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Silverlight "Surface" Demonstration [Silverlight implementation of Surface's "photo table" UI]

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  • Anonymous
    June 01, 2007
    There's just not a compelling reason for me to want to shift photos around like that? It's fun to play with for 10 seconds, but in terms of compelling, practical and timesaving user interaction design, it's poor.

  • Anonymous
    June 01, 2007
    rbirkby, Thanks for stopping by! In the Surface site's demo videos, they show how email, photo sharing, and collaboration might be integrated with the basic "photo table" UI I've demonstrated here. Just like Media Center optimizes for the "10 foot" viewing experience users have sitting on their couch watching TV, the Surface team optimizes for the finger-based input experience users have sitting around their device. The videos I've seen suggest this interface is pretty natural for the Surface scenario, but I'm sure they're experimenting with other ideas as well. :)

  • Anonymous
    June 01, 2007
    Fantastic demo. would love to see one of those tiles running video as well like in the Surface demo ;) On a TabletPC this would be lots of fun.... wonder if there's a tweak to track two contact points on the tablet so you can do the multi-touch rotate and resize?

  • Anonymous
    June 01, 2007
    There's been a lot of things floating around on the net recently about multi-touch displays and the

  • Anonymous
    June 01, 2007
    I can think of lots of useful ways to bake this general idea into a larger application.  If run a photography site and want people to be able to lightbox the images they're interested in and then organize them, something like this gives them that ability in a very intuitive way.  You could also use something like this in a One-Note style application to organize your to-do list. It's a good demo.

  • Anonymous
    June 01, 2007
    David Anson outdoes himself yet again. Check out his Silverlight Surface demo . Source code included

  • Anonymous
    June 01, 2007
    This is great. A minor tweak that will make it better is to add some physical properties to rag (basically adding inertia and drag) for better interaction.

  • Anonymous
    June 01, 2007
    This week Microsot revealed Microsoft Surface . A new computer platform that is based on Windows Vista

  • Anonymous
    June 02, 2007
    Dopo il rilascio di Microsoft Surface ecco un'implementazione di una

  • Anonymous
    June 02, 2007
    A slight change this week. POI titles will now include the main topics covered in each post ("Other"

  • Anonymous
    June 03, 2007
    This is pretty sweet!  Thanks for posting the source code!  The thing I find interesting about this demo is that you were able to create a similar (if not the same) experience in this Silverlight app as the one from the photo viewer in Surface. One cool thing you could do is to add a camtasia video showing how you can create the application using Orcas beta1.  This way it can provide guidance to other devs on where to start with the code.

  • Anonymous
    June 03, 2007
    Surface-like Experience Using Silverlight

  • Anonymous
    June 03, 2007
    Microsoft announced some days ago its Surface product . If you didn't had a look on the videos you should

  • Anonymous
    June 04, 2007
    In one of my last posts I wrote about the Silverlight Surface demo of the "photo table". If you had a

  • Anonymous
    June 04, 2007
    Delay has whipped together a Surface-like experience in Silverlight. Pretty cool actually. And there's

  • Anonymous
    June 05, 2007
    Alguns dias atrás a Microsoft anunciou o Surface , que permite que a interação com um computador com

  • Anonymous
    June 06, 2007
    On Monday I gave an overview talk called "A Lap Around Silverlight" at TechEd in Orlando. You can download

  • Anonymous
    June 06, 2007
    I've added the video support here: http://weblogs.asp.net/mschwarz/archive/2007/06/04/silverlight-surface-demonstration-video-support.aspx Thanks for sharing the source code, it is a great demo!!!

  • Anonymous
    June 08, 2007
    For those who do not already know, the new Surface technology from Microsoft Labs is running on a Vista

  • Anonymous
    June 08, 2007
    הפעם דוגמא נחמדה של שילוב הקונספט של Microsoft Surface שהוכרז לאחרונה, עם האפלקציה עליה רץ ה- Silverlight

  • Anonymous
    June 26, 2007
    After working with a few sample Silverlight applications I became curious to see how a silverlight application

  • Anonymous
    June 28, 2007
    We run a Wedding Photography business in Fort Myers and I can't wait to have a product like this to show clients their proofs!

  • Anonymous
    July 04, 2007
    I don't know if anybody blogged about this yet... There was a huge hype about surface when it was

  • Anonymous
    July 26, 2007
    Hi - very nice work I'm trying to get your app running on my server but it doesn't seem to be working. it runs ok on my local machine: C:InetpubwwwrootSilverlightSurfaceDefault.html but when i hit: http://myserver/SilverlightSurface/Default.html I get a blank page-and when i right click on the page it says about Microsoft Silverlight. I don't know where is the pb??? Can you help? Thanks

  • Anonymous
    July 26, 2007
    v-willch, I'm not sure where the problem is, but here are a few things to check:

  • Is IIS configured to allow serving the XAML file?

