Entries tagged with wpf - Channel 9

Windows Presentation Foundation

Channel9Spain — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:19:00 GMT

Ethel García-Simón Matachana, Microsoft Developer Advisor de Microsoft Ibérica, nos habla sobre Windows Presentation Foundation.

Ethel nos cuenta todo lo que WPF y Silverlight pueden aportar a la experiencia de usuario de nuestras aplicaciones. Entre las cuestiones que resuelve, podemos encontrar una explicación sobre lo que el código XAML puede suponer para el trabajo diario de un desarrollador o un diseñador.

- Enlaces

http://windowsclient.net/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/es-es/library/ms754130.aspx

http://www.microsoft.com/emea/msdn/thepanel/en/featured/wpf_cornucopia.aspx

.NET 4 Client Profile

Jaime Rodriguez — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 04:57:00 GMT

Jossef Goldberg and Jaime Rodriguez discuss the status of Client Profile in .NET 4 and VS2010 beta 2.

Client profile is a subset of the full .NET framework that includes only the assemblies needed for desktop client applications; the subset decreases download size and improves install time of the framework, improving the overall deployment experience.

Related reads:
Jossef's deep dive into client profile
Comprehensive post with all the new features in WPF 4 beta 2.

New Text Stack in WPF 4

Jaime Rodriguez — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 04:55:00 GMT

Join Chipalo Street and Jaime Rodriguez to hear about the new text stack in WPF 4. With the new TextFormatingMode and TextRenderingMode options you are now in control of text and can produce sharp text.
They will also cover embedded bitmap support, bindable run, and custom dictionaries, and CAFE.

Related:
Comprehensive post covering this series and all new features in WPF 4 beta 2.

Graphics improvements in WPF 4

Jaime Rodriguez — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 04:54:00 GMT

David Teitlebaum and Jaime Rodriguez discuss the graphics improvements in .NET 4. David demoes cached composition, pixel shaders 3, and animation easing functions. He also explains discusses rounding, and ClearType Hint.

Related resources:
Post for this series includes all the new features in WPF 4.
David's and Tim's demos

Note: the graphics are fast, we captured screen on software and it did not keep up, that is why the horribly sloooow(yawn) refresh rate on the demos. Try the demos, if you have .NET 4 beta2.

What's new in the WPF and Silverlight "Cider" Designer in VS2010 beta2

Jaime Rodriguez — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:12:00 GMT

Mark Wilson-Thomas and Jaime Rodriguez discuss the improvements to VS2010's "Cider" designer for WPF and Silverlight.
Silverlight devs, Cider has finally arrived. Party on.
WPF devs listen in for some nice improvements to error handling, resource resolution, and a new property browser. Try the bits, Cider is open for business.

Related reads:
Mark's post announcing the new features added since beta1
A comprehensive tour of new features in WPF 4, covering the series mentioned in the video.
Cider forums for reporting feedback

Intertouch Media Technologies innovates on WPF and Multitouch at BizSpark Incubation Week

John O'Donnell — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 04:53:00 GMT

Larry Gregory talked with David Marra and James Cadd from Intertouch Media Technologies at a recent BizSpark incubation event hosted by Sanjay Jain

Intertouch Media delivers platforms to enable companies to build very compelling interactive systems such as airport kiosks that take advantage of Windows 7 and Multitouch. In addition their solution leverages inertia in their controls so the user really feels compelled to interact with the display.

Do not miss the demo which starts at time index 6:00 minutes as they inertia in their controls and also a Bing integration.

Enjoy the show!

John O'Donnell Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation
http://blogs.msdn.com/jodonnell
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http://www.twitter.com/jodonnel

Take Comics builds new comic publishing solution with Windows 7 and Touch

John O'Donnell — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:45:00 GMT

Larry Gregory talked to the team of Kevin Mann and Tony Williams of http://www.takepublishing.com at a recent Bizspark incubation event hosted by Sanjay Jain.

Their solution called TakeComics finally solves the problem of trying to find that missing issue of your favorite comic as well as new comics and render them digitally on many devices.

In a few days of development the TakeComics team were able to build a solution that could render comics and let you interact them using Windows 7 touch capabilities.

Enjoy the show!

John O'Donnell Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation
http://blogs.msdn.com/jodonnell
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http://www.twitter.com/jodonnel

geekSpeak Recording - Composite Application Development with David Kelley

glengo — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:55:00 GMT

In this geekSpeak, Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) David Kelley discusses composite application development in Microsoft Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). He covers the Silverlight Designer/Developer workflow, tooling, design patterns, anti-practices, and working with distributed teams. Your hosts for this geekSpeak are Glen Gordon and Mithun Dhar. Links and related resources mentioned in this episode can be found here.

The geekSpeak webcast series brings you industry experts in a "talk-radio" format hosted by developer evangelists from Microsoft. These experts share their knowledge and experience about a particular developer technology and are ready to answer your questions in real time during the webcast. To see upcoming live geekSpeaks, be sure to visit the geekSpeak blog.

