Hello All!
In this 13 minute video I show you how to make use of the WP7 Phone’s video feed by using a VideoBrush to Brush the video feed onto a Rectangle and then use a Behavior to make it draggable.
Video: http://tinyurl.com/6bl7x7b
Source Code: http://tinyurl.com/3u3rren
Enjoy! Victor Gaudioso (twitter: victorgaudioso)
Hello All,
In this video I show you how to:
1. Create an application bar with Menu Items for Portrait, Landscape and PortraitOrLandscape Page Orientations.
2. Create an Event Handler for OnOrientationChanged
3. In the above Event Handler we set the PageOrientation for the page using a Switch statement
4. Add an image and use the Windows Phone 7 (WP7) emulator to change the page orientation and see how the different PageOrientations layout the objects in the Visual Tree
5. Add a TextBlock that is Data Bound to the Supported Page Orientation of the page
Video: http://windowspresentationfoundation.com/Tutorials/WP7PageOrientation/
Source: http://windowspresentationfoundation.com/Tutorials/WP7PageOrientation/PageOrientationDemo_01.zip
Enjoy and look for more WP7 Mango Video Tutorials coming soon!
Victor Gaudioso
This post was commented on by Microsoft’s own Scott Guthrie (the Gu) on 5.31.10
Hello All,
This is a post that keeps growing day by day so I need to update its postion to be at the top of my blog as the content grows. So, here it is again by popular demand:
71. Windows Phone 7 (Mango): Making use of PageOrientations (Portrait, Landscape and PortraitOrLandscape): http://tinyurl.com/44lvduo
70. How to create a Rotating Banner: http://wp.me/pWN5M-dG (30 min). Demo: http://tinyurl.com/3ql6e8o
69. How to create a SL4 Fake Windowmthat can be dragged, expanded and collapsed: http://wp.me/pWN5M-dC
68. New Silverlight 5 Video Tutorial: How to create Implicit DataTemplates: http://www.windowspresentationfoundation.com/?p=820
67. How to use the FluidMove Behavior: http://wp.me/pWN5M-d2
66. Use Blend’s Sketchflow Animation panel to create a Sketchflow animation to show users how to use your application: http://wp.me/pWN5M-cP
65. Use the LocalMessageSender/Receiver to send messages accross UserControls or even across Silverlight applications: http://wp.me/pWN5M-cC
64. Create a Data Store in Blend w Conditional Behaviors (GotoStateAction/SetDataStoreValueAction) & VSM: http://wp.me/pWN5M-ct
63. Learn how to use the Windows Phone 7 Turnstyle Control from Codeplex (13 min): http://wp.me/pWN5M-ca
62. How to make a Multi-Touch Windows Phone 7 Silverilght 4 application (6 min): http://wp.me/pWN5M-c5
61. How to build a Windows Phone 7 browser page with a WebBrowser control (if you have taken the 5 part tutorial consider this part 6):
http://wp.me/pWN5M-bU
60. Part 5: how to use the CaptureCameraTask to take an image from a menyItem btn:
http://wp.me/pWN5M-bO (Source Code: http://tinyurl.com/36lyfs7)
59. Part 4: Compose and send an email from a MenuItem: http://wp.me/pWN5M-bI
58. Part 3: Make a Phone call from a MenuItem: http://wp.me/pWN5M-bD
57: Part 2: Add new pages when the ApplicationBarIconButtons are clicked: http://wp.me/pWN5M-bp
56. Part 1: How to build a Windows Phone 7 (WP7) appliaction with an ApplicationBar complete with IconButtons and MenuItems: http://tinyurl.com/352fm4u
55. How to use a Behavior to fire methods from objects in Styles: http://tinyurl.com/33e444h
54. How to style a Silverlight HyperLink Button: http://tinyurl.com/365ubrv
53. How to create a ListBox with a static Image background: http://wp.me/pWN5M-aP
52. How to stream video to iPhone/Pad devices using IIS7 and HTML5: http://www.windowspresentationfoundation.com/?p=653
51. Use Silverlight to create Windows Phone 7 Series applications: http://wp.me/pWN5M-a0
50. How to do Hit Detection (HitTesting) in Silverlight based on Andy Beaulieu’s technique: http://tinyurl.com/2bgbp7s
49. How to add multiple BitmapEffects to one object in Silverlight: Post
48. How to build a Slider with a ToolTip that follows the thumb button and displays the value of the Slider: Post
47. How to build your very own TutorialCam like I use in my video tutorials! Post
46. Fire one of two Visual States based on the value of a Boolean variable: Post
45. How to add Fast Forward to the Silverlight MediaElement: Post
44. Create a custom ToolTip with a Delay: Post
43. Create a Silverlight Paging Systems to Load Pages on the Fly: Post
42. Create a Slide In/Out Navigation Panel: Post
41. How to use Joe Stegman’s PngEncoder to save an image from your Silverlight application: Post
40. How to create complex gradients: Post
39. My Blend IDE series – Part 1 – the Blend Toolbar: Blend1
38. My Learn Blend IDE series Part 2 – Layout Controls and User Input Controls: Blend2
37. My Learn Blend IDE series Part 3 – The Properties, Projects and Data panels: Blend3
36. My Learn Blend IDE series Part 4 – The Objects & Timeline and States panels: Blend4
35. My Learn Blend IDE series Part 5 – Blend’s Animation Workspace – Everything you need to know to create Storyboard Animations – Blend5
34. How to make a 3 column ListBox in Silverlight: Post
33. How to read XML into Silverlight and turn it into Native Silverlight Objects: Post
32. Create a default Silverlight 4 Out Of Browser app that allows you to create new OOB apps in mere seconds: Post
31. How to make a forever scrolling Silverligh banner: Post
30. How to create a Silverlight Color Resource in a ResourceDictionary: Post
29. How to make an Out of the Browser SL4 Web Browser Applicaiton: Post
28. Use the new Silverlight 4 Webcam API to create a cool webcam app that even let’s you save images to your hard drive: Post
27. Use the new Silverlight 4 COM API to make an Out of the Browser application that is able to open a MS Word document: Post
26. Learn Silverlight with this new RefCard that I developed Post
