Open Source Silverlight video players

Lately I’ve been spending a lot of time in the Silverlight video space.

Physics Behaviors for Silverlight 3!

Today I released an initial version of “ Physics Helper 3 ” to Codeplex. This includes a collection of new Behaviors for Expression Blend which makes it very quick to create physics games and simulations in Silverlight using the Farseer Physics Engine . This release requires Silverlight 3 and Expression Blend 3, which you can get here . DOWNLOAD PHYSICS HELPER 3 Demos There are four new demos using Behaviors, plus the original demos depending on the older User Control model. Note that version 3 still supports the User Control model, but I would recommend checking out the new Behaviors model as there is nice design time support in Blend. VIEW ALL DEMOS Falling Astronaut Rag Doll Truck w/Camera Flying Astronaut Getting Started Videos I have a couple of quick (10 min) screen casts which show how to use the new Physics Behaviors: VIDEO ON “THE BASICS”: VIEW | DOWNLOAD VIDEO ON “JOINTS + PROGRAMMING”: VIEW | DOWNLOAD Enhancing Behaviors with Code Behaviors are great, but I can’t imagine creating a full game using only canned behaviors

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Physics Helper 3: Coming Soon!

Silverlight 3 and Blend 3 introduce the concept of Behaviors , which make it easy to add common functionality using drag/drop inside Blend. I’ve been working on creating a set of Behaviors for the Physics Helper Library , and have made good progress. Using these behaviors, you can very quickly put together physics-based games and simulations with little or no code. (Ok, I don’t really believe in the no-code scenario … but you can do some pretty neat stuff without code). Another new feature in the library is the ability to automatically determine the outline (collision boundary) of raster images (such as a PNG). I’ll be releasing this updated library soon on Codeplex, but here is a screencast I put together to show the Behaviors in action: [ DOWNLOAD THE VIDEO ] Or click below to view it:

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Learning to Create Icons using Expression Design

In this video, part of the Principles of Design Series, Arturo Toledo, demonstrates the basics of designing icons. Icons are a way to abstract a real visual object into a usually smaller representation that preserves the essence of the original object…( read more )

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Principles of Design Series: Learn about Emphasis using Expression Design

In this video from the Principles of Design Series, Arturo Toledo of the Expression team at Microsoft, demonstrates Emphasis, a basic principle of design. Watch this video to learn more about the concept of Emphasis while using Expression Design. Principles…( read more )

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Principles of Design Series: Learning about Symmetry and Asymmetry using Expression Design

This Principles of Design Series video describes Symmetry and Asymmetry, two styles of composition you can use in your user interface design. Watch this video to learn more about these concepts while exploring Expression Design. There are 13 videos in…( read more )

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Principles of Design Series: Learning about Rhythm using Expression Design

This is the 2nd of 13 in the Expression “Principles of Design Series” created by Arturo Toledo of the Microsoft Expression team. In this video, Arturo talks about “Rhythm”, a principle of design that helps you define visual patterns that people will read…( read more )

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Silverlight Revives Playboy, Rolling Stone Archives

Silverlight is bringing magazine memories back to life through Bondi Digital Publishing’s Cover to Cover . Starting with classic issues of Playboy and Rolling Stone , Cover to Cover features stunning quality and lets you browse and search decades of content…( read more )

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Principles of Design Series: Learning about Balance using Expression Design

This is the first in a series of 13 Principles of posts created by Arturo Toledo on the Expression team. In this video Arturo demonstrates Balance, a principle of design that will help you achieve harmony in your designs and compositions. Watch it to…( read more )

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Have I Missed The Bus?

About 5-10 times a week I get a letter that says something like this: “Your book, Complete Idiots’ Guide to a Career in Computer Programming