Silverlight for Designers

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Silverlight for Designers Other News From Mix07

• Kelly White, Software Engineer
• kelly.white_at_popart.com
• http//whitepdx.com/blogs/kelly/default.aspx

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Agenda

• Intro
• Silverlight
• Expressions
• Blend
• Media Encoder
• Questions

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Who am I,and why this topic?
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What is Silverlight?

• Flash Killer?
• New platform fordelivering media?
• AJAX 2.0?
• Just another tool?

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Right, not a Flash-killer...

• Electric Rain Harmony Converts SWF files to XAML
• Electric Rain recently announced a new product
  they're working on called Harmony.  This app will
  take .swf files and convert them to XAML.  This
  tool has the potential to help users with Flash
  assets ramp-up on Silverlight very quickly. 
  Electric Rain is promising a beta version "soon".
• http//www.erain.com/products/harmony/

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Demo...

• Installing Silverlight... less than 60 seconds?
• 20th Center Fox Movie Trailer Example
• http//silverlight.net/fox/
• Get in another demo
• http//urlofotherdemogoeshere

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Why use Silverlight?

• If you...
• already existing video content in WMV format.
• have a targeted audience (opt-in like Net Flicks)
• want / need to support streaming audio / video
• want / need to deliver 720p High Def Content
• want more interactions between the page and the
  app without a huge development cost
• want the designer controlling the usability and
  interactions instead of the developer
• Top 10 Reasons by Tim Sneath
• http//blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2007/04/15/intr
  oducing-microsoft-silverlight.aspx

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Why NOT use Silverlight?

• If you...
• already have all your media in a different format
  (Silverlight currently only supports .wma, .wmv,
  and .mp3)
• dont have time to learn any new tools
• are not faced with the problem of developers
  constantly violating the visions architected by
  designers
• dont have access to a Windows machine (no Mac
  tool support, yet)

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What is Microsoft Expression?

• A suite of tools for creative designers that
  gives you the freedom to bring your vision to
  reality and boosts developer collaboration in the
  delivery of rich user experiences for the Web,
  Windows Vista applications and beyond.
• http//www.microsoft.com/expression/kc/
• Training Videos
• Webcasts
• Tutorials

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Demo...

• Expression Blend
• What is it?
• How do you use it?

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Demo...

• Expression Media Encoder
• What is it?
• How do you use it?

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Summary

• Silverlight rocks
• Expression Studio rocks
• People who use Silverlight and Expression are
  smarter than rocks!
• Silverlight 1.0 currently in beta, expected
  release later this summer!

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Resources

• Official Sites
• http//silverlight.net
• http//www.microsoft.com/silverlight
• Videos to learn how to use Silverlight - small
  series on Expression Blend at bottom
• http//silverlight.net/Learn/LearnVideos.aspx
• Mike Harsh, Program Manager on the Silverlight
  team
• http//blogs.msdn.com/mharsh
• Silverlight Streaming
• http//www.microsoft.com/silverlight/streaming.asp
  x
• Silverlight Keynote at MIX (is a must watch!)
• http//sessions.visitmix.com/default.asp?event101
  0session2016pidKYN001discid1532year2007
  searchKYN001

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Questions

• Thank-you!
• Kelly White
• kelly.white_at_popart.com
• http//whitepdx.com/blogs/kelly/default.aspx