8:57 am (ME) - Coming into our 1st session of the day. Expression Blend for developers.. could be really good and helpful.
9:19 am (ME) - Expression Blend for developers is going really well. There are hardly anyone in this though, so I'm really surprised. He seems pretty knowledge, and there are good questions so far.
10:04 am (MC) - The brush transform tool lets you alter the path of gradients. So you can change the direction of a graditent really easily.
10:40am (ME) - The Expression Blend for developers was very good, some great tips on using Blend, and the start of some ideas to incorporate the Designer/Developer experience. FallBackValue DataBinding property was interesting, might be able to use some of that, for helping out the different the design time experience. Going into the
Deigners + Developers Workflow in WPF & Silverlight - session next..
11:10am (ME) - Good talk so far, about Designer/Developer... the "Integator" or "Devigner" seems to be very key. Tools for this experience.. Snoop, Mole (moleproject.com), Perforator, TFS - Designers - Illustrators, Fireworks, Snoop, Pistachio, Zam 3D. Very interesting.
Don't use Mole yet, but it is a Add In for Visual Studio, for Snoop.
11:17am (ME) - Pistachi looks kewl, removes the extra resources in WPF
http://www.granthinkson.com/2007/11/08/announcing-pistachio-wpf-resource-visualizer/
12:15pm (ME) - Ok.. this is bad ass Josh Smith and Grant Hinkson doing a live demo.. developer/designer working together to build an application. Josh build an application that grabs XML out of a file, binds it to a set of controls, and has a routed command for clicking on event. Grant Hinkson gets it in Blend, and styles in. Right in front of everyone.
This is awesome, bad ass. Great demo, great idea of how everything works together. Awesome.. seriously good!
1:37pm (ME) - Talking about Silverlight 2.0... Silverlight 2 CLR ("CoreCLR")... Small footprint.. (2MB)..
SCOOP here - Silverlight 2 coming out in October this here!!!!! :D
Interesting talk, talks about the reduction of CoreCLR (silverlight clr) no CAS, no COM Interop, no remoting and server garbage collection. removed a bunch.. and Multiple Instances in one process.
1:50pm (ME) - This is the slide deck I'm watching right now
http://download.sharethispoint.com/Building%20Great%20Web%20Applications%20in%20Silverlight%202.pdf
Silverlight tips and tricks, that is coming up next. I'm not able to get to it.. going to the MVVM lecture.
http://download.sharethispoint.com/Silverlight%20Tips.pdf
This is the MVVM slide deck I'm going to later.
http://download.sharethispoint.com/Implementing%20the%20MVVM%20Pattern%20in%20WPF.pdf
2:25pm (ME) - Using Silverlight 2.0 to hit REST ful web services. This is WHAT i'm Talking about Willis!!! SILVERLIGHT WILL RULE THE WORLD!
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest) HttpWebRequest.Create(new Uri("http://contoso.com/weather/98052"));
request.BeginGetResponse(new AsyncCallback(OnGetResponseCompleted), request);
...
private void OnGetResponseCompleted(IAsyncResult ar)
{
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)ar.AsyncState;
HttpWebResponse response =
(HttpWebResponse)request.EndGetResponse(ar);
using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()))
{
string result = reader.ReadToEnd();
...
}
}
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4:14 pm (MC) - Learned a little bit about the yield operator. (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/9k7k7cf0(VS.80).aspx)
posted @ Wednesday, August 20, 2008 9:21 AM