It was almost a year ago that the transition controls were quietly released for WPF, which I blogged about and included in the WPF Feature Fest (source and deployed app): The guts of this project is now available as Transitionals on Codeplex. A lot of the code has been refactored quite ni…
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Just came across this video on Adaptive Path's blog of Bruce Sterling talking about Interaction Design: Bruce Sterling from Innovationsforum on Vimeo. Missed him at SxSW this year, but this video gave me my fix. He's really clear on what spimes are right at the beginning. He has to…
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Here is a guide for using Flotzam at a conference: Flotzam at a conference is fun. It gives the audience the ability to immediately participate in the event as well as on the blogosphere. Their photos, twitters, etc, show up on the big screen. If you would like to see Flotzam in action, you can (1…
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I realized that the code base I used for Flotzam for the MIX conference was not posted and there are a few interesting things that have been updated in the code that people may be interested in: For MIX, we displayed photos that were posted to the MIX event on Facebook. How do you get all …
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Was watching a Channel 9 interview on the DLR and found out about LOLCODE. Too funny. …
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I recently used the Silverlight 2 Carousel sample I wrote for the WPF Boot Camp application and encountered a gotcha that some others may hit. Each carousel contains multiple videos, between 5 - 10. Initially, the source of the video was coming from an mms:// URI, streamed from a Windows serve…
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In WPF, when styling a control, Blend has a very handy feature which allows you to get at the default style and template for any control, simply by right clicking the control and selecting "Edit Control Parts (Template)" and then selecting "Edit a Copy..." These styles and …
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For some random reason, occasionally Silverlight 2 projects will suddenly no longer support debugging. Very frustrating. Fortunately, the fix is pretty simple: Right click on the Web in the Solution Explorer pane. If you have a Web project, you will see "Property Pages",…
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