Entries Tagged 'WPF' ↓

SMU has launched an enhanced Mustang All-Access Silverlight multimedia player in partnership with CBS College Sports.

Wondering what’s new in the Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Runtime?
The Silverlight website has a nice (quick) Feature Matrix comparing the Silverlight Runtimes

Service pack 1 for Microsoft Expression Media 2 is available for download for Windows and Mac. In this release over 400 bugs were fixed along with the addition of a host of new features including Geo-tagging and Virtual Earth support. More details available on the Microsoft Help & Support website.

We have a new iPhone/iPod Touch template. Pay us a visit ant let us know how it works.

Shoot a set of overlapping photographs of a scene from a single location, and Image Composite Editor creates a high-resolution panorama incorporating all your images at full resolution.

Scott Hanselman’s BabySmash is a WPF application design to keep your kid occupied at the computer. Random smacks on the keys create colored shapes, letters and numbers. The Windows Key, Ctrl-Esc and Alt-Tab keys are disabled so your baby can’t escape the application and make a mess of your system.

Apparently the application has received 20,000 downloads in less than two months

SmarterTools has released SmarterStats 4.x, the latest version of it’s web analytics tool. This release uses Silverlight for dynamic charting.

There is also a free edition available which allows you to run reporting on 1 site.

Looks like Microsoft has relaunched the Mojave Experiment website with a Silverlight front end. Initially the site was built in Flash, presumably to get as much exposure as possible when it first went live. Maybe now that the Olympics are over they feel the Silverlight plugin has enough penetration to switch to Silverlight.

The UI is nice and utilizes WPF’s DeepZoom to navigate the video windows.

Is it me or are the video playback controls a little hard to use though? If I inadvertently click in a video area the video restarts from the beginning, and the lack of a scrub bar makes this a little annoying.

Steve over at the Expression Blend and Design blog has an article and source available on animating paths in WPF. Wish I found this 2 months ago.

Source code and writeup available here

Textfyre, a Software Development company building some cool educational games in WPF, is looking for a UX/C# designer. If you’re interested in learning more visit the Textfyre website for contact information.