Entries tagged with silverlight - Channel 9

Dynamic 3D Charts with Telerik

AdamKinney — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:16:00 GMT

Vladimir Milev and Todd Anglin show us the new Charting and Gauge controls from Telerik. The Charts are very flexible and run in 2D and 3D mode, you can even use your own custom models for the 3D Charts.

The Gauges shown in the video are also now available in Silverlight. Same API for both WPF and Silverlight versions, which should definitely make the life of the developer easier when using them.

Exploring Time and Space with Infragistics

AdamKinney — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:52:00 GMT

Jason Beres takes us on a journey through time and space using the new Timeline, Map and Zoombar controls from Infragistics.

The Timeline and Zoombar make an interesting pair when combined with two sets of historical data. I also like the point Jason makes about how this all done with client-side Silverlight, so the response time is really quick without a page refresh.

decast - Tunneling a PUT through POST with RESTful WCF Services

RobBagby — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:09:00 GMT

Many client technologies such as Silverlight 2 only support the HTTP Methods GET and POST. However, you may want to follow a HI-REST architectural style when designing your RESTful APIs, taking advantage of additional HTTP methods such as PUT and DELETE. In this screencast, Rob Bagby illustrates how to tunnel HTTP Methods such as PUT and DELETE through POST, as well as how to consume these services with Silverlight 2. This screencast illustrates some of the great functionality available in the WCF REST Starter Kit.

This Week on C9: Live ID goes Open ID, cool Silverlight Toolkit and themes, and SecondLight video

Dan — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:38:00 GMT

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

- BizSpark program for startup launches (0:35 - 1:53)
- XNA Game Studio 3.0 RTM's, via Greg Duncan (1:53 - 3:09)
- Windows Live becomes an Open ID provider (3:09 - 4:40)
- Visual Studio 2010/.NET Framework 4.0 CTP Virtual PC available for download (4:40 - 6:15)
- Microsoft updates .NET logo (6:15 - 7:27)
- Silverlight Toolkit now available for download (7:27 - 8:30)
- Rudi Grobler: WPF themes available from Silverlight Toolkit (8:30 - 9:10)
- Video clip of SecondLight in action (9:10 - 10:54)
- Tutorial showing how to use Windows Azure with Silverlight (10:54 - 11:53)
- Brian's Pick of the week: Scott Hanselman's .NET Framework Overview session gives This Week on C9 a shout out (scan to about 5 minutes in). All PDC sessions available and check out Greg Duncan's PDC download page (11:53 - 13:48)
- Dan' s Pick of the week: Some very cool ShowOff entries including a Silverlight Spectrum Emulator, Best.Virtual Earth.Simulator.Ever, Brian the Build Bunny, and Clipboard History (13:48 - 17:08)

UT3 Bots for .NET

AdamKinney — 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.

Natural Interop with Silverlight, Office, and Python in Microsoft Visual C# and Microsoft Visual Basic

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:39:16 GMT

Learn how the new C# and VB language features make interop with JScript, COM, and Python more natural. Dynamically control the HTML DOM within Silverlight, automate Word and Excel with less code, or access Python libraries, all from your favorite .NET language!

Alex Turner
Alex Turner is the Program Manager for the C# Compiler at Microsoft, where he makes sure that C#’s new language features and compiler services become a reality. Alex graduated with an MS in Computer Science from Stony Brook University and has been a speaker at TechEd and TechDays.

Developing Applications Using Data Services

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:37:45 GMT

In the near future, applications will be developed using a combination of custom application code and online building block services, including data-centric services. In this session we discuss advancements in the Microsoft development platform and online service interfaces to enable seamless interaction with data services both on-premises (e.g., ADO.NET Data Services Framework over on-premises SQL Server) and in the cloud (e.g., SQL Server Data Services). Learn how you can leverage existing know-how related to LINQ (Language Integrated Query), data access APIs, data-binding, and more when building applications using online data.

Mike Flasko

Microsoft Expression Blend: Tips & Tricks

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:36:06 GMT

See how Expression Blend can be used to design user interfaces for the desktop and the Web using both Windows Presentation Foundation and Microsoft Silverlight 2. Learn how to design consistently for both technologies and how the resulting XAML provides elegant workflow between developers and designers.

Douglas Olson
Peter Blois

Inside the Olympics: An Architecture and Development Review

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:35:55 GMT

Hear about the end-to-end architecture that was developed for the 2008 Olympic Games online video broadcast experience. Learn about the capture/encoding process from Beijing, back haul to USA, massively cached CDN delivery, adaptive streaming, and Microsoft Silverlight UI development. Learn how to implement a similar solution and understand how and where to apply Silverlight 2 technologies.

Eric Schmidt
Jason Suess

Silverlight Controls Roadmap

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:35:53 GMT

Come learn about the new Silverlight Controls that are being launched here at PDC and the plans for more great controls in the future. This talk takes you through the paces of the new controls and shows you how to use and customize them for your applications, demonstrates some great new control skins that are being offered with the controls, and takes a look at the roadmap of the other controls to look forward to and how to get them. And for the WPF users out there, we'll be showing off some of the control work being done for that platform as well.