Guest Info: David Kelley, Senior Software Architect, IdentityMine

David Kelley is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Microsoft Silverlight, and he has been building Web-based, distributed applications for more than ten years. He is a Silverlight user experience architect at IdentityMine, and his passion is building user experiences that are elegant and easy to use. David's career highlights include a Silverlight demonstration with Bill Gates at TechEd 2008, and developing the "Entertainment Tonight" Web site for the Silverlight 1 launch and Emmy Awards. In his spare time, David is the executive officer of the Seattle Designer Developer Interaction Group.

A WPF WebBrowser Control that plays nice with layout and transforms

Adam Kinney — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:00:00 GMT

Chris Cavanagh always seems to pick interesting projects. This time he's created a new WPF Web Browser control that plays nice with the WPF layout system and can be transformed.

Grab the source code or take a peek at his 3D Browser in the works.

Businessanwendung mit WPF - SIMplus

Lori — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:23:00 GMT

Ralf Geyer, Vorstand von Tricept Informationssysteme AG hat mit mir über SIMplus geredet. SIMplus ist eine Anwendung, um das Sicherheitenmanagement der Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW) zu verwalten. In dieser Anwendung werden alle Informationen zu besicherten Objekten (Autos, Häuser, Konten, etc) sowie Sicherheitenverträgen verwaltet. SIMplus ist die Ablösung der bestehenden Sicherheitenanwendung der LBBW. Die bestehende FatClient-Anwendung wurde in eine Server- und Clientkomponente abgelöst und der Client wurde auf Basis von .NET und WPF realisiert. Sie wird seit April bankweit von ca. 1.800 Usern verwendet.

SIMplus ist ein gutes Beispiel für die Anwendung von WPF im Businessumfeld bzw. Terminalserverumfeld. Sie haben moderne Technologien verwendet, um businesskritische Anwendungen übersichtlicher gestalten zu können, und die Bedienbarkeit deutlich zu verbessern.

Die Anwendung hat den "Microsoft Innovation Award 2009" im Bereich von Businessanwendungen erhalten.

Mehr Info finden Sie auf der Tricept Website: http://www.tricept.de/

Building WPF and Silverlight Applications with a Single Code Base Using Prism - MSDN Magazine Article

ajoy krishnamoorthy — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:18:00 GMT

Erwin from patterns & practices team just wrote an article for MSDN Magazine on "Building WPF and Silverlight applications using Prism". Check it out here.

Related links:
p&p Prism: http://www.microsoft.com/prism
p&p Satisfaction Survey: http://tinyurl.com/pnpsurvey

Happy Reading!

ARCast.TV - Ward Bell on Building Modular Applications Using Microsoft Silverlight and WPF

Bob Familiar — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:21:00 GMT

How do you build line-of-business applications in Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)--applications that can be maintained and extended over a period of years? How do you design and code to handle real-world complexity? Composite Application Guidance (a.k.a., "PRISM") from patterns & practices offers guidance, libraries and examples--in small, free-standing, digestible chunks--that you can use to tame the complexity. Denny Boynton talks to Ward Bell to learn how to compose complex UIs from simpler views, integrate loosely coupled components with "EventAggregator" and "Commands", develop independent modules that can be loaded dynamically, and share code between Silverlight and WPF clients.

ArcGIS Mapping and Charting API released for Silverlight and WPF

Adam Kinney — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:59:00 GMT

The ArcGIS API for Silverlight and WPF has been released along with a showcase application demonstrating some of the key concepts. Features include redlining (draw, edit, delete), layer controls, geodetic radius tool, line and polygon measure, GeoRSS layer, WMS Layer, Gazetteer locator control, HeatMap and more.

Drag and drop data features in Expression Blend

Adam Kinney — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:25:00 GMT

Evgeny takes us on a tour of some of the new functionality in Blend for working with Data. He demonstrates how can easily work with your sample-generated or working data by dragging and dropping fields to specific controls and areas in the workspace.

A new version of the Fireworks to XAML Panel is available

Adam Kinney — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:00:00 GMT

Grant Hinkson has a published an updated Fireworks to XAML panel which allows to output XAML from your Fireworks designs. The new version includes a new CS4 skin and additional features resulting in much cleaner XAML.

Expression Studio 3 is now available!

Adam Kinney — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:32:00 GMT

Expression Studio 3 includes four professional design tools with many worthy features worth checking out. Below I will pick just one new feature for each tool included.

Expression Web 3 - SuperPreview, multi-browser visual debugging

Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow - SketchFlow along with Silverlight 3 support

Expression Design 3 - Improved Photoshop Import

Expression Encoder 3 - new Screen capture functionality

An Expression Studio 3 Trial Edition is available for download right now.

Billy Hollis on WPF and Silverlight

Keith Pleas — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:34:00 GMT

We shot this short video of Billy Hollis riffing on Silverlight and WPF when he stopped by the p&p booth at TechEd. Billy will be at the "Microsoft patterns & practices Summit" this October.

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

Binding WPF Controls to Data in Visual Studio 2010

Kathleen McGrath — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:37:00 GMT

In this interview, programming writer, McLean Schofield, demonstrates how to add data-bound WPF controls to an application. You can also learn more in the topic Binding WPF Controls to Data in Visual Studio.

