Mais informações para você neste episódio que está bem interessante. Incrível como sempre existe mais e mais novidades – bom para todos nós que nos alimentamos disto.

Nesta semana falamos de Metro UI, novos MVPs, Kinect e novas interfaces, Streaming 3D, Fluid UI, Windows Phone 7 e mais. Fique ligado e surfe conosco!

• Kinect – www.xbox.com/kinect
• Novos MVPs de Silverlight – http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2010/07/01/sivlerlight-mvp-awards-july-2010.aspx
• Artigo do Petzold sobre Fluid UI no Silverlight 4 sem Blend – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ff798276.aspx
• Nascar Streaming 3D com SL – http://racebuddy3d.nascar.com/player3dv.html
  • NVIDIA 3D Vision: http://www.nvidia.com/object/3d-vision-main.html
  • Requisitos de sistema: http://www.nvidia.com/object/3d-vision-requirements.html
  • Notícia no site da NVIDIA sobre a transmissão 3D utilizando Silverlight e Smooth Streaming: http://www.nvidia.com/object/io_1275286847414.html
  • MetroTwit – http://www.metrotwit.com
• Silverlight Metro Theme – http://www.silverlight.net/content/samples/sl4/themes/cosmopolitan.html
  • Download do Silverlight Theme Pack – http://tinyurl.com/2ep68po
• Phone 7 Action Pack (Windows Phone 7) – http://phone7actionpack.codeplex.com
• Pivot Viewer control for Silverlight – http://www.silverlight.net/learn/pivotviewer
  • Exemplos usando Pivot Viewer – http://pivot.metia.com/worldcup e http://netflixpivot.cloudapp.net
  • Developers Pivot Collections Tools – http://www.getpivot.com/developer-info/tools.aspx
  • TweetPivot – http://tweetpivot.com

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Até o próximo!

Abraços,

Kelps, Roberto Sonnino e Rodrigo Kono

Ficamos quase quatro meses distantes dos microfones. Todos nós estivemos envolvidos em projetos pessoais que tomaram uma boa parte do tempo e ainda tivemos o problema do fuso horário do Sonnino que estava no GMT+5.

Agora normalizado, voltamos com novas idéias e boas informações para sua orientação e atualização.

Se você acompanha o XAMLCast, deve ter percebido que a numeração mudou – decidimos acabar com a contagem por temporadas, pois afinal o XAMLCast é uma coisa só. Logo, contando 4 episódios da 1a temporada, 2 do Tech-Ed 2007 e mais 9 da segunda temporada, você vai ouvir agora o Episódio 16 do XAMLCast!

Claro que não conseguimos falar de tudo que aconteceu nestes últimos 3 meses e meio. Porém falamos dos acontecimentos mais importantes desde o MIX10 e também de algumas boas novidades fresquinhas.

Neste episódio falamos de:

• O indiscutível Visual Studio 2010 – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/default.aspx
• Novidades do Silverlight 4 – http://www.silverlight.net/getstarted
• Silverlight no Windows Phone – http://www.silverlight.net/getstarted/devices/windows-phone
• Expression Studio Ultimate – http://www.microsoft.com/expression
• Blend Fundamentals Training – http://www.microsoft.com/expression/resources/BlendTraining
• Moonlight 3 com próximas atualizações baseadas no Silverlight 4 – http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=568
• ReactiveXaml – http://github.com/xpaulbettsx/ReactiveXaml e http://blog.paulbetts.org/index.php/category/programming/reactive-extensions/
• MSN na Copa – http://www.msnnacopa.com.br
• Behavior desenvolvido pelo Kelps para download no Expression Gallery – Deep Zoom Tag Filter Behavior: http://gallery.expression.microsoft.com/en-us/DeepZoomTagFilter
• Especial: Kelps entrevista  Tim Heuer no MIX10 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ75swHZ5Pw (post completo em breve)

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Até o próximo!

Abraços,

Kelps, Roberto Sonnino e Rodrigo Kono

Today, together with the VS2010 launch, Microsoft has finally released the Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch for download!

But what is it, you might ask? This toolkit enables WPF developers with Windows 7 touch PCs with the Surface controls (such as ScatterView and Library) and touch visualizations to create really awesome multitouch apps.

Stop reading this and go download it now:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=801907a7-b2dd-4e63-9ff3-8a2e63932a74

If you don’t have a touch device, you can use MultiTouchVista to simulate multiple touches using multiple mice. A step-by-step tutorial can be found in this link: http://wenjiun.blogspot.com/2009/11/testing-windows-7-multi-touch-with.html

Also take a look at this video from Channel 9 which shows the toolkit:

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/LarryLarsen/Surface-Toolkit-for-Windows-Touch/

Happy multitouching!

Roberto

Este é o XAMLCast pré-MIX10.

Estamos ansiosos para a chegada deste grande evento que irá nos trazer grandes novidades e anúncios. E para nossa alegria, e como já havíamos falado antes, o XAMLCaster Kelps estará em Las Vegas cobrindo o evento e enviando tudo em primeira mão!

