blogs | Michael Wolf

Tuesday November 06, 2007

Silverlight / WPF Ajaxworld Video

So I was pretty excited to see that the video that we had filmed about our AjaxWorld Demo , during our visit to Bldg. 20 for the WPF Lab, was posted up to Windowsclient.net. Yet I was sad to see that it had been posted as a plain old WMV, no silverlight version. So I figured I'd post one up myself. Using Expression Encoder, I created a silverlight player from their templates. Then opened it up in Blend, tweaked the xaml a bit, took out some bits, threw in our Cynergy Xaml, and in no time we have a media player. Couldn't have a video about WPF and Silverlight not be rendered with some xaml :).

Enjoy the video, it showcases a demo Kellen Styler and I did for AjaxWorld West 2007. The demo highlights one of the least talked about features of WPF/Silverlight, true reuse. The demo shows how you can not only share Xaml between WPF and Silverlight (in fact that same xaml is used in this player), but also a Business Layer that could be used in Silverlight / WPF / WCF / Asp.Net / WinForms / Windows Services etc. Plus thanks to Kellen's handy work its pretty easy on the eyes.

Thanks to karsten for the interview.