Silverlight - MIX Videos

Miss March and Other Distractions

c9dev — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:42:49 GMT

Don't miss Vertigo's tour of three major Microsoft Silverlight applications, including PlayboyArchive.com, KEXP and more. Highlights include Deep Zoom, Live Video, "Blendability" tips, VSM hacks, perspective transforms, SEO and deep linking tips for SL2 and SL3, out-of-browser and disconnected experiences, and more.

Scott Stanfield
Scott Stanfield is the CEO of Vertigo, a design and development agency in the San Francisco area. In 2008, Microsoft awarded Vertigo the Microsoft Partner of the Year for their ground-breaking Silverlight work on the Hard Rock Memorabilia experience. Other notable Silverlight projects include the Democratic National Convention in 2008, the Presidential Inauguration and CBS March Madness. Oh, and the MIX 2009 site.

Building a Rich Social Network Application

c9dev — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:17:35 GMT

Learn how to build a social networking site using Microsoft Silverlight. See how to mash up existing services, how to tag and store data in back-end services, and how to build a rich and engaging experience.

Gilbok Lee
As CTO, of Huge Flow Corporation, Gilbok Lee is leading RIA Service Team, and his team focuses on Silverlight and Mashups (esp. Live Map), trying to apply those to SNS. Prior to founding Huge Flow, he studied Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at Seoul National University and worked for PCB Industries for 5 years as an MFC Programmer developing PCB CAD/CAM. For pleasure, he enjoys putting boiled rice into milk.
Miho Heo
The Product/PJT manager of Hugeflow - MIHO, with years of industry experience, had worked in product planning & development for Samsung electronics and was responsible for Yahoo! Korea international PM. Also she founded weenu Inc. (Art community) in 2006.

Microsoft Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF): Sharing Skills and Code

c9dev — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:17:35 GMT

Come get an in-depth understanding of the compatibility between WPF and Silverlight. Learn the relationship between WPF and the various subsystems of Silverlight including: XAML parsing and serialization, control instantiation, styling and templating, layout, rendering, and more. Also, learn how to build applications that fully exploit both Silverlight and WPF.

Jeff Wilcox
Jeff is a Software Development Engineer on the Silverlight Toolkit team at Microsoft. Jeff created the Silverlight Unit Test Framework and the Silverlight Toolkit's AutoCompleteBox control. Before joining the Microsoft ASP.NET team in 2005, Jeff was a freelance open source developer, also founding YouTrip.com and MaizeWeb.com. Jeff is an alumnus of the University of Michigan, and maintains a blog at http://www.jeff.wilcox.name/.

Introducing the Microsoft Virtual Earth Silverlight Map Control CTP

c9dev — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:04:11 GMT

Come see the new Virtual Earth Silverlight Map Control CTP, and dive deep into how to build the next generation of mapping applications with Virtual Earth and Silverlight.

Chris Pendleton
Chris Pendleton is the Virtual Earth Technical Evangelist for Microsoft Corporation. Mr. Pendleton has been with Microsoft for over 6 years and has been in the location-based services and GIS industry for over 10 years. Mr. Pendleton specializes in all things Virtual Earth and Microsoft geospatial including, but not limited to technological deep dives, web and mobile application architecture and development, licensing arrangements and 3rd party revenue opportunities. Mr. Pendleton has a long history of application development, architecture, consulting and deployment of large scale web-based applications, especially those using geospatial intelligence. Mr. Pendleton also authors the Virtual Earth Blog on MSDN. He holds a Master’s Degree in Business Management from San Diego State University.

Deep Zoom++ : Build Dynamic Deep Zoom Applications with Open Source

c9dev — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:50:46 GMT

Find out about Jellyfish, a collection of modules that you can install on your server to give your customers the ability to build, modify, and create Deep Zoom collections and provide useful Silverlight functions to developers. Hear about how the service has been used on real Web sites, and learn how to build your own server-side, scalable, easy to use enterprise Deep Zoom Solution.

