What’s new in Silverlight This Week in Silverlight

Recorded June 18, 2010

News  

• Metro (Windows Phone 7) style Silverlight Desktop app.

• Windows Phone 7 (WP7) devices out for devs next month?
• Adam Kinney announces that the Expression Studio 4 Launch videos are online.
• Jeff Prosise talks about dynamic loading of .xaps using MEF.
• Data Driven Apps with MVVM series.
• Charles Petzold on orientation strategies in Windows Phone 7.
• videos on Coding4Fun for Shuffleboard Game for WP7 (thanks AndyB!).
• Windows Phone 7 – I need this app contest.  Microsoft will pay you $5000 and build the app.

Rumors

Does Microsoft strategy have an iPad shaped hole in it?

arstechnica  thinks so. 

Brian is thinking about why there’s a hole in their strategy.  Is there a secret project in the works?  Hmm…

Brian is wondering about the upcoming tablets in the Microsoft world.

Erik wonders if it will be Windows 7 desktop.  Apparently, it will be Windows 7 embedded… which (to Erik) is mostly the desktop version.

Mike Hall has a preview of Windows Embedded Compact 7 (preview).  What a name.

Prototype of ASUS Eee Pad.

Erik and Kelly make up silly product names

Application Of The Week

Windows Phone 7 Bus Tracking App

Honorable mention – World Cup App by MSN Brazil (in Portugese)

Extra Conversation

Erik thinks that sharing your idea for an application is rarely a bad thing.  It’s the User Experience (Ux) that separates apps in the existing app stores.

Kelly points out that sharing youtube videos of your apps is also sharing your application’s Ux.

Brian points out that there might be Intellectual Property benefits to posting videos of your application.  It’s also their business story that’s important.

Guest Hosts

Brian Hendersonis a Silverlight Designer/Architect and INETA Community Champion. A few of the activities Brian can be found participating are flying (pilot), kayaking, hiking, or just taking video/photos.

Kelly White is an independent Silverlight Consultant. He previously lead the PDXUX.Net user group, and now runs the Portland Silverlight User Group with Erik Mork. Kelly has presented at user groups and code camps throughout the northwest on both Silverlight and WPF.

Music kindly provided by YACHT.

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What’s new in Silverlight This Week in Silverlight

Recorded June 11, 2010 

News   

• WP7 updates from TechEd
• Phones are coming!
• Sharepoint training on Channel 9
• Take a Quiz from Shawn Wildermuth!
• Blend 4 released
• New Blend Tutorials.
• Bing Maps SDK has been released
• Expression SDK for Silverlight
• Expression SDK for .Net Framework
• 5 day Blend Training
• New blend tutorials
• Silverlight Spy update.
• Beta for IIS Media services.  Can stream to iPad!
• Silverlight.net forum updates.
• Petzold on inertia on WP7.
• iPhone vs WP7

Rumors 

Kelly is Going to Make His Wife Watch a Metro Presentation 

He was (briefly) going to buy an iPhone.  But then he remembered the name Belfiore. 

Vertigo CEO at WWDC? 

What’s going on?  Maybe just the streaming to iPad stuff? 

MKlucher is going to E3 

This means xBox-live integration announcements? 

Watch the announcement (??) here. 

Application Of The Week 

Follow Cup is an out of browser app for following the World Cup soccer matches.  It looks crazy nice.

(Kelly’s Droid phone makes a noise) 

Extra Links

• Silverlight 4 Theme refresh.

Guest Hosts 

Brian Hendersonis a Silverlight Designer/Architect and INETA Community Champion. A few of the activities Brian can be found participating are flying (pilot), kayaking, hiking, or just taking video/photos. 

Kelly White is an independent Silverlight Consultant. He previously lead the PDXUX.Net user group, and now runs the Portland Silverlight User Group with Erik Mork. Kelly has presented at user groups and code camps throughout the northwest on both Silverlight and WPF. 

Music kindly provided by YACHT. 

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What’s new in Silverlight This Week in Silverlight

Recorded June 4, 2010

News  

• Behaviors in Silverlight on Silverlight TV.
• Mike Snow needs you to give feedback on RIA development.
• Prism v4 first drop.
• Silverlight 4 GDR update.

Rumors

Smartyp passes info about the nPad

Slate device running Windows 7? 

Brian found that there were were a number of slate devices shown in Taiwan that *can* run Windows 7.

Application Of The Week

Shuffleboard on WP7 from Andy Beaulieu

 Guest Hosts

Brian Hendersonis a Silverlight Designer/Architect and INETA Community Champion. A few of the activities Brian can be found participating are flying (pilot), kayaking, hiking, or just taking video/photos.

Kelly White is an independent Silverlight Consultant. He previously lead the PDXUX.Net user group, and now runs the Portland Silverlight User Group with Erik Mork. Kelly has presented at user groups and code camps throughout the northwest on both Silverlight and WPF.

Music kindly provided by YACHT.

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What’s new in Silverlight This Week in Silverlight

Recorded May 28, 2010

News  

• Cool guy exodus from Microsoft.
• Apple surpasses Microsoft in term of market cap.
• Expression 4 Launch coming up.
• Tim Greenfield of Vertigo gave a great talk on Rx in Portland.
• Silverlight Unit Test Framework updated for WinPhone7.
• Accelerometer Visualization on the Zune HD.
• Developing a Free Cell game in Silverlight.
• A kind of faked up Silverlight on the iPad.  They stream video of the plugin to the device.

Rumors

30 Million Win Phone 7 Devices Forcasted by 2012

*Late-breaking correction*: the 30 million number cited here and in the show is not just WP7 devices.

Brian talks about the forecast and what it means.

Erik thinks that 30 million sounds reasonable.  This is partly because smartphones will be more popular overall.

Kelly thinks Android will have a pretty good lead at that point.

The Rumor about Steve Ballmer at WWDC (Apple Conference) is False

Was the analyst was pretty much making stuff up…?

Erik points out that Microsoft’s denial was a little weird.

There was speculation that Ballmer would announce Silverlight on the iPhone.  The crew thinks this is pretty unlikely.

Application Of The Week

http://www.veripane.com/ 

Extra Discussion

Kelly has heard from (supposedly) reliable sources that Silverlight/Sharepoint consultants can bill out at $200-$300/hour.  The crew ponders the possibilities.

Guest Hosts

Brian Hendersonis a Silverlight Designer/Architect and INETA Community Champion. A few of the activities Brian can be found participating are flying (pilot), kayaking, hiking, or just taking video/photos.

Kelly White is an independent Silverlight Consultant. He previously lead the PDXUX.Net user group, and now runs the Portland Silverlight User Group with Erik Mork. Kelly has presented at user groups and code camps throughout the northwest on both Silverlight and WPF.

Music kindly provided by YACHT.

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