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CeBIT '08 - Silverlight & WPF UX

Posted By: Lori Grosland | Mar 14th @ 5:49 AM
Auf dem Bayern Innovativ-Stand konnte ich mich mit Bernhard Pichler von Informare unterhalten.  Bernhard war auf der CeBIT um zu demonstrieren, wie die User Experience von Software mit Microsoft-Technologien wie Silverlight und WPF verbessert werden kann. Er zeigte mir verschiedene Demos, die Infomare entwickelt hat, unter anderem einen Hemden-Konfigurator und ein Fotobuch.
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Move Photos from Flickr to Spaces and More

Posted By: Sarah Perez | Mar 8th @ 10:43 AM

Nitrodesk Photographer's Edition is a WPF application that lets you connect to and manage your photos and photo albums across several different photo sharing services. With Nitrodesk, you can pick any online album and manage it in real-time - updating the album or photo properties, viewing and managing the comments, transferring the photos between services and much more. The app also allows you to backup your photos from an online photo-sharing website to your PC.

This program is great, especially if you want to move photos from one site to another, but don't have them all on your PC to re-upload. How convenient!! The software currently supports the following services: Google (Picasa Web Albums), Flickr, Facebook, ShutterPoint, SmugMug, and Windows Live Spaces.

You can download the beta version of the program here.
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Antique Books via Silverlight

Posted By: Sarah Perez | Feb 26th @ 1:15 PM

Wow, I just found an amazing example of WPF and Silverlight thanks to the .net DEvHammer blog. "Turning the Pages 2.0" is an application that lets you "virtually" turn the pages of precious, antique books. Real books! In spring 2007, the British Library, in collaboration with the Society of Chief Librarians, Scottish library authorities and Microsoft, launched the 'Hidden Treasures' competition to put important manuscripts held in public libraries online. Normally, these books would only be able to be seen under glass and open to a page, but you wouldn't be able to read them. Now you can not only turn the pages, but you can also rotate the book, zoom in and out, move the book around, make notes, and read or listen to expert's commentary on each page. 5 Books are available in this format:

* Dorset Federation of Women's Institutes War Records (1939-45)
* Textus Roffensis (1123-24)
* Arbuthnott Missal (1491)
* Staunton's Embassy to China: Proof Plates (1797)
* Diaries of William Searell of Beddgelert (1844-46)

You can get the Silverlight version here and the Vista version here.
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Manga Reader in WPF

Posted By: Larry Larsen | Jan 20th @ 10:28 PM
Gael Hatchue has created a Manga reader application built using Mitsu Furuta's WPF Book Control. It includes a search feature that allows you to quickly find new mangas, and some new functionality like control+Mouse wheel to zoom in/out.

Check it out at http://mangareader.wordpress.com/
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Manga Reader in WPF

Posted By: Larry Larsen | Jan 20th @ 9:32 AM
Gael Hatchue has created a manga reader application built on Mitsu Furuta's WPF Book Control. His latest version includes some new features like control+mouse wheel to allow you to zoom in and out, support for viewing mangas from MangaVolume.com, and a search feature added to the online manga explorer allowing you to find mangas.

Check it out at http://mangareader.wordpress.com
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Witty for Vista

Posted By: Sarah Perez | Jan 2nd @ 8:07 AM
From the Windows Vista Team Blog, I learned of Witty, a Twitter client for Vista. The software, powered by the Windows Presentation Foundation built into Windows Vista, runs like a "real" application and like some apps, can be minimized to the system tray. Like most Twitter apps, Witty lets you post updates, view timelines, view replies, respond to direct messages, and open links in your browser. However, Witty has some more unique features that make it stand out like the skinning capabilities, fade techniques, spell checking, the ability to remember the window location & size, and a whole bunch of keyboard shortcuts. You can download Witty here.
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Yahoo! Messenger with WPF Goes Live!

Posted By: Larry Larsen | Dec 6th, 2007 @ 12:57 AM
You may remember Jeff Sandquist interviewing the Yahoo! Messenger team at CES this year (link here if you missed it). This version of Yahoo! Messenger, which only works on Vista, has full animation using WPF. A public preview version of it is ready for you to download.

Features include tabbed conversations, drag and drop functionality (you can drag a contact to your Sidebar), enhanced emoticons, a slider that lets you adjust how much contact information you see, the ability to arrange your contact list into columns, spell check, and the ability to send files as large as 2 Gig!

Yahoo! Messenger now interops with Windows Live Messenger, including the ability to send files, so you can try it out without having to leave your Live IM friends behind.

Download it here and give it a try.
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Mitsu présente son Flip3D v2

Posted By: Benjamin Gauthey | Apr 23rd, 2007 @ 9:23 AM

Vous souvenez vous d'une démo de Mitsu qui remonte au mois d'Octobre sur un FlipPage basé sur la couche de présentation de Vista (WPF)? Si vous souhaitez revoir celle-ci, la vidéo est toujours disponible. Quelques mois après, il revient avec la version 2. Synchronisation avec Mitsu qui vient de mettre le code de cette démo en ligne ici! Et sinon en WinForms?

