Entries tagged with xaml - Channel 9

XAML Playground - A Designer built in Silverlight using Gestalt

Adam Kinney — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:00:00 GMT

Karsten Januszewski has posted a write up on his XAML Playground project, a design surface written in Silverlight using Gestalt. The source code is available so you can see a glimpse into the work it takes to create a design tool.

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.

Saving Silverlight XAML to a JPEG using WritableBitmap

Adam Kinney — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:14:00 GMT

Blueboxes walks us through the process of Rendering XAML to a JPEG using Silverlight 3 using the WritableBitmap class. Very useful when you wish to "print" the state of an application or something a user has created.

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.

Gestalt - Nishant Kothary and Joshua Allen

Robert Hess — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:55:00 GMT

Not all Microsoft technologies and projects come out of large development teams with huge budgets and equally huge objectives. There are in fact a variety of very useful technologies which are fairly low-key and the result of small development efforts.

"Gestalt" is a technology that allows web developers to easily include ruby, python, and even Silverlight code directly within the html of their websites. No fancy tools are necessary (or available at the moment). It also work cross platform and cross browser. The end result is rich and powerful web applications which are exceedingly easy to develop and deploy.

In this episode I'll be talking with Nishant Kotharny and Joshua Allen to find out exactly why Gestalt is so cool, and after seeing their demo, I dare you not to want to check it out yourself.

You can download Gestalt and kick the tires here:

Gestalt - A MIX Online Lab

XAML in .NET 4

Adam Kinney — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:00:00 GMT

This isn't your Grandpa's XAML!

XAML in .NET 4 is much more than just a Reader and Writer and also is now being consumed by many technologies including Silverlight, WCF, WF and of course WPF. Rob Relyea and Mike Shim came by to talk about what's new in XAML for 2009 and beyond.

For instructions on how to download and install Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 check out this episode of 10-4.

Druckbetankung - Die Show :: Silverlight Teil IV

Jan Schenk — Fri, 08 May 2009 06:58:00 GMT

Der vierte Teil unserer Silverlight-Serie "Druckbetankung - Die Show" dreht sich um das Aussengerüst einer Silverlight Applikation, und wie dieses dazu gebracht werden mit der eingebetteten Anwendung zu kommunizieren.
Oliver Scheer und ich sprechen über die Parameterübergabe aus der HTML-Seite in Silverlight. Da gibt es einiges zu beachten und viel zu entdecken. So lässt sich am Beispiel unseres RSS-Readers die initial verwendete RSS-Url über die HTML-Seite übergeben, und abhängig davon weitere Elemente im XAML-Code ein- oder ausblenden.

SharePoint for Developers Part 3 - Expression Blend and Silverlight

Kirk Evans — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:42:00 GMT

SharePoint developers will likely use a variety of tools to build solutions. In this screencast, Kirk Evans demonstrates how to use Expression Blend 2 to create a Silverlight application from scratch, and how to extend its functionality using Visual Studio 2008. We won't be looking specifically at SharePoint in this screencast, but we will use this application in future screencasts to integrate with SharePoint.

Fireworks to XAML Panel

Adam Kinney — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:50:00 GMT

Grant Hinkson, the Director of Experience Design at Infragistics, is a big fan of the creative tool from Adobe called Fireworks. An issue, or some people may say an opportunity, arose 3 years ago when he started to work on WPF projects. How can he use his favorite design tool with this new technology? Resourcefully, he ended up writing his own Panel for Fireworks that solved the problem.

The Fireworks to XAML Panel has since been updated to work with both WPF and Silverlight and is available for free for you to use.

Mike Swanson - XAML Plugin for Adobe Illustrator

Robert Hess — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:24:00 GMT

Both of us freshly back from MIX09, Mike Swanson stops in to show us a plug in that he wrote which allows users of Adobe Illustrator to export their designs as XAML for either WPF or Silverlight.

Working Smarter means taking advantage of both the tools and the training that you already know. By using a plugin such as what Mike is illustrating here, it allows Adobe Illustrator users to continue to use their favorite tool while also moving into the world of XAML.

