Show Off Entries From Mix08

Dragon's Lair

Joshua Allen — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

My name is Liam Molloy and I am a developer at Vertigo. I’m also an old school gamer. I started with the classics like pong, Donkey Kong and Pacman. But nothing made my jaw drop, more than when I first saw dragons lair. Watch my video to see my attempt at resurrecting this classic Video game in Silverlight.

Tools:

Silverlight 2.0
Visual Studio 2008
Expression Encoder

Sobees DeskNet

Joshua Allen — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:57:00 GMT

Sobees brings a new user experience to your desktop. This video presents sobees main characteristics while focusing on rss feed reader.

Vincent Rithner, Sébastien Von Roth, Bastien Chételat, François Bochatay. deskNET SA Switzerland

Tools:

Expression Blend and Design
Visual Studio 2008
SQL Server 2005 & 2008
SQL Server Compact Edition 3.5

40 - My Life With Silverlight 2

Joshua Allen — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:26:00 GMT

What do you get when you mix memories and feelings from your life with Silverlight 2? … a personalized data visualization experiment that you can learn from. “40 – My Life in Silverlight 2” is a unique memory map of my first 40 years.

Paul Osburn Engineering Director, Vertigo

Tools

Silverlight 2.0
Visual Studio 2008
Expression Design
Expression Blend

www.vertigo.com

Wii Data Visualization and Multipoint Nonsense

Joshua Allen — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:20:00 GMT

Congratulations to Veracity for winning 3rd place in the MIX08 Show Off contest!

Input peripherals are fun, but never more fun than when they're everyone's favorite gaming device, the Wiimote control for the Nintendo Wii. In this video, we first take a look at a data visualizer for the Wiimote built with WPF. Then we look at how we can use this as a base to practice developing multi-point applications.

Matthias Shapiro (Project Lead)
Jason Alderman (Electronics Guru)
Galen Murdoch (Project Sounding Board)
Veracity Solutions

Tools

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (C#)
Microsoft Expression Blend
Brian Peek’s Managed Library for the Nintendo Wiimote Soldering Kit

http://www.designerwpf.com http://www.veracitysolutions.com

TempWorks Business Software

Joshua Allen — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:19:00 GMT

Business software doesn't have to be boring! WPF is a great platform for creating a software experience that helps people work smarter and faster.

Aaron Nottestad, Matt Sonnenberg, Jeff Bradford, Jason McCord, Eric Rodewald, Eric Anderson, and Paul Czywczynski. TempWorks Software

Tools:

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
Microsoft Expression Blend

Telerik Resort Explorer

Joshua Allen — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:08:00 GMT

The movie is a presentation of a sample application of a resort locator that demonstrates the power of Telerik RadControls for WPF.

Lyubomir Popov and the Telerik team

Tools

Telerik RadControls
Microsoft VS 2008
Microsoft Expression Blend
Microsoft Expression Design

WPF for Touch Screen

Joshua Allen — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:07:00 GMT

An example of using WPF to create an interactive digital picture frame for a touchscreen UMPC, illustrating creative methods of layout and input for viewing and cycling through pictures.

Jeff McNeal, Shawn Kendrick (Video Production). The Sunflower Group

Tools

Expression Blend
Visual Studio 2005
Expression Design

Social Retailing

Joshua Allen — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:06:00 GMT

An interactive mirror (WPF) and website (ASP.NET AJAX) built around a Social Networking concept IconNicholson has been developing. It also integrates RFID and live streaming video.

Roland Nasr, IconNicholson

Tools

Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0
Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX 1.0
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2005
Microsoft Expression Blend 1.0
Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Windows Media Services 9
Adobe Creative Suite 2
RFID – Symbol Technologies (now Motorola)

Real Time Physics in Silverlight

Joshua Allen — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:42:00 GMT

Congratulations to "Real Time Physics" for winning 2nd place in the MIX08 Show Off contest!

Bill Reiss and Andy Beaulieu discuss development of and sample applications for the Farseer Physics Engine for Silverlight. The Open Source Farseer Physics Engine allows developers to easily create realistic physics behaviors and is a powerful addition to Silverlight 2.0.

Bill Reiss, Andy Beaulieu, and Jeff Weber

Tools:
Expression Blend, Visual Studio

MSNBC News Lookup

Joshua Allen — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:41:00 GMT

Mike Simon from msnbc.com shows off through how he prototyped an IE 8 Activity, building on existing search implementation. This prototype activity allows users to select text and quickly get the latest news headlines on that subject.

Mike Simon (Developer, msnbc.com), Peter Durham (Senior architect, msnbc.com), Travis McElfresh (VP Technology, msnbc.com), JoAnne Kennedy (Sr. Director Product Dev, msnbc.com), Jong Huang (Architect, msnbc.com), Jane Kim (Senior PM, IE8 Team), Allen Zheng (Tester), Lyn Zhou (Tester), Cindy Liu (Test Lead)

Tools:

Internet Explorer 8.0
Visual Studio 2005
Editplus 2.0
Photoshop CS2
Workbench

Fresh Logic Studios Atlas

Joshua Allen — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:40:00 GMT

Fresh Logic Studios. Gas prices, GPS tracking, GeoRSS feeds and more. Atlas is everything you wished a map could be.

Shawn Miller, Jacob DuBray (Eye In The Sky performed by Gabriel Mann)

Tools:
Visual Studio 2008, Adobe Photoshop

Crayon Physics Deluxe

Joshua Allen — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:40:00 GMT

Congratulations to Kloonigames for winning 1st place in the MIX08 Show Off contest!

The video shows Kloonigames playing a game that they've been working on called Crayon Physics Deluxe. In the game anything you draw comes to live and behaves physically correctly.

Petri Purho, Kloonigames. Music by _Ghost

Tools:

Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express
Adobe Photoshop

Clearspring: Welcome to the Enrichment Center

Joshua Allen — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:38:00 GMT

Created by Clearspring. See as a typical Silverlight App evolves to become a widget that works on the Vista Sidebar, Facebook, iGoogle, Live, Netvibes, and many other destinations. This is done without any additional code and no modification to the Silverlight app. Screenshots are automatically created for the widget galleries.

Dylan Greene, Clearspring

Tools:
Blend, Silverlight, Clearspring.com

ComponentOne

Joshua Allen — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:38:00 GMT

The video shows, in an entertaining and humorous way, how Silverlight and ComponentOne Studio can help developers create some really amazing applications.

Todd Schick, ComponentOne
Trevor Piotrowski, ComponentOne
Eve Turzillo, ComponentOne
Jay Sutermaster, Computer Enterprises, Inc.
Paul Schick – Music
Special thanks to Lightmaker

Tools:

Visual Studio 2008 and Silverlight Development Kit
ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight (Alpha)

ActionThis Runtime Page Optimizer

Joshua Allen — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:37:00 GMT

How ActionThis used Microsoft technologies to boost website performance. This enabled ActionThis to host a website in New Zealand, 12,000 miles away from their customers and ensure great performance for people across the planet.

Derek Watson, ActionThis

Tools:
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, ASP.NET 2.0, IIS7

MIX Cloud: 352 Media Group

Joshua Allen — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:00:00 GMT

352 Media created a "MIX Cloud" where people at the event can post shout-outs and other messages. As new messages are submitted, older messages move back until they form a dynamic, user-generated background. This video looks at the "MIX Cloud's" development, from idea through completion.

Lincoln Anderson, Peter Brownstein. 352 Media Group

Tools:
Expression Blend, Visual Studio