It's now official: Silverlight is going Mobile!!
Because I've been in the "black list" of MIX sessions untill few hours ago, here there is a short advertisement about my session .
Using Microsoft Silverlight for Creating Rich Mobile User Experiences
Thursday, March 6 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM, Lando 4204
Speaker(s): Giorgio Sardo
Audience(s): Creative
Session Type: Breakout
Come learn how use Microsoft Silverlight for Mobile to build rich mobile experiences including best patterns and practices, fluid and intuitive navigation, smart content organization, small form factor and cross-device support. This session also covers how to use tools like Microsoft Expression Blend to move beyond size considerations to create create stunning and meaningful vector-based graphics applications.
Tags: MIX 08 Silverlight Mobile
Next week I'm going to present at MIX 08. Unfortunately the topic of my session is still confidential, so I can not talk about it here... One more good reason to see my session!!
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Join my session on Thursday afternoon in Lando 4204 room...or come to visit me in the Sandbox!
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MIX session will be recorded and streamed live in 24 hours! Please visit www.visitmix.com to have more information
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I will update this blog soon with some MIX content
Enojy the MIX!
For those of you that were unable to attend the MIX, you can see for free the recording of my session at the following link: http://visitmix.com/blogs/2008Sessions/C02/
Have fun!
The most common control for a mobile device is out of any doubt the List. In this scenario I'm enumerating the sessions of the MIX conference, giving to the user the feature to filter them by audience (Technical, Creative or Business) or by day. Moreover, by a gesture of the finger, it's possible to visualize the detail of each track.
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I think that everybody here agree that Windows Vista is the best Microsoft operating system…from a UX point of view
For this reason, I was curious to see how it would look like inside a PocketPc with a small screen. The result? It’s pretty obvious!! You cannot take an application developed for desktop…and make it run (with the same look and feel) on a mobile device. Mobile application are not just smaller application!
Personally I don't really like using carousel when we deal with a lot of information; however it comes in handy for a few items, like a menu. And it looks great on a small device!
MVPs around the world are invited every year to attend the MVP Global Summit, one of the largest MVP events. During an intensive week, they receive access to exclusive technical content and they have the opportunity to discuss current and v-next futures with the Product Team too! Being able to attend the event last year…I will reeeaaaallly miss this year edition.
However tomorrow I will be presenting with Anand Balachandran an overview of the content that you can expect to see during the summit. If you are an MVP, if you love mobile stuff…you can’t miss this live meeting!
To all MVP, have fun in Seattle!
Tags: MVP MVP Global Summit 2008
For my Italian friends…you can’t miss the event The Next Web Now! in Milan, on April 23rd; this is one of the several Mix Essentials events running around the world from March to October 08.
On that day we will have the honor to host Steve Ballmer, Chief Executive Officer for Microsoft Corporation, on stage for the keynote!!
Later in the afternoon there will be different sessions, organized by thematic tracks, about all the latest news from Microsoft world. My friends from the Italian DPE invited me to talk about Silverlight for Mobile in the Developer Track. (Thank you!!!)
More information and registration here: http://www.microsoft.com/italy/eventi/mix/default.mspx
Ciao!
PS: Content to be delivered in Italian only
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This is probably the demo where I've seen more interest from MIX attendees. With a bit of logic (coded in Javascript) I can understand most common user gesture...and react accordingly.
I’m receiving frequent questions these days about Silverlight for Mobile target platform. Silverlight for Mobile can run on both Windows Mobile Professional and Windows Mobile Standard. Touch-screen, soft-keys, mouse, keyboard…you can use anything to input!
The puzzle demo here shows how you can use the same application with different input system.
The third demo showcase how to use the fish-eye control inside a small screen device; by dragging and dropping the balloon from the lower to the upper area it's possible to dynamically filter users' pictures.
I would like to share in the next posts the videos of the 9 demo I showed on stage at MIX. The following videos has been recorded while running on a desktop with my "personal emulator" (you can notice my finger) if you are interested to see how those application perform on a real PocketPC, please refer to the full video here.
PS: I will share in the next weeks bits of the source code, as well as tutorial to start building Silverlight for Mobile applications.
The first demo, whatever language we are using, must always be Hello World.
In this scenario I'm showing how to apply an animation to the gradient direction of a shape...without any line of code!