Neste episódio falamos de:

• Finger Style – Artigo fantástico do Charles Petzold sobre Multitouch em Silverlight
  • http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ee336026.aspx
• MultiTouchVista – simulador de multitouch com múltiplos mouses para Windows
  • http://multitouchvista.codeplex.com
• Artigo do Roberto Sonnino (em inglês) sobre touch com WPF e MultiTouchVista
  • http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/3D-BookWriter.aspx
• SLARToolkit – A experiência de AR (Realidade Aumentada) com Silverlight virou um framework
  • http://kodierer.blogspot.com/2010/02/slartoolkit-silverlight-augmented.html
• Aplicação do correio americano para tamanhos de caixas com AR
  • https://www.prioritymail.com/simulator.asp
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpS3LeCiCtc&feature=player_embedded
• Não confunda:
  • Blender – programa de modelagem 3D
    • http://www.blender.org/
  • Balder – engine 2D/3D que funciona com Silverlight
    • http://balder.codeplex.com/
  • Blend – ferramenta para design de aplicações WPF/Silverlight
    • http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/Blend_Overview.aspx
• Concurso de Silverlight/WPF da Magenic Studios – prêmios até 500 US$ + 3000 US$ pro Haiti
  • http://magenic.com/Default.aspx?tabid=1835
• Copa de Talentos Microsoft
  • http://talentosmicrosoft.com.br/
• Anuncio oficial do Silverlight no Windows Phone 7
  • http://bit.ly/ci8rrI
• Video no TechEd Middle East mostrando XNA no Windows Phone, Xbox e Windows
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQv_3fwopo8
• MIX10
  • http://live.visitmix.com
• HVP no MIX
  • http://silverlighthvp.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=ReleaseSchedule
• Video do ScottGu no Channel 9 falando sobre o MIX
  • http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/LarryLarsen/Countdown-to-MIX10-The-Gu/

Bolão do MIX10!
Envie sua previsão do que irá acontecer no MIX10. Para participar, basta referenciar a hashtag #bolaoxamlcast no seu post do twitter.

Ajudem o XAMLCast a entrevistar o ScottGu no MIX10
Envie um tweet (em inglês) para @ScottGu pedindo uma entrevista com o @XAMLCast (Brazilian Podcast) ou @kelps.

Com muitos pedindo, o acesso torna-se mais fácil.

Se quiserem, podem pedir para outras “personalidades” do .net/WPF/SL, como Scott Hanselman, Phil Haack, John Papa, S. Somasegar, Tim Heuer, Karen Corby, Glenn Block… o Kelps vai ter trabalho em Vegas!

Atenção!

O XAMLCast da semana que vem será especial sobre o MIX10! Assim, em vez de um grande episódio, soltaremos as notícias aos poucos, o mais rápido possível, conforme o Kelps for mandando. Por isso, não deixe de assinar e seguir o XAMLCast para não perder nada!

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- Twitter oficial: @xamlcast (e hashtag #xamlcast)

- Siga os XAMLCasters:

• @kelps
• @robertos_br
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• http://twibbon.com/join/XAMLCast

Até o próximo!

Abraços,

Kelps, Roberto Sonnino e Rodrigo Kono

For today’s quick tip I’ll show how to convert images from any 2D vector format (and I really mean ANY) to XAML. It’s pretty simple!

Note: if your image is in a bitmap format (e.g. JPEG, PNG, GIF, PSD, etc), you should simply convert it to PNG or JPEG using any image editor and use it directly as a bitmap image in your app. This method is only necessary for vector file formats.

Note 2: There are specialized converters for many formats that might yield better results. I’d recommend searching the web to see if there isn’t a converter for your format before trying this method.

Requirements:

• Expression Design (tip: Students can get it for free with Dreamspark)
• PDFCreator

Steps:

1. Open your image in your favorite image viewer. In this example, I’ll open an SVG from Wikipedia with Firefox.
   
   
   
2. Print the image to PDF with PDFCreator.
   
   
   
3. Rename the PDF file to AI using Windows Explorer. (e.g. “image.pdf” becomes “image.ai”)
   
   
   
4. Open the AI file with Expression Design. You might now want to delete some parts of the image that you don’t want to be exported.
   
   
   
5. Save it to XAML as usual using File > Export… in Expression Design.
   
   
   

Yes, it’s THAT simple! Enjoy!

See you next time,
Roberto

This blog post is also available on CodeProject

It’s been quite a while since the last English post – XAMLCast has been taking much of my blogging time

Today’s tip is an expansion of a method originally developed by Dr. WPF in this post: http://www.drwpf.com/blog/Home/tabid/36/EntryID/48/Default.aspx .

