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by Michael Wolf via Michael Wolf on 4/23/2010 2:22:41 PM
Just a month ago , Dave ( Building Innovative Windows Client Software ) and Myself ( Building the eBay Simple Lister with Silverlight ) were at mix showing the world the eBay simple lister. Today I am VERY proud of the whole Cynergy and eBay team to announce that eBay has released the Simple Lister – beta to the world. John Papa pos ...
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by Michael Wolf via Michael Wolf on 2/21/2010 10:36:37 PM
I work with some amazing people, one of which is Ryan Lee. He is a great user experience designer here at Cynergy , you might have seen his work on the web cam demo on channel 9. We had been discussing the future of touch interfaces for some time now , and last week he told me about a new project he was working on named "gesturecons". The general idea is to help build a common visual language to aide in wire framing and ideation, as well as documeting and standardizing gestura ...
by Michael Wolf via Michael Wolf on 2/4/2010 11:57:55 PM
We're starting to get pretty excited over here about MIX and SXSW. We will have a presence at both, but I have to admit I'm kind of partial to mix. So in celebration of MIX 2010 and the great music that is the heart of SXSW I built a zune hd music "mix" application. This was developed using XNA and Game Studio 3.1 with the zune hd extensions. Using the zune media collection and the built in accelerometer you are able to shake the zune and pick a random song. There is also a ...
by Michael Wolf via Michael Wolf on 1/19/2010 8:57:30 PM
In my last post I showed how to implement a bridge service using the new net.tcp binding in order to implement something not native to Silverlight 4, namely a FileSystemWatcher. While this works, as does Justin Angels com+ implementation (http://justinangel.net/#BlogPost=CuttingEdgeSilverlight4ComFeatures), it doesn't translate well to the mac, and eventually the mono , platform. However seeing Justin's com+ implementatio ...
by Michael Wolf via Michael Wolf on 1/18/2010 12:24:33 PM
Since Silverlight 4's release I have become quire enamored with the elevated privileges out of browser functionality. The com interopability is great, but again your back to com development and interop. Which although very powerful is also kind of painful. Recently some one brought up a question of how you would accomplish something like a file watcher. In a desktop / server experience this would be pretty simple using something like a FileSystemWatcher (http://msdn.microsoft.c ...
by Michael Wolf via Michael Wolf on 12/21/2009 5:23:54 AM
At PDC 09 I was able to spend some time with Pete Brown to talk about our Star Trek Surface Application but also some of the Silverlight 4 demos we have put together. Below is one of those, this is a sample I put together with one of our great user experience designers Ryan Lee. This was originally blogged here, but Pete's video is a much nicer walk through and much more fun. Also includes a cameo by Tim Heuer. enjoy! ...
by Michael Wolf via Michael Wolf on 11/24/2009 11:47:05 PM
In my last post on out of browser we showed how easy and powerful it is , all be it a bit of a step back in the development time machine, to execute native windows applications using the new com support in silverlight 4. The next logical question arises, that if you can execute com can you also execute a local process. The answer is yes and no. You can execute a local process, not using System.Diagnostics.Process.Start() like you would in the full CLR, but using the COM inerop and ...
by Michael Wolf via Michael Wolf on 11/24/2009 8:34:36 AM
I was lucky enough at PDC 09 to run into (dr) Tim Sneath and ask him about WPF and the Silverlight continuum in the time of Silverlight 4. Go out to facebook and watch the interview. http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=190747957550 Over the next couple months I should be getting more and more quick videos out from others in the Silverlight/WPF community, so join our facebook group to be notified as they are added. ...
by Michael Wolf via Michael Wolf on 11/20/2009 6:11:31 AM
One of the pains in silverlight 3 out of browser was the strict sandbox that was put in place. Although well meaning, this put a heavy restriction on the type of rich desktop like experiences we could produce. Just as in the api limitations in Adobe Air, there were and are solutions which involve local socket services (as discussed in this blog entry last year: http://www.cynergysystems.com/blogs/page/michaelwolf?entry=breaking_the_sandbox_in_silverlight ). However now in silverli ...
by Michael Wolf via Michael Wolf on 11/19/2009 9:15:07 AM
One of the exciting announcements made at pdc 09 was that silverlight 4 will support drag and drop from the desktop to both the web and out of browser. Whats great too is how similar the process is to WPF, the object properties are exactly the same, the only difference is 1 line in the actual file opening. Thus by sharing a common code, you can leverage this functionality in a full desktop experience as well as a silverlight experience with the exact same code. The key ...
by Michael Wolf via Michael Wolf on 11/18/2009 9:28:34 AM
I'm here at PDC 09, where I'm very excited about all the possibilities in Silverlight 4. When we jumped into 1.1/1.0/WPFE several years ago, we never thought silverlight would evolve so quickly, but here we are. One of the most exciting features, which allot of users have been asking for since the bad old Silverlight 1.1 days is webcam and mic support like they had known in flex. Now with Silverlight 4 you will have direct access to both mic and webcam. This opens up allot of possib ...
by Michael Wolf via Michael Wolf on 9/1/2009 10:18:35 PM
Had a great time talking at the CMAP user group on sketch flow tonight. This was one of my first demo heavy presentations that involved no code. We spent almost an hour doing real time wireframing in Sketch Flow. Worked out great and the folks in the audience had me jumping between view states and navigation much faster than I expected ( my fellow devs can be a tough crowd :) ). I promised I would post my slides so here you go. The zip contains the PowerPoint slides as well as ...