25. Create a Functioning Login UserControl: Post
24. Use the FarseerPhysics Library to create a Ragdoll with simulated Physics: Post
23. Create a Sortable ObservableCollection: Post
22. Create a Silverlight Ragdoll with Simulated Physics: Post
21. How to create a functioning Silverlight Login UserControl: Post
20. How to create a Silverlight Timer using the DispatcherTimer class: Post
19. How to create custom RoutedEvents in Silverlight using Andrew Whiddett’s (IdentityMine) Eventing assembly reference: Post
18. Use the Silverlight Toolkit’s WrapPanel to create a ListBox that displays three rows of Data: Post
17. Create a Silverlight custom Silder: Post
16. How to create a Visual Tree Helper to locate FrameworkElements in the Visual Tree: Post
15. Using DataBinding to control the Visibility of any Silverlight Object using Blend and Visual Studio: Post
14. How to create a complete Sketchflow Prototype in Silverlight: Post
13. Creating a Custom Silverlight Button Just for Designers (using linear and radial gradients, the gradient tool and opacity masks): Post
12. Creating a Custom Silverlight Button: Post
11. Creating a Storyboard Helper Class: Post
10. Importing Photoshop PSD files into Expression Blend 3:
Post
9. Creating Morphing Vector Path Storyboards in Blend
Post
8. Re-Creating a Metallic Logo in Vector using Blend 3
Post
7. Creating Timed Storyboard Animations
Post
6. Using TemplateBinding to Replace a ContentPresenter in a Silverlight Button
Post
5. Working with Data in BLend 3
Post
4. Silverlight 3 Behavior Tutorial Video
Post
3. This Tutorial will teach you how to create a Card Flipping Animation!
Post
2. Observable Collection Tutorial
http://is.gd/3ajLK
1. Silverlight Extended Drag and Drop Behavior:
Post
Enjoy! Victor
Raffle Chooser App in the WP7 Marketplace
Hello All,
If you attended our May 25, 2011 Los Angeles Silverlight Usergroup (LASLUG) meeting then you saw Kim S (LASLUG Special Event Coordinator) use the custom built Raffle Chooser Windows Phone 7 Application to choose the Winning Raffle Tickets.
Well, I figured that this could be a handy tool for our other .NET Usergroups such as LA C# Usergroup or even our friends at SoCal Code Camp ran by Woody
Pewitt (@woodyp on Twitter) as I think they all hold raffles as well. So I published it on the Zune Marketplace. It is under the Social Category and is FREE!
You can Install the Raffle Chooser app directly from here: http://tinyurl.com/4xhcltr
If you would like the source code feel free to email me at victorg at laslug dot com.
Thanks!
Victor
Hello All!
Tonight is the LA Silverlight Usergroup Meeting! You can attend this meeting in-person or, for the very first time, ONLINE via our custom UStream Page: http://tinyurl.com/3fmgfgv
In order to participate you must go to http://laslug.com to register as a member for FREE!
There will be prizes given away but you MUST have a RAFFLE Ticket! These will be given away at the door when you attend in person but if you are planning on watching ONLINE (Yes, Online Attendees can win prizes too!) you can email LASLUGTicket@gmail.com and your ticket number will be emailed back to you. This is WORTH doing because we have OVER $12,000 in PRIZES to give away*
And, our crack staff over here at LASLUG even made a special Windows Phone 7 Application to make choosing the winners, easy, fast and random (application screeenshot shown below). Our online meetings are brought to you by our great sponsors Infragistics and Reg Gate Software and others such as ComponentOne, Telerik, Apress, WP7 Dev Podcast, O’Reilly, Jeff Levy Show, UXSynergy, Syncfusion, Silverlight Show, Nowcom, Pluarlsight, VIBlend, Safari Books Online, Microsoft and others.
So, if you live within a 100 mile radius of Los Angeles then we hope to see you in-person tonight and if you live outside of a 100 mile radius then we hope to see you Online at http://tinyurl.com/3fmgfgv (remember to be eligible to win prizes online you must live outside a 100 mile radius of Los Angeles), where you can watch us through multiple camera angles, see speacial video spots and even interact with us via the chat module on the page – Provided by UStream!
Oh, also, try and be there early if you are showing up in person because we have cool SWAG BAGS filled with little goodies (key chains, Flash drives, stress balls, tee-shirts, etc.). But we fall short of the 45 RSVP’d members and when we run out you are out of LUCK! So come early!
See you there! Victor Gaudioso
* Online attendees who win physical prizes such as books are responsible for all shipping costs.
Hello All,
As I do every Friday I opened up my weekly MVP News Letter and there it was, a whole section on the Los Angeles Silverlight Usergroup (LASLUG). Don’t take my word for it…take a look at this screenshot I took of it:
LASLUG gets mentioned in the weekly MVP Newsletter
* To be eligible to win prizes online you must live outside of a 100 mile radius of Los Angeles. All shipping costs associated with prizes won online are the responsibility of the prize winner.
Victor Gaudioso
Silverlight/WPF User Experience Developer
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP)
Blog: windowspresentationfoundation.com
Twitter: victorgaudioso
Hello All!
In this 30 minute video I show you how to create three different UserControls; create Storyboards to fade them all in and out; then programatically loop through them. But you can also click buttons on the bottom of the page to make them skip to a certain frame and the animation continues.
Video: http://tinyurl.com/3je2rpc
Working Demo: http://tinyurl.com/3ql6e8o
Source Code: http://tinyurl.com/3vwy7vt
Enjoy! Vicrtor
PS”This was all from a Twitter request from a user named Anaynapalisuc09
Hello All!
