Entries tagged with graphics - Channel 9

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:

Windows 7 Graphics – High DPI

Yochay Kiriaty — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:23:00 GMT

High DPI is not new to Windows; however in Windows 7 we made few changes that developers should be aware of. The goal is to encourage end users to set their displays to native resolution and use DPI rather than screen resolution to change the size of displayed text and images. Windows 7 can auto-detect and configure a default DPI on clean installs on machines configured by their OEMs using DPI settings. Join Silvana Moncayo and Matthew Blackshaw, PM in the graphics team and Yochay Kiriaty, Technical Evangelist, on a discussion on Windows 7 High DPI.

This is another video in a sereis of Windows 7 Grahics videos on Channel 9

Windows 7 Graphics - WIC

Yochay Kiriaty — Fri, 22 May 2009 01:05:00 GMT

Windows 7 includes many new updates and improvements to the Graphics stack, including a new set of APIs for 2D graphics and writing text. Among them are a major reduction in memory consumption by the DWM and new more efficient ways to combine the available APIs. Join Varun Bhartia, Program Manager, and Robert Wlodarczyk, Senior Test Lead, as they dive deep into the Windows Imaging Component also known as WIC.

In Windows Vista, the Windows Imaging Component introduced an extensible framework for working with images and image metadata. The image formats supported by the Windows Imaging Component include JPEG, PNG, and TIFF, and the supported metadata formats include XMP and EXIF. With Windows 7, Windows Imaging Component broadens its standards compliance by providing support for progressive image decoding, expanded PNG features, GIF metadata, and metadata that spans APPn segments.

This is another video in a series of Windows 7 Graphics videos:

· Windows 7 Graphics Architecture Overview - Part 1

· Windows 7 Graphics Architecture Overview - Part 2

· Windows 7 Graphics Architecture Overview - Part 3

You can find additional information about Windows 7 Graphics in the:

· Developer for Windows MSDN page

· E7 blog post Engineering Windows 7 Graphics Performance

· PDC session recordings:

· Windows 7: Writing Your Application to Shine on Modern Graphics Hardware (PDC)

· Windows 7: Introducing Direct2D and DirectWrite (PDC)

· Windows 7: Unlocking the GPU with Direct3D

Windows 7 Taskbar in 10 Minutes -- Part II: Icon Overlay

Gunther Lenz — Mon, 11 May 2009 23:26:00 GMT

This is the second part of my ScreenCast series on implementing the Windows 7 Taskbar features in less than 10 minutes :-). The short video shows how to leverage the Windows 7 Taskbar Icon Overlay feature for your application.

Part II -- Icon Overlay:
In this part I show you how to implement custom Icon Overlays in the taskbar indicating the happiness (happy/unhappy) of your application. In your applications you can use this to

Can indicate the status of your application or provide other useful information (such as online/offline, sign in status, status of your application).
Dynamically change the icon.

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GLenz/Windows-7-Taskbar-in-10-Minutes-Part-II-Icon-Overlay/The source code is available here.

You can find the other parts of the screencast series @

Part I -- ProgressBar and Status:
In the first part of my screencast series I develop an application that allows to

Show the progress of the applications work in the taskbar.
Indicate the status (Paused, Normal, No determinate, Error).
Dynamically change the status based on events.

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GLenz/Windows-7-Taskbar-in-10-Minutes-Part-I-Progress-Bar/ . The source code is available here .

The Windows API Code Pack can be downloaded here.

The other parts of the screencast series can be viewed @

Part IV -- Preview and Window Peek:
In the last part of the screencast series I show you how to develop an application that

Allows you to show a clipped Taskbar Preview of your application, on a defined location of your application window.
Dynamically changes the size of the preview image in the Taskbar.
Change the preview image to show a custom Icon instead.
Show a custom Window Peek Bitmap of your application when hovering with the mouse over the Taskbar Preview.

The source code is available here.
You can download the managed wrappers for the Windows 7 API from the Vista Bridge web page.

Part III -- JumpList:
In this part I show you how to develop an application that

Creates a custom category for the Jumplist.
Allows you to add Items to the custom Jumplist category (in this case text files, opened in Notepad when selected).
Add user tasks to the Jumplist such as opening the calculator or notepad when selected.
Add a separator to the Jumplist to group items.

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GLenz/Windows-7-Taskbar-in-10-Minutes-Part-III-Jumplists/ . The source code is available here.

I hope you found the series of Screencasts useful and to the point :-).

Also, check out my blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/glenz .

Windows 7 Graphics Architecture Overview - Part 2

Yochay Kiriaty — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:36:00 GMT

Windows 7 includes many new updates and improvements to the Graphics stack, including a new set of APIs for 2D graphics and writing text. Among the improvements are a major reduction in memory consumption by the DWM and new more efficient ways to combine the different available APIs. Join David Blythe, a senior architect in the Desktop and Graphics team, and Yochay Kiriaty, Technical Evangelist for a quick tour of Windows 7 Graphics architecture, its different components, and how they affect and improve the user experience in Windows 7. Discover what’s new in Windows 7 Graphics and how developer can tap into the new APIs.

