scorbs » work http://scorbs.com karen corby's fabulous blog Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:04:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Silverlight 4 Ships Today! http://scorbs.com/2010/04/15/silverlight-4-ships-today/ http://scorbs.com/2010/04/15/silverlight-4-ships-today/#comments Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:20:44 +0000 Karen http://scorbs.com/2010/04/15/silverlight-4-ships-today/ We shipped today!  WAAHOO!!!

And this time, we’ve packaged up all the dev tools (including the runtime) in one package. 

So after you’ve installed Visual Studio 2010, go get Silverlight Tools here!

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Go download the Silverlight 4 RC!

Just a few of my favorite new SL4 RC features since the Beta:

  • Full screen pinning (watch videos full screen while typing in a different window, on a different monitor.  wahoo for multi-tasking!)
  • Rich text formatting spring loading (be able to hit bold and just watch it work)
  • WebCam preview (see previews of the web cam in the config dialog)
  • Binding support in VisualStates (use databinding in your state storyboards)
  • Navigation loader refresh (support refreshing a Page in a Frame)

 

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Go download Silverlight for Windows Phone Developer Tools!

In this package, you’ll get:

  • Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone CTP
  • Windows Phone Emulator CTP
  • Silverlight for Windows Phone CTP
  • XNA 4.0 Game Studio CTP

Read more about Windows Phone 7 Development here.

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Here’s a list of key Silverlight sessions.  If you’re not in Vegas, catch the keynotes (live!) and sessions (24hours delayed) at http://live.visitmix.com.

Time Session Speaker Room
Mon
11:30 – 12:30pm		 Microsoft Silverlight 4 Overview: What’s in Store for Silverlight 4? Keith Smith Mandalay Ballroom D
Mon
2:00 – 3:00pm 		Overview of the Windows Phone 7 Series Application Platform Charlie Kindel Mandalay Ballroom A
Mon
3:30 – 4:30pm		 Stepping Outside the Browser with Microsoft Silverlight 4 Ashish Shetty Breakers H
Tue
11:00 – 12:00pm 		Microsoft Silverlight 4 Business Applications Scott Morrison Lagoon H
Tue
11:30 – 11:55am		 Microsoft Silverlight “Media”: Moving at 60fps Eric Schmidt Breakers H
Tue
1:30 – 2:30pm		 Building Windows Phone Applications with Silverlight,
Part 1		 Mike Harsh Mandalay Ballroom A
Tue
3:00 – 4:00pm		 Building Windows Phone Applications with Silverlight,
Part 2		 Peter Torr Mandalay Ballroom A
Tue
3:00 – 3:25pm		 Building an Accessible Microsoft Silverlight Experience Mark Rideout Lagoon B
Tue
4:30- 4:55pm		 Silverlight Performance on Windows Phone Seema Ramchandani Lagoon B
Wed
10:30 – 10:55am		 Flash Skills Applied to Microsoft Silverlight Design and Development Adam Kinney Lagoon B
]]> http://scorbs.com/2010/03/15/mix10/feed/ 0 Some Recent Notable Silverlight Posts http://scorbs.com/2010/02/01/some-recent-notable-silverlight-posts/ http://scorbs.com/2010/02/01/some-recent-notable-silverlight-posts/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:37:16 +0000 Karen http://scorbs.com/2010/02/01/some-recent-notable-silverlight-posts/ A couple folks on my team have recently started blogs.  If you haven’t already, check it out!

David Poll (blog)

Jesse Bishop (blog)

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Bits & Tools

Resources

 

Other Product Team Members’ Blogs

Our Four Official Silverlight Bloggers

  • Adam Kinney
  • Jesse Liberty
  • John Papa
  • Tim Heuer

    • ]]>     http://scorbs.com/2009/11/19/silverlight-4-links/feed/ 1     PDC Session: Silverlight 4 Beta Overview http://scorbs.com/2009/11/19/pdc-session-silverlight-4-beta-overview/ http://scorbs.com/2009/11/19/pdc-session-silverlight-4-beta-overview/#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:02:11 +0000 Karen http://scorbs.com/2009/11/19/pdc-session-silverlight-4-beta-overview/ Thank you to everyone who came to my overview talk yesterday!

