SDDN Meeting, 30 June, Melbourne

June 26, 2009

EDIT: We’ll be giving away not one but two Expression Studio Suites worth over $1K each!

Come along and see Sketchflow and Blend 3 in all their glory!

Sketchflow Shane Morris, Microsoft

Don’t know what Sketchflow is? Then read this!. Okay, now tell me you dont want Shane, MS UX Evangelist, to run through it live!

Expression Blend 3 – What’s new? – Mahesh Krishnan, Readify

Expression Blend 3 improves upon the goodness of Blend 2 SP 1 by providing a whole heap of new features and more importantly, the ability to create applications for Silverlight 3. The list of new enhancements is long – Lots of improvements to the way you use the tool, Improvements to how XAML, C# and VB.NET files are edited, Support for importing Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator files, Skinning enhancements, Enhancements for animation, Sample data generation, etc, etc.

Mahesh Krishnan will run through these changes in a fast demo based session (without using Powerpoint!) The session is targeted at both Designers and Developers, so don’t miss out :)

About the speaker: Mahesh Krishnan, works as Senior Consultant at Readify and blogs at http://blogesh.wordpress.com. He has previously presented at a number of user group meetings, codecamps and Tech.Ed

We meet @ the Microsoft Theatre, Level 5, 4 Freshwater Place, Southbank. Be there from 6!

Use the registration tool on the SDDN site.

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Remix Australia 2009 videos available

June 20, 2009

Another #auremix passes, but this time we have video for all those that weren’t able to attend!

Check out http://www.microsoft.com/australia/remix/videos/default.aspx for all the sessions from Remix Australia.

If you are watching my session (the Silverlight 3 Super Session) then you may be interested in the sample code so you can sing along at home :)

Overall Remix was a great event – the most value I find is talking to peeps in the hallways and after party. It’s always great to hear what others are doing and to join ideas and thoughts.

Will most definitely see you there again next year!

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Silverlight 3 – Split image in to tiles and show in 3d space

June 13, 2009

At Remix Australia 09 one of the demos I showed was of a 3d wall with lots of images which would then extrude in to 3d space.

I’ve taken that demo and updated it a little so you can now load and show any image as a set of separate 3d tiles which can be moved around independently of one another.

Have a look at the app running here: Tile image and place tiles in to 3d space thingo.

<Sample Code>

Split image and 3d-ify

</Sample Code>

The cool part here is using the new WritableBitmap to create the tiles. Open up CrazyNoPurposeWrapImage3dThingo.cs and check out the way the code loops through rows and columns and renders potions of the source image in to tiles using WritableBitmap.Render, modifying the translate transform to move the source portion around.

bm.Render(imgWriteTemp, new TranslateTransform() { X = -cx, Y = -cy });

The 3d stuff I’ll explain another day :)

Enjoy!

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Remix Australia 09 – Silverlight 3 Super Session Demo!

June 11, 2009

I’ve been a bit quiet blogging lately – because I’ve been working on three great apps for Remix Australia 09!

Download the sample app that I use throughout my Silverlight demo @ Remix Australia 09 here.

Video of the session will be posted soon after the event, so stay tuned!

<Sample Code>

Silverlight 3 Super Session Code

</Sample Code>

The main Solution is located in RemixDemos/RemixDemos.sln.

BTW, don’t expect too many comments in the reference app. Any commenting I’ve done in the last month has gone in to the eventr Codeplex app!

I’ll be blogging more on the eventr Deep Zoom app on Codeplex in coming weeks and months.

I really hope you enjoy these apps!

Cheers,

Jordan.

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