Usually, when working with Converters in WPF/SL, we always follow the same steps:

1. Create a class that derives from IValueConverter:

   public MyConverter : IValueConverter {}

2. Implement Convert (and sometimes ConvertBack)

   public object Convert(object value, Type  targetType, object parameter,  System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture)
   {
     // convert and return something
   }

3. Instantiate the converter as a resource and use it:

   <ResourceDictionary ...>
       <local:MyConverter x:Key="TheConverter" />
   </ResourceDictionary>
   ...
   {Binding Converter={StaticResource TheConverter} ...}

Well, it works but it’s not a compact syntax. Following Dr. WPF’s idea, we can use a MarkupExtension to replace the StaticResource by a static instance of the Converter:

public class  MyConverter: MarkupExtension, IValueConverter
{
    private static MyConverter _converter;

    public object Convert(object  value, Type targetType, object  parameter, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture)
    {
        // convert and return something
    }

    public object  ConvertBack(object value, Type  targetType, object parameter,  System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture)
    {
        // convert and return something (if needed)
    }

    public override object  ProvideValue(IServiceProvider serviceProvider)
    {
        if (_converter == null)
            _converter = new MyConverter();
        return _converter;
    }
}

Usage:

xmlns:conv="[Path to namespace that contains the converter]"
...
{Binding Converter={conv:MyConverter}}

Now that’s pretty!

The only problem is that with this method, you’d have to repeat the implementation of the ProvideValue for each converter you create, and we programmers hate repeating ourselves

One solution I found is to create a generic abstract class that will contain that implementation, and derive each converter from that class. It’s cleaner and works the same:

using System;
using System.Windows.Data;
using System.Windows.Markup;

namespace VirtualDreams.Converters
{
    [MarkupExtensionReturnType(typeof(IValueConverter))]
    public abstract class ConverterMarkupExtension<T> : MarkupExtension where T : class, IValueConverter, new()
    {
        private static T _converter;

        public override object ProvideValue(IServiceProvider serviceProvider)
        {
            if (_converter == null)
            {
                _converter = new T();
            }
            return _converter;
        }
    }
}

Let’s apply it to MyConverter:

public class  MyConverter: ConverterMarkupExtension<MyConverter>, IValueConverter
{
    public object Convert(object  value, Type targetType, object  parameter, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture)
    {
        // convert and return something
    }

    public object  ConvertBack(object value, Type  targetType, object parameter,  System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture)
    {
        // convert and return something (if needed)
    }
}

Usage:

xmlns:conv="[Path to namespace that contains the converter]"
...
{Binding Converter={conv:MyConverter}}

Simpler, less repetitive – that’s the way I like it!

Happy converting!

Roberto

This blog post is also available on CodeProject

Já estamos na edição 8 e as novidades não param.
Já tem gente pedindo o XAMLCast duas vezes por semana (caramba).

No podcast desta semana falamos dos MVPs de Silverlight que foram destaque em 2009, falamos do Windows Phone e também discutimos um pouco sobre os projetos de 3D no Silverlight.
Ouça e mande sua opinião e comentário!

Seguem os links relacionados ao podcast:

• MVPs do ano de Silverlight
  • Post do Tim Heuer com a divulgação
    • http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2010/02/18/silverlight-mvp-of-the-year-2009.aspx
  • Laurent Bugnion
    • http://blog.galasoft.ch
    • http://twitter.com/lbugnion
  • Dave Campbell
    • http://geekswithblogs.net/WynApseTechnicalMusings/Default.aspx
    • http://twitter.com/wynapse
• Windows Phone 7
  • Conheça:
    • http://www.windowsphone7series.com
  • Especulações do Silverlight no Windows Phone
    • http://rodrigokono.net/2010/02/silverlight-no-windows-phone
  • Entrevista de Ballmer para o TechCrunch
    • http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/25/steve-ballmer-talks-three-screens-and-a-cloud-and-more-with-te
• Competições de Silverlight
  • MIX 10K
    • http://mix10k.visitmix.com/
  • SilverlightShow EcoContest
    • http://contest.silverlightshow.net/
• Silverlight 3D
  • Projeto Balder (2D e 3D para Silverlight, XNA e OpenGL)
    • http://balder.codeplex.com
  • Kit3D (3D no Silverlight 2)
    • http://kit3d.codeplex.com
  • Google investindo na Web 3D
    • O3D: http://code.google.com/intl/pt-BR/apis/o3d
    • Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uofWfXOzX-g&feature=player_embedded
  • Livro que explica como fazer jogos 3D com Balder e Farseer
    • http://www.packtpub.com/3d-game-development-with-microsoft-silverlight-3-beginners-guide/book
  • Artigo: como desenvolver em 3D com WPF
    • http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/3D-BookWriter.aspx

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- Twitter oficial: @xamlcast (e hashtag #xamlcast)

- Siga os XAMLCasters:

• @kelps
• @robertos_br
• @rodrigokono

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Até o próximo!

