TEWON35 is a Travel Agency prototype application for Microsoft Surface from 2ndFactory. The linked video shows interaction thought on how to take advantage of multi-touch along with physical objects. Here's a few highlights from the prototype video: 3:30 - the circular calendar beg…
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Following Tim's lead for 2007, I've created a list of all the Silverlight-based Christmas cards I could find. Deep Zoom was the big winner this year as the implementation feature for card creation. Please let me know if I missed any. ObjectSharp - Deep Zoom ContentMaster - Deep Zoom…
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After much anticipation version 2 of the XboxFriendsWatch GamerCard is available for your enjoyment. The whole goal behind this release was to update to Silverlight 2 RTM and make it more of a blog-friendly badge or widget. In order to do that I've added Themes along with a Build Your Own T…
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I noticed a little Silverlight pop up on Zune.net today. The mixview seen in the 3.0 client software is available on the site in Silverlight when looking at an artist's page. Visit The Crystal Method's page and click "mixview" in the sub navigation. Music: Happily Ever After by The…
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The problem statement is simple: What is the problem? There is an empty 10k of code sitting out there between you and some cool cred and great prizes. "The grand prize winner will live large at MIX09 with a free pass to the MIX09 event, three nights at The Venetian Hote…
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NEC Biglobe Deep Zoom Album Viewer adds a nice effect to the Deep Zoom photo layout concept by adding a ripple and z-index effect based on mouse position. I really like the look of this as it adds a bit more to the browsing experience. Its like the photos jump up because they want …
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Oxite, an open source, standards compliant, extensible CMS was "hard-launched" today, much to the delight and excitement of quite a few people. We "soft-launched" it Friday night but you probably didn't hear about it. When the time came to relaunch MIX Online the…
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I’m excited to say that the spirit of the Project “Rosetta Stone” Tutorials, which is “using what you know” has become a MIX09 workshop. The workshop is entitled “Shio o Totte: Using What You Know” and the description is as follows: Have you just started working on your first Silverlight pro…
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Although quite a few people have linked to this video already, I wanted to point out something interesting. Not that you wouldn’t catch it if you watched the movie. But with the comments of “familiar resizing, option selecting interaction”, you may not take the 2 minutes to check it out. Firs…
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DeepEarth is a prototype of an interactive map using the Deep Zoom functionality of Silverlight. The project is developed by the community and the code is available on CodePlex. You may have seen the previous demo video before but the current demo site has been recently updated t…
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On December 12th in the grand Kodiak room of the Microsoft Conference Center, there will commence a free training Windows event of the greatest proportions seen in the area for awhile. Take a look at the line up: Mark "Inside Windows" Russinovich will be there to explain Windows oddit…
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For PhizzPop Chicago, Manifest Digital was tasked with creating a digital strategy for Chicago's bid to become the host city for the 2016 Olympics. Their winning entry was Five Star City, a digital scrapbook allowing the people of Chicago to express themselves and explain why think Chicag…
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XAML Power Toys - Instant Form Generation (28:10) Karl Shifflett is someone you know you should know when you first meet him. He’s a super smart guy who builds great tools for WPF and is obviously having a good time while he’s doing it. One of the first projects he was involved w…
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On the heels of my fascination with SurfaceDJ, Vectorform impresses again by winning the PhizzPop with Study Right, an innovative education application concept. The application visualizes what the classroom of the near future may look like when students have Multi-touch laptops and the teacher ha…
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Celso Gomes: Styling a Silverlight based Twitter application with Expression Blend 2 (10:28) In 10 minutes, Celso Gomes redesigns a working Silverlight-based Twitter application using Expression Blend 2. The fact that he is redesigning the working application without touching any code or…
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The Continuum on Channel 9 is now open for business. Its a central hub for the different online projects coming from myself and my team, including The Continuum Show, Project Rosetta and Continuum News. What is the Client Continuum? The Client Continuum is way to view all of the Micros…
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Monday was a blow out day for The Continuum Show. 5 videos from PDC were posted showing off new, unique and useful tools. As UI technologies improve and expectations grow control and tool vendors are adapting and changing in interesting ways. I'm loving the attention paid to enabli…
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Something about companies with compound names... Being a UI guy, one of the biggest impressions PDC2008 left on me was Multi-touch. This is the first time I've seen it done in so many forms. There were Surface tables everywhere, in the Lounges, Hand-on Labs, Exhibitor booths, in the hal…
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PDC2008 was an awesome show with a great turnout. This was the first year I was involved so much with the event crew so it was very interesting to see it from the logistics side. A lot of great work done by a lot of people, congratulations to the whole PDC team! Conchango and the Te…
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Here I am in my Moroccan hotel room at the Hotel Figueroa ruminating over the first day at the Conference Center for PDC2008 thinking, who works on a Saturday? Many people do, of course, and some people work really hard like those setting up the Conference Center for the PDC so that the attend…
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QuakeLight Preview (3:00) In the first post about QuakeLight, many people were interested and some just couldn't quite believe what they saw. I was pretty impressed myself and contacted Julien Frelat the man behind the scenes. He was more than willing to provide information on …
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Tonight I saw this distressing tweet from @tsjordan: #wpf: Window.AllowsTransparency, Background="Transparent", WindowStyle="None" ALL A DIRTY LIE. I NEED ROUNDED WINDOWS! And I thought, "I know that works. Let me try it real quick." So I did and I ended…
