Videos

Woohoo - the video that Bill Reiss and I created for the MIX08 Show Off! Event took second place! The video showed off some demos and games we created using the Farseer Physics engine created by Jeff Weber.

Details are here, and the video should be posted at visitmix.com "soon"...

UPDATE 3/12/08: It looks like the videos still haven't been posted on visitmix.com, so I figured I would encode it myself and throw it up on Silverlight Streaming... Here it is, enjoy. Also, if you are interested in seeing the First Place winner, Crayon Physics, you can see that here.

Microsoft Vice President Scott Guthrie just did a .NET Rocks interview with Carl and Richard this week about his upcoming keynote at MIX and all the news we'll be announcing.   Check it out. It starts at about 4 minutes in.  He talks about Silverlight 2 taking on the Beijing Olympics with NBC, and lots more!

I managed to get Ed and Ben into the MS UK recording studio thing before Christmas to record their sessions delivered across the country online for Channel 8. Those videos are now all online.

Ed has the background and here are the videos are for your viewing pleasure:

In order to demonstrate some of the features of the upcoming Silverlight Spy 2.0 I have created a 4.5 minute video of the Spy in action.

Silverlight Spy 2.0 is still in it's early alpha stages and not available yet. The next Spy will be released after Silverlight 2.0 Beta becomes available to the public. There is still some work required to stabilize the code and of course a lot of things are still unknown about Silverlight 2.0, but it's my intention to support Silverlight 2.0 right from the next Spy release.

I just got the news that my first 2 Chopsticks video's are online.

In the first video, I give a general overview of Silverlight 1.0 development, complete with 2 demo's.

In the second one, I'm explaining all you need to know on the Silverlight downloader object and the CreateFromXaml method.

You can see many more interesting Chopsticks video's here.

Today's Webcast focused on factoring out repeated creation of objects in XAML (and their manipulation in the code behind) by creating objects dynamically using CreateFromXaml (This will be available for viewing as soon as the recording is processed).

The webcast began by showing this application, that uses animation to display changes in data over time.

It then explored the problems with this approach and offered a solution as shown in this video.

In my latest video, I demonstrate how to create a Silverlight application that displays Twitter messages from various Twitter users.  You will learn how to make calls to an open source Twitter API via AJAX Page Methods, and display the results with faded text effects.

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Scott explains how this year's MIX is bigger then ever! Covering everything from Windows Presentation Foundation improvements to Web development frameworks including Dynamic Data and the MVC Framework, to dropping some hints about upcoming tooling support, and the major improvements in Silverlight 2.0.

Learn all this during Part 2 of a two-part interview.

In this video, I demonstrate how easy it is to debug your Silverlight 1.0 applications in Visual Studio 2008.  As a new web site is constructed in the video, you will learn and use the interactive debugging tools of Visual Studio 2008.

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In my latest video available at the Silverlight.net site, I briefly demonstrate the default error handling capabilities of Silverlight 1.0 applications, and then show how to intercept errors to provide custom error handling.

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