In Silveilght 4 there is no WindowControl..that is a Control that looks like a traditioanl Windows window. So, I made my own version, a Window control that can be dragged around, expanded and collapsed. In this video I show how to do it with two simple Grids, one for Collapsed and one for Expand. I then use the Visual State Manager (VSM) to make it collaspe and expand. Further I use the MouseDragElementBehavior Behavior to make both the collapsed and expanded windows draggable, just like a real window! You can see the functioning demo on this Silverilght page: http://tinyurl.com/456xsno
Working Demo: http://tinyurl.com/456xsno
Video: http://tinyurl.com/3jocf5c
Source: http://tinyurl.com/3fc3cb2
IMPORTANT: If you watch the video you will wee that after I drag, expand and collapse the window a few times I get a JavaScript error marked by an exclaimation point in the bottom left of the browser window. Shawn Wildermuth speculates that it is because the Behavior get’s confused about who its parent object is. The way I fixed it was to wrap the Expanded grid into another Grid and put the MouseDrageElementBehavior on the parent Grid. I don’t show how to do this in the video but it is in my source code (ie., the source code has no JavaScript errorrs).
Enjoy! Victor
PS: We have been growing the Los Angeles Silverilght Group (LASLUG – www.laslug.com) like crazy…for instance we gave away $2500 in gifts in our April meeting…in our next meeting we will be giving away over $12,000 in prizes all FREE to our members; we do not even charge for the Raffle tickets! So join us for pizza, refreshments, great presentations (Morten Neilsen and Josh Kales in May), plenty of Swag from our sponsors and all things Silverlight!
PSS: Our new prizes have been made possible from our new sponsors, Syncfusion, ComponentOne, Manning Books, O’Reilly Books, Nowcom, Telerik, the Windows Phone Dev Podcast, Jeff Levy (the Digital Doctor on KFWB 980 am – Sundays from 5-6pm) where I host a segment called “The Silverlight Corner” bi-monthly.
To stay abreast of everything going on with LASLUG and get prizes you don’t need to live in the LA area..we often hold online prize give-aways and online meetings and soon all of our meetings will be streaming live. So, if you live in Los Angeles or Baton Rouge, LA you can be a LASLUG member by simply signing up for free at www.laslug.com
Victor!
Victor Gaudioso and Jared Potter at MIX10
Jarred Potter
Victor Gaudioso and Laurant Bugnion at MIX10
Laurant Bignion
Victor Gaudioso and Warren Wilbee at MIX10
Warren Wilbee
Victor Gaudioso and Joe McBride (my new tech editor) at MIX10
Joe McBride
Dave Campbell
Matthias Shapiro
John Papa
UPDATE: Here is just the first part of my presentation: http://www.windowspresentationfoundation.com/LASLUG/March/MarchMeeting.wmv
Here is Michael Washington’s presentation on how to use MVVM to build a Silverlight File Manager: http://www.windowspresentationfoundation.com/LASLUG/March/LiveStream03242010.wmv
Hello All!
For the first time in its short history the LA Silverlight Usergroup will be streaming its meeting LIVE in Silverlight. Please log on at 6:45pm PST and watch our meeting Live!
Tonight Michael Washington MSFT MVP will show how to build a Silverlight FileManger
After that I, Victor Gaudioso, Co-Founder of LA Silverlight Usergroup and MSFT MSA will talk about, what else? How to do Live Streaming in Silverlight!
The URL for this event is: http://windowspresentationfoundation.com/LASLUG/March/
Make sure and joing us and leave any comments regarding the meeting on this blog post or on our usergroup website, www.laslug.com.
Also, if you attend the meeting we will have what we call “Hello Mom!” time where you can get on the camera and say hello to whomever you like. Just keep it clean. So be sure to tell your loved ones you are going to be at the on the VCast of the LA SL Usergroup meeting tonight and come on down!
See You There! Victor
Hello All,
DZone has something called REFCARDZ that help you to get started in any programming platform. They needed a series that were dedicated to help people learn Expression Blend and Silverlight. You can do the math and guess who they approached to do this; Yep they ASKED ME! So, I did my first one for them and today it just went LIVE. So, check it out (It’s a FREE DOWNLOAD):
http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/getting-started-silverlight?oid=hom20371
Please provide comments here!
Victor
Hello All,
Tonight (March 31st, 2010) Microsoft announced their new highly coveted MVP award recipients. MVP stands for Most Valuable Professional and it is a pretty big deal in the technology space. And tonight they announced the three newest awardees and I was one of them! Yes, you read correctly, I am now a Microsoft Expression Blend MVP!
So, I would like to say thank you to all of those who supported me, read my books, tutorials and articles. If it were not for you I would not be one of the few Blend MVPs in the world.
And Congrats to the other two newly awarded MVPs: Adam Grocholski (@agrocholski) and Colin Blair (@slcolinblair).
You can read all about what it is to be an MVP here: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Thanks, Victor
Hello All!
Recently I had a developer ask me how he could fire an event from the CheckBox that I had put in the Style of the UserControl I gave him.
I thought about it and, the problem is that objects in a Style are not really part of the Visual Tree until the Style is attached at runtime.
After a lot of thought and many failures I developed a Behavior (IN CODE) that can be attached to objects in or out of Styles that allows you to specify what Method they need to fire. This Behavior uses Reflection to find and invoke the specificed method.
I made a video tutorial to show you how to do it too!
Enjoy!
Victor Gaudioso
Video: http://tinyurl.com/yhp96zr
My MVP Award just came in the mail and it did not dissapoint. There was a really nice plaque, a glass award, an MVP ID card and an MVP pin. Take a look at the video of me opening my award!
Hello All!
In doing a lot of speaking engagements I get asked lots of Silverlight questions. From these questions I have noticed a pattern emerging whereby many people have a terrible time working with gradients. Of course the real trick, as is with anything, is practice but before one can start to practice they have to understand the tools of the trade. So, in this short, 10 minute video I show you how to duplicate a somewhat complex gradient while along the way explaining the tools required to do the job; namely, the Gradient tool, the color palette and the Gradient Eyedropper tools.