Kathleen McGrath
Visual Studio User Education
http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen/

geekSpeak Recording - Accessibility and WPF with Robert Altland

glengo — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:28:00 GMT

In this episode of geekSpeak, we explore how to write accessible applications using Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Microsoft Silverlight with Robert Altland, a principal consultant with Neudesic. Robert provides a quick review of UI automation, the new accessibility framework for WPF, and Silverlight application development. This geekSpeak is hosted by Lynn Langit and Mithun Dhar.

The geekSpeak webcast series brings you industry experts in a "talk-radio" format hosted by developer evangelists from Microsoft. These experts share their knowledge and experience about a particular developer technology and are ready to answer your questions in real time during the webcast. To ask a question in advance of the live webcast, or for post-show resources, be sure to visit the geekSpeak blog.

Guest Info: Robert Altland, Principal Consultant, Neudesic, LLC

Based in Irvine, California, Robert Altland is a principal consultant with Neudesic, a leading Microsoft .NET professional services firm and a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. Robert's career has spanned the spectrum from design to development, which gives him unique insight into Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Microsoft Silverlight application development. He has been developing enterprise Web and Windows-based applications using the.NET platform since its release, and Robert has been actively developing WPF and Silverlight applications for the past two years.

Developing Windows 7 Multi-Touch Apps without a Multi-Touch Device tutorial

Adam Kinney — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:45:00 GMT

Walt Ritscher has a new tutorial on how to Develop Windows 7 Multi-Touch Apps without a Multi-Touch Device. Using a Codeplex project called MultiTouchVista, Walt shows how to configure your system to work with multiple mice and other input devices.

Toolshed Tooltip #17 - Expression Blend 3 SketchFlow - The game has changed

Russell Fustino — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:40:00 GMT

The Expression Blend 3.0 SketchFlow feature changes the game when it comes to both developers and designers becoming integrated on the development and design process. Prototype WPF and Silverlight Applications with amazing speed. Provide review, feedback and documentation with ease.

What is it?
It’s a new set of features specifically targeted at making it easier and faster to design, communicate, and review prototypes for interactive applications and interactive content.

Download Site *: http://expression.microsoft.com/en-us/cc507094.aspx

Example Problem(s) it solves:

Provides a ‘white board’ approach to an application diagram for interactive flow
Similar to Powerpoint prototype:
but is non-linear
No upper limits – can use scribbles, draw UI elements or use standard UI elements
It’s a real Silverlight or WPF application
You can design screens from other screens
Reviewers can annotate prototypes while they are running

Installation Notes:
SketchFlow feature is not available yet (ETA sometime soon)

* Usage Notes: 3.0 is not out yet (however an Expression Blend 3 Preview is available without SketchFlow)

This is the fourthof Tool Shed Tooltips released from Episode 3 of the TV Show Russ Tool Shed presents... "It's All About The Tools" hosted by Russ Fustino and Co-Host Stan Schultes. Download code, ppt and demo script from http://code.msdn.com/toolshed for all episodes. Also, use the links on http://channel9.msdn.com/toolshed to download tools. Finally, check out some more great videos on the Developer Evangelist East site: http://channel9.msdn.com/dpeeast

Toolshed Tooltip #16 - Expression Blend 2 Video, Animation and VS Integration Basics

Russell Fustino — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:20:00 GMT

See how Expression Blend 2 makes like easier as a developer and a designer for Silverlight and WPF applications by building XAML in a WSYIWIG editor. We will cover the basics of creating Silverlight 2 project with a web page displaying a video and animating it. Finally, we will show how Visual Studio is integrated for code behind event handlers.

What is it?
Mix design elements such as video, vector art, high quality text, animation, pixel images, and 3D content with a full toolbox of advanced controls and containers to create engaging, cinematic user interfaces.

Download Site: www.microsoft.com/expression

Example Problem(s) it solves:
XAML code generation

Installation Notes:
Install Expression Blend 2 SP1 in addition to Visual Studio 2008 SP1 for Silverlight 2.0 support.

This is the third of Tool Shed Tooltips released from Episode 3 of the TV Show Russ Tool Shed presents... "It's All About The Tools" hosted by Russ Fustino and Co-Host Stan Schultes. Download code, ppt and demo script from http://code.msdn.com/toolshed for all episodes. Also, use the links on http://channel9.msdn.com/toolshed to download tools. Finally, check out some more great videos on the Developer Evangelist East site: http://channel9.msdn.com/dpeeast

The New Project Dialog

Chris Granger — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:11:00 GMT

With the shell refresh that is coming in Visual Studio 2010, a great deal of the UI has been replaced with new Windows Presentation Foundation parts. The new project dialog (NPD), for example, recieved a complete overhaul as well as some new functionality. Our goal was to make the NPD more efficient to use via the ability to search and order results, as well as more functional through the integration with the Visual Studio Gallery. What does this mean to you? You can get to what you need much faster, and you can discover community generated templates right from within Visual Studio itself.