 
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WPF: Monitoring operations at Zürich Airport

Posted By: JD Lewin | Apr 6th, 2007 @ 1:00 PM
The Zürich Airport operations application is the best combination of cool and useful we’ve seen in a WPF app bar none. As opposed to the mind-numbing list of flight numbers and single-word status indicators, airport operators can now understand the data critical to a smooth-functioning transit hub in a visual and hugely powerful way. Both the private app and this public demo show the GPS location of every plane, as well as gradients to indicate how full each of the parking structures are. Surf over to Tim Sneath’s blog post for more, or if you’re feeling adventurous, fly into Zürich and know that you’re a part of a beautiful thing.
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The Geek Stories: Joseph Cooney, Thoughtex.net

Posted By: Nick Hodge | Apr 3rd, 2007 @ 7:25 PM
Joseph Cooney has many claims to fame. He is a new MVP in Australia, his mum uses Emacs and he is a WPF expert.

Now, WPF is one of those three letter words that means lots to code_geeks. On10.net is showcasing these cool looking and feeling applications. It's also cool to see that those who write these cool applications are human, too!

Joseph has written a cool application called Thoughtex that assists you in arranging your thoughts; all written in WPF. I tried it, and my thoughts weaved a pattern like a vein pattern: but with random intersections.

So, have a watch and see Jospeh's Geek Story.
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Fill your idle [screen] time with fine art

Posted By: JD Lewin | Apr 3rd, 2007 @ 2:04 PM
We’ve mentioned the gorgeous work of thirteen23 previously when Duncan mentioned their Flickr and Netflix apps, and also as part of Laura’s in-depth look at WPF with Tim Sneath. The cool kids from Austin were also at SXSW showing their work off to Scoble, which encouraged us to have another look at their site. De.collage is one of their older apps, but that shouldn’t stop you from playing. Do yourself a favor and download the app, and be sure to follow the instructions to twist it into your screensaver. You’ll impress everyone nearby with your appreciation of fine art, as well as the sweet 3D effects your Vista machine churns out.
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British Library right to your computer

Posted By: Tina Wood | Mar 1st, 2007 @ 7:22 PM
Tim Sneath, our resident WPF and Vista expert, takes us into the British Library.  Well, some of their most prized possessions at least.  The idea behind this is that you don't actually have to fly to London and buy a ticket to the British Library to be able to experience some of these works.  Through the power of Vista, ancient titles -- hundreds of years old -- have been scanned in and you lose almost none of the authenticity in the transfer.  See for yourself.  It really is amazing. 
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Vista and Newsreader... making virtual newspapers reality

Posted By: Laura Foy | Mar 1st, 2007 @ 7:19 PM
The launch of Vista has brought some really sexy improvements to the way we view the web and even how we view newspapers. WPF sites are a great contributer to this and Newsreader will make you never want to get ink on your fingers again. Watch as Tim Sneath shows me some of the newest providers of WPF Newsreader sites.
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Vista and Thirteen23 show you what WPF can do!

Posted By: Laura Foy | Mar 1st, 2007 @ 7:17 PM

Thirteen23 is a collaborative group of designers, developers, and UI architects dedicated to creating engaging experiences.

They specialize in user interface design, visual design, rapid prototyping, and .NET 3.0 development.

Tim Sneath from Microsoft joins me again to show off some of the coolest apps thirteen23 is offering.

 
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Yahoo! Messenger on WPF!

Posted By: Larry Larsen | Mar 1st, 2007 @ 6:34 PM
Flashback: Last night Karsten Januszewski tipped us off to a really cool new WPF version of their instant messenger application from Yahoo! Jeff and I dropped by today to check it out. This is a good example of how WPF is going to change the applications that we use every day. In this demo, we can see how contacts can be dynamically grouped and how the application seamlessly floats between a windowed application and the Vista Sidebar.
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WPF: UniveRSS 3D RSS reader

Posted By: Larry Larsen | Feb 9th, 2007 @ 7:13 PM
Without a doubt, WPF is one of the coolest features of Vista. If you're a new Vista user and want to see an example of how WPF opens up new alternatives to UI, check out UniveRSS. This WPF app lets you explore your RSS feeds in a 3D space, mapping your feeds to rotating cubes. There is a grid view if you prefer old-school navigation. Best of all, the app is only a 364k download.
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British Library's Turning Pages

Posted By: Paul Foster | Feb 5th, 2007 @ 7:57 PM

The launch of a new OS always brings cool applications to demonstrate its capability. For Windows Vista one of the most impressive applications to be demo'ed at the UK launch event was the British Library's Turning Pages application. An application exploiting Windows Presentation Foundation for impressive graphics and animations, and delivered 'through the web' to run directly on your PC. If you have .Net Framework 3.0 installed on XP or are already running Windows Vista, you can go here to run the application on your own machine. 

The application makes available books from many hundreds of years ago. Allowing you to browse at leisure Leonardo Da Vini's Codex Arundel, and Codex Leicester together with 14 other books including the original Alice's Adventures Under Ground by Lewis Carroll, and the Northumbria, Anglo-Saxon masterpiece The Lindisfarne Gospels.
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Microsoft Japan flexes its creativity with animation

Posted By: JD Lewin | Jan 25th, 2007 @ 5:16 PM
Once in a while little gems of entertainment can be found buried deep within massive corporate websites, and microsoft.com is no different. Microsoft Japan's Dominoken animation that is simply good fun. It's a nice example of what can be done with Windows Presentation Foundation, so turn on your speakers and go enjoy. Also be sure to press the camera symbol at the lower left corner, and also to fly around using your arrow keys.
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Two cool Vista demos available, one for Flickr and one for Netflix

Posted By: Duncan Mackenzie | Oct 24th, 2006 @ 3:42 PM

Check them out at http://www.thirteen23.com/work.html

There are two applications, one that works with Flickr (called Nostalagia) and one that accesses Netflix (Cine.View).

I'm using them on a RC 1 machine, not sure what other builds they'll work on.
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