This is the second of three overview videos and the first in a long series of videos about Windows 7 Graphics.

You can find additional information about Windows 7 Graphics in the:

· Developer for Windows MSDN page

· E7 blog post Engineering Windows 7 Graphics Performance

· PDC session recordings:

· Windows 7: Writing Your Application to Shine on Modern Graphics Hardware (PDC)

· Windows 7: Introducing Direct2D and DirectWrite (PDC)

· Windows 7: Unlocking the GPU with Direct3D

Windows 7 Graphics Architecture Overview - Part 3

Yochay Kiriaty — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:34:00 GMT

This is the first of three overview videos and the first in a long series of videos about Windows 7 Graphics.

You can find additional information about Windows 7 Graphics in the:

· Developer for Windows MSDN page

· E7 blog post Engineering Windows 7 Graphics Performance

· PDC session recordings:

· Windows 7: Writing Your Application to Shine on Modern Graphics Hardware (PDC)

· Windows 7: Introducing Direct2D and DirectWrite (PDC)

· Windows 7: Unlocking the GPU with Direct3D

Windows 7 Graphics Architecture Overview - Part 1

Yochay Kiriaty — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:33:00 GMT

Windows 7 includes many new updates and improvements to the Graphics stack, including a new set of APIs for 2D graphics and writing text. Among the improvements are a major reduction in memory consumption by the DWM and new more efficient ways to combine the different available APIs. Join David Blythe, a senior architect in the Desktop and Graphics team, and Yochay Kiriaty, Technical Evangelist for a quick tour of Windows 7 Graphics architecture, its different components, and how they affect and improve the user experience in Windows 7. Discover what’s new in Windows 7 Graphics and how developer can tap into the new APIs.

This is the first of three overview videos and the first in a long series of videos about Windows 7 Graphics.

You can find additional information about Windows 7 Graphics in the:

Developer for Windows MSDN page
E7 blog post Engineering Windows 7 Graphics Performance
PDC session recordings:

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.

Honorable Mention: MIX09 Show Off Contest - Playing in an augmented world

Dan Fernandez — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:08:00 GMT

Realtime interaction with 3D objects using a webcam. Mix of managed and unmanaged code, tacking advantage of multi-core CPUs and GPUs for better interactivity.

Built by: YDreams
- Antao Almada, Goncalo Lopes, Andre Almeida, Joao Frazao, Nuno Cardoso, Amadeu Dias, Fernando Nabais, Ivan Franco

Tools used:
- Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, Microsoft DirectShow, YDreams YVision, DirectShow.NET, OpenCV, Ogre 3D, Mogre, Open Dynamics Engine

Вычисления на графических картах. Часть 3 с Михаилом Горбуновым.

Михаил Черномордиков — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:58:00 GMT

Михаил Горбунов в третьей части доклада показывает живые демонстрации, визуализирующие основные концепции вычислений общего назначения на современных видеокартах.

Вычисления на графических картах. Часть 2 с Семеном Козловым.

Михаил Черномордиков — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:33:00 GMT

Семен Козлов, разработчик в команде DirectX, во второй части доклада отвечает на вопросы аудитории про вычисления общего назначения на современных видеокартах.

Вычисления на графических картах. Часть 1 с Семеном Козловым.

Михаил Черномордиков — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:42:00 GMT

Семен Козлов, разработчик в команде DirectX, в первой части доклада рассказывает про теоретические аспекты вычислений общего назначения на современных видеокартах.

Shazzam - A Tool for Creating WPF Pixel Shader Effects

Adam Kinney — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:25:00 GMT

Walt Ritscher walks us through building a custom WPF Pixel Shader Effect using Shazzam, his latest creation. Along the lines of other useful tools mentioned, Kaxaml and LINQPad, Shazzam is free to download and use. Props to Walt for generating both C# and VB code for your Shader Effect.

WPF Effects Library

Adam Kinney — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:37:00 GMT

WPF 3.5 SP1 offers killer graphic capabilities that were demonstrated in the last video with David Teitlebaum. In this video, David has dropped by to help us announce the WPF Pixel Shader Effects Library. The library includes 23 Effects and 26 Transitions and is available with source code at http://codeplex.com/wpffx.

After shooting the video, we realized we didn't show all of the effects and any of the transitions. To see the library in action check out the WPF Effects Library Demo video.

WPF Effects Library Demo

Adam Kinney — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:36:00 GMT

After shooting the WPF Effects Library interview with David Teitlebaum and realizing we didn't show all of the effects and any of the transitions, we put together this short video. Very little dialogue here to distract from the beauty of the Effects and Transitions. Cue the music...

Download the WPF Effects Library at http://codeplex.com/wpffx