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MIX07 Slides and Demo Code

0 comments / aggregated from Nikhil Kothari's Weblog on May 09, 2007 (more than a year ago) / original article

Slides and demo code from my two MIX07 talks: AJAX Patterns, and AJAX Controls with Silverlight...

A common problem many people have been running int...

0 comments / aggregated from house of mirrors on May 05, 2007 (more than a year ago) / original article

A common problem many people have been running into when creating Silverlight 1.0 projects is creating reusable controls, and for that matter using Silverlight's Downloader object in a clean fashion.

Here's a simple example that I threw together for some folks internally that's a great intro to object-oriented Javascript and general tutorial for using the Downloader while avoiding global event handlers.

New in the Silverlight 1.0 Alpha is function addEventListener on elements which allows functions to be added as event handlers instead of method names.

Mix Video Search sample

0 comments / aggregated from Joe Stegman's WebBlog on May 05, 2007 (more than a year ago) / original article

I’m a few days late but finally getting around to posting my Mix session samples and source. The first sample is of a front-end I built for MSN video. The sample is available online here with the source here. Here’s a screen shot of the sample:

Mix Sessions Online

0 comments / aggregated from Joe Stegman's WebBlog on May 05, 2007 (more than a year ago) / original article

The Mix sessions are available on-line here. For Silverlight sessions, I’d recommend starting with the following:

V 1.0 Sessions:

· Celso Gomes: Building Rich Web Experience with Silverlight and Microsoft Expression Studio for Designers

· Mike Harsh: Deep Dive on Silverlight Media Integration

· Brad Abrams, Chris Knowlton, James Clarke: Creating and Delivering Rich Media and Video on the Web with Silverlight, Microsoft Expression Studio, and Windows Server Codename "Longhorn"

· Joe Stegman: Building Rich Web Experiences Using Silverlight and JavaScript for Developers

V 2.0 Sessions:

· Jamie Cool: Building Silverlight Applications Using .NET (Part 1 of 2)

· Jamie Cool, Nick Kramer: Building Silverlight Applications Using .NET (Part 2 of 2)

Source code for my MIX demo

0 comments / aggregated from Nick on Silverlight and WPF on May 03, 2007 (more than a year ago) / original article

It's been a fun conference, getting to show off all the things we've been working on. And as usual, its also been a lot of work (both by me and the rest of the Silverlight team). So before I get completely out of conference mode, I wanted to post Jamie + my fantasy baseball demo + chart. As usual, its a demo so we didn't get every detail perfect; something I'd like to clean up is the chart control. I went back and forth on whether I wanted a general chart engine or one specific to the app, so its not entirely consistent.

Getting mouse positions

0 comments / aggregated from Nick on Silverlight and WPF on Mar 31, 2007 (more than a year ago) / original article

John points out that WPF/E's mouse event.X/Y are in the coordinate space of the browser plug-in, which can be pretty awkward to work with if your element is rotated, scaled, or otherwise transformed. In February CTP, unfortunately there's no way of transforming the coordinates into the space of your choice, short of writing the matrix multiplication math yourself. I ran into this as well while writing the slider control, it's definitely ugly, we plan to provide an API for this in a future CTP.

I'm up on the web!

0 comments / aggregated from Dante's blog on Mar 28, 2007 (more than a year ago) / original article

Ok, this isn't anything too new for most folks, but the "Trailer" for the Total Training series on Expression Blend is on the net. Check it out at http://youtube.com/watch?v=nqgjv0lODYU.

Yeah, that's me. And yes, I'm quite proud of it. :)

Writing controls in WPF/E

0 comments / aggregated from Nick on Silverlight and WPF on Feb 27, 2007 (more than a year ago) / original article

A while back, I promised to share some tips and tricks about writing controls in the WPF/E CTP (yeah, I apologize, it's been a busy year). A lot of the SDK samples make use of a little framework that Peter Blois wrote which uses JavaScript's eval to create a system for hooking up delegates/event callbacks in code. That's a perfectly good way of doing things, but I prefer a little more of a xaml-oriented approach, so I wrote my own little framework to allow controls to be defined in xaml.

The hidden secret of the "WPF/E" SDK - QuickStart

0 comments / aggregated from Barak's Blog about Silverlight and beyond on Dec 21, 2006 (more than a year ago) / original article

Readers,

I wanted to share somethign that many designers and developers miss when they install the “WPF/E” CTP SDK Download" . It is the Quickstart. The Quickstart is a step by step guide to "WPF/E" that uses very simple live examples. Try it out. Let me know if it is useful (images blow are not clickable). And best of all the team posted the quickstart at: http://wpfesdk.members.winisp.net/quickstart/

Quickstart menu

Refugee in Seattle that enjoys what the community is doing...

0 comments / aggregated from Barak's Blog about Silverlight and beyond on Dec 21, 2006 (more than a year ago) / original article

Readers,

It has been almost a week since a big wind storm hit the pacific northwest and my family is staying in an alternative house since our house is still without power (with sub freezing night tempratures). At least no trees ended on our roof. Well, now that we have some place warm to be, I could spend some more time looking at what people are doing with "WPF/E" and I wanted to talk about a sample on Mike Taulty blog that shows 12 videos playing and animating concurrently.