Major League Soccer on Windows Phone 7 with Charlie Kindel :MIX 2010 Day 1 Keynote

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Major League Soccer’s application for Windows Phone 7 Series lets fans track their favorite teams in real time, with notifications of game events, game stats and the ability to watch highlight clips via Silverlight and Internet Information Services Smooth Streaming. Check out this demo given by Charlie Kindel from MIX 10.

System Update: Slowness when playing recent videos

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Hey folks,  

Our Content Delivery Network (CDN) is experiencing very high traffic due to MIX10 session content. To resolve this, we will be blocking access to the MIX sessions temporarily while they copy all of the MIX sessions into various edge caches around the world.

The end result of this work will be to resolve all of the poor streaming/buffering issues that we’ve been seeing on all of our properties, including Channel 9, Edge, live.visitmix.com and others.

 

We expect access to be re-enabled later today, with a current estimate of 8pm Eastern Standard Time.

Thanks for your patience!

Introducing RxJS - Reactive Extensions for JavaScript

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Reactive Extensions for Javascript have arrived. Hello RxJS!! 

You can now use Rx combinators in JavaScript. RxJS provides easy to use conversions from existing DOM, XmlHttpRequest and jQuery events to Rx push-collections, allowing users to seamlessly plug Rx into their existing JavaScript-based web sites. Great. What does this mean, exactly? As you know by now, Rx is a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable collections.

Here, Rx developer Jeffrey Van Gogh explains (and demonstrates) what you can do with RxJS, how he ported Rx to JavaScript and more.

Tune in.

Introducing the IE9 Developer Platform Preview

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Get your hands on the IE9 developer platform preview!

The IE team has been very busy working on the next version of Internet Explorer, aka IE 9. Today, you can get your hands on a developer preview and experience the joys surfing on metal with GPU powered HTML5. Yep, that's HTML5. Microsoft loves HTML5 and CSS 3.

Here, IE GM Dean Hachamovitch and Rob Mauceri discuss how they're taking IE to a new level with all graphic rendering taking place on the GPU via the DirectX technology D2D and a new JavaScript engine that compiles JavaScript to machine code and can do this in a way that takes advantage of multi-core architectures (you will learn much more about this in the coming weeks..).

Summary: IE9, which you can get in your hands now in the form of a developer preview, enables you to exploit the power of the GPU in ways you already understand (CSS, HTML, JavaScript).

Techfest: NUI Movement

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At TechFest this year I met with Desney Tan and Dan Morris who showed me several very interesting systems, each of which allows your body to become the input device for hardware. Granted, this hardware was literally put together with tape and exposed wires (that just increases the cool, IMHO), but this proof of concept worked incredibly well considering its fragility. Also, Desney really could use a metronome and some time spent practicing Guitar Hero. :)

Dan showed us how we might interact with devices by using our body as a control device. By tapping in a specific area on your arm you are able to navigate, read email, or play games.

Erik Porter and Nathan Heskew: Introducing Orchard

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Orchard will create shared components for building ASP.NET applications and extensions, and specific applications that leverage these components to meet the needs of end-users, scripters, and developers. Additionally, we seek to create partnerships with existing application authors to help them achieve their goals. Orchard is delivered as part of the ASP.NET Open Source Gallery under the CodePlex Foundation. It is licensed under a New BSD license, which is approved by the OSI. The intended output of the Orchard project is three-fold:

• Individual .NET-based applications that appeal to end-users , scripters, and developers

• A set of re-usable components that makes it easy to build such applications

• A vibrant community to help define these applications and extensions

In the near term, the Orchard project is focused on delivering a .NET-based CMS application that will allow users to rapidly create content-driven Websites, and an extensibility framework that will allow developers and customizers to provide additional functionality through extensions and themes.

Erik Porter and Nathan Heskew are two of the developers of Orchard. Do they look familiar? Sure they do. They used to be devs on the C9 team.

Pete Blois on Windows Phone 7 in Blend 4 and Rooler

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In February, while up on campus for the MVP summit, I snuck over to the Expression side of building 41 and met with Pete Blois.

Pete Blois is a Senior Program Manager Lead on the Expression Blend team. He's responsible for tooling for Silverlight, WPF, and now Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 Series.

Blend 4 supports not only Silverlight, WPF, and Windows Phone, it now includes multi-targeting support for the .NET framework 3.5sp1 and 4, Silverlight 3 and 4, and Silverlight for Windows Phone,  just like Visual Studio 2010. In this video, Pete goes into some detail about how they have accomplished multi targeting in Blend 4.

