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Future with Silverlight:
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Silverlight in the Future
Ian (author of a premier WPF book) joins us again to talk about, among other things, the future of Silverlight. He’s got some well reasoned and informed points. Here are some of the things we discuss in today’s show:
Silverlight video and 3D
– Silverlight doesn’t have some of the fancy graphical effects that are in WPF. Ian takes us on a tour of why this is.
XAML everywhere?
– XAML is appearing everywhere in the Microsoft world. Why? What’s great about it? And where are some of the unexpected places we might see it cropping up?
Silverlight’s Future
– Ian takes a look in his crystal ball and gives us a guess as to what the Silverlight situation will be a year from now. In the process, he points out a surprising problem with Silverlight. A “problem” that is also one of Silverlight’s greatest strengths.
Useful links for the show:
Ian Griffith’s blog - http://interact-sw.co.uk/iangblog/ http://shrinkster.com/x7s
Ian’s WPF book - http://www.amazon.com/Programming-WPF-Chris-Sells/dp/0596510373/ http://shrinkster.com/xul
Music for the show:
Lido In The Morning by General Fuzz from the album Messy’s Place
I Believe In You by YACHT from the album Instrumentals 2007
Sidetrack by Lisa DeBenedictis from the album Fruitless
May 29th, 2008
Silverlight can be used for all sorts of things. This week we tell you how to make yourself smarter with Silverlight. We also bring up and answer some points from last week.
Useful links for the show:
Mindhacking with a Silverlight application - http://www.soakyourhead.com/
Neal Ford’s blog entry - http://memeagora.blogspot.com/2008/05/ria-platform-play.html
Shawn Wildermuth’s comment on Neals blog - https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9944221&postID=4109252449740897643
Our show with Neal - http://www.sparklingclient.com/will-we-regret-silverlight-neal-ford/
Special thanks to people who have helped make this show possible:
Jason Mauer
Jer Warren
Tyler Sample
Scott Hanselman
Ted Neward
Craig Shoemaker
Lots of others with help and advice
Music for the show:
Lido In The Morning by General Fuzz from the album Messy’s Place
I Believe In You by YACHT from the album Instrumentals 2007
Sidetrack by Lisa DeBenedictis from the album Fruitless
May 21st, 2008
Potential problems with Silverlight [17:46m]:
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*-Neal has put up a companion blog post. To read it, go here.
Silverlight is an impressive new technology, but will we regret adopting Silverlight a year from now? Neal Ford of ThoughtWorks makes the case that we will. In this show:
Platform Play
On the surface, Silverlight appears to be fairly open. Neal explains why this isn’t the case and why it is going to matter to businesses.
Testability
Neal makes the argument that Silverlight is not as testable as open-standards based technologies.
Last 10%
Neal thinks that Silverlight won’t be able to implement the last 10% of user needs. And that will leave Silverlight adopters in the lurch.
Useful links for the show:
Neal’s blog - http://memeagora.blogspot.com/
Neal’s site - http://www.nealford.com/
Music for the show:
Lido In The Morning by General Fuzz from the album Messy’s Place
I Believe In You by YACHT from the album Instrumentals 2007
Sidetrack by Lisa DeBenedictis from the album Fruitless
May 14th, 2008
Neurons and Silverlight [17:52m]:
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Silverlight Interactions
Ian is a consultant, developer, speaker, and author. His excellent book on WPF (written with Chris Sells) can be found on Amazon. He knows Silverlight. And he knows WPF. This week he helps us with the following topics:
Why Silverlight?
– There are a lot of options out there. Why is Silverlight the right choice? Why isn’t it?
Neurons and Silverlight
– Old movies had a simple trick for freaking people out. Ian explains how this worked and how we can do the opposite in our Silverlight applications.
Where are the WPF applications?
- WPF has been out for a while now. But where are all of the WPF applications? Does this mean trouble for Silverlight? Ian guides us through these questions.
