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March 2007
March 27, 2007
UI Best Practices and WPF
David Platt gave a UI best practices talk at last week's SD West 2007 entitled "Using WPF for Good and Not for Evil." One of David's central tenets for do-gooders was to make a graphic artist an integral member of the development team; of course WPF's use of XAML was designed to make that easy, so we're in luck. For more on WPF and XAML, check out Mike Riley's article, RAD XAML with Microsoft Expression Blend.
Posted by John Dorsey at 11:23 PM Permalink
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March 13, 2007
Vista Voices
Several editors from Dr. Dobb's recently spoke to members of the various Windows Vista design and development teams, including Kim Cameron, who talked about CardSpace and the lessons learned from the failures of earlier identity and security schemes; and Doug Purdy's discussion on consolidating the many legacy communications libraries into WCF. We've posted some terrific excerpts from these discussions as podcasts.
Here is the complete list arranged by team leader:
David Streams, Group Program Manager, Windows Live Team
Vista Sidebar Gadget Development
Exploring the Gadget 'Ecosystem'
Kim Cameron, Microsoft's Architect of Identity and Access
The Introduction Ceremony and CardSpace
Windows CardSpace and the Laws of Identity
Steve Hiskey, Lead Program Manager for UAC, Windows Security Core Group
Limiting Vista's Attack Surface With UAC
Retrofitting Apps for UAC Compliance
Ed Averett, Program Manager Windows Shell Team
Metadata Searches on Windows Vista
Doug Purdy, Group Program Manager Connected Systems Division
Developing Connected Apps with WCF and WF
Leveraging Legacy Tools and WCF
XML and Dynamic Workflow Management
Posted by John Dorsey at 09:25 PM Permalink
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March 07, 2007
TechFest Provides a Look into the Lab
Microsoft Research is in the middle of its three-day TechFest 2007, the fifteenth annual open-house showcase of ongoing research. Of course, not all research projects become products, but it's interesting to see what's in the works across many fields: enterprise apps, learning tools, consumer apps, search and data-modeling, and more.
Rick Rashid, Microsoft Research Senior Vice President, provided the keynote on Tuesday. The keynote video is available online, and it provides an overview into some of the projects, including a cool demo of a zoomable map of space.
Channel 9 is also posting videos showing some of the cool stuff from the demo booths, starting with DynaVis and FastDASH.
Posted by John Dorsey at 12:23 AM Permalink
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