Shawn Burke
Shawn Burke has at Microsoft since 1997, spending all of that time in Developer Division developing UI framworks such as Windows Forms, ASP.NET AJAX, and Silverlight Controls. Shawn is currently the Product Unit Manager of the WPF/Silverlight Controls Team. Shawn holds a Bachelors of Business Administration a Bachelors of Science from the University of Washington in Seattle.

Microsoft Silverlight 2: Control Model

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:35:45 GMT

Learn about the different types of controls in Silverlight, the differences between UserControls and custom controls, and how to customize their appearance through styling and skinning. Also learn how Microsoft Expression Blend can be used to customize the look of controls.

Karen Corby
Karen Corby is a Program Manager on the Silverlight team who focuses on control customization and HTTP networking. She holds a MS in Computer Science from Stanford University. In her spare time, Karen enjoys hiking, reading, travel, and photography. Her blog is http://scorbs.com/work.

Microsoft Silverlight, WPF and the Microsoft .NET Framework: Sharing Skills and Code

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:35:41 GMT

Come get an in-depth understanding of the compatibility between Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight. Learn the relationship between WPF and Silverlight's various subsystems including: XAML parsing and serialization, control instantiation, styling and templating, layout, rendering, and more. Learn how to build applications that fully exploit both Silverlight and WPF.

Ian Ellison-Taylor
Ian Ellison-Taylor is the General Manager for Microsoft’s Presentation Platforms and Tools Team (PP&T) which creates technologies that enables developers and designers to build revolutionary next-generation user experiences for the desktop, the web and devices. Currently the group produces the UI framework (known as “WPF”), controls and developer tools for .Net and Silverlight. Ian has been working on various user-experience related platforms at Microsoft for more than 15 years across a variety of products including Windows, Internet Explorer and Visual Studio. He joined Microsoft in 1990 as developer on the Windows 3.1 team having graduated from the University of Durham, England.

Microsoft Silverlight Futures: Building Business Focused Applications

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:35:19 GMT

What if you could develop your solutions with the ease pioneered by Microsoft Office Access, deploy them like an Internet application, and take advantage of the power of Microsoft .NET? Learn about an exciting new technology that is all about making business applications for RIA (Rich Internet Applications) much easier to build. In this session, hear how we've made n-tier application development as simple as traditional 2-tier, provided application level solutions to developers, and how we're doing all of this with the same .NET platform and tools on both the client and server.

Jamie Cool

Microsoft Silverlight 2 for Mobile: Developing for Mobile Devices

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:35:17 GMT

Wouldn't it be super cool if the Silverlight apps you build for the desktop can now run on Millions of Mobile Devices ? If you have been building Silverlight applications and are wondering how to extend them mobile devices, this is just the right session for you. In this session, filled with some very cool demos you will not only learn how to extend your existing Silverlight 2 applications to work on Windows Mobile but also learn how to build rich mobile Silverlight apps that play media, handle simple gestures, have cool animations, and web services. We will also talk about tooling enhancements in Visual Studio that support Silverlight app development on Windows Mobile, what to consider when delivering eye-popping UI on mobile, and help you understand the key differences from developing Silverlight apps for the desktop.

Amit Chopra
Giorgio Sardo
Giorgio Sardo is a Technical Evangelist for Microsoft Corporation. Moving from Italy to the United Kingdom, Giorgio studied at Polytechnic of Turin and successfully obtained a Master of Computer Engineering with distinction. For four years he has been a Microsoft Student Partner Lead, leading a national university community forum. In 2007 he started working in Microsoft UK as User Experience Consultant, delivering stunning solutions based on Silverlight, WPF and Silverlight for Mobile. Later 2008 Giorgio will move to Redmond, to work as Technical Evangelist for Web Technologies (ASP.NET, IE8, ...).

Deep Dive: Building an Optimized, Graphics-Intensive Application in Microsoft Silverlight

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:35:15 GMT

In this deep dive session we pull the covers off of the layout, rendering, and media pipelines to discuss how things work and how to optimize your application. This session covers how to set goals with your designer and developer teams, what happens behind the scenes with control visuals, the underlying mechanisms of our media stack, and how to profile your application.

Seema Ramchandani

FAST: Building Search-Driven Portals with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Silverlight

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:32:57 GMT

The combination of FAST ESP and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 allows for the development of powerful search-driven portals. Learn about the architecture and functionality of FAST ESP, and see how FAST ESP can complement and extend existing search features in MOSS 2007. Watch a demonstration that shows how to create search user interfaces by configuring and extending the FAST ESP Search Web Parts, including the use of Silverlight to deliver unique search experiences.

Jan Helge Sageflåt
Stein Danielsen

PDC2008 ShowOff Entry: Silverlight 2 Spectrum Emulator

briankel — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:00:00 GMT

This video is a sample of one of the entries from Microsoft PDC 2008 ShowOff.

