Entries tagged with silverlight - MIX Online

MIX08 Keynote: Mobile Social Networking

Joshua Allen — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:22:00 GMT

Check out this footage from the MIX08 keynote; a mobile social networking application built in Silverlight by Stimulant and StepChange. You can also see an interview with the guys from Stimulant, or check out StepChange's OpenSpace presentation.

NBC Olympics in MIX08 Keynote

Joshua Allen — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:09:00 GMT

The NBC Olympics demo was a highlight of the MIX08 keynote; an incredible media-viewing experience built in Silverlight. Here is the footage from the keynote. You can also see an interview with Perkins Miller talking about their solution here.

DoubleClick MIX08 Keynote

Joshua Allen — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:06:00 GMT

DoubleClick demonstrates integration between Silverlight and their ad-tracking platform, in this clip from the MIX08 keynote.

AOL MIX08 Keynote

Joshua Allen — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:59:00 GMT

Here is the MIX08 keynote footage of AOL's mail client in Silverlight. You can see an interview with the AOL folks here, or watch the breakout session where they describe their lessons learned.

Aston Martin MIX08 Keynote

Joshua Allen — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:58:00 GMT

Here is the footage from Aston Martin's MIX08 keynote, showing the end-to-end experience from computer to auto with Silverlight. You can also see an interview with Aston and their agency, Splendid, here.

Using Silverlight 2 in Financial Applications

drobbins — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:28:00 GMT

Silverlight 2 is going to allow designers and developers to reuse their existing skills to create Rich Internet Applications. This video shows how Silverlight 2 could be used to build financial applications that go beyond the typical HTML-based applications common on the web today.

A Silverlight Game Engine

drobbins — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:20:00 GMT

In this Open Space session, Patrico Jutard of Three Melons gives a demo of their Silverlight game engine. Watch the video to see some of the possiblities for developing casual internet games using Silverlight.

DigiTurk Magazine Reader

Joshua Allen — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:28:00 GMT

DigiTurk is the first and only fully digital satellite television provider in Turkey. In addition to satellite TV for millions of customers in Turkey, they publish magazines and run DigiWeb portal. Like many other magazing publishers, DigiTurk saw value in using Silverlight to provide a richer reading experience. But they took the idea a step further, and built a tool which can be used by any magazine publisher to create Silverlight-based magazines.

Tim Sneath sat down with the team from DigiTurk to get a demo and hear about how they built this cool solution.

Slide.Show Silverlight Demo

drobbins — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:49:00 GMT

Vertigo goes over their Slide.Show Silverlight application. They talk about how they built it, where its used and how to customize it for your own needs.

Slide.Show is an open source project available on codeplex.com.

Silverlight and Web Analytics

Brian Keller — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:11:46 GMT

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Silverlight and Web Analytics
Speakers: Aaron Fossum; Bret Grinslade; Michael Scherotter; William Garrison
Description: Rich Interactive Applications (RIAs) and media players built with Microsoft Silverlight are easily integrated with web analytics services like WebTrends On Demand, Omniture SiteCatalyst, and Microsoft AdCenter Analytics. In this panel, you will learn from experts at each of these companies about the different ways that Web analytics services collect data about web usage behavior and allow businesses to measure how web sites perform against business goals. Each panelist will discuss how to incorporate their company's web analytics services into Silverlight applications and then take advantage of the separation between the design in XAML and code in JavaScript to do effective A/B testing.

Real World Design: Working with Silverlight and WPF in the Design Studio

Brian Keller — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:11:46 GMT

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Real World Design: Working with Silverlight and WPF in the Design Studio
Speakers: Beau Ambur (Metaliq); Chip Aubry (Tribal); Chris Bernard (MODERATOR); Jeffrey McLean (projekt202); Nathan Dunlap (Identity Mine); Rich Weston (Neudesic)
Description: Silverlight and WPF represent a new way for designers and developers work together. But what happens in a professional practice that's focused more on employing designers than developers and using Macs versus PCs for much of their daily design work? Join us as we find out how practitioners from companies like Tribal, Projekt202, Metaliq and Identity Mine discuss the learning curves and the workflow that they adapted with their visual designers and rich interactive developers to get up to speed with Expression Studio, XAML and Silverlight. You'll hear the unvarnished truth about the challenges and rewards of how Silverlight is enabling the digital design practice.