With this video and a little practice you too will be able to duplicate the most complex of gradients all on your own!
So, roll up your sleeves, fire up Expression Blend and Get To It!
http://www.windowspresentationfoundation.com/Tutorials/Gradients/
I have decided to accept a position as a Senior UX Evanglist developing WPF and Silverlight with TechPath.
TechPath, a Microsoft Managed and Gold Certified Partner is an expert in Microsoft technologies. TechPath aids a host of different Fortune 500 companies decide what MSFT technology best meets their specific needs and then aids them in implementing that technology. Some of these clients are, but not limited to: Microsoft, Disney, Universal, Viacom among others.
I am proud to join TechPath as their principal Silverlight UI expert!
Hello All,
I get asked this question probably more than most and that is, how can I save an image to my hard drive from my Silverlight applications. Well the answer is, I use Joe Stegman’s PngEncoder.cs to do the job. It works so well and you can implement it in about 5 minutes. Don’t believe me? Watch this 7 minute video where I show you how to create a new Silverlight application, add an image to it, add two class files and one method and then save an image right from my Silverlight application.
Video: http://tinyurl.com/34b6lqp
Source Files:
The SaveTheImage Method (text file) http://tinyurl.com/34xu9ms
My PhotoboothApp http://tinyurl.com/3957u55
The PngEncoder.cs file: http://tinyurl.com/28u26mq
The EditiableImage.cs file: http://tinyurl.com/2uuhvrn
Have you ever needed to have your Silverlight Object’s ToolTip appear after a delay? Say, two seconds? Well, if you have done this in WPF you know that it is quite easy but not so for Silverlight. Until Microsoft adds that property we are just out of luck, or are we?
Well, after some research I found THIS project on CodePlex called the Advanced ToolTip project. The author, someone named XavierDecoster has extended the ToolTipService class and added a property called InitialDelay that sets the time before the ToolTip will appear and one called DelayTime that will set how long the ToolTip shows before it disappears. AWESOME!
So, I made a short, 7 minute video tutorial that shows you how to use this awesome ToolTipService.
Watch the video here: http://tinyurl.com/2bbklrk
Download my source here (the Silverlight.Controls.dll can be found in it): http://tinyurl.com/23pxxzw
I sat down and talked Silverlight 4 with Murray Gordon at MIX 10. Check out the interview here:
Hello All!
As you probably already know there is no “built-in” way to accomplish Fast Forward with the Silverlight MediaElement. So, in this 24 minute video I show you how to:
1. Create a new Silverlight application;
2. Add a MediaElement, a Fast Forward Button and a TextBlock for the video’s position information;
3. Create a PlayState Enum and a DispatcherTimer
4. Then on click of the button I show you how to a. Make the video Fast Forward at 1x speed and b. click it again for 2x speed.
If you are doing video this is a must for any self-respecting video player!
Enjoy!
Video: http://tinyurl.com/3933h8t
Demo (see the Fast Forward button in action here): http://tinyurl.com/32kfu8q
Download my Source Code: http://tinyurl.com/265n5he
(My Source code is not downloading well for me and a few others, if that is the case Michael Washington, MVP has hosted the source on his servers: download here: http://tinyurl.com/2dwgsnm) Thank you Michael
Hello All!
In this short 7.44 minute video I show you how you can, with one line of C# code fire one of two Visual States based upon the value of a Boolean variable, one if it is true or another one if it is false. This is much easier than evaluating the variable yourself and then firing each VisualState manually. Enjoy!
Video: http://tinyurl.com/2wj7fvu
My Source Code: http://tinyurl.com/36mro2k
Hello All!
IMPORTANT: Watching the video I see I said “I am going to Undo that…” To Undo in Blend hit Control+Z
I have been asked repeatedly for the source code for the camera application I use to show myself when filming Silverlight video tutorials. Well, I decided to make a tutorial on how to build your very own TutorialCam (shown above). I takes about 27 minutes but is much easier than you would think. There are a lot of little things that you need to do but it is fun and when you are done you will be ready to make your very own Silverlight video tutorials just like me and possibly get MSFT MVP along the way.
Enjoy!
Victor
Video: http://tinyurl.com/2um4w4a
Source Code: http://tinyurl.com/28dw5ok
Hello All,
As always I like to keep you all informed of where/when you can come and see me present on Silverlight. So, here is my current speaking schedule for the months of June and July 2010. Please note that some of these dates are tentative and subject to change. If they are tentative I will mention it. Thank You and I Hope to see some of you at these events. Be sure to come up and say hello if you do come!
Sat. June 19, 2010: Book signing/Silverlight 4 presentation – The Microsoft Store – Mission Viejo, CA:
This event is sponsored by Microsoft, Apress and DevExpress and held at the Microsoft store in Mission Viejo, CA. There will be food and lots of free stuff. DevExpress will be giving away free copies of their very popular Silverlight Controls like the AgDataGrid Suite. Apress, will of course be giving away books on Silverlight, WPF and .NET development. I am sure there will also be free copies of my last book, Foundation Blend 3 with Silverlight and possibly even advance copies of my next book Foundation Blend 4 with Silverlight 4. I will also be signing books and then doing a presentation right on stage. Will be showing off some new features of Silverlight 4 including but not limited to the Webcam and COM Interop APIs!
Sat. June 26: SoCal Code Camp – San Diego, CA
SoCal Code Camp is a place for developers to come and learn from their peers. I will be speaking on new Features of Silverlight 4, but this time with an emphasis on building Out Of Browser applications. Join me as I build right on stage an OOB Chromless application with Elevated trust. I am going to show you how to build the TutorialCam that I use on all of my free Silverlight video tutorials.
