What’s new in Silverlight This Week in Silverlight
Recorded May 6, 2010
News
Rumors
Netbook sales are kinda swamping iPad sales
Kelly points out that while the iPad is cool, its sales are paltry against netbooks in general.
Brian takes away that there’s lots of touch devices being sold right now.
Erik likes the idea that sometimes the sexy devices aren’t the ones that people are using.
Kelly asks: which app store you should write for?
Erik points out that you can make a lot of money in an empty app store if there is a big market for the phones tied to that app store. Also, these stores are tied to developer tools (Objective-C, Java, Silverlight, etc.) and those stores with the better tools will do better.
Brian talks about the barrier to entry to the different app stores.
Kelly sums up with what’s important to look for in an app store.
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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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May 11th, 2010
What’s new in Silverlight This Week in Silverlight
This is our 10th This Week In Silverlight Show!!!!
Recorded April 30, 2010
News
*caution from Brian*
If using the old RC of Blend/VS, careful with the new Phone CTP tools.
Rumors
Courier tablet killed off? Media Rumors
Media reports indicate that the Courier may have been killed off. Brian was looking forward to this dual screen device 
HP Tablet Killed Off? and iPad 3G released
What’s happening to the “tablets” in the Microsoft space?
Erik hopes that there’s a secret super cool project from Microsoft waiting in the wings… But most of the time there isn’t
Kelly is tired of waiting. That’s why he bought an Android phone.
He is buying an iPad 3G.
Erik asks whether or not you can bolt on a *good* touch interface on top of a desktop OS?
Brian urges caution. UX issues are potentially problematic.
Kelly points out that users want a marketplace. For him, it’s all about the apps.
Erik thinks that re-using code and building on mouse events, focus events will not out-smart the users. They’ll use.
Brian points out that with touch, there can be multiple points of interaction with touch. This is in stark contrast to the mouse.
Brian asks if WP7 will scale up to tablet level
Erik points out that Apple faced the same thing with OSX versus iPhone OS on the iPad. They chose iPhone OS, and Erik hopes that the powers that be in Microsoft make a similar choice.
Erik points out that for the best practitioners of Ux: interfaces will change between devices. Application code can be reused but the UI cannot be reused across desktop, phone and slate devices.
Application of the Week (50 this week)
50 Applications from Noupe
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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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May 3rd, 2010
What’s new in Silverlight This Week in Silverlight
Recorded April 23, 2010
News
Public Service Announcements
Portland CodeCamp May 22.
Remix Atlanta May 8.
Karl Shifflet does WPF for LOB and Win7/.NET 4 training. Also, keep an eye on his blog for upcoming info.
Rumors
WP7 Phones (or news??) coming in the next few weeks?
Does this interview indicate that phones are coming soon?
Erik and Brian are a little skeptical
More Silverlight Jobs?
In Portland (at least) more and more Silverlight jobs are cropping up.
Multitasking in WP7
There’s very limited multitasking support in WP7. And perhaps no backgrounding for 3rd party apps.
Erik thinks that maybe there’s a cue to take from Apple’s new iPhone OS4 where there are “Completion Tasks” that are allowed to run for up to 10 minutes (as of beta 2…) in the background.
Justin Angel fooled us
He didn’t hack the Zune up to run WP7
Application of the Week (2 this week)
Audio Orchard Music Mixing application.
Ebay Application. Out of the Browser Silverlight app that allows the listing of items. Make sure to check out John Papa’s walkthrough.
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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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April 26th, 2010
What’s new in Silverlight This Week in Silverlight
Recorded April 9, 2010
News
Rumors
Apple prevents cross-compiling on App Store Apps
Are (admittedly vague) hopes for Silverlight on iPhone DEAD??? Apple’s new licensing for the iPhone Operating System section 3.31 for iPhone OS4.
Erik feels sick to his stomach. Is Monotouch dead? What about *all* of the developers who have already written applications on Unity/Monotouch and had them accepted in the App Store?
The Prohibition is at the language level. (Objective C, C, C++, Javascript are allowed). The crew wonders what it would take to compile Managed C++ in Monotouch…
Kelly thinks there’s an opportuntity to learn Objective C.
Is this a way to avoid the “collapse to the bottom” in the App Store?
Blend 4. Is it going to be released with Visual Studio 2010 or not?
