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TechEd Video posted for "Creating and Delivering rich Media and Video on the Web"

I just got the video for my talk at TechEd this year and I thought I'd share it with you.. For more information on the talk, please see: Silverlight, ASP.NET, Expression and Windows Server 2008 Download the full video I'd love to have your feedback and comments! thanks! Read More...

ScottGu's Lap Around Silverlight

I just noticed that the Virtual TechEd folks recently published ScottGu's " A Lap Around Silverlight" talk. Watch (or download) it now BTW, @~30:00 did you get the joke from the audience? the "fruit box" is a macbook that shows up later in the talk ;-) Enjoy Read More...

New Acropolis Videos posted

We heard laud and clear at Teched that folks wanted to see more of acroplis... So here we are the first day back from TechEd and we have three new videos including source code... Catch all the action at: http://windowsclient.net/acropolis/ Enjoy! Using Acropolis PartPanes The Acropolis PartPane allows you to host the views of child parts within the views of their parent components. In addition, the PartPane provides a chrome, which exposes some of your parts' functionality to the user automatically, and helps to provide a uniform visual experience for nested parts. This presentation demonstrates how to use the PartPane, and introduces some of its features. Author: David Poll Duration: 5 minutes, 22 seconds Video Downloads: WMV | Zune | iPod...

Silverlight in the TechEd Keynote

I just noticed that they posted the full keynote from Teched 07... I encourage you to watch the whole thing (especially the first few minutes on the Back to the future gag where Microsoft makes fun of ourselves a bit).. The Silverlight demo is at 1:19... there Jamie Cool does a very compelling demo of Silverlight, shows off some applications and just a bit of code. Enjoy! Read More...

Silverlight, ASP.NET, Expression and Windows Server 2008

I had a great time this morning with Sam and Mai-lan from the IIS and Windows Media Server teams. Together we demo'ed some cool new stuff in ASP.NET including: Expression Media Encoder asp:Media UpdatePanel and UpdateProgress AutoCompleteExtender and TextWaterMarkExtender asp:History - Finally control over the back button! Profile Service Bit rate throttling in IIS7 - which allows web site vendors to control the wasted bandwidth due to drop off while still preserving a great initial experience. Live Streaming with Windows Media Server - this is a very cool demo where we use Expression Media Encoder to encoded some video live from a webcam, push it to a WMS server which then makes it available to HUGE numbers of folks for live viewing.. anyone...

Silverlight1.1\ASP.NET PhotoViewer Application

Chung Webster gave a great talk at TechEd today about how to use Silverlight and ASP.NET today... in it he built up a very cool PhotoViewer appwith some great panning and zooming effects, FileUpload, Networking all from managed code in the browser! Download the full source code ... Enjoy Read More...

Ready for Teched '07

I am pretty excited about Teched '07 June 4-8th in Orlando (if you are not already attending, you can still register). Here are a few of the sessions that I think will be very cool. WEB319 - A Lap around Silverlight - Scott Guthrie If you are making it to TechEd, you have got to come see Scott give an overview of Silverlight... Even if you have been closely following Silverlight.net, you will get a ton out of this.. Scott does an excellent job of explaining the platform in a fun and excited way! WEB318 - Creating and Delivering Rich Media and Video on the Web with Silverlight, Expression Studio, and Windows Server 2008 - Brad Abrams (and co) I am going to give an evolution of the session I gave a Mix on how to take advantage of Silverlight from...

TechEd Europe Sessions Posted

Some great videos from TechEd Europe were recently posted… If you couldn't make it to Barconlna this year, at least you can hear some of the great talks. Here are a few of my favorites… Please let us hear your feedback! ASP.NET: Developer and Designer AJAX Bliss with Visual Studio and Expression Brad Abrams Explore how the ASP.NET AJAX controls and components remove the complexity from designing rich, interactive experiences, and help you build AJAX-style applications more quickly. A Lap Around the New Enhancements for Web Developers in Visual Studio Orcas Bradley Millington See highlights of the key new Web tools experiences in the Visual Studio "Orcas" product including support for the Atlas framework, JavaScript enhancements, rich support...

TechEd: Getting the most out of Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)

I had a good time today during my session on Getting the Most out of WinForms and WPF … The session was packed out even though it was the last session of the conference! That is certainly a sign that folks are hungry for this sort of information. Attached is the slide deck. We talked about the focus for WinForms and WPF is very different. WinForms is focused on the typical line of business application, a forms over data scenario and WPF is focused on differentiated client experiences where compelling graphical richness is important [ demo ]. Of course many apps don't cleanly fall into these categories… For example an app might be mostly about forms over data but also need to include a graphically rich interactive chart. For this scenario we...

Demos for Developer Designer Bless Talk

Thanks for coming.. I had a great time during the presentation.. I took most of the time during the session to build up this site… In the attached zip you can find a complete demo script, you can find the slides on an earlier post ... The demo requires Beta2 of ASP.NET AJAX … Please let me know what you think! Read More...