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Announcing Flotzam: Twitter, Flickr, Facebook and Blog Mash Up

Awhile back, for MIX, Tim Aidlin and I built Flitterbook. We liked it so much that we now have version 2, renamed Flotzam , ready for your consumption. Lots of improvements, including a new UI, RSS support, Facebook notifications and complete configuration Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 21, 2007 3:44 PM by karstenj | 1 Comments
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COLLABORATING ON CREATING ANIMATIONS IN WPF AND BLEND: POSSIBILITIES AND LIMITATIONS

One area that is currently top of mind for me is designer and developer collaboration with WPF and Expression Blend, in particular around animation. I'd like to start documenting some techniques and outlining things that can and can't be done. Before Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 20, 2007 4:16 PM by karstenj | 1 Comments

CREATING A .NET TWITTER API in 4.5 SECONDS

I've been meaning to document how I wrapped the Twitter API ... in 4.5 seconds. There is a very powerful feature in .NET is a tool in the sdk called xsd.exe . Darren David actually has a fabulous post on exactly the power of this tool: never touch a DOM Read More...
Posted Friday, June 08, 2007 2:01 PM by karstenj | 2 Comments

FLITTERBOOK: INTEGRATING WITH THE FACEBOOK PLATFORM

I'm here at the Facebook Developer's event down here in San Francisco. Dan'l Lewin from Microsoft was on stage as a parter: Lots of good stuff announced as far as Facebook/Microsoft partnership: Microsoft just released a great wrapper to the Facebook Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 24, 2007 10:50 PM by karstenj | 3 Comments
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THREE NEW EXPRESSION BLEND HANDS-ON LABS

I just posted three new hands-on labs for Expression Blend that were created for MIX but haven't been posted for the world yet. There's lots of little nuggets in there worth checking out, things like creating a user controls, databinding, triggers, styling Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 22, 2007 7:26 AM by karstenj | 6 Comments
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New Lab Posted: Creating 3D Content with Windows Presentation Foundation

I just posted a new lab for learning how to use 3D in WPF. This is a great lab that I would highly recommend if you are learning WPF 3D. It shows how to do dynamic animation of 3D content as well as how to do 2D on 3D using the 3DTools . Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 28, 2007 1:25 PM by karstenj | 6 Comments

North Face Case Study Published

A case study about the North Face Kiosk is now posted to the Microsoft Case Studies site. This is a nice write up, showing how the technology solved business problems, and explaining the larger context of how the kiosk plays into The North Face's overall Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 22, 2007 12:40 PM by karstenj | 1 Comments

Inspired By Flash Math Creativity #3: WPF Flag

There is a clever sample up on Flash Math Creativity by Lifaros that fundamentally does 2D morph meshing by chopping up an image into sections and then animating the sections, resulting in the effect of a flag waving. I decided to implement something Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 08, 2007 9:43 PM by karstenj | 1 Comments
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3D Cloth Source Code Posted: Technique for WPF 3D Morph Mesh

There is a great 3D cloth demo that has been floating around interally for awhile and shown at conferences, talks, channel 9 interviews, etc. However, we haven't ever posted the source code . . . until now. You can run it from here and download the source Read More...
Posted Monday, February 26, 2007 11:44 AM by karstenj | 11 Comments
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Inspired By Flash Math Creativity #2: WPF Planets

My next inspiration from the algorithms introduced in Flash Math Creativity was based on the work of Jamie MacDonald . In looking at his work, I quickly realized that I was going to need to brush up on my trigonometry skills. This led me to another great Read More...
Posted Friday, February 23, 2007 1:45 PM by karstenj | 8 Comments

Inspired By Flash Math Creativity: WPF Flowers

I've recently picked up a great book called Flash Math Creativity . I been inspired by some of the techniques it outlines and have played around with similar ideas in WPF. The exercise has been a fruitful one, in that I'm making some pleasing computer Read More...
Posted Friday, February 16, 2007 9:57 AM by karstenj | 7 Comments

WPF Application Portfolio Wiki Updated -- More WPF Apps!

Tim Sneath has been doing a great job of blogging the many Vista/WPF showcase applications that are being deployed right now. If you are looking for a quick list of URLs that you can hit for the .XBAP or .APPLICATION files, please go to the WPF Application Read More...
Posted Friday, February 09, 2007 2:59 PM by karstenj | 3 Comments

Announcing Expression Blend Beta 2 and Expression Design Beta 1

You can now go download Expression Blend Beta 2 as well as Expression Design Beta 1 . Both applications have received significant work since their last incarnation with tons of bugs fixed. Go give 'em a whirl. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:32 PM by karstenj | 6 Comments

Databinding In Expression Blend: Forget the Data and Do the Bind

I just posted a screencast showing how to wire up UI elements using Blend. The general premise is that databinding in WPF is about more than just data; it also allows you to connect UI properties, like wiring a slider up to a progress bar. Blend exposes Read More...
Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 12:47 PM by karstenj | 3 Comments

Doninoken: WPF XBAP Piece by Bascule

Check out Doninoken , an amazing WPF piece that is part of the Japanese Vista launch, done by the design agency Bascule . The aesthetic is amazing. I love how they use WPF 3D, mapping images on planes and animating the planes. (Watch for the small camera Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 25, 2007 12:01 PM by karstenj | 5 Comments
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