June 2007 - Posts
Over at Andy Beaulieu blog he is talking about his Silverlight game Destroy All Invaders . I don't know about you but, I learn from examining someone else's code. Games are one of the most demanding software you can create. Did I mention he is making
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Tim Sneath published a list of Silverlight training being conducted all over the world. Go sign up!
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Hey tech fans. Windows Live Folders is up. Get 500 mb of folder space. Free. Go for it here .
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Hey, check out this new game written in Silverlight . Zero Gravity is the result of about 4 weeks and a team of 5 (designers, developers, animators/artists) used Expression Design, Expression Blend 2 and Visual Studio “Orcas” to develop this Silverlight
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Internap has announced they are going to support Silverlight . You can read more about it at their site .
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I think it's worth mentioning here again a set of controls from a company called Netika . Its creating quite a stir internally. They have ported the .NET Forms Library in the Silverlight runtime. The demos are frankly stunning. Very, very Kool.
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In my previous post , I told you about the great tutorials done by the Silverlight team. Well, I've found out about another site that has great promise. Besides anyone who can create a slick site like this one, I want to learn from. It's call Nibbles
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Check this out. New Silverlight video about the port of Silverlight on Windows Mobile. Koolness!
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Just been reading about how the Mono guys are going to show off "Moonlight" at our Mix conference in Paris. You can read about Moonlight a their site here .
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PC World has Popfly as one of the sites to watch. If you haven't already discovered the world of mashups, Microsoft's Popfly is a good place to start. Mashups combine multiple Web-based sites or applications to produce all sorts of useful things, such
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Don't know if you've seen the Jelly ( bar chart , a pie chart and a graph samples) using Silverlight but here is the source code. Jelly Source Code
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On a different note. I am planning my multimedia fantasy centered around my Xbox and Windows Media Center for Vista . I cam across this announcement for some Remotes for Media Center. Kool Philips Showcases New Range of Remotes for Microsoft Windows Vista
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Into dynamic languages like Python? Try IronPython for .NET. There are plenty of examples of IronPython doing Silverlight . IronPython Silverlight Samples
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Screen shot of the demo . You can find out more here It's called Balder and is available on CodePlex here . Kool
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Updated info about the changes to the 1.0 release Silveright Breaking Changes between Mix and Version 1.0
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For those of you playing with Popfly Alpha release (that would be me), I just got word from the Popfly team that they just did a significant code push. Wow! These guys are moving. I am in line to check out some of the new built-in blocks, including ones
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More on that hologram with three guys: The real story is interesting, but conspiracy theorists will be disappointed to learn that it is not the result of a deliberate attempt to deceive. The photo displays members of the team who worked on the Windows
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Maybe you've heard, maybe you haven't heard about the hologram found of three guys on the Windows Vista Business Edition DVD. Interesting and kinda Kool More of that here: » Image Hidden In Windows Vista DVD Hologram
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In my first post , I told you about my scheme to get my hands on a Windows Mobile 6 phone. I just may have found the answer that will be approved by the boss (my wife) - Wahoo! - but will be a locked phone - Booo! - My provider T-Mobile announced they
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Maven Networks is supporting Silverlight with its Internet TV platform. Check it out : Internet TV to get Silverlight | InfoWorld | News | 2007-06-12 | By Paul Krill
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Catching up on my Feed reading and ran across this in ScottGu's Blog. He provides a nice overview of the release. Check it out ScottGu's Blog .
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Hit this link to get to WynApse.com Silverlight Examples & Samples Have fun. I know I will
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Just read a post on LiveSide about Ray Ozzie's R&D team working on a new app called PhotoZoom. No surprise that its based on Silverlight technology. Kool. Here is a crude video of it in action:
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Check out this MSDN Webcast from TechEd 2007. Come learn how to take advantage of Microsoft Silverlight inside your new and existing applications. This session explores the managed platform exposed to Microsoft .NET developers, and demonstrates how you
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I admit it. I didn't have that much respect for JavaScript. My career started over 16 years ago C++ and Object Pascal. And right now I am a hard core C# user (with significant respect for VB.NET). When JavaScript rose from the emergence of the Web, I
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So here is a Mashup I've created in Popfly. Nothing special. It takes the feed from my site using the RSS Block and connects to the basic NewsReader Block. It took a total of 45 seconds to create. I'm not complaining about the way it looks or how it retrieves
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I just checked out the demo of Seven new Silverlight controls from 3rd party vendor Telerik. Kool stuff.
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If you been reading here you know I started a series of posts that gave you a "first look" from my perspective at Silverlight development. After reviewing what's out on the Silverlight site, I want to point you to the significant amount of high quality
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One of our top ASP.NET vendors Infragistics has announced its future plans with Silverlight . You can check it out here here .
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In Part I we looked how I set up Popfly Block SDK in Visual Studio Orcas on my PC. We are going to look at Popfly Block development online in the Popfly environment. In order to get to the Block development area after logging in, you select the "My Projects"
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Want to know more info on the SilverLight Control? Check out the Silverlight Quickstart info at the ASP.NET site here . Technorati tags: SilverLight , ASP.NET
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FYI for those Visual Studio Orca's Beta 1. I decided not to run 64 Vista. For now. Aaron Stebner's WebLog : Web Designer Tools can fail to install during VS Orcas beta 1 setup on 64-bit Windows
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In my first post about Popfly , I commented that the first thing I wanted to do was play around with the extensibility mechanism that is at the core of Popfly called Blocks. After downloading the SDK (sorry, its still in restricted to Alpha testers) but
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The guys on the Mono Project are at it again. » Expect a June demo of Silverlight on Linux, sans browser | Dana Gardner’s BriefingsDirect | ZDNet.com
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...with a tool created by a Microsoft employee Lutz Roeder's whose been working on the Blend team since 2002. Have you heard of the .NET Reflector ? Reflector enables you to look inside compiled assemblies by decompiling the classes within. Since I've
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Got Ultimate. Get the DreamScene right here . They have other wallpapers too. Here is a video of it in action.
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I will make it clear. This book saved my bacon! (Did I just write that?) Do you know how to get max performance from an InfoPath form in a SharePoint Server Farm? Do you know the work around the limitations of InfoPath Active Directory Authentication
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Brad Abrams blogged about the 3rd Part hosting of SilverLight here . I believe its worth mentioning again that you can get 4GB of SilverLight streaming hosted on Windows Live at https://silverlight.live.com/ . Just login with your Windows Live ID and
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If you have attention problems like me, check out the highlights . If you want to see it all go here . Did I mention that I started my career at Apple back in 1989? John Sculley, CEO of Apple back in '89 had already booted Steve, so I didn't have the
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As I have said in my previous post , my interest has peaked in SilverLight because of the tight integration with Visual Studio Orcas . Specifically it allows you to use Managed Code (i.e. C# or VB.NET) to drive XAML UIs. I promise an in-dept dive into
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...and hoping the boss (my wife) will approve the proposal ;-) Being a consultant on the road 70% of the time, I use it for everything. E-mail, browsing, appointments, tasks. I currently have an unlocked i-mate Smartflip with Windows Mobile 5. I want
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