OpenSpace Blog

Using Silverlight 2 in Financial Applications

drobbins — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:28:00 GMT

Silverlight 2 is going to allow designers and developers to reuse their existing skills to create Rich Internet Applications. This video shows how Silverlight 2 could be used to build financial applications that go beyond the typical HTML-based applications common on the web today.

A Silverlight Game Engine

drobbins — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:20:00 GMT

In this Open Space session, Patrico Jutard of Three Melons gives a demo of their Silverlight game engine. Watch the video to see some of the possiblities for developing casual internet games using Silverlight.

Veracity Solutions Combines WPF and Wii-motes

drobbins — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:31:00 GMT

A couple guys from Veracity Solutions setup a demo of their cool project during an Open Space session.

The demo shows a Windows Presentation Foundation application bound to the inputs of a Wii mote to allow the user to control whats on the screen. They modified a pair of gloves with LEDs to allow a person to control the UI with their hands.

SilverReader - A European Silverlight Challenge Winner

drobbins — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:50:00 GMT

SilverReader is another one of the European Silverlight Challenge winners that were sent to the US for MIX by INETA Europe. In this video, Radenko demonstrates his winning entry, an RSS Reader, and how he built it using Silverlight.

Programming Your Xbox 360

drobbins — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:42:00 GMT

Krishna Kumar delivers the final Open Space session at MIX with some great information about Programming your Xbox 360. With XNA, any developer can create games for the PC or Xbox 360 (and eventually the Zune).

Krishna demonstrates a game that XNA developers can use as a reference example, including the source code and all of the assets required for the game.

Istvan Cseri on SQL Server Data Services

drobbins — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:40:00 GMT

Ryan Dunn interviews Istvan Cseri on SQL Server Data Services (SSDS). Istvan answers the question of why developers should care about SSDS. He also goes to the whiteboard to explain the high level architecture of a SQL Server Data Services solution.

Sync to the Web - Enable Offline Access of Web Data to Any Data Store

drobbins — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:30:00 GMT

Liam Cavanagh discusses how to use the Microsoft Sync Framework along with SQL Server Data Services to provide synchronization cabability across multiple applications.

In the demonstration, he synchronizes between an Access database and Outlook contacts. However, by building new providers, any application can participate in synchronization.

Jason Hunter and Jeff Currier on SQL Server Data Services

drobbins — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:23:00 GMT

Jason Hunter and Jeff Currier gave a great Open Space session on SQL Server Data Services (SSDS). Jason is a Principal Development Lead for SSDS and Jeff is a Software Design Engineer.

LOGI-CRAFTS - Logistics Visualization Silverlight Demo

drobbins — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:19:00 GMT

In this video, Gilbok Lee demonstrates LOGI-CRAFTS, a logistics visualization application for the aviation industry using the richness of Silverlight.

This video is a little hard to see (the video cameras we used are not great for capturing screens), but you can still get a really good idea of what this application does and the power of Silverlight.

Software + Services Blueprints

drobbins — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:31:00 GMT

In this video, Michael Lehman talks about the new Software + Services Blueprints. These are downloadable and reuseable applications that show how to build Software + Services scenarios around Microsoft technology.

Fun with HttpModules

drobbins — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:23:00 GMT

Chris Love gave a presentation on how to build HttpModules for ASP.NET and the IIS7 integrated pipeline. The HttpModule interface gives developers an opportunity to extend IIS7 and ASP.NET in different ways than otherwise possible.

Chris demonstrates a background thread module as well as a module that modifies the output of pages before return the HTML to clients.

What's a Microsoft Student Partner?

drobbins — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:54:00 GMT

In this video, Peter Laudati interviews Nikita Polyakov about what it means to be a Microsoft Student Partner.

Nikita has being making his presence known around MIX08, having great conversations and collecting content for students around the world to see what happens at a conference like MIX.

Slide.Show Silverlight Demo

drobbins — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:49:00 GMT

Vertigo goes over their Slide.Show Silverlight application. They talk about how they built it, where its used and how to customize it for your own needs.

Slide.Show is an open source project available on codeplex.com.

