Entries from July 2007 ↓
July 28th, 2007 — WPF
The new and improved BBC iPlayer went into beta this Friday.
Past versions of the service have been widely criticized for their incompatibility with many PCs, set-top boxes, Mac OS X, Linux and mobile phones. And now the latest version is under fire. 13,000+ UK residents have already signed a petition in protest of it’s tie to Windows. Apparently, not only is it Windows only, but it’s only compatible with XP.
The problem lies in DRM support. Vista and XP handle WMV DRM differently and it’s not an option on the MAC. With DRM being the centerpiece of the application it has been a roadblock to cross-platform compatibility.
Simon Perry at Digital Lifestyles has an interesting piece on how Silverlight could be the iPlayer’s Silver Bullet.
July 27th, 2007 — Vista, WPF, WinXP
Andre Michaud has posted an interesting article at MSDN on how to make your Windows Presentation Foundation apps power aware.
There’s a good bit about the differences in power management between XP and Vista, how to detect the OS, how to access the PowerBroadcast messages, and how to create custom events based on this info.
As mobile computers become increasingly prevalent, battery life has become more important. Hardware manufacturers are aware of this and design mobile devices with battery consumption in mind. But can the same be said for your software? If not, maybe you should begin to think about coding software that is power-aware. Both Windows® XP and Windows Vista™ provide system information to enable your applications to do just that. In this article, I provide a starting point from which developers can understand power awareness in their Windows Presentation Foundation applications.
July 24th, 2007 — WPF
Scott Guthrie and John Lam have both published posts about the pre-alpha availability of IronRuby. These posts are technical and little over my head, but I appreciate the fact that Microsoft is serious about making a Ruby implementation for .NET a priority.
July 24th, 2007 — WPF, XAML
Josh Smith has a nice series of introductory WPF articles up on the CodeProject.
The goal of those articles is to bring someone with no WPF experience up-to-speed enough so that (s)he can fully understand how the series’ demo application works. This page serves as a table of contents for that series.
Josh does a great job of breaking things down in a way that beginners/intermediates can understand. The source code is available as well.
Topics include:
- Part 1 (XAML)
- Part 2 (Layout)
- Part 3 (Data binding)
- Part 4 (Data templates and triggers)
- Part 5 (Styles)
It’s great to see more and more tutorials popping up on all the time.
Source » Josh Smith on WPF
July 23rd, 2007 — Expression Blend, Silverlight, WPF
Celso’s rolling out more great content at Nibbles Tutorials. The Blend & WPF section is live.
July 20th, 2007 — Silverlight, WPF, XAML
Celso Gomes recently launched Nibbles Tutorials.
Built entirely in Silverlight, the site features step-by-step tutorials geared toward designers who are new to Expression Blend and Expression Design.
Not only is this is a great resource for designers who are just getting their feet wet with WPF, but it the site itself is a nice example of what can be done in Silverlight.
We hope to see more from Celso in the coming months. Keep an eye on his blog for more info.
July 18th, 2007 — Silverlight, WPF, XAML
July 18th, 2007 — Silverlight, Surface, Video, WPF
July 15th, 2007 — WPF, XAML
Divelements has just released SandRibbon, a Windows Presentation Foundation ribbon control. This product seems comparable to the ribbon control from DevComponents that we previously posted about.
I haven’t had time to download them both to do a side-by-side comparison. They both offer trial versions available for download. WPF Ribbon | SandRibbon
Our new flagship product allows you to use the powerful new Office 2007 user interface in your applications. It gives you enhanced screentips, rich popups, galleries, live preview, multiple customizable color schemes, recently-used documents lists, animations and many more.
July 13th, 2007 — Apollo, Silverlight, WPF
Hanselminutes has a nice podcast on WPF, Apollo and the state of Rich Internet Applications (RIA’s)
We discuss “Web 2.5″ as Silverlight (ne WPF/E) is announced. Seems that Rich Cross-Platform Runtimes quickly approach from both Microsoft and Adobe. What does this mean to the average developer? We also try to make up for some misinformation we spread in Show 46 on WPF/E, and while we do it, we probably speculate wildly and spread more.
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