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Creating a Video Playlist with Silverlight and ASP.NET
This screencast demonstrates a dynamic Silverlight front end, where different video playlists, stored in a SQL Server database, can be generated and rendered for different users. In addition to...
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Overlaying HTML and Silverlight Content
While Silverlight v1 doesn’t support a full control suite, ASP.NET and HTML do, and in this example you will see how to use both in a Silverlight front end using Windowless mode. You will see how to...
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Real-Time Data Update with Silverlight and Web Services
This screencast demonstrates how a distributed application can be built with an ASP.NET middleware, and a Web services back end. The middleware consumes the Web service and uses it and a XAML template...
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Publishing Media Content to Silverlight Streaming Services
This screencast shows how you can host media assets as part of a Silverlight application on the Silverlight Streaming globally-cached content distribution network. Download the sample code By clicking...
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MIX07: John Lam and the Dynamic Language Runtime
Tim Heuer had a chance to sit down with John Lam and Tomas Matousek from the Common Language Runtime team. John finally breaks his silence publically about what he has been working on since coming to...
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Creating a Video with an Ad Image Overlay
In this screencast, Tim Sneath shows you how you can use Expression Blend to overlay an image with alpha-channel on top of Silverlight video content; this is a great way to provide a non-intrusive...
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Kevin Moore: New Features in WPF 3.5
Although WPF is less than a year old, we’re already putting the finishing touches to an update that will add some neat features and improvements, improve internationalization support and increase...
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Cider Beta 2 : Feature walkthrough
"Cider" is the codename for the WPF designer in Visual Studio 2008. This screencast covers some of the new features in Cider and walks you through building a small application to apply the features....
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Cider Beta 2 : Styling a WPF application with Blend and Cider
Brief walkthrough on using Blend to style a WPF application originally created with VS 2008 Cider designer; see how you can seamlessly go back and forth between the two tools to get the best out of a...
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Tyler Ballance: live from the SilverlightDevCamp in San Francisco
This weekend I attended the SilverlightDevCamp in San Francisco and met R. Tyler Ballance of Slide.com. The DevCamp ran Friday night and then all day Saturday, but by the end of the first day Tyler...
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Beau Ambur: Developing a Silverlight application
Here is Beau Ambur's session from the SilverlightDevCamp in San Francisco. He walks us through his iPhone replica he made for MIX 07 UK and then Top Banana, an app for editing videos with a very...
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Pascal Bourque - Building a rich datagrid in WPF
Last week I met up with Pascal Bourque from Xceed. Pascal is senior developer who has been developing with WPF for two years. Xceed is a controls company famous for their free WPF Datagrid. We talk...
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Xbox Friends Watch : Silverlight Sidebar Gadget
Now that HALO 3 has been released, my Xbox 360 and I are hanging out together again, Xbox Live is in the picture too. Why? Best answer could be HALO 3 multiplayer mode, and what's better than...
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Robby Ingebretsen : Designers, Developers and Integrators
You may be a developer who sometimes does layout or has to spend time slicing images to stuff into your UI. Or you may be a designer who wants to get that control to function a certain way, so much...
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Usability Research at Microsoft
Last week, David Shadle and I met up with three gentlemen Arnie Lund, UX Community lead for IT, Monty Hammontree, Director of User Experience for Developer Products, and Dennis Wixon, User Research...
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Christmas CoolWall
You may be familiar with the Top Gear CoolWall, but not all of us watch TV that comes from the UK. Sometimes those of us in the US just like the idea and make our version and stick Steve Carell in it....
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ALT.NET Geek Code badge
After visiting the ALT.NET Open Spaces Conference in Seattle Scott Hanselman followed through on one of the open ideas there and created the ALT.NET Geek Code page. After selecting from the list of...
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Ian Ellison-Taylor and Kevin Gjerstad on WPF 3.5 SP1
Dr. Sneath speaks with Ian Ellison-Taylor and Kevin Gjerstad about new improvements and features in WPF 3.5 Service Pack 1. Topics of the conversation range from Graphics, Deployment, Performance,...
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WPF 3.5 SP1 Graphics with David Teitlebaum
You've heard all about the improvements and new features in WPF 3.5 SP1, now its time to see the new stuff. David Teitlebaum takes us on a tour of graphic applications that take advantage of the new...
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WPF 3.5 SP1 Deployment with Troy Martez
Troy Martez and Dr. Sneath go on a deep dive into the new client deployment options available in WPF 3.5 SP1. Interesting new features include the Client Profile (something like a "diet .NET...
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WPF 3.5 SP1 Performance with Adam Smith
Adam Smith and Tim Sneath discuss a wide array of improvements made in WPF 3.5 SP1 concerning performance. Topics include graphics, startup time and benefits gained from the updated CLR. Looking for...
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WPF 3.5 SP1 App Model with Jennifer Lee
I spoke with Jennifer Lee about what's new in the Application Model realm for WPF 3.5 SP1. Topics include the improved cold start, splash screen and a demonstration of HTML and XBAPs using the new...
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WPF 3.5 SP1 Tools with Erick Ellis and Mark Wilson-Thomas
Erick Ellis and Mark Wilson-Thomas talk about what's new in the WPF editor for Visual Studio in .NET 3.5 SP1. Topics include faster performance both from WPF and optimizations of their own, new cool...
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U.S. Army using Silverlight for Resourcing Troops
Dan Hickman from ProModel tells the story of converting their Predictive Troop Resourcing application for the U.S. Army from a Windows Forms application to a Silverlight-based application. Reusing...
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BugCamSmash in Action!
At PDC09, we released Silverlight 4 Beta and announced one of the availability of, one of the most requested features, Web Cam Support. Wanting to have fun with the new feature, I thought of a fun...
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