Entries tagged with winfx - Channel 9

Real-world WPF: Introduction to Blend (Part4)

Nichop — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:33:45 GMT

The UK MCS User Experience Team and a number of UK partners have been working on WPF for over 12 months and this Real World WPF series is intended to show some of their work and capture/share some of their learnings.

Martin Grayson (Ux team) walks Richard Godfrey through the process of building a simple application in Expression Blend.

Part 2 looked at the Expression Blend interface.
http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/2/5/225283de-cda7-4a66-b4c6-bd34077b890e/Part4_3DBuild.wmv.

Real-world WPF: Introduction to Blend (Part3)

Nichop — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:28:09 GMT

The UK MCS User Experience Team and a number of UK partners have been working on WPF for over 12 months and this Real World WPF series is intended to show some of their work and capture/share some of their learnings.

Martin Grayson (Ux team) walks Richard Godfrey through the process of building a simple application in Expression Blend.

Part 2 looked at the Expression Blend interface.
Part 3 (this part) builds the 2D effects used in the application.

The video was captured at 1024x768 so we recommend running it full screen if possible. It is also available for download here :-http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/2/5/225283de-cda7-4a66-b4c6-bd34077b890e/Part3_2DBuild.wmv

Real-world WPF: Introduction to Blend (Part2)

Nichop — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:23:09 GMT

Real-world WPF: Introduction to Blend (Part1)

Nichop — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:14:26 GMT

The UK MCS User Experience Team and a number of UK partners have been working on WPF for over 12 months and this Real World WPF series is intended to show some of their work and capture/share some of their learnings.

Martin Grayson (Ux team) walks Richard Godfrey through the process of building a simple application in Expression Blend.

Part 1 introduces the application and the key features to be built.

The video was captured at 1024x768 so we recommend running it full screen if possible. It is also available for download here :- http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/2/5/225283de-cda7-4a66-b4c6-bd34077b890e/Part1_Introduction.wmv

Real-world WPF: BSF Showcase behind the scenes

Nichop — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:45:57 GMT

The UK MCS User Experience team and a number of UK partners have been working on WPF for over 12 months and this Real World WPF series is intended to show some of their work and capture/share some of their learnings.

Carrie Longson and Paul Tallett (Ux team) take Nick Page behind the scenes of the http://www.microsoft.com/design

http://www.netfx3.com

http://programmermeetdesigner.com/

http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/ - Jensen Harris Blog

http://blogs.msdn.com/karstenj/archive/2006/06/15/632639.aspx - a blog post offering a 5-day course for Hitting the wpf curve/cliff

http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/ - Tim Sneath's blog, technical and talks/showcases how WPF enables great UX.

http://lawsofsimplicity.com/ - An excellent book by John Maeda entitled “The Laws of Simplicity” which provides amazing insight and thought leadership on creating user experiences.

New Vista GUI Stuff For Devs

Rory — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 23:00:31 GMT

I recently had the chance to meet up with Kam VedBrat, lead program manager of Expression Web.

Before working on Expression Web, though, Kam made his way through quite a few other divisions here at The Firm.

Along the way, he picked up quite a bit of knowledge about the new bits driving Vista GUIs.

Kam talks about how to take advantage of some of the new features, like Glass. Glass is a feature that has actually been a little mystery to devs, and Kam clears it all up with a simple demo.

We also get a nice explanation on how composition works under the Desktop Window Manager.

Basically, even though Vista looks more or less like good old Windows, a lot has changed, and Kam has the inside story.

He even clears up the answer to a question that's been troubling devs for a while now: What is Aero? We've all heard a lot about it, and in many different contexts. As a result, there's some confusion about what it really is.

Is it an API? Is it a spec? Is it an experience?

Watch and learn, my friends :)

WCF Ships, Doug Purdy Dances, and Don Box Sings

Rory — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:10:59 GMT

I expected a nice little interview when I went over to visit Doug Purdy in building 42. What I got was the strangest bit of Channel Ninery that I've experienced so far in my several short weeks on the job.

In this video, you'll watch as Doug Purdy assembles a meeting in the style of buliding 42. This mostly involves hollering down either end of the hallway, telling people to show up.

There's singing, there's dancing, and there's very little technical information.

Why? Because I captured a team, in the wild, just after it had shipped a couple v1.0 products, and they were the happiest little software devs on the planet.

The excitement was quite infectuous, and, at one point, I lost control of myself and licked a bag.

Just trust me when I say that there aren't many other C9 videos quite like this one.

Jason Zander on the WinFX to .NET FX 3.0 rename

Duncan Mackenzie — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:39:00 GMT

Ok, just when we all had the WinFX name firmly stuck in our heads, they went and changed it! Why? What does this mean for you? What folders will you end up with in your Microsoft .NET directory? All these answers and more in this interview Duncan did with Jason Zander from the .NET Framework team.

Rules Driven UI using WF

mwink — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 23:35:58 GMT

Moustafa has put together this screencast to show off how you can use the Rules Engine capabilities contained in Windows Workflow Foundation outside of a workflow, and leverage it to drive the business logic of a Windows Forms application. Check out the video, and if you're interested in more, then head on over to our community site where you can download the sample .

This is the article that Moustafa mentions that introduces the Rules Engine available at MSDN.

For more information on Windows Workflow Foundation, you can check the following resources:

Workflow Manager Application

mwink — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 22:24:59 GMT

Sergey, from the Windows Workflow Foundation team, has put together a great sample that highlights designer re-hosting, tracking, and the ability to dynamically update a workflow. Check out the video, and if you're interested in more, then head on over to our community site where you can download the sample.