Abraços,

Kelps, Roberto Sonnino e Rodrigo Kono

Continuando o papo técnico, este espisódio do XAMLCast traz o tema MVVM salpicado com novidades e boas dicas e referências para você estudar.

Ouça e tire suas conclusões:

Seguem os links relacionados ao podcast:

• Visual Studio 2010 RC
  • http://msdn.microsoft.com/pt-br/vstudio/dd582936.aspx
• Jason Zander
  • Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonz
  • Channel9 (video): http://tinyurl.com/ycdur6g
• Silverlight Viewport
  • http://tinyurl.com/yk5o7zq
• SilverArcade (videocast)
  • http://www.silverarcade.com
• MVC x MVP x MVVM
  • http://nirajrules.wordpress.com/2009/07/18/mvc-vs-mvp-vs-mvvm
• Josh Smith
  • http://joshsmithonwpf.wordpress.com
• Karl Shifflett
  • Blog
    • http://karlshifflett.wordpress.com
  • Ocean v2
    • http://karlshifflett.wordpress.com/ocean
    • http://karlshifflett.wordpress.com/2010/02/07/bbq-shack-ocean-v2-for-visual-studio-2008/
• Sasha Barber
  • http://sachabarber.net
• Marlon Grech
  • http://marlongrech.wordpress.com
• MVVM Made Easy / Jeremiah Morrill (screencast)
  • http://vimeo.com/8915487
• MVVM Frameworks
  • http://www.japf.fr/2009/10/a-quick-tour-of-existing-mvvm-frameworks/
• MVVM Light
  • http://www.galasoft.ch/mvvm/getstarted
  • http://mvvmlight.codeplex.com
• Cinch
  • http://sachabarber.net/?p=522
  • http://sachabarber.net/?p=523
  • http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/CinchCodeGen.aspx
• Jesse Liberty
  • http://tinyurl.com/y8nel6o
• Dicas em português para começar com MVVM
  • http://tinyurl.com/yjhgrmv
• Grupo MVVM na comunidade Silverlight Brasil
  • http://silverlightbrasil.ning.com/group/MVVM

Discutam, comentem e retwittem!

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- Twitter oficial: @xamlcast (e hashtag #xamlcast)

- Siga os XAMLCasters:

• @kelps
• @robertos_br
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• http://twibbon.com/join/XAMLCast

Aguardamos seu feedback!

Abraços,

Kelps, Roberto Sonnino e Rodrigo Kono

O XAMLCast dessa semana está mais técnico. Falamos de MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) e também de algumas boas novidades.
Se você sabe, não sabe ou quer saber o que é MEF, ouça, tire suas conclusões, mande dúvidas e participe enviando suas sugestões e complementos para o @xamlcast no twitter.

Ouça:

Como de tradição, seguem abaixo os links para completar o seu entendimento e ajudar nos seus estudos:

• XAMLCast no RedeRIA
  • http://rederia.net/membros/?uid=83
• Seesmic Look
  • http://seesmic.com/seesmic_desktop/look
• Moonlight 3.0 Preview
  • http://go-mono.com/moonlight/prerelease.aspx
• Melhorando o perceived start-up time em WPF com MEF e SplashScreen
  • http://blogs.msdn.com/devkeydet/archive/2010/01/29/improving-perceived-wpf-app-startup-performance-with-mef-and-a-splash-screen.aspx
• MEF
  • Download do MEF
    • http://www.codeplex.com/MEF
  • SilverlightTV
    • http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/SilverlightTV
  • Palestra do Glenn Block no PDC09
    • http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT24
  • Post do Kelps
    • http://blog.kelps.net/2010/01/extendendo-silverlight-3-com-mef.html

Para fechar, parabéns ao ganhador do Expression Studio!
O ganhador foi Marcelo Paiva (@marcelo_paiva). Ele foi o primeiro a retwittar as 3 palavras na sequência certa pedida pelo @xamlcast! (link: http://twitter.com/marcelo_paiva/status/8288165428).

Obrigado pela participação Marcelo, o Expression irá chegar em sua casa!

Boa sorte e espero que gostem do podcast da semana!

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- Twitter oficial: @xamlcast (e hashtag #xamlcast)

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• @robertos_br
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Aguardamos seu feedback!

Abraços,

Kelps, Roberto Sonnino e Rodrigo Kono

Após um impreviso técnico que causou um atraso de uma semana, o seu informativo semanal sobre XAML, Silverlight e WPF está no ar, com muitas notícias!
Ouça:

Essa semana o XAMLCast traz as seguintes informações:

• Curso GRÁTIS de Silverlight com Jeff Prosise (e WPF em Julho-Agosto)
  • http://www.wintellect.com/TechFocusSilverlight
• Blog do Justin Angel (refeito 100% com Silverlight)
  • http://justinangel.net/SilverlightWeblogFeaturesOverview
• Flashback: TOP10 2009
  • http://team.silverlight.net/announcement/silverlight-top-10-of-2009/
• Thumba
  • http://www.thumba.com.br
• Silverlight TV
  • http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/SilverlightTV/
• ECOContest Silverlight Show
  • http://contest.silverlightshow.net
• Imagine Cup 2010
  • http://www.imaginecup.com

PROMOÇÃO!