  • How about the .DLL file in ClientBin?

  • Is the directory structure the same for both sources?

  • Have you watched the network traffic with a network monitor to see if any requests are failing?

  • Might your browser's security settings be interfering? The fact that it works from your local machine is good and suggests that the bits are valid and your Silverlight's configured correctly. Now it's just a matter of finding out what's bothering IIS. Good luck! :)

  • Anonymous
    July 27, 2007
    With today's release of the Silverlight 1.0 RC and 1.1 Refresh , I've updated the Silverlight samples

  • Anonymous
    July 27, 2007
    With today's release of the Silverlight 1.0 RC and 1.1 Refresh , I've updated the Silverlight

  • Anonymous
    July 28, 2007
    Delay מפרט את השלבים שהוא עשה כדי לעשות Upgrade לכמה דברים שהוא כתב ב Silverlight 1.1. בינהם ה Air Lines

  • Anonymous
    July 30, 2007
    Jakiś czas temu wspomniałem o nowym dziecku Microsoft czyli zgrabnym urządzeniu o dzwięcznej nazwie Surface

  • Anonymous
    July 30, 2007
    Jakiś czas temu wspomniałem o nowym dziecku Microsoft czyli zgrabnym urządzeniu o dzwięcznej nazwie Surface

  • Anonymous
    August 18, 2007
    Hi, I'm very new to Silverlight. I've installed Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, Silverlight.1.1alpha and VS_SilverlightTools_Alpha_Setup. I could load the SilverlightSurface project but while building it gave an error "No overload for method 'Open' takes '2' arguments". After providing the third parameter 'Async' as "true", I was able to build the project. But when I run it, I don't get to see any of the images in the browser. Not sure if the project works with VS2008 Beta 2. I would greatly appreciate guidance on this. Thanks, Imran

  • Anonymous
    August 20, 2007
    Imran, It sounds like you've got a version-mismatch. I recently updated my samples to work with the 1.1 Refresh (http://blogs.msdn.com/delay/archive/2007/07/27/a-new-silverlight-version-has-been-released-samples-updated-for-the-1-1-refresh.aspx). One of the changes in the refresh was to go from a version of Downloader.Open that takes 3 parameters to one that takes only 2 (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb693297.aspx#downloads_asynchronous).  So sounds like you've got the latest code for the Surface demo (2 parameters), but that the version of Silverlight you have installed is not up to date (3 parameters). You should be able to fix that by uninstalling Silverlight and re-installing it from http://silverlight.net/ which will get you the latest bits. Regarding the images not loading, please refer to this blog post for a note on how I didn't include the images with the source code download (along with directions for getting them) and also my post about updating solutions for the 1.1 Refresh (the same one I linked to above) regarding a way to work around a new Downloader security limitation when using file:// URLs. Once you take care of those issues, you should be set!

  • Anonymous
    September 13, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    September 24, 2007
    Silverlight: Microsoft Surface Demonstration

  • Anonymous
    November 01, 2007
    The Photos app is one of the most popular ones to demo. People really love the type of natural interactions

  • Anonymous
    November 08, 2007
    The Photos app is one of the most popular ones to demo. People really love the type of natural interactions

  • Anonymous
    November 23, 2007
    Getting Silverlight

  • Anonymous
    December 18, 2007
    This was such a nice example, I thought it would be nice to update to silverlight 1.1 and add a feed from flickr. http://www.obrienjd.com/silverlight/2/default.aspx will get the 'friendliness' photos from flickr. If you add email=<myemail@yahoo.com> to the query string it will get your flickr photos.

  • Anonymous
    December 18, 2007
    Silverlight Success

  • Anonymous
    January 28, 2008
    Thanks to everyone who came to my session, hope you enjoyed it. First off, instead of slides I used WPF

  • Anonymous
    February 06, 2008
    Al een paar weken geleden is een nieuw product aangekondigd: Microsoft Surface. Dit product is een wat

  • Anonymous
    November 11, 2008
    Bon je me baladais à la recherche d'exemple sympa sur Silverlight et là, je tombe sur ça: http://www.pureblue.co.nz/silverlightsurface/

  • Anonymous
    November 13, 2008
    I try to keep up with migrating my various samples to the latest Silverlight Beta/RTW releases, but I