The other day I was reading Do You Still Carry Business Cards? on Lifehacker and immediately answered "Ha, NO". I just don’t see a need for business cards. If you want someone’s contact information, then you either know mutual friend or you enter their info in your phone. That said, I figured I would begrudgingly [...]
Author Archives: Corey
Out of hibernation
The past few months I’ve been flying under the radar, taking much needed rest and time with the family. Spending four months in another country was amazing but exhausting.
Since being home I was fortunate enough to go to the MVP Summit in Redmond in late February. Met many of the very talented people involved in [...]
Simple EventArgs in Silverlight
In my previous post, I talked about the Silverlight Media Framework (SMF). As the name implies, SMF is so much more than a video player, it’s a framework. The project is rich with nuggets of Silverlight goodness; today I would like to pay homage to one of my favorite classes: the SimpleEventArgs (in Microsoft.SilverlightMediaFramework).
Have you [...]
Open Source Silverlight video players
Lately I’ve been spending a lot of time in the Silverlight video space. Both with writing the video chapter for my Silverlight 4 book as well as at work. Creating a basic video player is straight forward (link 1 | link 2), have a button to play, a way to control the volume, a [...]
Atlanta Silverlight – Jan 20, 2010
Two night and two user groups. Last night we had the Atlanta Silverlight User Group featuring Jeremy Likeness , senior consultant with Wintellect, presenting on Silverlight Line of Business applications. Jeremy’s session highlighted on Silverlight frameworks, MEF, Unit testing, services, and briefly on Blend. We did do a screen capture of the session; as [...]
Silverlight and Drupal
Last night, Jan 19th, I attended the Atlanta Drupal User Group (ADUG), http://www.drupalatlanta.com/, with Glen Gordon. The talk, presented by Steve Jaffe of IBM, was about “Integrating Flash with your Drupal Project”. Steve did a great job of how Drupal can be used as the backend for Flash. Never having used Drupal, the same [...]
Silverlight 4 WebCam - a quick glance
WebCam support in Silverlight 4 is a much anticipated feature, and probably didn’t come as much of a surprise. It’s relatively simple to enable this feature. The below example shows a simple UI with the code to enable the webcam. This post does not cover multiple webcams, however calling CaptureDeviceConfiguration.GetAvailableVideoCaptureDevices returns a list of all [...]
Changing your default WebCam & Mic – Silverlight 4
Webcam and microphone support are a much anticipated feature to Silverlight 4. If you have more than one webcam or audio input device, it’s possible to change your default device. Right click on your application > Click Silverlight > Webcam/ Mic. Here you will find a menu where you can choose your default devices.
NotificationWindow – Silverlight 4
A new addition to Silverlight 4 is the NotificationWindow. This type of window enables you to show a System notification much like when you receive an Outlook new mail notification or a Growl notification in OSX. Since it operates like a system message, this feature is only available in Out of Browser (OOB) scenarios.
This example [...]
Silverlight 4 – new features
When Silverlight 3 debuted at MIX09, there were a number of places to find information about the new features, so better than others. Unfortunately I never remembered the sites and always relied on Google to produce the site for me. This time will be different; this post will serve as my place for SL4 info.
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