Friday July 23 – RIAPaloosa 3 – Chicago at the Illinos Technology Association:
RIAPALOOZA is a community-driven, non-profit, day-long event for professionals who design, develop, customize, maintain and maximize business value using rich platforms like Flash, Silverlight and HTML5. Join me as I present on Building RIAs without writing code with Silverlight 4 (session link coming soon). During this session I am going to show how to build Silverlight games using the Farsser Physics Library. More specifically, I am going to show how to build the popular 80′s game Asteroids all without writing a single line of code!
Wed. June 16 – Los Angeles Silverlight Usergroup – June Meeting
The Los Angeles Silverlight usergroup is a group created by myself and Jason Campbell so that interaction designers and developers can come together to learn about Silverlight, Expression and creating rich internet applications. Join us for some free food, free prizes and some great presentations. I say that because Yours Truly is going to present at this meeting and show how to develop Windows 7 Mobile applications using Silverlight! For this event Microsoft has sent me some Win7 Mobile swag that you’ll just love to have and I will love to be giving away!
Hello All!
Recently I was asked to make a ToolTip that now only followed the Thumb of the Slider but also showed the value of what the slider was (see image above). I thought about this and I came up with a pretty quick solution. There may be other ways to do it but watch the short 1o minute video to see how I did it.
See it in action: http://tinyurl.com/39mbakt
Video: http://tinyurl.com/2wjzcps
Source Code: http://tinyurl.com/2wxln7j
Hello All!
On Saturday June 19th, 2010 from 7:00 to 9:00 pm (PST) I will be signing copies of my latest book Foundation Blend 3 with Silverlight and presenting/demoing the new features of Silverlight 4 at the Microsoft Store in Mission Viejo, California!
Join me as I show how to use the new Webcam and COM APIs, show how to build Out-Of-Browser (OOB) Silverlight applications and talk about Sketchflow Prototyping with Silverlight.
There will be plenty of prizes and give-aways from our sponsors. Microsoft will be giving away copies of the Expression Blend Suite, Apress will be giving away some of its most popular book titles based on .NET technologies and finally DevExpress will be giving away copies of its popular Silverlight Tools.
Join us for an evening of book signing, food and drinks, presentations and everything Silverlight! attendance is free but RSVP as space is limited.
See you there!
Just some of the free give-aways from DevExpress:
Just some of the free give-away prizes from DevExpress.
Sponsored By:
Hello All!
The June 16th Los Angeles Silvelright Usergroup meeting is going to be a very special one. Not only will one of the foremost experts in the world, Jason Cook, present on Behaviors but yours truly will present on Windows Phone 7!
Microsoft has sent me a special materials dubbed Event-In-a-Box. This special promotional material includes a pre-defined training regime as well as some pretty cool stuff to give away! There will be free shirts, mobile cases, USB drives and Window-Clings!
Make sure and join the LA Silverlight Usergroup if you have not done so already and attend our June 16th meeting! You can join and get meeting details at www.laslug.com
See you there!
In response to my Twitter buddy Funwithcoding I made this post: In Silverlight you can only add one BitmapEffect (Blur or DropShadow) to one object at a time. But these effects are passed down to their child objects (inheritance). For that reason we can use a little trick and apply multiple effects to one object (or so it appears). In this Short two minute video I show you how:
An object with a DropShadow and Blur effect:
Enjoy
Hello All,
I was playing around and making a Silverlight game and I realized I needed to do hit detection, that is, I need to know when one object hits another. After some searching I came accross Andy Beaulieu’s blog where he writes about how to do it in a very effective way. I show how to implement Andy’s solution in this new video.
Video:
http://tinyurl.com/24wzh5m
Source:
http://tinyurl.com/2bmharb
See it in action:
http://tinyurl.com/24ytd9a
Andy’s Post:
http://tinyurl.com/mroklb
Hello All!
In this 20 minute video I show you how to get all of the tools you need to develop Window Phone 7 Series applications using Silverlight. I then show you how to create a Windows Phone application that shows you how to:
1. Create a Homepage with a logo;
2. Add an Application Bar to the Homepage;
3. Add two menu items;
4. Create two new application Pages;
4. Have the two menu items navigate to the new pages;
5. Add a Web Browser control to the page;
6. Add a TextBox and Button to the page;
7. Add an event handler to the Button;
8. Have the Web Browser navigate to the URL in the TextBox.
So, roll up your sleeves and learn how to develop Windows Phone 7 Series applications using Silverlight!
Video: http://tinyurl.com/2u9sml4
Source: http://tinyurl.com/2dmt9ds
Enjoy! Victor
Victor Gaudioso signing a copy of his book at the Microsoft store in Mission Viejo, CA
Hello All!
Lastnight Microsoft, DevExpress, Apress and Friends of ED put on an event where I signed books and presented the new features of Silverlight 4. This was a trial run for developer presentations at the Mission Viejo Microsoft store and it was a HUGE success! We had about 40 attendees and they all walked away happy with an greater understanding of Silveright and at the very least a giftbag. One attendee even walked away with a copy of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate and a subscription to MSDN! Others won books, DevExpress software, copies of Expression Studio and much more!
Below are some videos of the event:
Setting up: http://tinyurl.com/27bao6o
Intro and Presentation: http://tinyurl.com/2etpd3u
More to come!
Thanks to all of those who attended! Victor
Hello All!
I sat down with Tim Huckaby at MIX10 and talked about what else? Silverlight of course! This was a cool interview with a real set, two cameras and even TV makeup! Take a look, I had some really interesting things to say.
Hello All,
In this short, 5 minute video I show you how to stream adaptive video to your iPhone or iPad device using IIS7 and HTML5. This article asumes you have an IIS7 website setup on your local machine and know how to get to it: http://LocalHost/ It also assumes you have Expression Encoder 4 Pro. So, if you have these then let’s get busy and stream some video to your Apple devices!
Video: http://tinyurl.com/365aecg
HTML5 Source Code: http://windowspresentationfoundation.com/Tutorials/AppleStreaming/iPhone.txt (in IE click View Source).