For more information on Windows Workflow Foundation, you can check the following resources:

How To: Use Vista's Power Management APIs to Be A Good Laptop Citizen

jmazner — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 21:24:34 GMT

Is your application the reason why my laptop only gets two hours of battery life? That's not a question you want to hear from your paying customers. Windows Vista provides an enhanced power management API and control panel which lets the user express their desired power usage profile, and lets applications query and respond to changes in power state.

In the second of our Vista How To Ian Griffiths shows how to listen to power change events in a WPF app, and respond to low power or power saver modes by reducing the amount of animation in the app (thus saving GPU and CPU cycles)

Nathan Dunlap talks about WPF from a designer's perspective

Duncan Mackenzie — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 21:26:02 GMT

Karsten Januszewski interviews Nathan Dunlap, a design extraordinaire who has been the design lead on numerous WPF applications. His blog, Designers Love .NET (http://www.designerslove.net ), is indicative of his enthusiasm for the platform and perspective as a designer. In this video, he talks about some of his design experience with WPF, especially best practices around designer/developer with today’s tools. He also introduces a screencast (iBloks, Dot Net Solutions, and Areva) over in the building 20 developer lab to see demos of what they are building and talk about their experience building applications for Windows Vista.

Michael Wallent: Advent and Evolution of WPF

Charles — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 20:46:42 GMT

Tim Sneath, you know him by now as our friendly neighborhood WinFX Technical Evangelist and Channel 9 correspondent, recently sat down with Michael Wallent, General Manager of the WinFX team and one of the people who helped create DHTML, to discuss the history and future of WPF, our next generation Windows presentation platform. Where did WPF come from? Where does it fit into Web 2.0? These and many more questions are addressed in this excellent interview.

Piero Sierra (and others) - Microsoft Max

Charles — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 21:35:05 GMT

Marketing says: "Microsoft® Max is built on the next-generation WinFX Runtime Components technology that will drive the development of Windows Vista® applications." Now, what is Max, exactly? We send Scoble to find out. He sits down with project Max Group Program Manager Piero Sierra and friends to find out more about Max (Max is a codename mind you).

Scoble's assessment? "Microsoft Max is a new kind of photo viewing and sharing application which might be remarkable enough by itself, but the team that developed Max is pretty remarkable themselves."

Enjoy.

Windows Workflow Foundation API Usability Lab Video – Part 2

Charles — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 21:24:51 GMT

The Windows Workflow Foundation team held a usability lab to gather feedback on the WF APIs. In this video you will see the “behind the glass” view of the usability labs. You will see the lab participant (Michael) work through a few programming tasks and talk about his experience using the Windows Workflow Foundation APIs. The people you will see in this video are:

Steven Clarke – Usability Engineer

Dennis Pilarinos – Program Manager, Windows Workflow Foundation

Nancy Lincoln Perry – Usability Engineer

Moustafa Ahmed – Program Manager, Windows Workflow Foundation

Krishna Sunkammurali – Program Manager, Windows Workflow Foundation

Michael – lab participant

Windows Workflow Foundation API Usability Lab Video – Part 1

Charles — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 21:19:41 GMT

The Windows Workflow Foundation team held a usability lab for their technology. This was an API usability lab where the lab participant was responsible for building a workflow application and providing feedback on the APIs. In the first part of this video, James Conard the evangelist for Windows Workflow Foundation, has a brief chat with several of the people involved in this usability study. In Check out their blog. Out of all the technologies we've seen, it could have the biggest impact in how you'll work with others.

There's a lot to this video, we go from office to office, so you get to hear what people are working on, and at about 34:00 we get a demo of statemachines in WF.

And, with that, happy Thanksgiving, we're taking the next few days off and we'll be back on air on Monday.

Mark Boulter and Brian Pepin - Sneak peak at Cider (visual designer for Orcas, future version of Vis

scobleizer — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 00:54:42 GMT

Mark Boulter, PM and technical lead, and Brian Pepin, development lead, talk to us about Cider, a future version of the visual designer that'll ship in Orcas, future version of Visual Studio.

They demo it too!

Sean Alexander (and others) - Windows Vista Sidebar and Gadgets

scobleizer — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 07:04:46 GMT

Sidebar lives!

But it's even better, here Sean Alexander, David Streams, and special guest Sanaz Ahari of the Start.com team, demonstrate the new sidebar and gadgets that come in Windows Vista. Plus, we cover the three different kinds of gadgets and show how to build your own.

You can learn more on the Microsoft Gadget site.

Kyle Groves and Dave Goulet: eLearning app demonstrates WPF goodness

scobleizer — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 08:53:13 GMT

This eLearning video features Kyle Groves and Dave Goulet from LogicBay demoing a prototype they built for 3M. The very cool thing about the app is the browser integration: it is probably the most sophisticated in browser Avalon app created to date. It also features Arik Cohen from the Avalon (er, Windows Presentation Foundation, aka WPF) team showing off WPF/E: a port of the elearning application to a smart phone. Gnarly!

Karsten Januszewski was the camera guy and interviewer.

Shawn Van Ness - Inking with WPF

scobleizer — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 00:39:26 GMT

We have a short conversation with Shawn Van Ness of the Tablet PC team and he talks with us about using ink with the Windows Presentation Foundation (formerly Avalon).