Adam Kinney posts tagged with 'wpfe'

Expression Studio for all MIX07 attendees

Adam Kinney — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 03:30:00 GMT

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 remember getting any kind of offer like that.

On a side note, we have the first couple of REMIXes published. There's Binary Haze, Licorice and my favorite so far Army Men.

HALO themed "WPF/E" player source code

Adam Kinney — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 19:40:00 GMT

Mike Harsh pointed out I didn't share the source for the HALO themed player for Scott Guthrie's appearance in Red vs Blue. Extremely embarrassed and questioning my ability to be a "sample guy", I've posted the source. Are you happy now? I'm feeling better about it already.

HALO themed player for Scott Guthrie in Red vs. Blue

Adam Kinney — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:58:00 GMT

"Can you make a HALO themed player for the next Red vs. Blue video? It has Scott Guthrie in it and he talks about ASP.Net to the Red team."

"Scott Guthrie in Red vs. Blue? Nice. Sure, I don't have that much time but I can put something together."

/me grabs code from SleekVideoPlayer sample. Throws in new graphics, adds sliding intro panel and popup link at the end. Turns up volume of video.

/presents Red vs. Blue player on Channel 9

/Scott Guthrie blogs about it

The 9 guy has been energized by WPF/E

Adam Kinney — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 22:35:00 GMT

So while waiting for this WPF/E holiday, I had the opportunity, to use and learn about WPF/E. This sample of shown to the left is the current WPF/E media player for Channel 9. So I started down the route of creating the best media player ever but once I got beyond some of the basic functionality, I learned hw to use Storyboards and Animation. I was hooked, it was so simple to animate each individual shape or object. I wanted everything to move! This sample demonstrates an exercise in the Animation framework by running a total of 121 animations, all while playing video and serving as a media player.

Its all vector too! No bitmaps involved, which allows for maximum flexibility. This was also done all in Visual Studio, which I was using mainly as Notepad with color coding. Microsoft Expression Studio was announced today as well, so you most likely will not be typing out your own xaml, but I had a lot of fun tweaking each and every object with all of the numbers in view. One thing that makes hand-coding possible though is the speed of the engine. You make a change in your xaml file, hit refresh on your page, and you get instant results.

Ok, I should stop, and take a breather. I'm really excited about WPF/E and I plan to talk a lot more about it in the future. I already have a list of little nuances I plan to share that I learned while creating this guy. Allright, I'm going to go check out the WPF/E forums.

"WPF/E" December CTP goes live today!

Adam Kinney — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 22:21:00 GMT

9 am this morning, I eagerly updated the Channel 9 site with all of the WPF/E goods we had gathered for the CTP. We've got two video interviews conducted by Ernie Booth and Laurence "Great time to start at Microsoft" Moroney, one with Joe Stegman covering an overview of what "WPF/E" is and how it kicks ass. And another with Celso Gomes, who has been one of the top contributors to the team as a designer and early adopter.

Plus Laurence handed in two screencasts, one on Getting Started and one that walks you through the SDK Samples. Speaking of the SDK samples, they are available for your perusal on the WPF/E page on Channel 9.

The WPF/E Dev center went live today. And thanks to Mike's post, I have the lnk to the WPF/E forums on MSDN as well.

It feels like the Holidays came early this year :)

WPF, where it came from and where its going

Adam Kinney — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 04:38:00 GMT

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 WPF table, but this a clear account of how and why the team and project was formed. Since, my Longhornblogs/Xamlon days, I've been giving WPF sometime to simmer before digging into it. I've been so web focused, but its always been right there taunting, its a good pain, though. After listening to this though, I don't know how much more I'll be able to hold off before diving in.

I took notes throughout the whole video due to the steady flow of information. Rather than drop the notes for the whole video, I'm going to focus on the WPF/e comments, mirroring the my interest in that space. Atlas helps you build dynamic (like truly dynamic) cross-platform HTML applications. WPF provides for a stunning, hardware accelarated, legible without precedant, integration of documents, graphics media experience. But WPF/e is going to hit that nice sweet spot in the middle.

WPF/e Notes from the video:

a subset of WPF, missing heavy WPF features (hardware acceleration, 3d, deep flowing text)
it will run cross platform
open format, no license to publish to (Looking forward to the future tools)
a new codec for media "WMV + alpha" - run WMVs and WMAs cross platform (this is huge, especially noted after work done on 10)
can read XPS - (cross-platform documents!)
team goal is 3 releases within the next 18 months

Stoked, is my word for all of this.

What is WPF/E?

Adam Kinney — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 19:29:00 GMT

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 stands for Windows Presentation Foundation "Everywhere", and the concept demonstrated was a subset of WPF where some richness (i.e. 3D, hardware accelration, Adaptive Documents) is given up for reach. Reach out to small devices and other platforms.

During the session we saw a WPF/E application running in IE (7+ supported), Safari, and on a PocketPC. One of the highlights was when they were navigating through the WPF/E app in IE and came upon an external link. The link was clicked and they navigated around a bit and then hit the Back button. And to my sheer joy, the state was held in the WPF/E app displaying the last place you had navigated. Try doing that in Flash.

So what makes a WPF/E application? To run on Safari you can't depend on the .NET Runtime, so it doesn't. You use XAML and JScript to create the application which is then interpreted by the the Hosting Control, in IE's case its an ActiveX Control, otherwise its Native to its environment.

That's all the info I have for now. WPF/E is still in the early stages, but from what I've seen, I'm very excited to see it come to life.