Não esqueça que este episódio contém as palavras premiadas para você ganhar o Expression Studio novinho novinho!

Ouça, anote as palavras premiadas deste episódio e as palavras do episódio passado, siga o @xamlcast e fique atento no twitter!

Quando o @xamlcast perguntar as palavras premiadas informe todas as palavras na sequência correta!
O mais rápido irá levar!

Boa sorte e espero que gostem do podcast da semana!

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• iTunes/iPod: pcast://www.xamlcast.net
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O XAMLCast também está no Twitter!

- Twitter oficial: @xamlcast (e hashtag #xamlcast)

- Siga os XAMLCasters:

• @kelps
• @robertos_br
• @rodrigokono

- Adicione o Twibbon do XAMLCast ao seu avatar!

• http://twibbon.com/join/XAMLCast

Aguardamos seu feedback!

Abraços,

Kelps, Roberto Sonnino e Rodrigo Kono

Estamos muito agradecidos pelo ótimo feedback que estamos tendo.

Até tivemos um retweet internacional do Brian Henderson (http://twitter.com/brian_henderson/statuses/7454878672).

Continuem mandando sugestões de temas, comentários e dúvidas. O XAMLCast está gerando e refletindo um conteúdo muito bacana em listas de discussões, blogs e forums. É isso aí pessoal!

No episódio número 04 falamos de Motion Detection em Silverlight 4, SilverX (conversão de arquivos Flash/SWF para Silverlight), falamos do Silverlight Hyper Video Player (HVP) e fechamos com uma boa promoção onde você poderá ganhar um Expression Studio novinho e na caixa!

Ouça:

Seguem os links relacionados:

• Motion Detector em Silverlight 4
  • Demo: http://roboblob.com/demos/Silverlight4/MotionDetector
  • Demo: Mate as baratas (BugCamSmash): http://adamkinney.com/labs/bugcamsmash
  • Blog do Adam Kinney: http://adamkinney.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/bugcamsmash-motion-detection-with-silverlight-4-beta
• SilverX
  • http://www.silverx.net
  • Link bônus – Tutoriais de migração Flash/Silverlight no Project Rosetta: http://visitmix.com/labs/rosetta/
• Silverlight Hyper Video Player (HVP)
  • Blog do Jesse Liberty: http://blogs.silverlight.net/blogs/jesseliberty
  • Codeplex: The Silverlight Hyper Video Player: http://silverlighthvp.codeplex.com

PROMOÇÃO!

Ganhe um Expression Studio 2 completo e na caixa! Igual à foto abaixo!

Sua grande chance de ter o melhor software para trabalhar com Silverlight e WPF.

Para participar é simples:

1. Seguir o @xamlcast no twitter
2. Saber as palavras da sorte que estão no audio do XAMLCast (só ouvir). Uma foi dita no episódio 04 e a(s) outra(s) será(ão) no episódio 05.
3. No dia da publicação do episódio 05 do XAMLCast, iremos pedir via twitter através do user @xamlcast as palavras da sorte. Quem postar primeiro leva o prêmio!

Para assinar:

• Feed RSS: http://www.xamlcast.net
• iTunes/iPod: pcast://www.xamlcast.net
• Zune: zune://subscribe/?XAMLCast=http://www.xamlcast.net

O XAMLCast também está no Twitter!

- Twitter oficial: @xamlcast (e hashtag #xamlcast)

- Siga os XAMLCasters:

• @kelps
• @robertos_br
• @rodrigokono

- Adicione o Twibbon do XAMLCast ao seu avatar!

• http://twibbon.com/join/XAMLCast

Aguardamos seu feedback!

Abraços,

Kelps, Roberto Sonnino e Rodrigo Kono

O ano passa mas o XAMLCast continua! Feliz 2010!

Neste episódio do XAMLCast falamos um pouco sobre o Microsoft Office 2010 Web Apps, concurso MIX 10K e Silverlight SEO.

Ouçam!

Para assinar:

• Feed RSS: http://www.xamlcast.net
• iTunes/iPod: pcast://www.xamlcast.net
• Zune: zune://subscribe/?XAMLCast=http://www.xamlcast.net

O XAMLCast também está no Twitter!

- Twitter oficial: @xamlcast (e hashtag #xamlcast)

- Siga os XAMLCasters:

Aguardamos ansiosos pelo seu feedback!

Abraços,

Kelps, Roberto Sonnino e Rodrigo Kono

XAMLCast is on fire!

Este episódio está muito bacana, falamos de Moonlight, AR com Silverlight 4, Silverlight renderizado no WPF e do VS2010 RC.

Ouça!