You can download the plug in from Mike's site here:
http://www.mikeswanson.com/xamlexport/

This Week: Martin Woodward, MVP Summit, Web Perf, Show Off, and a VSTS Pep Talk

Dan Fernandez — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:45:00 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian are joined by MVP Martin Woodward to discuss this week's news, including:

- Martin talks about the MVP Summit and how hewon the Team System MVP of the year. The prize, a pimp belt
- Phil Haack: ASP.NET MVC RC 2
- Tutorial: How to enable Gzip compression on IIS 6.0 to get ~70% smaller file size
- Viktar Karpach - Getting an "A" Grade with ASP.NET using YSlow and Firebug
- Erik Meijer and Charles Torre interview Anders Hejlsberg on the future of C#
- Michael Kennedy - ubbuzz.com A custom Twitter watcher for .NET developers
- Jamie and Long start the Channel 9 Task Force for bugs and suggestions
- 1 week left for Show Off Contest
- Vincent Rithner - Sobees, A free WPF Social Desktop Aggregator, Beta now available
- Rob Relyea - XAML State of the Union
- Caliburn Application Framework for WPF and Silverlight(via Alvin Ashcraft)
- Tess Ferrandez - 5-part series on building a Silverlight Game
- Live FrameIt SDK - Picasa and Photobucket integration
- Martin's pick of the week: Send a VSTS Pep Talk to your teammates
- Brian's pick of the week: Scott Hanselman's analysis of Quake Live, it isn't a Web game
- Dan's pick of the week: Brian Peek's tip on how to force a 64-bit exe that uses a 32-bit dependencies to load the 32-bit CLR.

Introduktion till XAML

Swedish MSDN Team — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:10:00 GMT

Känner du att WPF, Silverlight och Surface är intressanta tekniker, men att du inte riktigt har haft tid att sätta dig in i vad XAML är för något och hur det påverkar hur du bygger applikationer?

I denna screencast går Chris Klug, technical trainer på EPI-server, igenom från grunden vad XAML är för något och hur det används. Chris använder en Silverlight-applikation för att exemplifera det han talar om, men koncepten som visas gäller även för WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation).

Silverlight 2 and the Louis Vuitton Pacific Series

Nigel — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:40:00 GMT

It is not everyday that the best sailors on the planet set up shop 150 metres from your work and race each other over a two week period but that is exactly what is happening for me right now.

Check out http://lvps09.com and watch this screencast to learn more . A few things in the end made this application very flexible and extended my experiences with building production code in Silverlight 2. This screencast gets into the nitty gritty details of this project... more details at http://blogs.msdn.com/nigel/archive/2009/02/03/louis-vuitton-pacific-series-2009-auckland-new-zealand-the-silverlight-story.aspx

Microsoft .NET Framework: Declarative Programming Using XAML

Adam Kinney — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:38:00 GMT

If you're using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), or Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), then XAML is your new best friend! Learn how an entire application-from presentation to data to services to workflow--can be authored using simple, declarative XAML notations introduced in the next version of the .NET Framework. Learn about XAML additions like: support for generics, object references, non-default constructors, and more.

Daniel Roth

Daniel Roth has been working on the Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation for the past four years. He is excited to bring the benefits XAML to the world of webservices and workflows.
Rob Relyea

New Editor Features in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Beth Massi — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:57:00 GMT

In this short interview, Yang Xiao, a tester on the VB IDE team is back demonstrating new improvements to the "Go To Definition", "Find All References" and Rename capabilities in the editor when flipping between code and XAML in Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1.

Enjoy,
-Beth Massi, Visual Studio Community

Animation Using Expression Blend: How to make an animation follow a path

Jennifer Marsman — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:45:00 GMT

In Part 3 of the "Animation Using Expression Blend" series, Jennifer Marsman creates a spotlight animation that traverses in a slow circle using the Expression Blend tool.

Animation Using Expression Blend: How to start animations on events

Jennifer Marsman — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:45:00 GMT

In Part 2 of the "Animation Using Expression Blend" series, Jennifer Marsman walks through wiring up animations to start based on events using the Expression Blend tool.

Animation Using Expression Blend: How to create an animation

Jennifer Marsman — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:12:00 GMT

In Part 1 of the "Animation Using Expression Blend" series, Jennifer Marsman walks through creating DoubleAnimations and ColorAnimations using the Expression Blend tool.

AMG Mercedes WPF Demo

Jennifer Marsman — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:35:00 GMT

Jennifer Marsman demonstrates the AMG Mercedes Prototype, which is a XAML browser application built using the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). This website gives a glimpse into the compelling user experience that WPF can create.

Rob Relyea - There's Something About XAML

Charles — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 23:12:00 GMT

Join Charles and Channel 9 special correspondent, Dr. Sneath, as we interview Rob Relyea about XAML's past, present and future. Here, we dig into how XAML works and why it is desiged the way it is. Are you curious about how and why XAML works the way it does? Ever wonder why BAML was created and what it's for? If so, this video is for you.