Sunday, May 16, 2010

May the Silverlight 4's be with you

May the Silverlight 4's be with you

May the Silverlight 4's be with you

Posted: 16 May 2010 11:16 AM PDT

I'll be presenting my popular Silverlight 4 session at DotNetDevNet on the 5th July 2010 I've been to Guy's user group before, it's a great crowd, so i'm really looking forward to this session - I also love the write-up guy has given me... Why: Because...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Master Class

Posted: 16 May 2010 10:44 AM PDT

We are pleased to announce a discount of £50 off the course price for the Silverlight Masterclass to any, fully paid up, current NxtGenUG Member. When booking for the course please enter NXTGENUGMEMBER promotion code in the enquiry form text. All applications...( read more )...(read more)

More on Image Resizing in .NET 4 vs .NET 3.5sp1: Bilinear vs Fant

Posted: 15 May 2010 10:30 PM PDT

In a previous post, I demonstrated how to use RenderOptions.BitmapScalingMode in WPF to change the quality of the resize of an image. Some folks have questioned why that is necessary when the resizing worked just fine in 3.5sp1 In .NET 4, the default BitmapScalingMode changed from Fant to bilinear for performance reasons. The Fant scaler is CPU-intensive whereas the now default Bilinear is handled by hardware. The net result is a move from 3.5sp1 to .NET 4 will show, in many cases, decreased quality but increased performance for resized bitmaps. The actual result depends on how much resizing you are doing (resizing to less than 30-50% of size will generally show artifacts). To reset to Fant, you can set the RenderOptions.BitmapScaling mode in...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for May 15, 2010 -- #862

Posted: 15 May 2010 08:22 PM PDT

In this Issue: Victor Gaudioso , Antoni Dol ( -2- ), Brian Genisio , Shawn Wildermuth , Mike Snow , Phil Middlemiss , Pete Brown , Kirupa , Dan Wahlin , Glenn Block , Jeff Prosise , Anoop Madhusudanan , and Adam Kinney . Shoutouts: Victor Gaudioso would...( read more )...(read more)

Choosing Between Silverlight and XNA for a Windows Phone 7 Game

Posted: 15 May 2010 11:17 AM PDT

In my last blog post on XNA for Windows Phone 7 I said that I was working on a game in both Silverlight and XNA, and that if I got a chance to test out performance I would report back. As you can see in the image below, I got a chance to test out my Silverlight...( read more )...(read more)

My Thoughts on the Windows Phone 7

Posted: 15 May 2010 07:14 AM PDT

URL : http://wildermuth.com/downloads/xboxbrowser.zip The field of smart phones is getting larger this holiday season: the Microsoft offering is the Windows Phone 7. It should be of no surprise to most people that this category of phone is becoming increasingly...( read more )...(read more)

Worldwide Web Camps

Posted: 15 May 2010 03:30 PM PDT

Over the next few weeks Microsoft is sponsoring a number of free Web Camp events around the world.  These provide a great way to learn about ASP.NET 4, ASP.NET MVC 2, and Visual Studio 2010. The Web Camps are two day events.  The camps aren't conferences where you sit quietly for hours and people talk at you – they are intended to be interactive.  The first day is focused on learning through presentations that are heavy on coding demos.  The second day is focused on you building real applications using what you've learned.  The second day includes hands-on labs, and you'll join small development teams with other attendees and work on a project together. We've got some great speakers lined up for the events – including...(read more)
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