Silverlight TV 61: Chat on Deep Zoom, Touch, and Windows Phone 7

Thinking about writing a touch intensive Windows Phone 7 application? In this episode, David Kelley of Wirestone shares his experience creating rich experiences with Silverlight. David has been involved with many high profile applications and he shows off both the Jordan Deep Zoom mosaic and his Simon for Windows Phone 7 application that's in the marketplace (for free). This is a great discussion with a Silverlight user experience expert.

Watch the video here: http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-61-Expert-Chat-on-Deep-Zoom-Touch-and-Windows-Phone

Jordan Mosiac: http://www.jumpman23mosaic.com/

MS Retail: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mvpawardprogram/archive/2011/01/04/achieving-digital-zen-in-retail.aspx

DeepLink for Simon on the phone: http://social.zune.net/redirect?type=phoneApp&id=65c23c5b-73e9-df11-9264-00237de2db9e

Once in a life time you get the chance to hire a Luminary

Industry #Luminary & #Silverlight #MVP is looking for his next role, the race is on, if u'd like to have a rock star @ your company see @WynApse author of Silverlight Cream. see http://geekswithblogs.net/TehGrumpyCoder/archive/2010/09/01/day-1-of-being-unemployed.aspx

Hiring an MVP like David Campbell is just an almost unbelievable oppertunity for a company to gain enourmous creditbiltiy as wellas a huge strategic asset. Having heard that David (not me, but Mr. Campbell) I almost chocked. I would give my eye teeth to hire some one of his calibur and there is such low chance of ever being able to hire some one like him. In any case it will be interesting to see what company gets him first :)

some more about David Campbell:

http://www.silverlightcream.com/

http://wsinsiders.com/the-silverlight-mvp/

http://geekswithblogs.net/TehGrumpyCoder/archive/2010/09/01/day-1-of-being-unemployed.aspx

http://www.wynapse.com/

http://twitter.com/WynApse/

Dirty Dirty Silverlight Hack... - Silverlight 4 Hack: Use Native/Desktop CLR Without COM Registration

Here is a hack of the month. Jeremiah is probably my favoriate Silverlight Prodagy and he has done it again with this wonderful hack, 'Use Native/Desktop CLR Without COM Registration' I like the first line, "WARNING: Information and code here can easily be abused. Please do not use it as a crutch in application planning, but more for utter despair or experimentation. Thus I wrote this blog post from that perspective."

Certainly Jeremiah's code can be abused but what is really interesting to me is how this is one more way to push the limits of what Silverlight can do. 'Hacking' doesn't have to be evil but can be just that pushing the limits and making things better. With that commentary here is the first paragraph and sample code from his article and for the rest you will have to go read his post:

Silverlight 4 + OOB + Elevated Trust gives us the ability to use COM. That would be extremely useful (vs. really useful), except we cannot use just any COM class. It has to support IDispatch (COM automation). It also has to have a ProgID associated to it. That leaves you still with quite a few built-in COM objects to work with, as Justin document's quite well here. What about running our own native or .NET code? One would have to register a COM object first, which requires administrator rights. That’s no fun for an end user! Optimally, it would be nice to be able to add your desktop CLR objects as resources to your XAP, and from Silverlight code, be able to instantiate and use your Desktop .NET classes. This is a hack to do just that.

Huh? What does the hack do?
Let me explain it in code.

/* Create our Desktop .NET helper */
dynamic fullDotNetProxy = fullDotNetProxy = ComAutomationFactory.CreateObject("ClrProxy");

/* Have our .NET helper load up our .NET assembly we extracted from our SL app resources */
dynamic assembly = fullDotNetProxy.GetAssembly(m_assembliesPath + "\\Inject.Test.dll");

/* Get our .NET Type */
dynamic testClassType = fullDotNetProxy.GetDotNetType(assembly, " Inject.Test.TestClass");

/* Create an object instance of our .NET type */
m_testClass = fullDotNetProxy.CreateInstance(testClassType);

/* Run our RunMe method on our .NET object */
m_testClass.RunMe();


Read the rest at:

http://jmorrill.hjtcentral.com/Home/tabid/428/EntryId/442/Silverlight-4-Hack-Use-Native-Desktop-CLR-Without-COM-Registration.aspx

MIX 08 - Silverlight - Wish you were here...

Ah MIX... its finally here. Hmm... we will see what kind of coolness comes out of mix. The conference starts wed and since it is sooo late that I got back to my room in the Venetian that it actually starts later today. Anyway I digress. Even though the conference started I have learned alot. I spoke with Laurence (another author of the MS press book Silverlight 1.0) about publishers and our up coming books and the like. Plus there was the Silverligth Insiders 'meeting' such that it was at the V Bar. We can to meet some of the guys we didn't know and talk with some of the guys we did. Adam has blue hair and we will see how the rest goes but we still can't talk about too much. Also Nokia annouced that their phones will support Silveright so i think it is safe to extrapolate that MS is going to get it on windows CE. Oh plus the plane ride up... well I guess I have to save the good stuff for after the key note.

Silverlight 2.0 - more to come

So this is just killing me. So much goodness in the super secret builds that I can't talk about that its just killing me... SOOOO just so you know as soon as it is public there will be LOTS and LOTS of stuff to post that I cant really talk about at all. In fact probably the first day I'll post probalby 50 things plus. Anyway now that 'that' is almost off my chest.

Silverlight Game

Here is a cool silverlight game Tim H. found on silverlight insiders.

http://www.miniclip.com/games/zombomatic/en/