Enjoy!
Hello All!
This weekend (7.23.10) I was invited to speak at RIAPalooza, a one-day conference dedicated to building Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). During my presentation I showed how to build Silverlight applications without writing any code whatsoever. In doing so I introduced and showed off Silverlight Behaviors. I then used the Farseer Physics Engine to build a very simple version of Asteroids complete with simulated physics, a ship that could move and rotate using the arrow keys and a few asteroids that when hit would destroy your ship. I then showed how to build the Slide to Unlock control that is used on many smartphones these days. This was especially cool because I had a touch screen laptop running touch-enabled Windows 7.
After my presentation I then participated in a speaker panel that was addressing questions, topics, etc proposed by the audience. We talked about some very cool subjects including HTML5vs Plugins.
A very good time was had by all and I look forward to returnining next year for RIAPalooza 4. If you missed this year I suggest you make plans to attend next year as it was an enlightening experience. Also, I suggest you do as I did and stay the entire weekend and visit Chicago as it is a wonderful city. I also suggest that you take in two restaurants, Gibbson’s Steakhouse and then Joe’s Steak and Seafood Stone Crab House. Both had simply amazing food and an atmosphere that was crazy-fun! During the day make sure and checkout the Navy Pier for boat rides, shopping, and a stain glass museum to die for.
Getting back to RIAPalooza, you can view my presentation by clicking the link below:
I will be posting the Source code for the two sample Silverlight applications I developed on stage in about 3 hours.
Victor
Someone from my Silverlight Email List emailed me and told me that he had been struggling trying to create a ListBox with a static background image. So, I made this short, 3 mintue tutorial I show you how to do it all in Blend. So, if you need a ListBox with a background image then watch the video located here:
Download the Source Here
Enjoy! Victor
PS: To join my Silverlight Email List email me at wpfauthor at gmail dot com with the subject line Silverlight Email List. I never advertise or share your email address with anyone.
Hello All,
I am participating in a two day event in Dallas on Sept. 25 & 26 where I teach an intense course on how to develop in Silverlight using Blend and Visual Studio. Join me in this hands-on, lab style event where I show how to develop Silverlight applications using Blend and Visual Studio.
The basic outline for both days will contain the following:
You can expect to learn how to create appearing/disappearing navigation bars, how to use the Farseer Physics Engine to build Astroids and much much more!!
Go here to register for the event: http://sharingthelight.eventbrite.com/
I would like to thank:
Teresa Burger @t_burger http://geekswithblogs.net/tburger/ for organizing the event;
@Improving http://improvingenterprises.com/ and Shawn Weisfild @shawnweisfeld www.shawnweisfeld.com for helping to create awareness about the event!
Hello All,
I am sure you have heard that Microsoft is releasing a new mobile phone operating system called Windows Phone 7. Well, did you know that if you know how to develop in Silverlight using Blend and Visual Studio then you already know how to develop Windows Phone 7 Applications? Well you do and Microsoft is holding a few awesome events to show you how. And I will be presenting at one of those sessions!
I will be holding Session 3: Supercharge Your Windows Phone 7 Apps with Microsoft Silverlight at the Sept. 29-30 (FYI: my session is on the 29th) event in Orange County, CA! In this session I am going to show how to build Windows Phone 7 applications with Silverlight. More specifically I will show the following:
1. The Blend Integrated Development Environment: Panels, the Toolbar, Design v Animation views, the Timeline, built-in controls such as the ListBox and Button controls, Content controls such as the Grid and Canvas and much more;
2. How to take everything you have learned and build a WP7 application with a custom, reusable UserControl.
If you would like to attend this totally FREE and awesome two-day event in Orange County, CA you can do so here:
There are also Windows Phone 7 Launch Events in Mountain View and San Francisco; to read about and register for them, go here: http://tinyurl.com/2f56uos
Thanks and I hope to see you there!
Victor
Hello All!
A reader named Peter Henry wrote an awesome review of my new Silverlight 4 book on his blog. Its funny, the way he describes my writing style is EXACTLY what I was shooting for; that is, as if I were right over your shoulder telling you step by step how to develop in Silverlight using Blend and Visual Studio. Here is his review, you can also read it here: http://www.pchenry.com/Home/tabid/36/EntryID/343/Default.aspx
A few weeks ago, I saw a message on Twitter asking people to reply to get a free book. Now, usually I disregard those emails/phone calls/unsolicited advancements with utter and complete contempt (too polite? LOL) but this time around I thought I might read this a bit further.
The posting was from Simon Yu from apress.com, he was asking for reviewers for an upcoming Expression Blend book. Interesting. I was familiar with the previous book (Expression Blend 3) since Sylvain had bought one last year and I was kind of envious he was learning WPF and Expression Blend with this book. Ya, it looked that impressive when I leafed through it.
But then……..life got busy, work got busy…..life just happened…..you probably know what I mean right? Well, fast forward to Simon’s posting and I thought, eeehhhhh……what’s the worst that can happen? Oh ya, he could be bogus and I get spammed forever? AAAAAHHHHH let’s try it out, could be interesting?
As I would say to Bert lately, “long story short”, I got the book in the mail (thank you very much Simon!) and I have to tell ya, WOW!!!!!!!!!!!! VERY COOL! I guess in the last year, I’ve kind of gotten a bit gun-shy with the whole WPF/XAML/Blend thing. Why? Not quite sure why actually…..just that there’s A LOT to bite off to get something done. Layout managers, data binding, POCOs or EF, WCF or web services, resources, triggers, behaviours, then there’s the whole XAML and Blend thing…..maybe you’re where I am? You feeling a bit OVERWHELMED with all that?
Well, this is where this book comes into play. I said to myself, with WP7 coming out, I’m getting on that band wagon and I’m going to do WPF this time! Yes siree Bob! Who’s Bob? I don’t know, that’s the expression! Anyways, here are my first impressions!
