Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Woo Themes

Woo Themes

Woo Themes

Posted: 25 May 2010 01:16 PM PDT

As you might know I am currently using WordPress for my blog engine. Recently, when browsing the web for a high-end professional looking theme, I came across a company called "Woo Themes". Overall, I am very impressed with how professional and easy to...( read more )...(read more)

Announcing Hilo

Posted: 25 May 2010 01:41 PM PDT

What is Hilo?

Project "Hilo" is an effort to tell the story of building high performing, responsive rich Windows applications using C++. We will do this by walking you through our own experience of building some sample applications which we believe provide differentiated user experiences. We will tell you everything from setting up the development environment to taking advantage of the feature set of Windows 7.

The Samples

The first of these sample applications is a photo browser that implements a touch-enabled user interface for browsing photos on your computer. We call it the Hilo Browser.  Below is a screenshot:

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This application illustrates how to take advantage of the following Windows functionalities:

  • Direct2D: For high performance and high-quality rendering of graphics.
  • Windows Animation Manager: To give the application a unique personality and to improve the user experience.
  • Windows Touch: To provide a more natural user interface through which the user can just "point" and "do".
  • Libraries: To enable the application to provide users with a single, coherent view of their files.
  • Shell API: To navigate the images, to optimize by using the pre-built thumbnail cache and also to provide folder icons from their actual content.

You can download the source code for this application from the Hilo Code Gallery Page.

Over the coming weeks, we'll be publishing a series of articles on MSDN Library (here) that will provide the walkthrough promised above. The introductory article is already up.

If you have questions or comments about the sample code, the usage of technologies or anything in general, please feel free to let us know through the Hilo Discussions Page.

You can also follow Hilo updates on Twitter @projecthilo.

We'll soon be publishing the next article in the series, which will describe in detail how to prepare your development environment for Windows development. Stay tuned for more updates soon!

RIA Services Demo from PDX Code Camp

Posted: 25 May 2010 09:17 AM PDT

The demo I presented at the Portland Code Camp on Saturday was a modified version of Brad Abrams' multi-part RIA Services walkthrough. You can find a full index to the series on Brad's old blog . The completed application is also available from that page...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for May 25, 2010 -- #869

Posted: 25 May 2010 09:30 AM PDT

In this Issue: Miroslav Miroslavov , Victor Gaudioso , Phil Middlemiss , Jonathan van de Veen , Lee , and Domagoj Pavlešic . From SilverlightCream.com : Book Folding effect using Pixel Shader On the new CompleteIT site, did you know the page-folding was...( read more )...(read more)

RIA Services Demo from PDX Code Camp

Posted: 25 May 2010 09:17 AM PDT

The demo I presented at the Portland Code Camp on Saturday was a modified version of Brad Abrams' multi-part RIA Services walkthrough. You can find a full index to the series on Brad's old blog . The completed application is also available from that page...( read more )...(read more)

Book Folding effect using Pixel Shader

Posted: 24 May 2010 02:00 PM PDT

This is part 6 of the series "Silverlight in Action": Visuals staring at the mouse cursor. Floating Visual Elements . Flipping Panels . Flying objects against you. Smoke effect Book Folding effect using Pixel Shader. Here we're sharing our experience...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for May 24, 2010 -- #868

Posted: 24 May 2010 09:18 PM PDT

In this Issue: Victor Gaudioso , Weidong Shen , SilverLaw , Alnur Ismail , Damon Payne , and Karl Erickson . Shoutout: Tim Greenfield posted his slides and materials (not the padlock yet) from Portland Code Camp: Rx for Silverlight at Portland CodeCamp...( read more )...(read more)

Windows Client Developer Roundup for 5/24/2010

Posted: 24 May 2010 07:56 PM PDT

This is Windows Client Developer roundup #25. The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF , Surface, Windows 7, XNA, Windows Forms , Silverlight , Windows Phone and Visual Studio...( read more )...(read more)

Ajax Talk at .NET Developers Association

Posted: 24 May 2010 09:20 PM PDT

Thanks everyone who came to my Ajax talk tonight at the .NET Developers Association ! The slides and demos from the talk can be downloaded by clicking the following link: ASP.NET Ajax: What's New? You need Visual Studio 2010 to view the code samples. The first project, named Demos, contains the following samples: ASPAjax4 1_CompositeScripts.aspx – Demonstrates how to use the ScriptManger to combine, compress, and cache JavaScript files automatically. 2_EnableCdn.aspx – Demonstrates how to retrieve ASP.NET Ajax framework scripts from the Microsoft Ajax CDN automatically. jQuery 1_Selectors.aspx – Demonstrates how to use jQuery selectors 2_WebForms.aspx – Demonstrates how to use the client tablesorter plugin with ASP.NET Web Forms. 3_MVC.aspx...(read more)

Windows Client Developer Roundup for 5/24/2010

Posted: 24 May 2010 07:56 PM PDT

This is Windows Client Developer roundup #25. The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF , Surface, Windows 7, XNA, Windows Forms , Silverlight , Windows Phone and Visual Studio...( read more )...(read more)

A Distributable (.exe) Silverlight OOB Application

Posted: 24 May 2010 06:14 PM PDT

I've seen a few questions regarding how to deploy a Silverlight Out of Browser application in an .exe over the past couple days. This post will show you one way of doing that. Create your Silverlight OOB app Open up a new .txt file and add: "%ProgramFiles...( read more )...(read more)

Test Your Windows 7 Knowledge: Play "Are You Certifiable?"

Posted: 24 May 2010 07:14 PM PDT

Test your technical prowess against other IT professionals and developers from around the world. Show them who's in command and fight for your right to stay in the coveted top spot on the leaderboard. Don't delay... hundreds of questions await you on the new Windows 7 track!

Project 2010 Tailored Tools for Workflow Creation

Posted: 24 May 2010 07:14 PM PDT

In this webcast, we discuss the different approaches customers and partners can take to create Microsoft Project Server 2010 workflows. We also cover some of the tools and partnerships that have been developed for Project 2010 workflow creation.

20 Silverlight 4 demos in one zip file

Posted: 24 May 2010 03:43 PM PDT

Last week I gave a 3 hour "What's new in Silverlight 4" talk to the Hungarian Silverlight UG, the Silverlight Klub . I had a LOT of demos, – most of which I prepared, and some I borrowed. The aim of the demos was to give a small code sample to most new...( read more )...(read more)

RIA Services V1.0 and Beyond

Posted: 24 May 2010 03:39 PM PDT

I came to Microsoft 2 years ago to join project Alexandria, which had the goal of making Silverlight an approachable framework for building business applications. The domain really excited me and it's been an honor to work on this product. In case you Read More......(read more)
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