Title of the video
Silverlight 2 Spectrum Emulator.

Short 2-3 sentence description of your video
A quick demonstration of my Silverlight 2 Spectrum Emulator, playing a game, writing some Spectrum BASIC, looking at the code quickly.

Silverlight 2 Version Developed By: Chris Hay (me)
Original XNA version By: Jan Jones (http://www.codeplex.com/zx360)
Original Z80 ported from Jasper by Adam Davidson and Andrew Pollard.
PNG Encoder: Joe Stegman

Chris Hay
http://silverlightuk.blogspot.com/

The developer and designer tools you used (both Microsoft and non-Microsoft)
Visual Studio 2008, Silverlight 2, C#

Developing Compelling Silverlight User Experiences with Expression Studio 2 - TechEd NZ

Jafa — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:19:00 GMT

Presented at Tech.Ed New Zealand.

Expression Studio 2 delivers powerful tools to create natural and engaging user experiences. In this session you’ll learn how the Expression tools works together to streamline user experience design. With a focus on designing for Silverlight, I will walk through Expression Encoder, Expression Blend and Expression Web – highlighting the new features. I will finish the session by demonstrating how Expression Blend 2 SP1 can be used with Visual Studio 2008 to assemble user interface components for Silverlight 2 applications.

QuakeLight Preview

AdamKinney — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:07:00 GMT

In this video, I'm running a preview version of QuakeLight a Silverlight-based port of Quake. Its very impressive to see an old-school classic game come to life in Silverlight 2. Stunned, along with others, I interviewed Julien Frelat about the story behind QuakeLight, coding techniques used and when there will be a public release.

Евгений Осовецкий про Silverlight 2 и сервисы

mikcher — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 07:48:00 GMT

Евгений Осовецкий рассказывает и показывает возможности Silverlight 2 для работы с сервисами.
Бонус - история про матрешку :)

Netacademia, a Silverlight és ami köztük van

zsolt.batorfi — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:40:00 GMT

Tocsival (Tóth László) és Bátyai Krisztiánnal, a Netacademia közismert oktatóival beszélgetünk a webes és kliensfejlesztés fundamentumairól, a WPF és Silverlight elsajátitásával kapcsolatos élményeikről és még sok mindenről (pl. "Merre fejlődik tovább a WPF?", "Miben más és miben hasonló a Silverlight/WPF runtime?").
Nézzétek, sok dolog kiderül majd a fejlesztői "való világról"...

Triggers vs. Visual State Manager

jbienz — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:38:00 GMT

The Visual State Manager is on a very short list of features that exist on Silverlight today but do not exist on Desktop WPF. This short screencast introduces the Visual State Manager and illustrates the value it adds to the Silverlight platform. It shows how the Visual State Manager can be used in control templates as well as full application screens.

John Gossman from the WPF team blogged that the Visual State Manager will be added to WPF in the future. He has not indicated when an officially supported WPF version will be available but he did supply a working sample that is compatible with its Silverlight 2 Beta 2 counterpart.

This Week on C9: Visual Studio 2010 week, Silverlight RC0, and Cloud services

Dan — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:22:00 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan go through what happened this week in developer news including:

- Visual Studio Team System 2010 and the .NET Framework 4 are officially announced with 20+ videos and the launch of the Visual Studio Channel 9 site
- "Bottoms-up" Design with VSTS 2010 Architect
- Requirements Management in VSTS 2010
- Video clip of Historical Debugging in action
- Video clip of Team Foundation Build 2010
- "Dublin" technology enhancements in Windows Server
- Silverlight 2 RC0 available now, Scott Guthrie's blog walks through the new features and how to edit control templates.
- jQuery to ship with ASP.NET MVC and Visual Studio
- Silverlight 2 RC0 tools for Visual Studio now support Visual Studio Express
- Clint Rutkas walks through using the new Virtual Earth Web Services
- Amazon EC2 will soon support Window Server including ASP.NET, Media encoding, SQL Server and Visual Studio
- Windows Presentation Foundation Application Quality Guide, via Neil Hutson
- Free download: Codeplex XML Visualizer v.2
- Flickr Xplorer - An ASP.NET MVC Photo app for Flickr
- The Underground, a free event in LA during PDC
- Adam Kinney - Cool PDC Badges including This Week on Channel 9 Badges if you find us at PDC
- Brian's Pick of the week: Preview of the next TFS Power Tools
- Dan's Pick of the week: QuakeLight - Silverlight with 3D and Texture Mapping (video)

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 - More on the asp:MediaPlayer Control

Mike Ormond — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:13:00 GMT

A screencast demonstrating the use of some of the rich features of the ASP.NET MediaPlayer control such as chaptering, closed caption support and markers.

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 - The asp:MediaPlayer Control

Mike Ormond — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:12:00 GMT

An introduction to the MediaPlayer ASP.NET server control that allows you to embed a rich Silverlight media player in an aspx page.