Mix06 Thailand Demo Screencasts

March 30, 2006 Tagged: , ,

I’ve recorded and posted screencasts for the demo-building portion of my Mix06 talk. It’s broken up into four parts:

  1. XamlPad: A quick, live introduction to XAML where I display some photos in a thumbnail view
  2. Visual Studio & Expression: I use Visual Studio and Expression to create the initial UI for the application
  3. Richer Typography: Adding a custom font to our application as well as page layout for the text
  4. Simple Video: Add video into the project and demonstrate code behind

I know everyone’s very excited to hear me stutter and sound silly over a PC microphone. Believe it or not, doing a screencast is harder than coding live on stage.

The total viewing time is just over 22 minutes (I’ll post a link to the combined video shortly). The application isn’t super-complex, but my goal during the talk was to give an overview and taste for the platform.

If there’s interest, I can expand upon the sample in order to make it more sophisticated.

If you have the Feb CTP installed, you can run the application via the browser:

A WPF XBAP application showing pictures from Thailand along with flowing, multi-column text

You can download the source files, but note that I haven’t included the font (Lindsey) in the source as the licensing terms do not permit it. Lindsey will be available with the WPF SDK when we release.

Update: Here’s a link to the combined video — which is still a little too blurry look good. I’m trying to find a better hosting solution for the video.

Update: Get a higher-res, full length version of the video on Channel9

8 Comments

  1. Kevin Daly
    March 30, 2006 Link to this

    I got an error downloading the .xbap as follows (after fishing it out of the log):
    “ERROR SUMMARY
    Below is a summary of the errors, details of these errors are listed later in the log.
    * An exception occurred while downloading the application. Following failure messages were detected:
    + File, Swimming.wmv, has a different computed hash than specified in manifest.”

  2. tlianza
    March 30, 2006 Link to this

    stretch=fil!

  3. fil
    March 30, 2006 Link to this

    Kevin: Oops, looks like I uploaded the wrong video. It should work now.

  4. Chris
    March 30, 2006 Link to this

    So, how does one exit full screen mode once the XBAP app has focus? ;)

    (I reported the bug in IE7, on Vista 5308)

  5. Max
    April 11, 2006 Link to this

    Weird … I’m getting a trust error:

    User has refused to grant required permissions to the application.

  6. j
    May 22, 2006 Link to this

    Awesome demo! Thanks!

    Plus, you’re really hot ;)

  7. Ghaladen
    June 7, 2006 Link to this

    same error. Trust Not Granted. :/ Maybe because I’m running IE 6 and not IE 7 beta?

  8. Ghaladen
    June 7, 2006 Link to this

    nope. updated to IE 7 but still no go. If anyone has any idea behind this please let me know.