Useful links for the show:
Ian Griffiths’ blog - http://interact-sw.co.uk/iangblog/
Ian’s WPF book - http://www.amazon.com/Programming-WPF-Chris-Sells/dp/0596510373/
Music for the show:
Lido In The Morning by General Fuzz from the album Messy’s Place
I Believe In You by YACHT from the album Instrumentals 2007
Sidetrack by Lisa DeBenedictis from the album Fruitless
May 8th, 2008
Silverlight Backup Plan
What if you have to ship an application immediately, but you need Silverlight-like features? Is there an option? Billy explains how XBAP might be a viable alternative in this week’s show. Here are some of the topics we discuss:
Interaction Design
– It is so critical in Silverlight, but how do you get started? Can anyone do it? Billy helps us out with these questions.
XBAP in place of Silverlight
– Sometimes Silverlight isn’t a viable alternative (after all it’s in Beta). There is a trick, though, that you can use: deploy as an XBAP application initially and then (when Silverlight 2 is released) role that code into Silverlight. However, it is a tricky process. Billy’s doing it in his consulting business, and he tells us some of the things to consider.
Billy’s upcoming WPF book
– Billy tells us about his book and how it’s different than the other books that are out there.
Useful links for the show:
Billy Hollis’ site - http://www.dotnetmasters.com/ http://shrinkster.com/x7q
Billy’s WPF book (not yet released) - http://www.amazon.com/Windows%C2%AE-Presentation-Foundation-Pro-Developer/dp/0735624186 http://shrinkster.com/x7r
Music for the show:
Lido In The Morning by General Fuzz from the album Messy’s Place
I Believe In You by YACHT from the album Instrumentals 2007
Sidetrack by Lisa DeBenedictis from the album Fruitless
Don’t Stay In Bed by YACHT from the album Instrumentals 2007
April 30th, 2008
WPF and Silverlight animations
Billy Hollis is a well known consultant and author. This week we get down to brass tacks and discuss why, from Billy Hollis’ perspective, smart clients/RIA applications are necessary in the first place. Here are some of the topics we cover:
Silverlight in business applications?
– It makes more sense than you might think. Billy has a simple and elegant point that I hadn’t thought of before.
Why isn’t HTML good enough?
– HTML isn’t cutting it for the latest and greatest web applications. Billy explains why.
Why are web technologies (like ASP.NET) so popular lately?
– It’s often not a technical reason.
Useful links for the show:
Billy Hollis’ site - http://www.dotnetmasters.com/ http://shrinkster.com/x7q
Music for the show:
Lido In The Morning by General Fuzz from the album Messy’s Place
I Believe In You by YACHT from the album Instrumentals 2007
Don’t Stay In Bed by YACHT from the album Instrumentals 2007
Sidetrack by Lisa DeBenedictis from the album Fruitless
And Then It’s All Gone by Williamson from the album A Few Things To Hear Before We All Blow Up
April 23rd, 2008
Captain Silverlight (Jesse Liberty) joins us for part 2 of the interview. In this episode, we talk about the power of XAML, XAP files and the new breed of applications that will emerge from the Silverlight platform. It’s a great overview of how Silverlight is storming the web.
Useful links for the show:
Main Silverlight site – http://www.silverlight.net
Music for the show:
Lido In The Morning by General Fuzz from the album Messys Place
I Believe In You by YACHT from the album Instrumentals 2007
Sidetrack by Lisa DeBenedictis from the album Fruitless
And Then It’s All Gone by Williamson from the album A few things to hear before we all blow up
April 16th, 2008
This week we interview Jesse Liberty, Captain Silverlight. He works for Microsoft and runs helps run the Silverlight.net site. In this episode he gives us some great resources, compares Silverlight with other technologies, and explains when XAML should be used and when it shouldn’t. He’s a Silverlight tour-de-force.