Allan Li
Allan Li is the founder and lead creative development for Next Experience Interactive(http://www.nxmix.com) which provides its clients the highest quality digital marketing, software ,and rich application solutions. Allan is a Microsoft Expression MVP. He has 10 years experience in web and software design. With his wide range of skills in both design and development, he is passionate about design, usability, technology and delivery of next-generation web application solutions.
Ken Azuma
Ken Azuma has dedicated the most of his work life to Rich　Internet Application development project using various RIA technologies. He is working like catalyst to blend the designer, developer and business decision maker areas of RIA project. After years of considering how developers and designers can work together to deliver a high quality product, Ken's perspective on RIA development has widened from that of a programmer to that of an architect. Ken inspires talented people from across the developer and designer communities with his vision of RIAs and the possibilities they offer. As senior experience architect at 2ndFACTORY Japan, his enthusiasm for Rich Internet Application will result in more bridges being built between the designer and developer worlds and more inspirational RIAs when the talents of these two groups are brought together. And now he convinced about importance of business Aspect of RIA, is thinking about project workflow and results that be appreciated by business decision maker, too.

Building Microsoft Silverlight Controls

c9dev — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:23:39 GMT

Learn how to encapsulate structure, animation, and logic inside custom controls that handle theming, layout, validation, and data binding. Using Microsoft Visual Studio and Microsoft Expression Blend, explore advanced design, coding, debugging, and testing techniques for building components that work interchangeably in Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).

Karen Corby

High-Speed RIA Development with the Microsoft Silverlight Toolkit

c9dev — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:10:29 GMT

Come learn how the Silverlight Toolkit can help jumpstart development of stunning Web experiences, and learn how to use the latest controls to create more immersive, more manageable user experiences. Using Microsoft Visual Studio and Microsoft Expression Blend, explore advanced debugging and unit testing techniques for building components that work across Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).

Shawn Oster

Adding Microsoft Silverlight to Your Company's Skill Set

c9dev — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:57:02 GMT

Discover how your team of Web designers and developers can add Silverlight to their toolbox without starting from scratch. Learn how to add the Microsoft Expression suite to your creative team's process and how to get your team of UI Developers, Flash Programmers, and Microsoft .NET experts working with Silverlight.

Noah Gedrich
Noah oversees all BLITZ server-side engineering, Flash and Silverlight development, integration practices, functional and technical quality control, and technical project development. Noah serves as the main Engineering and Software Development contact for the Business Development, Marketing and Account Management groups. Before joining BLITZ, Noah designed, developed and managed the technical architecture of database-driven movie marketing and social networking community websites both flash and html-based. His work on the website for the theatrical release of “Terminator 3,” began the trend of using user-generated content in web-based marketing for films. The culmination of that work was developing the web-based fan club for the cult hit Napoleon Dynamite, which topped 300,000 registered users in 6 months for Fox Searchlight Pictures. Noah’s work has garnered him numerous Clio, One Show and SXSW awards as well as an Award of Excellence in Communication Arts Interactive Annual. Noah’s experience ranges through concepting, architecture and development of web sites and site features for clients in fields as varied as automotive, entertainment, finance and consumer product. He has also been responsible for developing numerous internal business tools as well as budgeting, setting up and maintaining strategic corporate IT initiatives. Prior to kicking off his “professional” career, he taught web-development to underclassmen at Wesleyan University in Connecticut in his role as a teaching assistant. Noah is also a classically trained violinist and has played in many of the eastern seaboard’s largest concert halls, including Carnegie Hall in New York, The Tanglewood Music Center in Massachusetts and the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.
Ken Martin
As Chief Creative Officer, Ken is recognized as a thought leader for the experience economy as he works with top brands to identify trends and opportunities, fuse insights with ideas, and redefine the audience’s experience. He works with BLITZ’s top client list to conceptualize results-driven, brand-centric, campaigns and applications that entertain while they inform. With a diehard focus on quality and visual impact, Ken’s purpose is to drive the agency’s creative mind-set and vision from original concepts through final deliveries, setting the strategies for finish-line solutions which deliver measurable results. Ken has been involved in the conceptual development and design of interactive campaigns for clients such as Adobe, Microsoft, Google, GE, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Warner Bros., Electronic Arts, LucasArts and many more. His talents and experience have led to great success for client projects, which have won countless awards including OneShow, KeyArt, London International Advertising Awards, SXSW, Flashforward Film Festival, FWA, ADDYs, HBO Comedy Festival. Prior to BLITZ, Ken co-founded Silicon Valley-based, eStudio, an innovative interactive content developer. He was instrumental in raising $5M in venture capital. An avid entrepreneur even at age 15, Ken founded SignWorks and sold the business at age 18. Eleven years later, SignWorks is still going strong in the digital sign industry. When not at the office, Ken resides in Southern California with his wife, Ruth, and their three sons, Ethan, Gavin, and Colin. Ken has also been rumored to shred at Guitar Hero.