NBC Olympics Player

Joshua Allen — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:49:00 GMT

Some time ago, we announced that NBC would be using Silverlight to broadcast the Olympics to the web. Now, for the first time, NBC is showing what the application looks like -- and it is beautiful! Nishant interviewed Perkins Miller of NBC about the application, and got an exclusive demo -- this is all working code as shown in the keynote.

Business Value of UX: Move Networks

Joshua Allen — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:30:00 GMT

One of the surprises in the keynote was the announcement that Move Networks would be using Silverlight. Move powers the streaming media for some of the biggest broadcasters, and tend to be rather pragmatic about technology.

I sat down with Greg and asked him what business drivers led Move Networks to engage with Microsoft, and what potential gains they anticipate from this partnership. You might be surprised at his answers -- user experience, rather than bit-twiddling, is where the business value comes from.

Accessibility in Silverlight 2

Joshua Allen — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:04:00 GMT

From NBC to AOL, Nokia to Move Networks, the broad range of spotlight Silverlight applications attest to how much maturity the platform has gained since being launched last year.

Accessibility has been something of a weak spot in Silverlight 1.0; with only very basic support for alt tags and default actions. It hasn't been all bad, since this led developers to use Silverlight with "Plain Old Semantic HTML" in a progressive enhancement pattern -- which will continue to be useful in some scenarios going forward. But the range of options for accessible development increases substantially with Silverlight 2.

In this interview and demonstration, Mark Rideout explains the new accessibility enhancements in Silverlight 2; from support for controls and tabbing to support for (UI Automation) UIA.

On IE8, Silverlight and the Keynote

drobbins — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:30:00 GMT

In this video Peter Laudati interviews Chris Love and Rob Zelt on what their reactions were to the MIX 2008 Keynote. They cover the changes to Internet Explorer 8 and the new innovations in Silverlight 2.

Some of the impressive additions to Internet Explorer include WebSlices and Acitivites. Rob was impressed by Deep Zoom in Silverlight 2.

MIX08 Keynote Day 1

Brian Keller — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:55:00 GMT

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Day 1 Keynote
Speakers: Ray Ozzie, Scott Guthrie, Dean Hachamovitch
Description: The Day 1 keynote highlighted Microsoft's newest Web tools and technologies, including the release of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1, Silverlight 2 Beta, Expression Studio 2 Beta and a preview of SQL Server Data Services (SSDS). Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie took the stage to share his vision for how Web developers and designers can deliver seamless connected experiences across the continuum of Web applications, rich clients and mobile devices. Ozzie was joined onstage by Scott Guthrie, who discussed advances in Silverlight and Expression Studio that bridge the developer/designer workflow and provide a common development model, making it easier to deliver richer, more interactive Web experiences. Also on stage was Dean Hachamovitch, who demonstrated Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1, highlighting new features and functionality. Demonstrating their support for Silverlight, customers and partners also took part in the keynote, including AOL, Aston Martin, Cirque du Soleil, DoubleClick, Hard Rock, Move Networks and NBCOlympics.com on MSN.

Blazing Fast AOL Mail with Silverlight

Joshua Allen — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:44:00 GMT

During today's keynote, AOL showed off a blazingly fast webmail client based on Silverlight. Some people didn't believe that this was an actual live demo, flipping through thousands of contacts and mails almost instantly. But this was real code running against their production mail servers -- the same servers that host tens of millions of active users. You can sign up to get access and test this new webmail client by visiting http://ria.mail.aol.com.

For some more details about how AOL envisioned and built this application in a matter of months, I sat down with Roy and Eric from AOL. They talk about how they used Visio for wireframing, and drill into some of the business value they see from the enhanced user experiences that Silverlight enables.