So, there you have it, my first impressions about this new book from Victor Gaudioso. Keep your eyes peeled on this blog for a followup blog with my end of book review. Now it’s time to grab a coffee and get coding (well, reading and coding that is LOL).
Thanks so much Peter! Victor
hello All, as you probably know I held a two day training course in Dallas dubbed Sharing in the Light. During this course I taught 80-some students all about Silverlight, Blend, and Visual Studio. A friend and fellow MVP Shawn Weisfeld (@shawnweisfeld) recorded both my screen and me on stage for the entire two days. He was kind enough to post the entire two days worth of videos here: http://live.ineta.org/Presentation/Speaker/88
I have embded the first video here for your convenience:
You can also download all of the source code for all of the projects I showed how to build here:
I’d like to give a special thanks to Teresa Burger (@t_burger) for organizing the whole event.
Hello All,
In this new 6 minute video tutorial I show you how to raise and handle a Click event from a MenuItem Button. Then I show you how to use the Windows.Phone.Tasks to have your phone call a phone number.
This is part 3. Part 1 and two can be found here:
Part 2: Add new pages when the ApplicationBarIconButtons are clicked: http://wp.me/pWN5M-bp
Part 1: How to build a Windows Phone 7 (WP7) application with an ApplicationBar complete with IconButtons and MenuItems: http://tinyurl.com/352fm4u
Thanks, Victor
Video: http://tinyurl.com/2dls3rj
Hello All!
This is Part 4 in the Windows Phone 7 / Silverilght series. Parts 1-3 can be found here:
Part 3: Make a Phone call from a MenuItem: http://wp.me/pWN5M-bD
Part 2: Add new pages when the ApplicationBarIconButtons are clicked: http://wp.me/pWN5M-bp
Part 1: How to build a Windows Phone 7 (WP7) appliaction with an ApplicationBar complete with IconButtons and MenuItems: http://tinyurl.com/352fm4u
In this video I show you how to create and send an email from a MenuItemButton. Enjoy!
Video: http://tinyurl.com/2brthed
Hello All!
I have added a new 5 minute tutorial on how to use the CaptureCameraTask task to capture an image from clicking the MenuItem Button. This is part 5 of this tutorial. The other parts can be found here:
Part 4: Compose and send an email from a MenuItem: http://wp.me/pWN5M-bI
Part 3: Make a Phone call from a MenuItem: http://wp.me/pWN5M-bD
Part 2: Add new pages when the ApplicationBarIconButtons are clicked: http://wp.me/pWN5M-bp
Part 1: How to build a Windows Phone 7 (WP7) appliaction with an ApplicationBar complete with IconButtons and MenuItems: http://tinyurl.com/352fm4u
Here is the video for the new, Part 5 video tutorial: http://tinyurl.com/32lhmhv
SOURCE CODE: http://tinyurl.com/36lyfs7
Enjoy! Victor
In this 15 minute video I show you how to create a new WP7 application, add an ApplicationBar, add an ApplicationBarIconButton that when clicked loads a new Browser page. I then show you how to add a TextBox, a Go Button and a WebBrowser control. I then show you how to load whatever URL you type into the TextBox load into the WebBrowser control.
This could be considered Part 6 of the 5 part sereies on how to make a cool WP7 application, and you can certainly use it to build out your browser page that you created in the 5 part series; but I also wanted to make this application independent of that tutorial. Meaning, this tutorial will still be relevant to you even if you have not taken the previous 5 part tutorial. So, in summary this tutorial will be good for you if you have or have not watched the 5 part tutorial.
Video: http://tinyurl.com/33ylyvl
Source: http://tinyurl.com/36kkh78
A follower on Twitter asked me if I know anything about Blend extensibility. The fact is, I think I know a little and I will share what I know. If you happen to know more than I write about here please feel free to add it into the comments section. As time goes on I will move those comments into the post itself (if they are correct, that is 
).
What is Extensibility?
From what I understand, Extensibility is the ability to build functionality upon already existing functionality. For example if I wanted to create my own Behavior I would extend the Behavior class and my new class would “inherit” all of the base functionality of a Behavior. Thus I don’t have to re-write that base functionality every-time I want to make a new custom Behavior.
Blend Custom Controls are Extensible:
When you create custom controls in Blend they are highly extensible. How you ask:
1. Context Menus – When you create custom controls you have the ability to add items into the default context menu. For example if you had a custom LoginControl you could create a Context Menu Option for something like “Add a Remember Me” Button.
2. Categorization of Properties – When you create a custom control you can not only add properties that will show up in the Properties panel but you can even tell that property where to show up (other than the default Misc. bucket). For instance, if you have a custom layout property called VerticleOrientation you could specify that property go into the Layout bucket of the Properties panel. Further, Blend will give you custom adorners for certain properties, out of the box. For example, if your property is a Double then you get a slider adorner. If your property is a Color property you will get the ink chooser. Blend will do this automatically.
3. Customization of Custom Control Adorers – This allows you to build custom controls that have adorners at design-time that allow you to easily customize that control. For example, say I have a Custom DialogBoxControl and I want the designer to easily change the background color. Well, I could add a design-time adorner of a color picker and have that value show up as the background of the control.
4. Setting Default Properties – This allows you to set default properties for your custom controls. This will allow your deisgner to quickly see what properties you have exposed in your custom control.
Blend Project Types and Templates are Extensible
This means that you can build upon the basic functionality of Project Types and Templates to add your own custom ones. For example, say you want everyone of your projects to have a left, vertical navigation bar. Well you would build a template that would do exactly that.
Silverlight Behaviors are Extensible
This allows you to build upon the basic functionality of a Behavior and make your very own custom Behaviors. For instance in this video tutorial I show you how to create your very own Behavior that changes the color of an object when clicked and then back to its original color when the mouse is released. I then show you how to use it in Blend.