Build Applications on the Microsoft Platform Using Eclipse, Java, Ruby and PHP!

c9dev — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:30:24 GMT

Come hear how Microsoft has delivered multiple technologies that focus on interoperability with non-Microsoft and Open Source technologies. Learn how to use the Eclipse tools today to build Silverlight applications that run on PCs and Macs, how to develop using combinations of Java, Ruby and PHP in addition to the standard Microsoft languages, and how Microsoft's commitment to openness with the Azure Services Platform and the use of claims-based identity supports heterogeneous identity systems.

Vijay Rajagopalan
Vijay Rajagopalan is a Principal Architect in the Microsoft Interoperability team with the Platform & Interoperability Strategy division at Microsoft. His team is chartered to create & drive Interoperability Initiative across the company. His team collaborates with the Standards & Competitive Strategy teams at Microsoft on a number of projects – some recent interoperability efforts that were driven by his team include the Silverlight Tools for Eclipse, Cross Platform SDK for Azure Services Platform, OpenXML, Federated Identity & CardSpace. Vijay has about 15 years of experience in the enterprise space, has worked with customers and partners such as Oracle, SAP, Siebel, Intel, Fujitsu, Microfocus, Accenture among others; he has been at Microsoft for over 10 years, most of it in the enterprise space and spent 3 years as a Architect for Visual Studio Extensibility. His areas of interest are broadly in Software + Service, Formats & Protocol Interoperability, Federated Identity, data management, Domain Specific Languages, management of metadata and operational management but most of all in driving business value from technology investments.

Offline Network Detection in Microsoft Silverlight 3

c9dev — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:36:21 GMT

Come hear how to structure Silverlight applications to support a sometimes connected scenario, and learn how to avoid the common pitfalls of implementing network detection.

Peter Smith
Peter Smith is a new Program Manager at Microsoft in the .Net Networking group but an long time networking developer on a diverse set of applications ranging from networked simulations and statistical programs to occasionally-connected, self-updating catalog programs for a popular gaming company.

Deep Dive into Microsoft Silverlight Graphics

c9dev — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:21:47 GMT

Come hear about the Silverlight 3 rendering pipeline, and learn how to enhance your application experience with the latest additions to the Silverlight graphics APIs.

Seema Ramchandani
Seema is a PM on the Silverlight team in Redmond, where she works on the graphics system and optimizing the platform’s performance. Seema initially joined Microsoft in 2003 to design and build WPF’s Controls and Panel system, and then moved to work on the platform’s hardware acceleration story. Prior to her tenure at Microsoft, Seema worked on brain-computer interfaces at Brown.

