Identitymine Hotness...marketing videos...

cool stuff and I even helped build some of it.

http://www.vimeo.com/identitymine

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Whats Next for DeepZoom

So I'll go out on a limb and without much research I can totally see this:

http://www.informationweek.com/news/personal_tech/cameras/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210102274

mixed into some deepzoom. maybe in Silverlight 2.5? or 3.0?

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IntelliSense for Expression Blend

check out Stefans post on 'hacking' blend. He wrote intellisense :)

http://blogs.telerik.com/StefanDobrev/Posts/08-08-04/IntelliSense_for_Expression_Blend.aspx

alittle bit of Kaxaml and mix in some Addin and ICodeEditor goes a long way :)

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Crossfader Demo at TechEd

Here is a link to the Crossfader silverlight demo at teched that I helped write.

http://msstudios.vo.llnwd.net/o21/presspass/zune/Silverlight_2_Zune.wmv

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Dynamics Duo talk about CRM and Silverlight

check out this video of a Silverlight app that was mostly built by Jobi. I helped with the drag and drop but Jobi's work is really the bulk of the application. Its a great example of Silverlight LOB application developement and of the cool work Jobi does with Silverlight and WPF.

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/benriga/The-Dynamics-Duo-talk-about-CRM-and-Silverlight/

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Dev Teach 2008 Toronto Canada

I'm doing at least 3 sessions at DevTeach Dec 1-5th in Toronto Canada so far the 3 sessions I'm doing are:

Building Silverlight Controls
David J Kelley - SLV467
Designed primarily for Developers. This technical presentation walks through a number of senerios for building Silverlight Controls including user controls and custom panels. The usage of properties, dependency properties, events, reusability, and encapsulated control architecture is reviewed in detail. In the presentation we will build a custom chart control based on a user control and built custom panels and review dispatch timer and multi threading in the context of controls.

Hacking Silverlight 2 - For Designers and Developers
David J Kelley - SLV469
Designed for Designers and Developers. This engaging presentation gets the audience involved in bridging the gap between design teams and software development using Silverlight and the Silverlight toolablity story. The presentation is full of audience participation and skits that get audience members up out of their seats and excited about Silverlight. The basics of team work using Microsoft tools for design and development are used and the audience is shown some of the coolest Silverlight hacks that can make Silverlight applications really shine. With the “Coming out of the closet” skit the audience is shown sexy UI using Silverlight, learning about speed of development and why we care about Sexy engaging Web 2.0 experiences.

SilverLight 2.0 Achitectural Best Practices
David J Kelley - SLV421
Designed Developers and Architects or people wanting to understand Silverlight archtecture. This presentation startings with a detailed technical review of Silverlight control, application architecture and design patterns. Design patterns as applied to Silverlight application development and general best practices are reviewed in detail. The presentation includes learning from the trenchs of building Silverlight apps on a large scale including horror stories and ‘Anti-Patterns’ or things ‘not to do’ are reviewed.

check out http://www.devteach.com/Session.aspx for more information

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IntelliSense for Expression Blend

Now here is another really super cool use of 'hacking' blend... check out what Stefan Dobrev did:

http://blogs.telerik.com/StefanDobrev/Posts/08-08-04/IntelliSense_for_Expression_Blend.aspx

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Dynamic Images in Silverlight

I'm working on a sample that auto generates or 'reconstitues' freeze dried images and I found these couple of cool blog posts related to the topic:

http://michaelsync.net/2008/06/29/silverlight-2-beta1-best-of-silverlightcream

and

http://blogs.msdn.com/jstegman/archive/2008/06/08/sample-updates-for-beta-2.aspx

and

http://blogs.msdn.com/jstegman/archive/2008/04/21/dynamic-image-generation-in-silverlight.aspx

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Tales from the Smart Client

check out john Gossmans' post on Visual State Manager for WPF...

http://blogs.msdn.com/johngossman/

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Robby's New Blog Face

Robby got a new blog face writen in Silverlight you you should check out. Its pretty cool. :)

http://nerdplusart.com/

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Spherical Microsoft Surface

I know its not exactly 'silverlight' but really really cool:

http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/144629.asp

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