Windows 7 includes new features that you can use in your applications to add functionality and improve system integration. The APIs are written in native code, but are accessible to .NET developers via the Windows 7 .NET Interop Sample Libraries. To see the Libraries in action check out the f…
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The question was simple - "What can you build with Silverlight or WPF in 10k?" Many attempted to dazzle the judges and the community, but only few could win and only one would be granted a trip to MIX09. To spoil the video and read who won, check out the official Announcement. …
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Composite Application Guidance, affectionately known as Prism, version 2 has been released. Prism provides guidance and code that can help you build modular applications that can adapt to constant changing requirements. In this video, Blaine Wastell provides a quick overview and demon…
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Following along in Giorgio’s footsteps, here’s my free pass to MIX giveaway… I have had the opportunity to attend and be involved with MIX since the beginning and it has quickly become my favorite conference to attend. If you live and work in the Microsoft world anywhere from 100% to 10% of…
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Robby Ingebretsen has been working with WPF for a long time. Back in the days when it was still called Avalon and before it was public, Robby was toiling away as a Controls PM at Microsoft. Since then he, has awakened his inner Designer and after 6+ years of work in the XAML wor…
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Please put your pencils down and pass your papers forward… As of 11:59 pm PST time, January 30 the MIX09 10k contest has closed the entry phase and moved onto the voting phase. Total entry count is not ready yet as we have a large amount that was entered in the last 2 days, especially the las…
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TCSWeekly 002 - 3:47 The second episode of the new show was posted yesterday. I switched locations look in search of better light. I’m still working on timing though, for the next episode I’m going to try a “no-takes” session. We’ll just shoot it live and see what we e…
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MVVM, a WPF UI Design Pattern, has become a hot topic in the world of WPF development. The pattern was originally introduced by John Gossman and was tailored towards modern UI development platforms. The goal being to separate the design of the application from the data and the…
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When I first started The Continuum Show, I wondered if there would be enough content to keep a steady flow. 25 episodes into it, the realization has come that there is a ton of content out there (especially with Windows 7 out now), thus a spin-off has been born. TCSWeekly is a new s…
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This is great news! The popular site COLOURlovers which offers a place for community members to upload their favorite palettes, patterns and not surprisingly, colors. Members can comment, rate and download the different patterns and palettes to use in their own projects. The site has bee…
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PhotoSuru, a WPF-based photo experience - (9:49) PhotoSuru, is a new sample from the WPF team that provides a unique way to browse photos. The application takes advantage of some of the richer WPF features such as pixel shaders, adaptive layout, custom themes and offline storage…
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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: 1:30 - the circular calendar beg…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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After all of the interest shown in the WPF 3.5 SP1 graphics video, I was planning on writing a tutorial showing how to create your own simple custom effect. Noe need. Instead, I will point you to Anders Bursjöö Grayscale Effect tutorial. Anders walks step by step through the…
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With the release of WPF 3.5 SP1 Beta, many have written comprehensive text on the subject: Introducing the Third Major Release of Windows Presentation Foundation - Tim Sneath Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta - Scott Guthrie VS2008 and .Net 3.5 SP1 Beta - Shou…
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Mindscape recently announced the release of their WPF Property Grid. The Mindscape WPF Property Grid is a 100% WPF component for browsing and editing object properties. Use the WPF Property Grid to rapidly add features such as user configuration, preference editing and domain-specific designers to …
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On November 29th 2007, a group of people gathered together to study Silverlight. "What is it, really?", "What can I do with it today?" and "There really is more than just a Media?" were all questions answered that day. Video and audio of the event has been captured on the Silverl…
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Robby Ingebretsen stopped by on Halloween last week to not only discuss the holiday of tricks and treats but also the interesting story behind designers, developers and integrators. Robby has done a lot of thinking and work in this space, especially since joining Identity Mine where…
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The ZamDes user group just had their first meeting and I found this in their slides: Impressive. Most impressive.
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A new Wellington NZ based user group focused on WPF and Silverlight for designers will be holding their first meeting on Thursday the 13th of September. This is awesome to see. Now if only Wellington wasn't so far from here, I'd stop by :) From their about section: If you w…
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Today I posted two screencasts, created by Jaime Rodriguez, on Channel 9. Its a short two part series which provides an overview of "Cider", the WPF Designer surface, included in the recently launched Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2. In the first video, I was really impressed with the contro…
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In a recent Channel 9 video, Charles interviews Karsten Januszewski and Tim Aidlin about Flotzam. Take a spoonful of Twitter, add some Flickr and a dash of Facebook, optionally flavoring to you own taste with custom RSS support and you have an application that doubles as a screensaver flowing…
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Two years ago on this very date of June 20th, I started my first day here at Microsoft. It was an exciting day, it was just new employee orientation, but it was my first job in a technical company with more than 20 employees. I was hired on to become the newest web developer on the coole…
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I just came from a session given by Nathan Dunlap and Robbie Ingebretsen entitled “ZAP!, WHAM!, KAPOW!”: WPF and the Next Genertion of Online Comic Book Reading. And yes, it was as awesome as it sounds like as it should be. They presented an experimental WPF app designed to cr…
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All MIX07 attendees will receive a Commemorative Edition of Expression Studio, that combined with receiving a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate and you're ready set up a fresh new pc for designing your WPF and WPF/E apps. Very nice. I used to go to a fair amount of conferences and I don't re…
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I watched this video straight through, full command of my attention. On Channel 9, Micheal Wallent tells the history of WPF and provides interesting information on its current incarnation and where its heading. I had actually heard a little of this at MIX06 during the Mix Chat at the&nbs…
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When I first saw "Avalon" back in 2003, I was stunned (Vector Graphics, Hardware Acceleration, Rich layout and Controls, etc...). But Avalon is a very rich client and I've always been a web-based developer at heart, so once I saw the short demo of WPF/E yesterday I flipped out again. WPF/E…
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