User Experience Design Patterns for Business Applications with Microsoft Silverlight 3

c9dev — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:21:47 GMT

Come hear how creating great user experiences for business applications can result in both improved productivity and significant support cost savings. Learn how to use proven user experience patterns in cost effective ways with Silverlight 3, including rich data display, data input and advanced data validation, and application navigation.

Corrina Black
Corrina Black is the lead designer for the Silverlight platform and has recently been focused on understanding the unique value Silverlight enables for business applications.

The Future of Microsoft Expression Blend

c9dev — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:21:47 GMT

Hear about the future plans for Expression Blend. See how Expression Blend improves the productivity of visual designers, providing better access to data and enhanced tools for interactivity. Learn how designers can be deeply engaged and remain in control of the creative decisions while enjoying improved collaboration with developers throughout the project lifecycle.

Douglas Olson
Douglas K. Olson is General Manager of the Expression Blend and Design products at Microsoft. With over 16 years of leadership experience at Adobe and Macromedia, he brings to Microsoft an extensive background in inspiring and driving the development of foundational products in the Creative Professional market. These products include Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, ImageReady and Macromedia Authorware and Sitespring. Doug holds a degree in Business Management from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota.
Christian Schormann
Christian Schormann is the Group Program Manager for Expression Blend, responsible for product planning and definition of Expression Blend and Design, and for long term product strategy of the Expression suite as a whole. Christian brings to Microsoft his background in high-end video editing and compositing systems (including Jaleo, Softimage|DS, and Avid Liquid). He has also been involved with 3D animation and music software. He has been involved with many aspects of software development hands-on, including product design, development, various levels of management, CTO-style work, and business and strategy planning.

Building an Optimized, Graphics-Intensive Application for Microsoft Silverlight

c9dev — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:21:47 GMT

Learn how to set performance goals with your design and development teams, build control-heavy applications, leverage the software and GPU pipelines for graphics and media, and how to profile your application.

Seema Ramchandani
Seema is a PM on the Silverlight team in Redmond, where she works on the graphics system and optimizing the platform’s performance. Seema initially joined Microsoft in 2003 to design and build WPF’s Controls and Panel system, and then moved to work on the platform’s hardware acceleration story. Prior to her tenure at Microsoft, Seema worked on brain-computer interfaces at Brown.

Consuming Web Services in Microsoft Silverlight 3

c9dev — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:21:47 GMT

Come hear how to work with external REST, SOAP, and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services from Silverlight. Learn how to securely and efficiently communicate with services using Binary XML, debug services with improved Faults support, and implement server-to-client "push" using the new Add Service Reference for Duplex functionality.

Eugene Osovetsky

Delivering Ads to a Silverlight Media Player Application

c9dev — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:21:47 GMT

Learn how to add instream and companion ads (in Flash and Silverlight formats) to a Silverlight media player application. See real-world examples of how to use IAB's VAST and VPAID guidelines as well as other methods to display instream video advertisements along with companion display ads.

Nicholas Brookins
Nicholas Brookins is a Product Architect at Akamai Technologies, the leading managed services provider for powering rich media, dynamic transactions, and enterprise applications online. Nick provides technical design for the Akamai AdaptiveEdge streaming solution, based on Microsoft Smooth Streaming for Silverlight. He is also the lead developer for the Silverlight version of OpenVideoPlayer, an open source project that aims to provide a foundation for stable and scalable web-based video players, available at openvideoplayer.sf.net. Prior to his role at Akamai, Nick was the CTO of SAM Systems, where he played a key role in development of patent-pending methods for improving video quality and efficiency for the company's real-time surveillance video solutions. Aside from software development, Nick enjoys playing guitar and spending time at the beach in San Diego where he lives with his wife and daughter.

Working across the Client Continuum

c9dev — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:11:34 GMT

Come see how to build a continuum of client applications including HTML, AJAX, ASP.NET, Microsoft Silverlight, and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) that all consume the same Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service. Learn how to reuse as much code as possible, how to optimize the development process, and how to address key logistical issues like external servers and cross domain communication.

