This is what the sun looks like right now.
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/eit_171/1024/latest.html
Friday, May 15, 2009
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
.NET Chart, Data Visualization, Digital Dashboards, .NET Gauge, KPI's, SQL Reporting Services
Dundas has released a new version of their Charts component (v7) for .NET and Silverlight.
Some of the nifty features:
1. Chart your golf game with an image of the hole you are golfing on.
2. Tree map/Heatmap
3. Scorecarding
The OLAP Extensions are still in v6.2. Wonder what the plan is for these?
.NET Chart, Data Visualization, Digital Dashboards, .NET Gauge, KPI's, SQL Reporting Services
Friday, November 28, 2008
Performance Map (Treemap) of the NHL
One of my favourite data visualization tools is the heatmap, or treemap.
There’s a new one out there for Silverlight.
More info here.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
First Look: SecondLight | Larry Larsen | Channel 10
Secondlight, turning anything into an interface.
So what does this mean? It means a doctor can use a sheet of paper to dynamically 'cut through' a 3D MRI, or you could even scoop up windows on a surface computer and then interact with them on this lightweight display without altering the original Surface image.
Friday, October 24, 2008
85turns presents Siverlight mad Simple
Accessing external data feeds with Silverlight 2.0
Along with this difference is the ability to access data. ASP.NET applications can use the HttpWebRequest or call a web service not located on the same server. Since Silverlight runs on the client, it is a potential security risk to access data from a server where the XAP did not originate. SO, the introduction (it’s a standard practice for Flash) of the client access policy. Briefly, create a file named clientaccesspolicy.xml with the xml content below, and your service/data is ready to be consumed by Silverlight.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Josh Smith : Introducing a new XamDataGrid Behavior: DisplayAdorningEditors
Master-Details datagrid with a twist.
Introduction
In my previous post on this blog, I showed how to display an extra field of data in the adorner layer, instead of putting it into a XamDataGrid cell. Since writing that post, I have spent the entire weekend blissfully working on and expanding that core concept. I managed to extract all of the plumbing code that hosts an editor in the adorner layer into a reusable class. I also vastly enhanced and thoroughly tested this functionality. In this blog post, I am proud to present the fruit of my labor: a new behavior for XamDataGrid called ‘DisplayAdorningEditors’.
Josh Smith : Introducing a new XamDataGrid Behavior: DisplayAdorningEditors
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Mark Mann's Blog : Silverlight 2 RTW Released!
Silverlight 2 RTW (release to web) has been made public! Well done to Microsoft!
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Balsamiq Mockups Home | Balsamiq
Doing mockups or wireframes? Great napkin-style idea tool in Balsamiq.
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XAML Power Toys « Karl On WPF - .Net
I am a firm believer that code generation tools will one day make most software development projects obsolete, or at least force developers to start developing code generation tools. :)
Here’s a Silverlight/WPF code generation tool.
XAML Power Toys is a Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Multi-AppDomain Add-In that empowers WPF & Silverlight developers while working in the XAML editor. Its Line of Business form generation tools, Grid tools, DataGrid and ListView generation really shorten the XAML page layout time.
It’s accessed through commands in the XAML editor context menu and the Solution Explorer item context menu.
XAML Power Toys generates .NET 3.5 SP1 WPF compliant XAML and Silverlight RC0 compliant XAML.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Mike Taulty's Blog : Silverlight and WPF - Sharing Library Projects
Silverlight and WPF - Sharing Library Projects
One thing that I got asked a couple of times down at REMIX UK was the question of;
How come I can't reference a regular .NET library from a Silverlight project?
Mike Taulty's Blog : Silverlight and WPF - Sharing Library Projects
Monday, September 22, 2008
Monday, September 15, 2008
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Syntax Over Sanity : Syncing audio with storyboard animations in Silverlight 2 Beta 2
Syncing audio with storyboard animations in Silverlight 2 Beta 2
You've seen complex animations created with Flash... e-cards, cartoons, et al. Bear in mind we're not talking about video but animations, where vector-based objects are manipulated using timelines and keyframes. I haven't worked in Flash since the MX days but I remember having the ability to associate sounds with specific keyframes.
I asked a Silverlight Discussion group how this could be achieved in Silverlight 2 Beta 2. It seems there's no built-in mechanism to support it at this time, but all hope is not lost. Eric Stollnitz posited the idea, "What if you set up a DependencyProperty and animated that in your storyboard?" Hmmm... it sounded just crazy enough to work.