Kelly says that it would be weird if it doesn’t ship with Visual Studio.
Erik bemoans the crashiness of Blend 4 Beta.
Application of the Week
Buhrle Collection
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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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April 12th, 2010
I was interviewed by Tim Huckaby for the great MSDN Bytes Series. It’s a super fun interview where he asks me what it’s like to be a Silverlight Trainer and Consultant. Tim’s one of the best interviewers in the business, and his series is a pleasure to watch.
MSDN Bytes Interview With Erik Mork
April 5th, 2010
What’s new in Silverlight This Week in Silverlight
Recorded April 1, 2010
Shout Out to MVPs
@brian_henderson/silverlight-mvp
@brian_henderson/blend-mvp
News
Rumors
iPad – list of HTML5 sites that will work on the iPad.
Silverlight vs HTML5
Erik wonders if the HTML5 spec really competes with Silverlight at all. The types of problems we often solve in Silverlight (tracking of entities, etc.) aren’t even in the spec…
Brian wonders if the spec will be done in anything like the near future.
Kelly wonders about the browser specific implementations of HTML5 and browser compatability.
Justin Angel hacks up a ZuneHD to run WP7….
Windows Phone Marketplace
Kelly talks about the process of getting into the marketplace. It looks like a much more straightforward process than other marketplaces.
Application of the Week
FourSquare Everywhere
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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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April 5th, 2010
What’s new in Silverlight This Week in Silverlight
News
Bart Czernicki (@bartczernicki) – Getting started with Bing Maps Silverlight control for Windows Phone 7 (w/ code):
http://bit.ly/bzR2sF
Silverlight 4 and a technical whitepaper
Free WP7 ebook (Charles Petzold)
Rumors
many requests for @John_Papa & Mike Taulty (
@mtaulty ) to do an online version of their Mix10 Silverlight BootCamp!
Microsoft Partners: Silverlight Gives Us Everything We Need
Application of the Week
René Schulte (@rschu) has created FaceLight a simple Silverlight Face Detection library
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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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March 25th, 2010
What’s new in Silverlight This Week in Silverlight – From Mix10
Mix10 News
- Kelly was hoping we’d receive free phones, but we didn’t
- Windows Phone SDK is out
- Tim’s Windows Phone 7 news
- Tim’s Silverlight 4 RC news
- Windows Phone tools are (and will be) free
- Blend 3 to Blend 4 upgrade is free
Other News
- Mix conference is sold out
- MVVM Light 3 is released
Application of the Week
Seesmic client for Windows Phone 7
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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 a Senior Software Engineer with MyContent.com. 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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March 24th, 2010
Interested in what happened at Mix? Want to hear about the new phone? This month, we held off the Portland Silverlight User Group meeting for the Mix conference and boy are we glad we did 
We’re going to have a low-key meeting in the new Lucky Lab and talk about the developments. Do you write Silverlight or XNA? If so, you just became a phone developer. Join us to help figure out what that means. People from Mix will be talking about what they learned and how the world has changed.
When:
Tuesday March 23, 2010 6pm-8pm (tomorrow!)
Where:
New Lucky Lab in North Portland-*
1700 N Killingsworth St, Portland, OR
http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&ss=ypid.YN720×12477952&encType=1
(*-The pub is so new that I have to use a link to the old restaurant that was there – Roux)
Sponsors
Location Sponsors:
Lucky Lab
Webtrends
Platinum Sponsors:
Vertigo
Meridian
Equipment Sponsors:
Silverlight Tour
March 22nd, 2010
What’s new in Silverlight This Week in Silverlight
Application of the Week
FlickrLight is an interesting application for browsing images. It has some nice transitions, but the navigation could use some work. Make sure to click on the username in the bottom to dive deeper into the application.
Silverlight Rumors
Interesting Windows Phone Development blog on MSDN. Rumors are starting to become reality.
We-Dig meeting: http://we-dig.org/ Brian attended a we-dig meeting and got to see a WM7 phone in the flesh.
New Windows Mobile twitter people to follow:
@WP7Dev
@WIndowsPhone
While you’re at it, add the This Week in Silverlight crew to Twitter:
@SparklingClient
@brian_henderson
@mckhendry
Silverlight News
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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 a Senior Software Engineer with MyContent.com. 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.
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March 4th, 2010
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