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Congratulations to the freshly expanded SilverlightContrib team for the work done on their Alpha 2 release! They've overshot their original release goals set in September by quite bit. Straight from their site: Silverlight Contrib is a collection of Silverlight Controls and API e…
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WPF Effects Interview (8:46) WPF Effects Interview - Essential (5:35) WPF Effects Demo (5:35) WPF Effects Demo - Just Effects (3:36) WPF Effects Demo - Just Transitions (2:32) Last week we posted the WPF Effects Library on Codeplex along with an David Teitlebaum interview …
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In exciting local news, a few of us having gotten together and taken note from the Chicago Designers and Developers group and started up the Seattle Designer Developer Interaction Group or as we like to abbreviate it - sd2ig. The purpose of the group is to bring together developers and designers …
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QuakeLight, a Silverlight-based version of the classic game Quake, is a new project from Innoveware Solutions. Reading through Innoveware's news stream you can see that they just started working with Silverlight around 2 months ago and they already have a pretty cool version of Quake up in running…
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3D View Controls for WPF (11:24) 3D View Controls for WPF - Essential (3:20) I remember a while ago in a blog entry that has been lost due to time and many blog redesigns, I posted about building a 3D Windows Explorer allowing you to search files by driving a Manta. I'm pretty sure t…
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WPF Pixel Shader Parts (12:41) WPF Pixel Shader Parts - Essential Edition (2:27) Zoom Blur Shader clip (1:01) Last week I spent some time with Nikola Mihaylov talking about WPF Effects and how Pixel Shaders work with WPF. Shaders are written in HLSL, which are then compiled and m…
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Late last night, Scott Barnes introduced Project Nexus where the goal is to provide a vicarious experience for those who wonder whether the tagline "learn once, apply anywhere" really fits Microsoft's Rich platform story. Can you really take advantage of your .NET skills, code and…
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I just recently found out about the Silverlight-based site Shidonni which describes itself as: ...a virtual universe, where kids and their parents can create their own imaginary world, play games, have fun and interact in a friendly, non-violent environment... After checking out the site two thing…
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After a quiet summer, I thought I'd post up my schedule of conferences for the next 3 months. Heartland Developers Conference September 28-30th Upcoming Event Page I'll be speaking at this event about the Client Continuum, what it is, how to choose which technologies and what are so…
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I noticed A Website Named Desire was live today. The content of the site includes an intriguing poster encompassing the world of the keepers of the web. Along the edge you'll find all the familiar web titles like Software Architect, Interaction Designer and Information Architect. F…
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Project Rosetta (13:33) Project Rosetta - Essential Edition (2:46) One of the most requested resources we're asked for, is tutorials showing how to use Flash skills when creating Silverlight projects. Friday we launched Project Rosetta, which is a new site dedicated to helping design…
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Last week before taking off for vacation, I posted a video of Lawson Smart Office. The application is a great example of what you can do with the power of WPF. A nice-looking user interface which the user can easily navigate and understand as well as personalize in many different ways. …
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Back in May during the excitement of WPF 3.5 SP1 Beta, known on Channel 9 as WPFWeek, we posted the video entitled WPF 3.5 SP1 Graphics with David Teitlebaum. David walked us through some stunning demos of what the improved performance, HLSL and DirectX support in WPF 3.5 could produce. …
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Episode 1 of the new show is an 18 minute interview with Phil Haack discussing ASP.NET MVC. This can be a lot of fun to watch, especially if you are a fan of ASP.NET MVC or Phil Haack. But what if you don't already know about the topics at hand? Would you continue to watch the …
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The Continuum Show has begun! In this new show on Channel 9, we'll be exploring the world of the Microsoft Client Continuum. The Continuum refers to the array of UI technologies available form Microsoft including WPF, Silverlight, ASP.NET, IE8,Windows 7, Surface and more. We'll be …
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No. Unfortunately there has been a bit of confusion going around that the NBC Olympics site is requiring Vista to view the content. I believe the confusion stems from the fact that the NBC Olympics on the Go Windows Media Center application which is another avenue to watch Olympics content…
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I just finished updating the Silverlight Communities page on the Ch9 wiki to reflect the most recent list of Silverlight User Groups that I'm aware of. Its been interesting to watch as Silverlight emerges as a technology the group activity that emerges as well. There is enough excitement around Sil…
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Yesterday Bill Reiss announced the Sports Game in Silverlight Contest which begins August 8th, (the same day as the Olympics, interesting). Bill has been around since the beginning of writing games in Silverlight. His blog Silverlight Games 101 began a few days after MIX07 when he starte…
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Robby Ingebretson has stepped up the game with his new blog nerdplusart. Not only does the new site use a sweet Silverlight app for the homepage (with custom blur effect!) but its functional too. It cleverly provides his latest twitter and song choice along with links to more content.…
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Last week the xRez Yosemite project on Surface was revealed and now this week the Silverlight Deep Zoom version is live. I've added a few screenshots below to give an idea of the of the experience, but of course, it doesn't even come to close to trying the xRez site yourself. Deep Zoom has caught …
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This Hands On lab was originally written for a training event we held last month. While I'm guessing we'll post in some official fashion in the future I thought why not share it in the meantime. The Lab is made up of four sections: Animation API overview - a general look at the concepts…
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Thanks to Scoble for posting the great xRez Studio - extreme pano project video today. The project itself is interesting and the deliver is the frosting on the cake. 70 photographers hiking through Yosemite Park, toting robotic cameras, and positioned by GPS coordinates. They then synch…
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