Tim Heuer

Troubleshooting data/service access in Silverlight

Method ~ of ~ failed by Tim Heuer — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:54:21 GMT

A while back I pondered doing a “live” debug session with people who were/are working with Silverlight 2 and data access via services, etc. I really like a live concept because it allows people to ask real questions and feels more conversational than...(read more)

4 new Silverlight hands-on labs

Method ~ of ~ failed by Tim Heuer — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:32:52 GMT

We just put up 4 new hands-on labs for Silverlight 2 . These labs are based around some of the training that partners and early adopters had received over the past few months. A guided lab document and source code (before/after) is provided. The 4 labs...(read more)

Photosynth Gone Wild

Method ~ of ~ failed by Tim Heuer — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:56:56 GMT

Remember Photosynth ? Remember when you first saw it and your initial smile came across you in that ‘this is cool’ kind of feeling? Multiply that. A team at the University of Washington in conjunction with Microsoft Research presented “Finding Paths Through...(read more)

Behind the Scenes of NBCOlympics.com

Method ~ of ~ failed by Tim Heuer — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:47:15 GMT

How does 2000+ machines sound? Transforming a Saturday Night Live recording area into a live commentator section full of workstations and bloggers? Scoble had a chance to sit down with Eric Schmidt from Microsoft to talk about some of the behind-the-scenes...(read more)

Visual Studio SP1 and Silverlight tools

Method ~ of ~ failed by Tim Heuer — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:52:32 GMT

Today Visual Studio 2008 has released SP1 which not only brings some fixes, but also is an added value service pack, bringing some new functionality to WPF as well as enabling a “client” deployment pack of the .NET framework so that those deploying .NET...(read more)

ReMIX UK – 18 SEPT

Method ~ of ~ failed by Tim Heuer — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:39:59 GMT

Well, I wish I was going to this event: ReMIX UK ! For one, it would be starting the day of my birthday and would be a great birthday treat! Secondly, I would be able to meet up with my fellow escamoles chaps and maybe take in some local cuisine instead...(read more)

Some Silverlight ecosystem updates

Method ~ of ~ failed by Tim Heuer — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:51:44 GMT

I’ve had a couple things sitting in my inbox for a week or so and rather than call them out individually and take up your precious aggregation space, I’ll summarize them here. 3rd Party Silverlight Controls Got a note from Valentin about the roadmap for...(read more)

Play Olympic Games in Silverlight

Method ~ of ~ failed by Tim Heuer — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:54:52 GMT

With the Olympic ceremony only days away and being able to enjoy the Olympic experience online via Silverlight , why not get a little excited and play some casual games , Olympic style. All of these were build using Silverlight and the Popfly game creator...(read more)

Compare on Kelley Blue Book with Silverlight and DeepZoom

Method ~ of ~ failed by Tim Heuer — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:10:06 GMT

Have you seen those television commercials about used car markets and someone standing in a white background and as they vocalize their automobile preferences the selections fly in and around them. That’s what I was reminded of when I came upon the new...(read more)

IronNails = Silverlight + IronRuby + Patterns

Method ~ of ~ failed by Tim Heuer — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:36:48 GMT

If you already pay attention to the IronRuby dev group and are on the distribution list, apologies for the dupe. I’ve just got back from a camping trip and rifling through all my emails now. I checked in on the IronRuby group and noticed a new project...(read more)

Silverlight tip: shortcut simple properties

Method ~ of ~ failed by Tim Heuer — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:53:02 GMT

I’ve seen the rumbling a few times now about property setting in Silverlight . The rumblings are along the lines of “ why do I have to use SetValue for setting simple properties like the x/y positioning?” To those points, I agree from a fundamental standpoint...(read more)

Silverlight data binding and value converters

Method ~ of ~ failed by Tim Heuer — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:48:28 GMT

If you are working with Silverlight and data you most likely are going to leverage data binding at some point and run into some needs to format the data in the XAML. Luckily this can be done using value converters, which have been available for WPF since...(read more)

Silverlight at Gamefest

Method ~ of ~ failed by Tim Heuer — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:29:09 GMT

This week I had the privilege of attending and helping with some Silverlight in casual games presentations at the XNA Gamefest conference happening in Seattle. I say helping because the real game experts were there. Two Silverlight presentations were...(read more)

Providing startup parameters for Silverlight

Method ~ of ~ failed by Tim Heuer — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:12:19 GMT

One of the things that makes Silverlight 2 great is the ability to create a very flexible framework application that others can use and can be embeddable with some dynamic properties. This is the method used in the SL2 Video Player to provide a completely...(read more)

Making SL2 Video Player an Encoder Template

Method ~ of ~ failed — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:33:17 GMT

Now that the Silverlight 2 Video Player is available from Codeplex , I wanted to make it a template for Expression Encoder . I’ll attempt to articulate the steps below. It’s actually pretty trivial. In fact in the current incarnation, you have to throw...(read more)