Para assinar:

• Feed RSS: http://www.xamlcast.net
• iTunes/iPod: pcast://www.xamlcast.net
• Zune: zune://subscribe/?XAMLCast=http://www.xamlcast.net

O XAMLCast também está no Twitter!

- Twitter oficial: @xamlcast (e hashtag #xamlcast)

- Siga os XAMLCasters:

Obrigado pelo feedback do 1o episódio! Esperamos que o XAMLCast fique cada vez mais do jeito que vocês querem. Aguardamos seus comentários!

Feliz ano novo! Esperamos você em 2010 para o próximo XAMLCast!

Abraços,

Kelps, Roberto Sonnino e Rodrigo Kono

Depois de um longo período em OFF com o XAMLCast estamos de volta!

Agora com um terceiro apresentador: Kelps Leite. Kelps é desenvolvedor Web ha 10 anos e desenvolve com Silverlight há mais de dois anos, sendo hoje um Blend Insider. Ele já participou com a gente de um XAMLCast quando foi entrevistado no TechEd 2007. Bem vindo Kelps!

No primeiro episódio dessa segunda temporada falamos das novidades do PDC 2009, Surface, Bing, SL4 e mais.

Para assinar:

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• iTunes/iPod: pcast://www.xamlcast.net
• Zune: zune://subscribe/?XAMLCast=http://www.xamlcast.net

O XAMLCast também está no Twitter!

- Twitter oficial: @xamlcast (e hashtag #xamlcast)

- Siga os XAMLCasters:

O que você achou da volta do XAMLCast? Aguardamos seus comentários!

A equipe do XAMLCast te deseja um Feliz Natal e um Ótimo Ano Novo com muito XAML! E até a próxima!

Abraços,

Kelps, Roberto Sonnino e Rodrigo Kono

I’ve just released a new article on CodeProject: this time it’s about multi-touch development with WPF 3.5 and Multi-Touch Vista. In the article you’ll learn how to set up your PC for multi-touch development and you’ll be able to see the making of a MT RSS reader application. If you’re interested in new interfaces and better user experiences, this article is a “must see” =D

Here’s the link:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/MultiTouchRSS.aspx

If you like this article, please sign in and vote for this article (on the right corner, “Rate this article”). And please comment!

Also, if you like this kind of article, I’d recommend my other article on CodeProject, about 3D, speech and ink with WPF at http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/3D-bookwriter.aspx .

Enjoy!

Thanks!
Roberto

After my original posts about speech recognition, I’ve been getting lots of questions about speech in other languages, especially Portuguese. At last I’ve got an answer for you: I’ve recently discovered some samples from Microsoft Portugal’s Language Development Center (MLDC) that provide Portuguese speech recognition engines!

These are the steps to get them:

1. Take a look at the official MS Portugal site about this: http://www.microsoft.com/portugal/mldc/betaprograms/winclientdesktop.mspx
2. Go to http://connect.microsoft.com and sign in
3. Use this invitation ID: MLDC-BKBY-DTBD
4. After filling in the survey, go to the Downloads page for this program: https://connect.microsoft.com/Downloads/Downloads.aspx?SiteID=368
5. Download the packs and documentation and good luck!

Note: The language packs are from 2007; they haven’t been tested with Windows 7.

Note 2:  The packs didn’t work in my English Windows 7. I guess you’ll need a Portuguese version of Windows Vista/7 to test them.

UPDATE 6/12:  The pack DOES work, but only for custom apps. I might do a tutorial on this soon…

If it works for you please leave a comment!

Thanks and see you soon!

Roberto

Engine de Reconhecimento de Voz em Português (Brasil e Portugal)

Fala pessoal,

Após meus posts originais sobre reconhecimento de voz, eu tenho recebido muitas perguntas sobre Speech em outras línguas, especialmente português. Finalmente tenho uma resposta para vocês: recentemente eu descobri alguns samples do Language Development Center da Microsoft Portugal (MLDC) com engines de Speech em português!

Para baixar os packs, siga esses passos:

1. Dê uma olhada no site oficial do MS Portugal sobre este assunto: http://www.microsoft.com/portugal/mldc/betaprograms/winclientdesktop.mspx
2. Vá para http://connect.microsoft.com e faça login
3. Use esse ID de convite: MLDC-BKBY-DTBD
4. Depois de preencher a pesquisa, vá para a página de downloads para este programa: https://connect.microsoft.com/Downloads/Downloads.aspx?SiteID=368
5. Baixe os pacotes e a documentação e a boa sorte!

Nota: Os pacotes são de 2007; eles ainda não foram testados com o Windows 7.

Nota 2: Os packs não funcionaram no meu Windows 7 em inglês. Talvez você precise de uma versão em português do Windows Vista/7 para testá-los.

UPDATE 6/12:  O pack FUNCIONA, mas só.para programas desenvolvidos especialmente para ele. Talvez eu faça um tutorial sobre isso logo…

Se funcionar para você, por favor comente!