    Silverlight 4 Overview Talk

     

    My session video has already been posted online.  You can also download the deck here.

    You can find online all the other Silverlight PDC session videos.

    As promised, you’ll find the code for all the demos below (and links to run the app, where possible).

     

    But first, a few thank yous….

    I got help from a bunch of people on the Silverlight team while putting together the demos and content for this talk.  So a big thank you to all of you!  (And to Walter VonKoch on the IE team for help with the Windows RSS Feed Service apis.) 

    Also, a HUGE “shout out” to the Silverlight team.  As I mention in the talk, we’ve shipped three versions of Silverlight in less than 2 years… and to follow that with a Beta of Silverlight 4 so soon afterwards… it’s just amazing.  :)

     

    Here are the demos…

     

    Scrapbook App

    (Code, Live App)

    Shows Silverlight 4 Beta features:

    • Drag Drop onto Silverlight
    • Right Click Event Support
    • Printing

     

    PDC Photobooth App

    (Code, Live App)

    Shows Silverlight 4 Beta features:

    • WebCam
    • Printing

    Classroom Proctor App

    (Code)

    Shows Silverlight 4 Beta features:

    • UDP Support for Multicast Solutions
    • Navigation Loader Extensibility
    • Authentication Support in Client Http Networking Stack
    • INotifyDataErrorInfo Asynchronous Data Validation
    • Implicit Styles
    • RichTextArea
    • BiDi Script & Right to Left FlowDirection
    • Programmatic Clipboard
    • Expression Blend Fluid Layout Support for ListBox
    • Google Chrome Browser Support

    Note: in order to run this application, you will need to set up a Silverlight Multicast Server.  An example of a server can be found here.  You can use the policy file found here.

     

    FeedReader

    (Code, Live App)

    Note: you must Right-Click to install this application.

    Shows Silverlight 4 Beta features:

    • WebBrowser HTML Hosting
    • HTMLBrush
    • Trusted Applications with Native Integration via COM Interop
    • Notification Windows
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    If you’re at PDC, I’ll be giving the Silverlight 4 Beta Overview session in an hour (CL01, 11:30am Hall F).

    Here are some other great Silverlight PDC Talks!

    ]]>     http://scorbs.com/2009/11/18/silverlight-4-beta-ships-today/feed/ 5     Top 100 Global Brands of 2009 http://scorbs.com/2009/09/18/top-100-global-brands-of-2009/ http://scorbs.com/2009/09/18/top-100-global-brands-of-2009/#comments Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:00:59 +0000 admin http://scorbs.com/2009/09/18/top-100-global-brands-of-2009/ BusinessWeek published an article on the top global brands this year. 

    It’s interesting to see who made this list – some of them are pretty obvious (e.g. Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon).  Others make total sense, but I probably wouldn’t have guessed them (e,g,  Heinz, Burberry).

    brands

    ]]>     http://scorbs.com/2009/09/18/top-100-global-brands-of-2009/feed/ 0     Bing Visual Search Released! http://scorbs.com/2009/09/15/bing-visual-search-released/ http://scorbs.com/2009/09/15/bing-visual-search-released/#comments Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:28:00 +0000 admin http://scorbs.com/2009/09/15/bing-visual-search-released/ And it uses Silverlight!

    Bing Visual Search enables you to search the web using images as your “keywords” (as opposed to well, word keywords).  Check it out here.

    ]]>     http://scorbs.com/2009/09/15/bing-visual-search-released/feed/ 12     Whatcha Think? New Silverlight Features… http://scorbs.com/2009/09/11/whatcha-think-silverlight-4-features/ http://scorbs.com/2009/09/11/whatcha-think-silverlight-4-features/#comments Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:07:22 +0000 admin http://scorbs.com/2009/09/11/whatcha-think-silverlight-4-features/ Thanks to Joe for calling out the new Silverlight  feature request tracker.  Tim Heuer and Scott Barnes have set up this list up to help us get feedback from the community.

    We’re definitely looking closely at this list!  Please cast your votes.  :)

     

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