TWC9: 100th Episode! WPF, VS2010 RC tips, Bonus Footage
TWC9: MIX Wrapup, Visual Studio 2010, Windows Phone 7 Tutorials
Description
This week on Channel 9, Dan is joined by guest host Clint Rutkas to discuss the week's top developer news, including:
- This week on Channel 9 is now on iTunes
- Mike Swanson -
MIX10 Wrap Up
- Interesting because: Lots of fun facts about MIX10 including the on-demand traffic spike, miles of cabling, Red Bull bottles
- Larry Larsen -
Dungeons & Dragons on Microsoft Surface
- Interesting because: Playing D&D on Surface is the coolest+geekiest thing you can do
- Charles Torre - JavaScript -
Project JSMeter
- Interesting because: JSMeter analyzes JavaScript from the top Web sites to profile real-world JS performance and it's used for IE9
- Brian Keller - Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate
Virtual Machines with Sample Data and Hands-On Labs
- Interesting because: If you're looking to get started with TFS, this ready-to-run VM includes sample data and hands on labs
- Sara Ford - Visual Studio Color Theme Editor
- Interesting because: You can change the Visual Studio chrome colors (aka remove purple)
- Simone Chiaretta - Delete Visual Studio artifact folders & SVN folders, via
Alvin Ashcraft
- Interesting because: You can right click in Windows Explorer and clean your project up
- Christian Schormann - Using Paths in a
ListBox in Silverlight 4
- Interesting because: It's a step-by-step tutorial for building a circular path for a ListBox
- Robby Ingebretsen - 10 Favorite Open source fonts you can embed in WPF or Silverlight
- Interesting because: Free and beautiful fonts
- Steve Clayton - I <3
Windows Phone Desktop Wallpapers
- Interesting because: Everyone loves the iconic I <3 Windows Phone
- Channel 9 - Windows Phone 7 Developer Training Course
- Interesting because: Great resource for building your first Windows Phone applications using Silverlight or XNA
- Scott Guthrie - Building a Windows Phone 7 Twitter Application in Silverlight
- Interesting because: It's a step-by-step tutorial for building the Twitter application Scott built in the MIX keynote
- Jeff Wilcox - Reusing the Silverlight Toolkit for Windows Phone
- Interesting because: Jeff walks through his testing of specific parts of the Silverlight Toolkit that work and don't work on Windows Phone
- Daniel Vaughan - CodeProject -
Building a Windows Phone 7 Puzzle Game
- Interesting because: Tutorial on building a Silverlight game for Windows Phone
- Andy Beaulieu - Physics Helper Deluxe Running on Windows Phone
- Interesting because: Physics Helper is a great library that you can easily reuse for building physics games
Picks of the week:
- Clint's pick: René Schulte - Coding4Fun - FaceLight - Silverlight 4 Real-Time Face Detection (live demo)
- Dan's pick: Channel 9 Live where Clint took a C02 propelled Channel 9 guy to the chest
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The Discussion
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wisnia Mayby the purple color of VS 2010 is not the best in the world but I like a lot more the colors of VS 2008 which is too bright for me. After a couple of days you stop noticing the purple anyway so no what ever
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dentaku Sometime soon I'm going to try out some Sliverlight 4 Phone 7 tutorials. I haven't ever written real usable software before but it just seems so interesting now because of Expression Blend. I know way more about graphics and audio software than programming
My first step will be to make scrollbars with some kind of display that shows the position of the scrollbars from 0 to 127.
I'd just love to see a midi controller app for WP7 that's like Adlibitouch and eventually TouchOSC .
I've got to design some interface elements in Illustrator sometime soon and import it in Expression Blend to see how it all looks.
I know it's possible because Dan and Clint's Robot app sends control data to another computer which then gets interpreted into another form of data the robot understands (I'm assuming that's how it works) so it would work to send info from the phone to an app on a computer that converts it to MIDI NOTE and MIDI CC information that can be sent through MIDI Yoke to another program that supports midi controllers.
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Niner Nice episode. Nice stats about MIX10, there was a related video also on Channel9
I too had posted Windows Phone desktop wallpaer at my blog in various sizes-
‘I Love Windows Phone’ Wallpapers
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Dan Dentaku - Correct, what we did was setup a Web server on a laptop (Windows 7 Pro includes IIS, for example) and we send commands via query string. We'll have a future tutorial on just that, but feel free to send us questions as you app idea would be very cool and we'd love to feature it on Coding4Fun too
As for learning Expression Blend, there are a lot of resources out there, including
.Toolbox design site - https://www.microsoft.com/design/toolbox/
Adam Kinney's Eye's of Blend tutorials
Book - Foundation Expression Blend 3 with Silverlight - http://www.amazon.com/Foundation-Expression-Blend-Silverlight-Foundations/dp/1430219505
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Richard.Hein Debug.Assert(Magic.Geekiness < DandD.Geekiness / 100);
Why did you have to tell me it was purple? I was happy in my colour blind bliss, thinking it was blue and gray. Now I'm not happy. The brain is like that, even if I still looks the same, my brain says it's purple and it's totally not cool. Reminds me of the time my best friend gave me one of his nice expensive sweaters that his uncle got him for Christmas, and I thought it was so nice of him to give that to me. Then I wore it to school and found out from everyone that it was purple. Yes, he knew I was colour blind. I felt betrayed. Just like now.