30)
Clint's Pick of the Week: Gary Farr's Coding4Fun RetroCommand arcade game using Silverlight and Expression Blend 2.5
Brian's Pick of the Week: The PDC ShowOff contest is launching with Brian and Dan hosting the event live at PDC (19:30 - 21:48)
Dan's Pick of the Week: Dan plugs his Coding4Fun talk at TechEd which showed off YouTube, iTunes, Zune, P2P, and Warcraft programming (21:48 - )