March 2008 - Posts
For my Italian friends…you can’t miss the event The Next Web Now! in Milan , on April 23rd; t his 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 ,
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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
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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
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If you still feel unlucky …I suggest you to play with this Microsoft Slot Machine v1. Bill pays double or triple! Tags: MIX 08 Silverlight Mobile
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Las Vegas, casino, Slot Machines, Roulette, Texas Poker Holden, Blackjack, … you might want to be sure it’s your lucky day before actually playing Tags: MIX 08 Silverlight Mobile
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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
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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. ";" galleryimg="no" mce_src="http://giorgio.members.winisp.net/Blog/Images/SilverlightforMobileDemo59Gesture_12B5B/video8627f23dc257.jpg">
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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! ";" galleryimg="no" mce_src="http://giorgio.members.winisp.net/Blog/Images/SilverlightforMobileDemo49MenuCarousel_126F2/video688adb111cdd.jpg">
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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. ";" galleryimg="no" mce_src="http://giorgio.members.winisp.net/Blog/Images/SilverlightforMobileDemo39SpeakersCarous_EF2B/videoe5ac45189399.jpg">
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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,
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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! ";" galleryimg="no" mce_src="http://giorgio.members.winisp.net/Blog/Images/SilverlightforMobileDemo19HelloWorld_C38B/video1d4f8a8df7e1.jpg">
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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
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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/ Using Microsoft Silverlight for Creating Rich Mobile User Experiences Have fun!
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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
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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!! If going_to_MIX Then Join my session on Thursday afternoon in Lando 4204
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