What’s new in Silverlight This Week in Silverlight
Recorded July 23, 2010
News
- MSFT giving out Windows Phone 7 (WP7) devices to all employees.
- Justin Angel (@JustinAngel): “Microsoft should just say to developers: 99.9% of you will only touch a Windows Phone 7 device once you buy one.”
- WP7 is getting good reviews on Engadget and Wired.
- Silverlight Analytics Framework updated.
- Postvision is a new Silverlight 3D Engine.
- What Silverlight apps would you “sell” to MSFT?
- Shawn Wildermuth has an MSDN page talking about how he built Give-A-Quiz.
- 5 hardware partners to have WP7 devices at launch.
- WP7 UI Guide is available.
- Links to video recordings to 1st Windows Phone 7 Jumpstart
- Blend-O-Rama – Lunch Series
- Contest: Win a BALL Watch by creating one in Expression Blend with Silverlight
- Contest:VS Ultimate + MSDN subscription for styling controls.
App of the Week
Silverlight World Cup Mashup
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 July 16, 2010
Silverlight Cream interview with Dave Campbell
This week we’re joinged by Silverlight MVP of the year Dave Campbell! Dave runs Silverlight Cream which is the hub of all Silverlight information 
Read Dave’s blog here.
*Important* – Dave says that if you’ve moved your Silverlight pages, make sure the’res a redirect so we can still get to that content.
News
- Windows Phone 7 (WP7) dev tools are in beta!
- Blend for phone is now in the install
- Panorama and Pivot controls will be included in the next couple of weeks.
- WP7 execution model is changing (Tombstoning, launcher, etc.). Get up to speed with part 1 and part 2.
- WP7 training kit updated.
- WP7 book by Charles Petzold has also been updated.
- Frank La Vigne has a mega list of WP7 resources.
- Make sure to check out the code for this Offline RSS reader for WP7.
- Hello World on WP7 with MVVM Light by Allen Newton.
- Walt Ritscher ships Shazzam (pixel shader tool).
- Make sure you understand WP7 and push notifications.
Rumors
The crew tries to figure out how to get a phone
Kowtow to the folks you know at Microsoft (show your demo projects, etc.). Not sure how we feel about this… Shouldn’t the (potential) phone devs receive more of a first class treatment? Afterall, they’re who will make or break the Windows Phone 7 project.
An early review says WP7 sucks
Here’s the review, and here’s a rebuttal.
This review makes Erik nervous. The other hosts are more sanguine. It seems like this person is mabye just trying to make headlines?
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 July 9, 2010
Callouts
- Adam Kinney has left Microsoft and is now at Pixel Lab. Congrats.
- Dave Campbell of Silverlight Cream has 899 Silverlight posts up (with *thousands* of links). Congrats.
News
Rumors
Imagination cup winners got Samsung Windows Phone 7 Phones
These are the first WP7 phones in the wild. The entire crew is jealous.
Silverlight for Symbian is released
It’s based on SL2, and it’s out in the wild. Erik wonders if there’s a *real* development story there. No reason to think there isn’t… but it’s a suspiciously quiet release.
Kin phones dead – revisited with campus rumors
Microsoft is taking a lot of flack over this. But every big company makes these mistakes. Remember the Rockr?
MS rank and file (really talented folks!) are feeling embarrassed over the whole Kin thing.
There’s a leadership shuffle at the mothership. Will the… less talented… execs take control of WP7? If so… game over. Enter 10 years of Mobile failure.
Application Of The Week
The Silverlight Media Framework is app of the week again! (v2 released)
Events
Checkout the Agilitrain Silverlight Advanced classes. The next is in Atlanta on July 22nd.
XNA Game dev for WP7 on July 15, 2010
Mix 11 is April 12-14
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 July 2, 2010
News
- Introducing IIS Express
- Works in medium trust
- Runs cool modules including URL Rewriter, Dynamic Compression, Advanced Logging, etc.
- Beta shortly
- Tips and tricks with the WPF/Silverlight designer in VS2010 by Karl Shifflett.
- Building a WP7 Newsreader App.
- Congrats to newly minted Silverlight MVP Jeremy Likeness. His blog and other info is great.
- Koen ships document toolkit 2 beta 2. It has *experimental* support for displaying pdfs in Silverlight.
- NBC coverage of Wimbledon is powered by Silverlight.
- 3d streaming and silverlight.
- Congrats to the new Silverlight MVPs.
- Object oriented db for Silverlight and WP7. (Jeremy Likeness makes another appearance!)
Rumors
The Kin phones are dead
Erik wonders how they got out the Microsoft door.
All agree that failure is a part of innovation.
Kelly was actually thinking about buying one.
Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference is coming up
Brian wonders if this means new phone tools.
Application Of The Week
Silverlight Pivot Viewer + Netflix and Azure
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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