by Michael Wolf via Michael Wolf on 7/21/2009 2:51:57 PM
Continuing on the Silverlight 3 new feature series, one of the features that has gotten the biggest buzz in the press but the biggest confusion in the development community has been Out of Browser. This entry is to try and clear up the confusion and discuss the option in more detail. Out of Browser is often confused for an "offline" application, however an out of browser application is a Silverlight application which has been enabled to run outside of your browser on windows and ma ...
by Michael Wolf via Michael Wolf on 7/12/2009 11:01:21 PM
Well as of July 10 Silverlight 3 is out. Over the next several weeks I will be putting together blog entries on my favorite features of silverlight and blend which will enable us to make experiences faster and more engaging. I’m going to shoot for one a week, lets see how it goes. Making design time data standard practice One of the nice features added in Silverlight 3 and Blend 3 is that of sample data. The design ability of enumerated controls like itemcontrols and listboxes in t ...
by Michael Wolf via Michael Wolf on 7/7/2009 9:58:19 PM
In my last entry I posted source to an adaptive streaming silverlight player. I also pointed out this great post talking through exactly how it all works from a high level. However I know reading about it and seeing it are completely different. I can recall watching videos of the Olympic coverage, and when I saw how high the quality was I threw open Charles proxy to look at exactly how they were getting such a high quality experience. So today when I noticed how high the q ...
by Michael Wolf via Michael Wolf on 7/1/2009 11:02:42 PM
this is a short one. A couple days ago I needed to create an adaptive streaming player. If you don't know what adaptive streaming is, its what Microsoft is marketing as smooth streaming, its a method by which a single movie is encoded into multiple bit rates, and is chunked into 2 second chunks, such that individual chunks can be pushed down the wire and reassembled. This is the technique used during the 2008 Olympics, and has only improved from there. One of the most interesting p ...
by Michael Wolf via Michael Wolf on 4/26/2009 7:42:18 PM
Outside of Sketchflow one of the coolest features in Blend 3 is the ability to easily turn visuals like paths into standard controls. This combined with the introduction of photoshop and illustrator makes for some nice additions to the workflow options we already have. Joanna Mason (who I also pestered about a fireworks import like Grants ) did a great presentation at mix showing off the complete flow from Adobe CS to full blown silverlight controls, but it left me wanting this for c ...
by Michael Wolf via Michael Wolf on 4/19/2009 8:32:49 PM
We have recently been doing quite a bit of Microsoft Surface work, and its made me rethink things around the importance of motion graphics in ria (Silverlight / WPF / Flex etc). This came up while working on the surface in the same room as Andy Trice, we were discussing how some of the motion graphic tricks we use on the surface are just as valid in WPF and Silverlight yet rarely used. When working with the surface you think allot more in the motion graphics mindset, as that part of ...
by Michael Wolf via Michael Wolf on 4/3/2009 9:00:29 PM
One of the great features in Silverlight 3 is the navigation framework. This will allow you to build very large Silverlight applications which require true browser navigation support without having to build your own browser ineropability to handle back / forward navigation. This has always been the ajax/player based application problem when it comes to usability, and with Silverlight 3 you will get this functionality out of the box. You can even use the navigation framework to perfo ...
by Michael Wolf via Michael Wolf on 3/22/2009 9:55:42 PM
One of the most exciting announcements at MIX 09 was the inclusion of "Out Of Browser" functionality in Silverlight 3. While WPF is an amazing tool, we previously had no good solution for leveraging xaml based applications onto the mac (And eventually linux) desktop. With “Out Of Browser” Silverlight we will be able to not only bring the somewhat connected desktop experience that we have with Adobe AIR to Silverlight, but finally also a rich desktop solution for OS X. Still the mom ...
by Michael Wolf via Michael Wolf on 2/8/2009 12:04:56 AM
Recently I have seen several blog posts about Silverlight + voip. These reminded me, I should have blogged about some of the solutions used in last years Phizzpop competition. Better late than never. When we were working on Phizzpop a year ago, we had an Idea that we wanted to connect a voter directly with their representatives using Silverlight. I wanted to connect voters the way my grandmother was, by phone. Yet we were building a solution using Silverlight 1.1 at the time. The ...
by Michael Wolf via Michael Wolf on 12/15/2008 1:24:11 PM
A problem I hear rumble up from a lot of .Net developers when picking up Silverlight is, “where is ?” My normal answer is, “If it’s not there, do what Microsoft would do… Make your own.” A perfect example of this would be runtime configuration. With the full CLR, so many of us have become accustomed to using ConfigurationManager that reverting to hard-coding values in the binary pains us. By default, Silverlight embeds the ServiceReferences.ClientConfig for service references into t ...
by Michael Wolf via Michael Wolf on 12/4/2008 1:16:30 PM
While working on a recent projec While working on a recent project involving Silverlight security, I was excited by the amount of options we now have available to us (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.security.cryptography(VS.95).aspx). One of the major uses for this is to encrypt data in isolated storage. This is a pretty simple procedure and makes perfect sense for storing sensitive data to the client (the docs provide a nice sample of use http://msdn.microsoft. ...
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