Obrigado e até a próxima!

Roberto

Following a yearly tradition, this blog is participating once again in the Blog Action Day.

This last year was a turbulent period. We feel our world is going through a transition period – but more than a financial or economic transition, we’re going through a climate transition.

Climate change is not a supposition, it’s a fact – studies are already showing real results of this unprecedented changes. But how can we, developers, technology enthusiasts and students, help with this problem?

First of all there’s consciousness. We have to know what our impact is and what we can do to reduce it. Does your company use energy-efficient PCs and servers? What do you do with your old equipment and gadgets? Do you ship your apps with online documentation instead of paper manuals? Even small actions count here, such as shutting down your build servers when not in use.

And second and most important there’s action. After knowing your problems it’s time to create new solutions to solve our world’s toughest problems. Of course I’m talking about the…

In the past few years the Imagine Cup theme has included the environment; in France 2008 it was the main theme, and since then it’s included in the competition theme as a part of the 8 Millennium Development Goals.

We’ve been trying to do our part for the environment – both Ecologger and KnoWorld were very successful in IC08 and IC09, respectively. Now it’s your time! Create your winning solution in one of the five categories (Software Design, Game Design, Digital Media, Embedded Development and IT Challenge) or in one of the awards (TBA…) and get your chance to go to Poland and change the world in the process!

The world really needs your help – are you up to the challenge?

See you next time,

Roberto – @robertos_br

This year, we were participating in 2 categories – Software Design and Mashup. Besides the additional difficulty of developing and managing two unrelated projects, we had an additional challenge: distance! Let me explain: while Bruno and I are studying in France, Eduardo is in Brazil. Conclusion: the first time Eduardo met Bruno was in Egypt! (Note how we had to craft our team picture…)

In spite of that, we managed to build two great projects. Let’s start by the Software Design project, HealthTag.

HealthTag is a healthcare support system specially tailored for isolated locations. It allows the doctor to access the patient’s data from his/her mobile device, being able to analyse and modify the patient’s records even without cell phone signal or an internet connection. The data is stored in the cloud (HealthVault and Windows Azure) and can be synchronized when a connection is available. There’s also a desktop module for management and registration. The system also provides an analysis module that aggregates all the patient information and allows researchers and decision takers to make conclusions and create strategies for their regions of interest, using a collaborative touchless or multi-touch interface. For a more thorough explanation, check out the video below:

Note: This video is also available in Portuguese at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd3-H_oRMHw

This project was built with constant feedback from NGOs, doctors, healthcare companies and researchers to create a better experience and adapt to their needs. They showed enthusiasm and interest in the project, and we really hope it will become reality soon.

Our Mashup project has been more widely announced in this blog; it’s KnoWorld.

KnoWorld is a data analysis platform built using Popfly. It aims to enable everyone to access world indicators and create analysis for curiosity, research and learning. It’s tailored for easy consumption and creation of visualizations (“mashups”) that use more than 200 indicators from the Gapminder NGO and cross them with other indicators, maps, and events. Besides, thanks to Popfly, users are able to “tweak” visualizations (modify settings and create related conclusions), and “rip” them (discover how they were made and modify the building blocks). This project was the subject of a large series of posts, articles and videos that can be found at the KnoWorld blog.

This project had an overwhelming success. We’ve seen the community grow in front of our (virtual) eyes, the project was used in an actual classroom, and we’ve received great feedback from all the users that tried it.

Unfortunately, we’ve come to know that Popfly is closing in August 24th. That means that (at least for now) KnoWorld is closing. We hope to be able to rebuild it using other platforms, but we know already that a lot will be lost without the Popfly community and its “mashability”. Even though, we’re happy for being able to create this amazing experience and hope you’ve enjoyed it while it lasted!

Results

Our projects have been extremely successful in the world finals!

• HealthTag was
• 3rd place in Software Design and
• 1st place in the Windows Mobile Award
• KnoWorld was
•  4th in the Mashup competition

Also, the Brazilian delegation has attained the top spot in the Imagine Cup as whole! Special congratulations to all of our teams:

• Levv IT – 1st place in Game Development
• Willburn – 1st place in Design
• ProAtiva – 1st place in the Interoperability Award
• IC – UNICAMP – 2nd place in the Tablet Accessibility Award
• Thiago Valverde – 4th place in the IT Challenge
• A Casa Amarela – 4th place in Short Film
• OpenLab – 7th place in Embedded Development

Special thanks

Of course none of this could ever be possible without the help of a lot of people. I’d like to thank the Microsoft (Brazil/LatAm/Corp) teams, the Imagine Cup team, the Bradesco support team, the Brazilian press team (Rede Record) that supported us in the finals. Very special thanks to all the friends and family that supported us, and to the new friends from Brazil and from all over the world. And most of all, thank you team Virtual Dreams – Bruno, Eduardo and Bruno!

I really hope to see you in Warsaw next summer!

Thank you!