John Lam on Ruby, Ruby, Ruby

drobbins — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:14:00 GMT

John Lam led a Q&A session with attendees on an update of what Microsoft is doing with IronRuby. This is a very interesting discussion that includes updates on language implementation and the plans to get Rails working on IronRuby.

Demo of PureChat from Axosoft

drobbins — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:20:00 GMT

PureChat is an ASP.NET based application that you can install on your website to enable real-time chat with your customers.

In this video, some attendees from Axosoft did a quick demo of the application.

A Tour of the Open Space Area (In Spanish)

drobbins — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:15:00 GMT

Una vista rapida del area abierta en Mix 2008, donde se presentan demostraciones y mesas de discusion. Completamente en espanol.

Business of Design

drobbins — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:12:00 GMT

In this spill-over from a panel discussion at MIX, the attendees continued a conversation about the Business of Design.

The topics in this recording range from how to spec a project, to the designer/developer workflow, to hiring vs growing talent.

Alfred Biehler Talks About SQL Server Data Services

drobbins — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:01:00 GMT

In this video, Alfred Biehler talks about SQL Server Data Services and his thoughts on how the technology will impact the industry. Alfred is on the developer evangelism team from the UK.

The Code Trip Bus Leaves at 7:30p Tonight

drobbins — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:33:00 GMT

Check out The Code Trip bus that will be traveling around the western United States.

The Code Trip is a road trip, a bunch of developers cruising around in a tour bus and geeking out. It's also an online TV show (or video podcast, or vodcast, or whatever the kids call it nowadays) chronicling their adventures throughout the western United States.

Billy Hollis: Windows Presentation Foundation in the Real World

drobbins — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:47:00 GMT

Billy Hollis did an Open Space session on the good and the bad of Windows Presentation Foundation in the real world. He talks about the experiences he's had in learning WPF and using the technology in real world applications.

Billy Hollis is a great speaker and has termendous experience with the .NET platform. Watching this video will surely expand your knowledge on how to practically apply Windows Presentation Foundation in your application scenarios.

Microsoft Regional Directors React to the Keynote

drobbins — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:40:00 GMT

Josh Holmes caught up with a few of the Microsoft Regional Directors just after the keynote and they had some strong opinions of the content of the keynote.

This is a great video that even includes Carl Franklin with some background (or is it foreground) music. :)

Featured in this video are Richard Campbell, Mark Dunn, Steven Forte and Carl Franklin.

SilverGlobe - An Open Source Silverlight Control

drobbins — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:25:00 GMT

SilverGlobe is one of the winners of the European Silverlight Challenge sponsored by INETA Europe. It is an open source reuseable control for mapping data on a spinning 3D globe.

In this video, Florian Kruesch goes over the control and how it can be used as a component of other applications. Florian is also making the application available for others to use and contribute changes to.

You can get more info about SilverGlobe here: http://xaml-kru.com/silverglobe/

Congratulations to Florian for winning the European Silverlight Challenge!

MIXr! Silverlight Mobile Application Demo

drobbins — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:13:00 GMT

MIXr was featured in Scott Guthrie's Keynote yesterday at MIX 08. It's a data-driven, touchscreen Silverlight application running on Windows Mobile 6.

In this video, the developers from StepChange dig deeper into the details of MIXr and how it was built using their frameworks to showcase Silverlight technology on mobile devices.

Microsoft Surface in the Sandbox

drobbins — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:07:00 GMT

You can check out the new Microsoft Surface tables in this video recorded by Josh Holmes in the Sandbox.

The Microsoft Surface team are at MIX with two tables, running demos throughout the Sandbox opening hours with a constant stream of viewers. There's no doubt that people are really excited about Microsoft Surface.

Me.dium: WebSlices and Activities in Internet Explorer 8

drobbins — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:41:00 GMT

In this video, Me.dium discusses how they are using the new features of Internet Explorer 8 to make the web a more social experience.

David Mandell from Me.dium shows off the WebSlices and the Activities that Me.dium created to integrate their services into the new IE8 and leverage the new rich user experiences provided by this platform.