Like I said there are more examples of Blend’s Extensibility and I will leave it up to other readers to provide more examples but this should give you a good foundation and understanding of what Extensibility is and how Blend and Silverlight are Extensible.
Thanks! Victor Gaudioso
In this short 7 minute video I show you how to create a Windows Phone 7 application that has a draggable Ellipse that can be resized using multi-touch gestures.
Video : http://tinyurl.com/25sjf6e
Source Code: http://tinyurl.com/298xc2o
Enjoy! Victor Gaudioso
How to Implement the Windows Phone 7 Turnstile Control for Silverlight in a Real WP7 Application
Hello All!
Brian Henderson Tweeted about this cool Turnstile control located on Codeplex. I checked it out and realized it only showed how to show this control with Rectangles and only in a web browser Silverlight page. I wanted to show how to actually download the source and use it with real controls (Buttons, StackPanels, Images, etc.). I also wanted to demonstrate how to use this control in a real Windows Phone 7 application. So, in this 13 minute video I show you how to make use of the Windows Phone 7 Turnstile control from Codeplex.
Specifically, I show you how to:
1. download the source from Codeplex;
2. create a new Windows Phone 7 application;
3. add the downloaded source project to your solution;
4. add a reference to the newly added project;
5. add a Turnstile control;
6. populate your Turnstile control with Images, Buttons and StackPanels;
7. add animate in and animate out Buttons;
8. create Click event handlers;
9. tell your Turnstile control (in code) to animate in or out depending on what Button was clicked.
So, rollup your sleeves, download the code from Codeplex here and get busy!
My Project Source (Turnstyle.zip): http://tinyurl.com/29c8fhq
Video: http://tinyurl.com/22u5846
PS: I’d like to thank Roberto Sonnino for developing this control. Also, I thought that “Turnstile” was spelled “Turnstyle” so my source code will have a typo. I thought that because Roberto lives in France that “Turnstile” was the French way of spelling it. I was mistaken, I just don’t know how to spell very good
Hello All!
In this 12 minute video I show you how to create a Visual State Group with Visual States, then I show how to add a Condition to the GotoStateAction Behavior by making a Data Store and adding a Boolean Property. I then show how to use the SetDataStoreValueAction to change the value of the new property. The value of this property determines if the Visual State can fire.
Topics covered:
1. The Visual State Group and Visual States;
2. The GotoStateAction Behavior to fire a Visual State;
3. Creating a Condition for the GotoState Action;
4. Creating a Data Store and adding a Boolean property;
5. DataBinding the value of the new Boolean property to a TextBlock;
6. Changing the value of the new Boolean property using the SetDataStoreValue Action Behavior.
Its a lot to cover in 12 minutes but its pretty simple once you see it done, and I do it all without leaving Blend!
Video:
http://www.windowspresentationfoundation.com/Tutorials/DataStore/
Source:
http://www.windowspresentationfoundation.com/Tutorials/DataStore/SilverlightApplication9.zip
Enjoy! Victor
Hello All!
I often get asked “What is the Sketchflow Animation panel for?” In this short 5 minute tutorial I show you how to use the Sketchflow Animation panel to create a Sketchflow Animation that will demo how to use your application to users.
Enjoy! Victor
Video:
http://windowspresentationfoundation.com/Tutorials/SketchflowAnimation/
Source:
http://www.windowspresentationfoundation.com/Tutorials/SketchflowAnimation/SketchFlowAnimation.zip
Hello All,
In this short 7 minute video tutorial I show you how to use the Fluid Move Behavior. What you will learn:
1. How to create sample data (text and images);
2. How to create a ListBox and bind the ItemsSource to the sample data;
3. How to create a Details Grid that reflects the selected item of the ListBox;
4. How to use the Fluid Move and Fluid Set Tag Behaviors to make the selected item animate from the ListBox to the Master Details Grid;
Video: http://tinyurl.com/6dhgro5
Source: http://tinyurl.com/6brfm7k
Enjoy! Victor Gaudioso
Visual Studio Live! is coming up soon (April 18-22) in Las Vegas.
I’ll be there – will you? Join me at Visual Studio Live! in Las Vegas! If you’ve never been to Visual Studio Live, it offers developers, programmers, software engineers and architects an unbiased blend of practical and immediately-applicable training in Visual Studio, Silverlight, WPF, .NET and more. Plus, there will be 2 new tracks on mobile development and HTML5 this year!
Check out the Visual Studio Live! Agenda at http://bit.ly/VSLiveTrks.
See You There! Victor
Hello All!
Silverlight 5 Beta just came out yesterday and I am jumping on it with my first video tutorial.
In this short 12 minute video I show you how to:
1. Create a custom DataType called Developer.
2. How to create an ObservableCollection of Developers and then turn that into a DataSource.
3. How to bind that DataSource to a ListBox and define a DataTemplate that describes how to show the data (namely a TextBlock for the name and an Image for a picture of the developer).
4. How to remove that DataTemplate and add it to App.xaml and define a new property called a DataType.
You will then see how Silverlight 5 will automatically find that DataTemplate anytime you are displaying that custom DataType.
Enjoy! Victor
Source: http://www.windowspresentationfoundation.com/Tutorials/ImplicitDT/ImplicitDT.zip
Video: http://www.windowspresentationfoundation.com/Tutorials/ImplicitDT/
Hello LASLUGers!
Today we had an occurrence that sets us apart as a premier .NET Usergroup; today we hit the BIG TIME: Telerik has signed on to become a proud sponsor of the Los Angeles Silverlight Usergroup. In their own words, Telerik’s Emily Parker writes “(we) provide 1 Telerik Ultimate Collection valued at $1999/month. This license is our largest bundle so it includes tons of software – check them out here: www.telerik.com/purchase. I know you said other’s do two licenses/month but this license is a huge bundle which always goes over well. We send a demo CD with the license codes on them so your winners can just walk away with this and they are all set!“
Visit www.laslug.com to join today!
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