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If you’re authoring multimedia applications in Silverlight, you might be interested in how each of the core game engine services for Legend of the Greasepole is now implemented for the Silverlight 2 Beta.
From C/C++ to a Provider Model-Based .NET Engine
When was the last time you looked at code you wrote almost a decade ago? [...]
The Silverlight 2 Beta runs rings around the Silverlight 2 Alpha. However, the lack of hardware acceleration is very noticable (and relevant to an Image-oriented application like Legend of the Greasepole) when running at higher resolutions.
For a little perspective:
In 1998, the first version of Legend of the Greasepole was released.
Platform: Windows PC (95, 98, [...]
The Legend of the Greasepole is a game that began its life on July 1st, 1996, when a group of Engineering students from Queen’s University in Canada decided they’d create a way to re-live their unexplainable annual tradition from the comfort of their long-suffering computers.
After last year’s XNA port, the release of the Silverlight 2 [...]
1. The Cirque du Soleil keynote demo, the most engaging articulation of WPF’s “richer, smarter, more productive line-of-business app” message since Avalon Healthcare.
2. More Microsoft Research innovation sees the light of day in the product groups and for developers at large. Deep Zoom becomes available to developers through Silverlight and demoed by the Hard Rock Cafe, [...]
Just got back from the Steve Ballmer / Guy Kawasaki keynote at this year’s Mix.
Is Guy ever not on form? He did a great job asking Steve the tough questions, making it fun, and getting a few candid answers, along with some “PR” answers as well, including Steve’s cautious response to “What about [...]
Head over to Tim Sneath’s blog for a list of all download links related to the keynote this morning.
First let’s get to the obvious Silverlight announcements we “knew” were coming during this keynote:
- Silverlight 2.0 Beta is available!
- Expression Blend 2.5 (!) March Preview is available!
- formal announcement of Silverlight Mobile device support!
In my presentation last weekend I was asked about Silverlight adoption stats, which I predicted we’d get during the keynote. [...]
I’ve just stepped out from the first Mix Keynote I’ve attended as a consultant rather than a Microsoftie. There was no real shocker in there, but it was a solid keynote and I am enthused by a couple of exciting announcements
Ray Ozzie began by saying he sees Mix08 as one of several milestones on a [...]
Thanks to everyone who came out to my WPF and Silverlight presentation at the Toronto CodeCamp event yesterday. It was great to have a chance to speak with so many interested and enthusiastic people who hung around after the talk.
Because the presentation was a riff on my What’s New in WPF 3.5 and Silverlight [...]
Thanks to everyone who came out to my WPF and Silverlight presentation at the Toronto CodeCamp event yesterday. It was great to have a chance to speak with so many interested and enthusiastic people who hung around after the talk. Because the presentation
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I’m presenting at the Toronto Code Camp on Saturday about What’s new in Visual Studio 2008 for WPF 3.5 and Silverlight developers. My presentation will be an updated version of the presentation I gave at ObjectSharp’s Visual Studio 2008 At the Movies event, which hopefully you’ll find interesting and useful if you’re doing client-side [...]
1. Visual Studio 2008. Express Edition is free. But the story doesn’t end here…
2. Expression Blend 2. Current build is the December Preview. I’m guessing the next drop will happen around Mix08 in March. Does a much better job of visually editing XAML (for instance, elements in Resource Dictionaries) than [...]
It was great to be part of ObjectSharp’s VS2008 at the Movies event this morning. Thanks to all of you who braved a quintessentially Canadian snowstorm to be there!
My favourite part of the WPF/Silverlight presentation was being able to show some of the work ObjectSharp has been doing with WPF and .NET 3.5 at Thermo [...]
I’ve been knee-deep in code for the past month, and in the process I’ve refined my proverbial code pipeline and learned heaps about what it’s really like to build line-of-business WPF applications with Visual Studio 2008.
So I’m excited to have the chance to talk WPF and Silverlight at ObjectSharp’s “VS2008 at the Movies” event on [...]