In addition to the demo here, you can see the footage from the keynote demo of AOL's mail client.

Using Microsoft Silverlight for Creating Rich Mobile User Experiences

Brian Keller — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:12:00 GMT

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Using Microsoft Silverlight for Creating Rich Mobile User Experiences
Speakers: Giorgio Sardo
Description: Come learn how use Microsoft Silverlight for Mobile to build rich mobile experiences including best patterns and practices, fluid and intuitive navigation, smart content organization, small form factor and cross-device support. This session also covers how to use tools like Microsoft Expression Blend to move beyond size considerations to create create stunning and meaningful vector-based graphics applications.

Hard Rock: Behind the Music with Deep Zoom

Brian Keller — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:15:00 GMT

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Hard Rock: Behind the Music with Deep Zoom
Speakers: Scott Stanfield
Description: Come see how Deep Zoom was used to turn the world's best collection of rock-and-roll memorabilia into a unique web experience. This session covers how this new Microsoft Silverlight 2 feature makes it possible to efficiently browse and zoom images, and how to create 200M pixel images. Learn how to tune Deep Zoom performance, particularly with thousands of image tiles comprising gigabytes of content, how to address design and UI challenges related to accessing an infinite canvas, and much more.

Mobile Devices and Microsoft Silverlight: A Primer on the New Technology

Brian Keller — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:00:00 GMT

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Mobile Devices and Microsoft Silverlight: A Primer on the New Technology
Speakers: Amit Chopra; David Kline
Description: Be one the first in the industry to get a sneak peek on what's lined up for Microsoft Silverlight on Devices. This session showcases some early Silverlight Mobile Applications and shares a roadmap and release plans for Silverlight for Devices.

Hard Rock Memorabilia Site with Deep Zoom

Joshua Allen — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:22:00 GMT

Browse through thousands of pieces of Rock-n-Roll memorabilia in the Hard Rock collection! Hard Rock just launched the Hard Rock Memorabilia site using Silverlight 2 "Deep Zoom" technology, allowing you to zoom in seamlessly and see incredible detail like fingerprints and photographer's reflections on the pieces in the collection.

We interviewed the crew that built this experience, including the Duncan of Duncan/Channon, Hard Rock, and Scott Stansfield of Vertigo. Watch the video to hear how Hard Rock approaches branding, and how they designed and built this amazing web site.

To see the complete demo footage from the keynote, click here.

Featuring the European Silverlight Challenge

drobbins — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 02:05:00 GMT

On Tuesday at 6pm in the Sandbox, we will be featuring three Silverlight applications that recently won the European Silverlight Challenge. The challenge was a contest put on by the International .NET Association (INETA)and the top three winners were awarded tickets to MIX.

Stop by after 6pm to see the winners demonstrate their applications and describe how they were built.

Serving Applications with Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live

Brian Keller — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:50:00 GMT

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Serving Applications with Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live
Speakers: Remy Pairault
Description: Learn how to use Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live to deploy and serve Microsoft Silverlight content and applications quickly and easily at scale.

Adding Instant Messaging to Any Site

Brian Keller — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:50:00 GMT

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Adding Instant Messaging to Any Site
Speakers: Keiji Kanazawa; Nikhil Kothari
Description: Learn how your web site visitors can engage with Windows Live Messenger users by taking advantage of the Windows Live Messenger control and library. This session covers how to code with the Messenger Library in JavaScript or C# (using Script#), and we also show how you can drive Microsoft Silverlight UI with the Messenger Library.

Nerd + Art: Ten Code Snippets to Empower Your Inner Artist

Brian Keller — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:50:00 GMT

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Nerd + Art: Ten Code Snippets to Empower Your Inner Artist
Speakers: Robby Ingebretsen, Nathan Dunlap
Description: Learn how to increase what a designer can do with Windows Presentation Foundation and Microsoft Silverlight 2 using our designer's code "toolbox”10 simple concepts that will give you an edge when making your best ideas a reality. We share the code, teach you how to use it and introduce the concepts behind it.