Laurent Bugnion
Laurent works as a senior user experience developer for IdentityMine, one of the leading companies for Microsoft technologies such as Windows Presentation Foundation, Silverlight, Surface, Windows 7 and generally User Experience. In October 2008, Laurent wrote the book "Silverlight 2 Unleashed", published at Sams. This book is a complete tutorial about Silverlight. Privately, he codes in ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight and WPF; and writes on http://www.galasoft.ch where he publishes articles, prototypes and demos related to the mentioned technologies. In 2008, Laurent earned a MCTS for WPF. 2009 is his 3rd year as a Microsoft MVP (Client App Dev).

Microsoft Silverlight Is Ready for Business

c9dev — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:57:14 GMT

Come learn how to build a Silverlight business application today with the new UI features including DataGrid, DataForm, validation and navigation. Also see an example of how to connect to services using a LINQ enabled, Entity Framework-backed, data management solution.

Ward Bell
Ward Bell is Vice President of Technology at IdeaBlade where he is responsible for the product direction of the DevForce .NET application framework, a product targeting smart client development. That product extends the ADO.NET Entity Framework with n-tier, client caching, and Silverlight support. Ward spent much of the last 30 years programming line-of-business applications for numerous companies including several of the Fortune 100. He is a Solutions Architect MVP. His blog is Never In Doubt.

Scaling a Rich Client to Half a Billion Users

c9dev — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:57:14 GMT

See how China's Tencent Corporation built a next-generation QQ Instant Messenger client using Microsoft Silverlight. Hear how one of the largest communities in the world with 400M+ active users and 50m+ concurrent users got to massive scale with Silverlight while leveraging UX to make more money with their services.

Steve Zheng
Steve Zheng, Ph.D., Chief Software Architect, Head of Tencent Research. Before joining Tencent, he worked in Microsoft, Redmond, for eight years. Dr. Zheng received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Peking Univeristy, and Ph.D. degree from University of Minnesota, majored in Computer Science.

When Errors Happen: Debugging Microsoft Silverlight

c9dev — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:57:14 GMT

Come see how to debug Silverlight applications using Fiddler, Internet Explorer 8, and the Web Development Helper tools. Learn how using the right tool save precious time and effort whether dealing with cross domain policy recognition, RESTful response analysis, or just a general error.

John Papa
John Papa (ASPSOFT), author of book Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2 by O’Reilly, is a Microsoft C# MVP, INETA speaker, member of the WPF and Silverlight Insiders, consultant, speaker, author, and trainer for ASPSOFT who specializes in professional application development with Microsoft technologies. John has written over 60 articles for MSDN Magazine and authored several books on data access technologies including Silverlight, ADO.NET, ASP.NET, WPF, XML, and SQL Server. He can often be found speaking at industry conferences such as VSLive and DevConnections, and viewed on MSDN Web Casts. You can always find John at johnpapa.net.

What's New in Microsoft Silverlight 3

c9dev — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:16:08 GMT

Take a tour of the new features in Silverlight 3 including a dive into some of the new experience oriented features like pixel shaders, perspective 3D, animation enhancements, bitmap APIs and improvements to the media stack. Also hear about new Silverlight base framework additions including updates to the style model, data binding improvements, improved resource handling and improvements to the web services stack. This session will also introduce the Silverlight 3 out of browser model.

Joe Stegman
Joe Stegman is a Group Program Manager of the Silverlight runtime team and is responsible for delivering technology enabling richer experiences on the web. Prior to working on Silverlight, Joe spent several years as a Lead Program Manager on the Windows Forms team where he focused on the visual designers and the Windows Forms data APIs. Joe has worked at Microsoft since 1998 and spent his first several years as a Microsoft consultant consulting working with large corporations in the development and delivery of e-commerce web sites.

Integrating Microsoft Expression Blend with Adobe Creative Suite