Syntax Over Sanity : Syncing audio with storyboard animations in Silverlight 2 Beta 2
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Mike Swanson's Blog : Update on My Illustrator Plug-In and Flash to XAML Conversion Tool
Update on My Illustrator Plug-In and Flash to XAML Conversion Tool
Just over three years ago, in July, 2005, I released the first version of my Adobe Illustrator to Avalon/XAML Export Plug-In. The plug-in started off as a weekend project, and it’s since become quite popular. The plug-in is included in most WPF and Silverlight books, and it’s fun to see it referenced when I’m thumbing through new releases at Borders or Barnes & Noble. I hadn’t been watching the download stats, so I checked tonight and was surprised to see that it’s been downloaded over 75,000 times (actually a bit more, but the stats aren’t complete). Even if I only counted the most recent release, that would make it a top download on CodePlex. That’s pretty cool.
Mike Swanson's Blog : Update on My Illustrator Plug-In and Flash to XAML Conversion Tool
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Tech Daily Dose
The Dems are in the MS camp with Silverlight for their video feeds.
Plus, in a first for a political convention, Silverlight, Microsoft's platform for interactive Web applications and HD video, in conjunction with the Level 3 Communications network, will bring live, gavel-to-gavel convention video coverage of the highest quality to a worldwide audience via the DNCC's Web site at DemConvention.com.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Brahma - Calculations within the GPU
I have the test library setup now for Brahama, the GPU wrapper for Microsoft Accelerator. It looks fast. Really fast. And the ability to mix GPU & CPU execution is a killer feature. Match this up with an Nvidia Tesla and you have one kickass computer.
But does it play Flight Simulator?
Sorted 4096 Vector4s on the GPU in 0.1739 seconds, average time for each iteration was 0.0000
Validating sort results: Error
Array was set up in 0.0004 seconds
Sorted 4096 Vector4s on the CPU in 1.1536 seconds, average time for each iteration was 0.0003
I hope the focus stays on Brahma, the GPU-executing class wrapper. Do I want to get rid of WPF and keep XAML? No, I just want to see some more examples of Brahma with real-world Cuda-like samples.
How about some Silverlight integration too?
XAML without WPF = XOML
For a long time, I’ve been writing about how messed up Xaml is because of WPF-interdependency, and how Microsoft should have decoupled the Xaml bits from WPF, etc (Some of these rants were on my old blog). Well, I finally decided to do something about it, and I’m writing a XAML-like library that loads, and writes markup using its own XomlLoader and XomlWriter. At this point I’m calling the markup eXtensible Object Markup Language (I know that the Workflow Foundations’ designer files have that extension…) because that’s what its meant to be. It is also aimed to run on the .NET Framework, Mono and the .NET CF.
Using Xoml, you will be able to data-bind, forward reference, resource reference, write markup-extensions and more. I will be putting this project up for download shortly, look out for more news on it.
C$ Programming Language - Home
C$ (CBucks). Another CPU to GPU calculation engine.
This about sums it up.
C$ language, while concentrating on solving computationally intensive problems, also aims at solving system problems and easing integration of high-performance code into user-friendly applications, which becomes crucial as parallelism becomes widely available even on commodity PCs. In order to solve system problems, one needs object-oriented programming support in the language. For high-performance programming, however, one needs some means of parallelization. As the language is supposed to be highly portable, no assumptions can be made about the underlying architecture (GPU, SMP etc.). Therefore, some kind of array programming seems a good choice here.
C$ Project Home Page
The aim of this project is creating a unified language and system for seamless parallel programming on modern GPU's and CPU's. In future, it is planned to be extended to other processors.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Infragistics - Investing in Microsoft Silverlight Controls
FaceOut - Rich Internet Sales Dashboard
Infragistics' faceOut is an interactive demonstration of our NetAdvantage for Silverlight preview controls. Using our chart, gauge, and enhanced scroll panel, we've created a salesperson dashboard to illustrate how you can build a richer experience on the Web for a real, line-of-business scenario. We've taken this concept a step farther by creating an enterprise mashup using representative enterprise sales data along with Windows Live Maps and the Live Contacts schema to show how you can integrate your corporate data with services provided on the internet to bring you a business-driven mashup experience.
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Lightstreamer :: Live Web Content Delivery
This would be useful for queuing systems and quote-tracking systems, among other things. Not sure if it supports Silverlight, but definitely .NET.
Based on the AJAX-Comet paradigm, it streams real-time data to any Web browser, without installing anything on the client. Both HTML and Flex applications can receive live data from Lightstreamer, as well as traditional thick clients. See below for a quick example.
SilverPart (Beta 1.0) - Home - Silverlight Web Part
Project Description
This project includes a Silverlight wrapper Web Part that can be used in SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) or WSS 3.0 to expose Silverlight content.
The goal of this project is to create a generic web part that has custom properties that provide flexibility for embedding different Silverlight applications in SharePoint sites.
The SilverPart Web Part was created with the intention of allowing the integration of Silverlight and SharePoint technologies in order to create full RIA applications.
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