Nuno Filipe Godinho

“Leak” about Microsoft TechDays 2010 Portugal

    Today we had a small “leak” from an unknown source from Microsoft, about TechDays 2010 in Portugal stating that you can already register for techdays 2010 at www.techdays2010.com.

    Don’t forget to go there and start now to register for this incredible event for both Developers and IT Pros.

Interesting Silverlight related projects on CodePlex

   Every once and a while I go to CodePlex and try to look at some interesting projects that exist in there and this time I was looking for Silverlight related projects, and this was what I’ve found:

• Microsoft Silverlight Media Framework 1.1
  • enables developers to quickly deploy a robust, scalable, customizable media player for IIS Smooth Streaming delivery. The SMF builds on the core functionality of the Smooth Streaming Player Development Kit.
• Silverlight & WPF Timeline Control
  • You can create interactive timelines
• Silverlight Gantt Chart Control
• Silverlight Contrib Project
  • Collection of Silverlight Controls and API enhancements, and productivity tools built for and by the Silverlight developer community
• Silverlight Powered blog
• Dashboard and Gauge Controls

Hope this helps you.

Detecção de Movimentos com o Silverlight 4 / Motion Detection with Silverlight 4

(PT) 

  Depois do lançamento do Silverlight 4 Beta no PDC 2009, muito se tem visto no que respeita ás novas funcionalidades presentes nesta versão, e uma delas tem sido o suporte para a câmera, e a possibilidade de interagir com ela em termos de detecção de movimentos por forma a afectar a forma como a nossa solução se comporta.

    Então para nos divertirmos um pouco o Adam Kinney criou uma solução que nos permite “dar cabo” de insectos através da utilização da nossa câmera para analisar os movimentos efectuados e com isso interagir com a aplicação.

   Divirtam-se com a aplicação e analisem o código de forma a perceberem como exactamente é que conseguimos criar a detecção de movimento utilizando a suporte de câmera no Silverlight 4. Este é o post do Adam Kinney no seu blog.

(EN)

  After the release of Silverlight 4 Beta on PDC 2009, a lot as been seen about the new features of Silverlight and one of them has been the WebCam support and the possibility to interact with it in order to provide a way to affect our solution by using motion detection.

    And so in order for us to have a little fun, Adam Kinney developed a solution that allows us to “kick so bugs ass” by using the WebCam to analyse our movements in order to interact with the application.

   Have fun with the solution and watch the code in order to understand how we can develop some motion detection with our webcam in Silverlight 4. This is the post by Adam Kinney on his blog.

Interesting tutorial for Silverlight and Blend Tutorials

   In order to better understand the way Silverlight and Blend work, we normally need to “take matters in our own hands”, and test it ourselves, and in order to do that we need some tutorials, hands-on-labs, and other tools.

   This post happened because we have now some new tutorials like:

• Silverlight
  • Webcam and Microphone Showcase
    • Using WebCam and Microphone, pixel shaders
  • Out of Browser
    • Using Out-of-Browser and Trusted Applications with COM Interoperability, and so on
  • Data Validation, Binding, DataForm and DataGrid Features
  • Image Browser
    • Multi-touch browser, drop target functionality, right-click menu
  • Rich Text Editor
    • new RichTextArea control, programmatic clipboard access, bi-directional text, printing and FlowDirection
  • Picture Browser
    • Asynchronously load images from a web server into the new ViewBox control, Implicit Styles, and MouseWheel support
• Blend
  • 10 tutorials about Blend functionalities http://adamkinney.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/10-expression-blend-3-tutorials-for-silverlight-available-for-download/

Hope this helps, and good practices.