Roberto

Since we were announced as finalists in the Imagine Cup, many things have changed in KnoWorld. Now the project has a strong and growing community; we were able to impact several people, including schools; and we contacted much more people than we could ever imagine! This post aims to sum up the state of the KnoWorld community and its impacts as of now.

Note: the view counts come from our server stats, FeedBurner stats, Popfly stats and YouTube stats. The full server report is available here.

First, the team initiatives:

• Articles: We have written two articles about KnoWorld and how to use it, and we also posted our Round 1 Master Plan PPT. They were read almost 1400 times!
  • Introduction to KnoWorld – 916 views
  • Tutorial – 342 views
  • Round 1 Master Plan PPT – 138 views
• Videos: The team has produced 6 videos about KnoWorld, with more than 800 views:
  • An introductory tutorial – 360 views
  • A series of 3 videos called “KnoWorld – Instant knowledge”
    • Tweak a mashup in 30 seconds – 135 views
    • Who has more cell phones – Brazil or South Africa? – 95 views
    • How to build a map mashup – 31 views
  • Two videos recorded in the classroom at a Brazilian high school
    • Excerpts of the lesson and student testimonials – 68 views
    • The teacher’s testimonial – 84 views
  • A playlist contains all of these videos and will have all our future videos as well: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=61363421F6D9C196 – 54 views
• Mashups: The team has created 11 mashups just to show a small sample of the potential of KnoWorld. They had a total of more than 2350 views combined!
  • MDG 6 – Tuberculosis in the world – 16 views
  • Unemployment in Europe – 14 views
  • MDG Infant mortality rate – 195 views
  • Cell phones in developing countries – Brazil vs South Africa – 26 views
  • Children out of School in India and Australia – for TaraEd – 53 views
  • Destruction of Forests – 141 views
  • HIV Evolution in Africa – 526 views
  • Population of France – 432 views
  • US CO2 Emissions vs Environmental Events – 433 views
  • Top 10 arms importers in 2005 – 283 views
  • MDG Children out of School – 257 views
• Blog posts: The KnoWorld blog has currently:
  • 10 posts (including this)
  • A total of more than 900 web views since its launch (excluding the 2 articles above). (See here how we got to this number, and the full server report for the detailed stats.)
  • And amazingly more than 1000 views via RSS in the last 30 days ! (via Feedburner)
• Twitter: We’ve posted 10 tweets about KnoWorld in Twitter in each of our accounts: @robertos_br and @bfreis. This campaign has largely impacted our viral spread! (Check the next section for more details)
• Facebook: We’ve created a Facebook group with news and links, which has more than 100 members today. A significant part of our views came from Facebook.
• ProgrammableWeb: KnoWorld has been posted on ProgrammableWeb, where it was seen 71 times, had a rating of 5.0, was featured as “Popular Mashup” and even posted to Twitter!

And of course, a sample of the community responses:

• Mashups: KnoWorld’s spread can of course be seen by the growth of its usage. Many users have shared their KnoWorld mashups, some are really insightful! We highlight some of them here:
  • Greatest sugar consumptions by brunods
  • Sugar consumption – World by brunods
  • BRIC – External Debt by Ezequiel
  • Vaccines effect on Mortality rate in US by ahirata
  • Oil consumption vs CO2 Emission in Brazil by BSonnino
  • Air accidents – country 2009 by Carla
  • japan population by jowe
  • Nascimentos No Brasil by paulors
  • Aids by r1cs1
• Articles and blog posts: KnoWorld has been featured in some blogs and even on a Microsoft Education website and newsletter!
  • KnoWorld was featured in the June-July edition of the Microsoft Faculty connection newsletter, which is sent to hundreds of professors all over Brazil!
  • Microsoft Faculty Connection Brazil
  • Dielson Rocha
  • IntelFusion
  • MVP Bruno Sonnino
  • Sylvia Guimarães
  • Rafael Barbolo
  • ProgrammableWeb blog
  • DomainMacher
• Twitter: Twitter has been a great tool for our viral growth. Posts and videos about KnoWorld have been tweeted and retweeted several times, by many people all over the world. Some users who have posted or retweeted about KnoWorld once or more:
  • @programmableweb
  • @Imagine_Cup (the official Imagine Cup Twitter)
  • @yuridc
  • @barbolo
  • @son1cm4yh3m
  • @hugowt
  • @botequilha
  • @rickdog

So as you can see, KnoWorld is now more than 2 students and 1 mentor, some Popfly blocks and a handful of mashups: we’re a community. There are now students studying with KnoWorld, teachers using it, interested people learning from it, ideas being created, and awareness about the 8 MDGs being spread!

Thanks to everyone who’s been using KnoWorld and let’s keep it up!!!

Team Virtual Dreams
Bruno França dos Reis
Roberto Sonnino

The third video of our “Instant knowledge” series.

For more videos, check our YouTube playlist: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=61363421F6D9C196

Thanks!
Roberto