Archive for March, 2007
Technical Briefing Presentation Files
The Microsoft 2007 Technical Briefings have come to an end and that means we’re now able to post up the presentations, links and demos that we’ve been using throughout.
Building standards compliant websites
Presented by John-Daniel Trask
Presentation Links:
- Expression Web Designer demo
- Microsoft Internet Explorer Web Developer Toolbar Beta 3
- W3C Validators
- W3C Schools for learning more about the standards
- E-Government Web Guidelines
- IEBlog, the official Microsoft IE blog
- ACID 2 test site
- ASP.NET 2.0 CSS Control Adapters
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Demonstration Files:
Building composite applications
Presented by Jeremy Boyd
Presentation Links:
- Web Client Software Factory (Composite Web Block)
- Enterprise Library 3.0
- Validation Block
- Article about the unit testing in Visual Studio 2005 Team Developer Edition
- NUnit Unit Testing Framework
- Cruise Control .NET
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Extending the reach of your applications
Presented by Jeremy Boyd & John-Daniel Trask
Presentation Links:
- RSS Toolkit Project on Codeplex
- Create your OpenSearch xml easily using this online tool
- WPF: Community Home
- WPF: Charles Petzold’s Blog
- WPF: Download Expression Blend RC
- MSDN documentation for Sidebar Gadgets
- Example of a quick start for developing Gadgets
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Note, some of the demos rely on BackgroundMotion being publicly available which it currently isn’t. We’ll be releasing a lot of demos, videos and papers about how you can build similar systems once we do make BackgroundMotion available.
Thanks to all of those that attended the events and to Microsoft for putting on a top notch set of events.
John-Daniel Trask
Posted by John-Daniel Trask on 31 March 2007 Microsoft 2007 Technical Briefings
It’s been a fantastic couple of weeks tripping around a few main centers in New Zealand giving presentations. We’re off to Christchurch in a couple of hours for the final presentation day tomorrow which means we’ll be releasing our demos, presentations and ultimately BackgroundMotion very soon. Everybody I’ve spoken with has gained value from the event and Microsoft has done a great job putting them together. The success of the events has really been highlighted by the fact that it has had more attendees than TechEd!
So if you are coming along to the Christchurch event then come and say hi to Jeremy and myself.
John-Daniel Trask
Introductions
Tagged as General
Welcome to the Mindscape blog,
A question we’ve been receiving during our startup is “What does Mindscape do?”. Mindscape is primarily a product development company, we’re working on some really cool software that we’re very excited about. Understandably we’re not announcing anything yet, the products are still under development. Keep an eye on our blog if you’re keen to find out more as it happens.
We also do some consulting work that strategically fits. We have been busy creating a social networking site that allows users to contribute content for use with DreamScene, a Windows Vista Ultimate Extra created by Microsoft that enables users to run full screen video as their desktop wallpaper. The only challenge we found was that there was very few places to obtain content designed for such high definition video. The solution? BackgroundMotion.
BackgroundMotion is both a solution to a problem and a working demonstration of how to develop composite applications. We have used BackgroundMotion in recent Microsoft 2007 Technical Briefings. We plan on making the site live to users in the near future as well as delivering the source code and videos on how it was developed. This will be a great resource for anyone looking to create similar systems quickly.
It’s been great meeting so many people recently as we begin ramping up our companies image. We welcome your feedback and we will be posting regularly about Mindscape and some of the cool things we’re building.
John-Daniel Trask
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