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This session was delivered by Nick Kramer, Senior Program Manager from Microsoft. Topics discussed: Unrestricted file access Silverlight 5 trusted apps can access all files. Silverlight 4 trusted apps could only access My Documents and friends. Access is done using the standard .NET Directory.EnumerateFiles and File.OpenRead Trusted apps in-browser In Silverlight 4 only out-of-browser application could be trusted with user consent In Silverlight 5: in-browser trusted apps with admin consent Trusted...
This session was delivered by Thomas Fennel, Program manager, from Microsoft. Thomas stated his session by showing what push notifications and tiles are. Push notification is how you can engage the user when your app is not on the foreground. Tiles are the squares on the Windows Phone home screen. Toast notifications – on the top. Tile notifications – most popular – includes data for count, title (of app or arbitrary string) and background image. Then, Thomas explained the normal architecture for...
The panel participants were Curtis Wong, Alex Kipman, Darren Bennett and Kristin Tolle. Following is a brief summary of the questions and answers discussed in the panel. Question : What do you think will be the trends in NUI in the future? Answer by Bennett : NUI used anywhere, not just in games. Answer by Kipman : Using NUI to create a world with less technology, i.e. there will be no need to learn technology, instead the computer will better understand us. Also, the rise of speech technology and...
This session was delivered by Miguel de Icaza, VP developer Platform, Mono Team, Novell. Miguel started by announcing the coming monospace conference: July 23 – July 25, in Boston, MA. Then Miguel presented the different mono related projects and their status: Mono includes Mono for iPhone (MonoTouch), MonoMac, Mono for Android, MonoDevelop IDE for Mac and Windows, Moonlight 4 (mono based Silverlight) and more. Miguel did thanked Microsoft for the large amounts of code it contributed to the mono...
This session was delivered by Mark Paley, Principal Lead Program Manager from Microsoft. The next version of Windows Phone will support a few new sensors, like Gyro and Compass sensors. Mark started the session by showing several camera and sensors demo. Some common usage scenario: Sudoku solver Barcode scanner Custom photo application etc. So, what sensors are supported? Accelerometer – standard on all windows phone devices, provides acceleration data over 3 axis Compass – gives magnetic heading...
Following is my planned schedule for the third day of MIX 2011. Note: I have a Plan B for almost every lecture, just in case. Day 3, 09:00-10:00 Session : Designer and Developer: A Case for the Hybrid Presenter : Jeff Croft Description : Should designers code? Or is is okay for one to specialize in visual design and expect others to build their vision? As we get farther and farther away from the days of the "webmaster," and become an industry of specialists, are we losing some of the beauty...
This session was delivered by Nishant Kothary. In this session Nishant tries to solve the $64000 question: Why do we suck at predictably building great software? This session was simply amazing. There are almost any software in this session, and yet Nishant succeeded to pass a very interesting lecture in a fun way. I deliberately don’t want to elaborate because I know I can’t express it better than Nishant. Just go see the video, fun is guaranteed. That’s it for now, Arik Poznanski.
This session was delivered by Aaron Oneal, Program Manager from Microsoft. Aaron started his presentation with a very cool demo of the 3D capabilities of Silverlight 5. His demo used a model containing 140,000 triangles, with excellent performance. Next, Aaron discussed why 3D graphics was emphasized in Silverlight 5 (3rd most wanted feature on Silverlight User Voice) and what are the common scenarios for using 3D graphics (geographic apps, astronomy, 3D charts and reports, medical imaging, etc....
This mini-session was delivered by Vibhor Agarwal, Senior Program Manager from Microsoft. Vibhor presented only the new Emulator enhancements and the new profiler provided in the next version of the developer tools. Some of the new emulator enhancements: Memory model improvements Media support for H.264, AAC Sensor support – Accelerometer and Location Vibhor showed a demo about the new accelerometer emulation: and new location emulation: Then, Vibhor presented how one can use the new profiler to...
This mini-session was delivered by Adina Trufinescu. The agenda for this session was: Application Resume User Experience Application Lifecycle Phone Resource Management Key Developer Scenarios Adina started by discussing the next version of Windows Phone, codenamed Mango , where there is much improvements in the area of returning to a previously active application. To take advantage of this in your application you will need to recompile your application against the new developers tools. Adina then...
This session was delivered by Steve Lasker, Lead Program Manager from Microsoft. In this session Steve showed some of the enhancements in Silverlight 5 used to provide a more productive solution for developers. Steve showed complete demos on the following subjects: Binding in Style Setters Implicit Data Templates RelativeSource Ancestor Bindings Custom Markup Extensions Data Binding Debugging DataContextChanged event UpdateSourceTrigger WCF RIA Services Enhancments Text, Printing & Media Text...
Yet another post on MIX 2011 second day keynotes. The Keynotes started by Joe Belfiore presenting some information about how Windows Phone Updates are done. Specifically, Joe answered the common questions: Why the update came later than anticipated? (deployments bugs..) Who decides when to update? (MS and the operators) Joe stated that there are currently almost 13K apps in the Windows Phone market. The next edition of Windows Phone Ecosystem will support 16 additional languages and up to 35 countries...
Following is my planned schedule for the second day of MIX 2011. Note: I have a Plan B for almost every lecture, just in case. Day 2, 09:00-11:00 Session : Day 2 Keynotes Presenters : Dean Hachamovitch, Joe Belfiore and Scott Guthrie Description : MIX 2011 keynotes Day 2, 11:30-12:30 Session : Building In Browser Experiences with Silverlight 5 Presenter : Steve Lasker Description : Whether using MVVM or building data driven browser based plug-in experiences, Silverlight 5 addresses many of the top...
This session was presented by Luke Hoban, a Microsoft PM that also worked on C# and F#. In his talk, Luke started by going over the history of the Java-Script language. Later he started to review the core concepts that comprises the Java-Script language. The basic syntax Type system Objects Functions Prototypal inheritance Luke gave a nice slide that contains most of the Java-Script syntax, personally I think it’s a great way to get up to speed on a new language: Other things that Luke showed were...
This session was delivered by Laurent Bugnion , the creator of MVVM Light . In this session Laurent talked about advanced MVVM topics that every WPF/SL developer face sooner or later. Laurent used a demo application an showed how to solve some common issues. For example, how can one share view-models between several different platforms (Silverlight / WP7), short answer: add shared files as links. Also discussed: what strategy should be used to create view-models and exposes them. Short answer: Either...
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