Useful links for the show:
Silverlight 2 “How Do I?” videos - http://silverlight.net/Learn/videocat.aspx?cat=2 http://shrinkster.com/wk3
Silverlight 2 Tutorials - http://silverlight.net/learn/tutorials.aspx http://shrinkster.com/wk4
Adam Kinney’s home site - http://adamkinney.com/
Adam’s post on the NBC Olympics Silverlight Site - http://adamkinney.com/blog/317/default.aspx http://shrinkster.com/w1x
Jesse Liberty’s blog - http://silverlight.net/blogs/jesseliberty/default.aspx http://shrinkster.com/wk5
Silverlight Micro-Blog - http://twitter.com/SLMicroBlog http://shrinkster.com/wk6
Music for the show:
Lido In The Morning by General Fuzz from the album Messy’s Place
I Believe In You by YACHT from the album Instrumentals 2007
Sidetrack by Lisa DeBenedictis from the album Fruitless
Don’t Stay In Bed by YACHT from the album Instrumentals 2007
April 9th, 2008
This week we interview Dave Campbell of the Silverlight Cream site. Dave scours the web for all of the newest Silverlight information. Today, we pick his brain on all the best of Silverlight 2.
Useful links for the show:
Dave Campbell’s blog - http://geekswithblogs.net/WynApseTechnicalMusings/Default.aspx http://shrinkster.com/wip
Wynapse site - http://www.wynapse.com/ http://shrinkster.com/wiq
Silverlight Cream. The cream of the crop in Silverlight information (also on Dave’s blog) - http://www.silverlightcream.com/ http://shrinkster.com/wir
Zero Gravity Game. - http://www.ltbennett.com/ http://shrinkster.com/wis
Music for the show:
Lido In The Morning by General Fuzz from the album Messy’s Place
I Believe In You by YACHT from the album Instrumentals 2007
Sidetrack by Lisa DeBenedictis from the album Fruitless
April 3rd, 2008
On this show, we talk about how to take the first step with Silverlight. We have a step-by-step guide that shows how exactly to write your first application. But we also have more. Much more.
We present 3 sections to today’s show:
The China Connection: Events halfway around the world could have a substantial impact on Silverlight development. We tell you how.
The Steps: We explain how to write a Silverlight application. It’s easier than you might think.
Softening up the Beach: In this section, we explain a crucial step in Silverlight development- one that is often forgotten, and one that isn’t even discussed in Silverlight documentation.
Transcript for the show
Useful links for the show:
Adam’s post on the NBC Olympics Silverlight Site - http://adamkinney.com/blog/317/default.aspx (http://shrinkster.com/w1x )
Connections Wikpedia site - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(TV_series) (http://shrinkster.com/w8s )
90 day trial of Visual Studio 2008 Professional - http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vs2008/products/cc268305.aspx ( http://shrinkster.com/w8r)
Microsoft Heroes Happen {Here} Launch events – http://www.microsoft.com/heroeshappenhere/register/default.mspx (http://shrinkster.com/w8u)
Silverlight 2 Runtime and Tools download – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E0BAE58E-9C0B-4090-A1DB-F134D9F095FD&displaylang=en (http://shrinkster.com/w9b) Or navigate from http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/
Example Silverlight Applications:
Silverlight Gallery 2 Beta 1 Gallery - http://silverlight.net/community/gallerydetail.aspx?cat=5&sort=2 (http://shrinkster.com/w8w )
Hard Rock Memorabilia. Deep Zoom demo - http://memorabilia.hardrock.com/ (http://shrinkster.com/w92)
Fluxify. Resize and then upload files - http://fluxtools.net/emailphotos/ (http://shrinkster.com/w8y)
Image Snipper. Photoshop-like Silverlight application - http://silverlight.net/Samples/2b1/ImageSnipper/testpage.html (http://shrinkster.com/w8z)
Silverlight controls sample - http://silverlight.net/Samples/2b1/SilverlightControls/run/default.html (http://shrinkster.com/w8x )
Music for the show:
Lido In The Morning by General Fuzz from the album Messy’s Place
I Believe In You by YACHT from the album Instrumentals 2007
How it should have been by Jeff Wahl from the album Guinevere
Sidetrack by Lisa DeBenedictis from the album Fruitless
March 27th, 2008
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