Pete also talks about Rooler, the screen measurement and sampling tool he created for designers and developers. Written in WPF, this has become one of my go-to tools whenever I'm working with an existing design.

Finally, we get into the new Blend tooling for Windows Phone Series 7 development. As expected, the Expression team delivers with an awesome design and development experience for a new platform. 

• Pete Blois's site and blog
• Pete Blois on twitter @peteblois
• Pete Brown's site and blog 10rem.net
• Pete Brown on twitter @pete_brown

Silverlight TV 17: Build a Twitter Client for Windows Phone 7 with Silverlight

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Mike Harsh comes back to Silverlight TV to show John how easy it is to develop a real world application for Windows Phone 7 Series (WP7) using Silverlight. Within a matter of minutes, Mike has developed and started running a functional WP7 twitter application that makes cross domain calls. He demonstrates how to design the interface using the designer and tools in Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone, and writes the event handlers to hook into a Twitter API. The key point of this demo is how easy it is to develop for WP7 with Silverlight.

You can find the source code and other useful resources from these links:

• Source code for the sample app Mike wrote
• Source code for sample Twitter client for Silverlight

Follow us on Twitter @SilverlightTV or learn more about Silverlight with the Silverlight Training Course on Channel 9.

IE 9 - Surf on Metal with GPU Powered HTML5

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Get your hands on the IE9 developer platform preview!

We drop in on IE PM and graphics enginering legend Ted Johnson and IE dev platform PM John Hrvatin to discuss what we learned in Dean's office: hardware accelerated HTML5.

IE 9 and SVG - Past, Present and Future of Vector Graphics for the Web

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Get your hands on the IE9 developer platform preview!

Graphics programming master Christian Fortini and IE SVG PM Patrick Dengler discuss IE9's native support for SVG. Some very cool demos here!

IE 9 Performance Pipeline Overview

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Get your hands on the IE9 developer platform preview!

IE Performance PM Jason Weber and Performance Dev Lead Venkat Kudallur take us through the updated and improved performance pipeline in IE (hardware accelerated graphics rendering, new JavaScript engine (employing a dual execution pipeline), improved downloader, etc). We also get to see some really cool demos!

Silverlight TV 16: Top Features in Silverlight 4

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While at MIX10, John catches up with Jesse Liberty and Tim Heuer to discuss their favorite features in Silverlight 4. Along with calling out and discussing why they're each impressed with their favorite features, Jesse, Tim, and John also discuss the impact of the announcements made at MIX regarding development for WP7 and Silverlight at the Day 1 keynote.

You can also check out the 60+ page whitepaper that covers the full feature list of all the new features in Silverlight 4 online (or you can download it).

Follow us on Twitter @SilverlightTV or learn more about Silverlight with the Silverlight Training Course on Channel 9.

 

Ping 52: Nic Fillingham, Windows Phone 7, XNA and Channel 9 Live

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This week we welcomed special guest host, Nic Fillingham, who not only runs Channel 9 LIVE at MIX 2010 but also brings us these stories:

• Flash On Windows Phone 7
• GeoSense for Windows- go get it!
• XNA Games for Windows Phone 7
• Microsoft sends flowers to IE6 funeral

and Just For Fun:  New Dork Music Video

Windows Phone 7 Keynote Announcements from MIX 10

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MIX 2010 is finally here and all of the info about developing on Windows Phone 7 Series is available to you. Here, Charlie Kindel gives us a recap of all the announcements made in todays keynote. Take a listen and then make sure to head HERE to get the bits and start building apps. 
The Windows Phone Developer Tools package contains a toolset that will be familiar to Visual Studio developers for Windows Phone 7 development, including a Windows Phone 7 Series emulator integrated into Visual Studio so you can see your app in action and debug it as you would with any other VS project.  Also included are Silverlight and the XNA Game Studio.  Expression Blend for Windows Phone, which brings Blend’s immersive Silverlight designer-focused environment to building immersive mobile experiences, is also available for download today from the link above.

Silverlight TV 14: Developing for Windows Phone 7 with Silverlight

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We're here at MIX10 where Windows Phone 7 (WP7) and Silverlight just became the best match since peanut butter and chocolate! Mike Harsh, Program Manager for the Silverlight team working on WP7, joins John Papa to demonstrate the WP7 device and the tooling used to create applications for it. Mike covers the phone, how to write a Silverlight app for it, how to run that app in the emulator, and how to deploy it to the phone. The simplicity of this demo is how easy it truly is to take your Silverlight skills and apply them to WP7 devices.

Follow us on Twitter @SilverlightTV or learn more about Silverlight with the Silverlight Training Course on Channel 9.