The Mix07 folks wouldn’t let me into the conference to cover ink support in Silverlight (excuses, excuses), but that didn’t stop me. I booted up my UMPC, attached a webcam, and connected up to UStream.tv to record whatever I could–even if I could get no further than the conference hallways.
Here I caught up with Gavin Gear of Microsoft’s Silverlight team, who was kind enough to join me in the hallway, and show me a couple Silverlight applications that illustrated Silverlight’s new inking capabilities.
In the first five minutes of the video Gavin talks through the cool PhotoStack app that Microsoft was showing at the conference. For a simple demo app it had quite a few features including photo annotation, server-side ink recognition, ink searching, a full-screen slideshow mode, and numerous cool transition effects typical of XAML apps. I hope Microosft makes this code public soon. I’m sure there are lots of good ideas for developers inside.
From minutes five to eight, Gavin switches over to work on a blog post. Nothing much interesting here except that you can see we were pretty informal about the recording. He got a phone call during this time too, so for a couple minutes I turned off the sound, although you’ll get a pretty good picture of the floor and our legs in the meantime. Heh.
Then at about 8:15 Gavin starts up again with a demo this time of the Ink Tattoo Studio. It’s a clever simple app that illustrates how to overlay ink on photos in an entertaining way. Unfortunately, after a couple minutes the video hangs, but you’ll get the idea.
If you couldn’t quite make out what’s shown in the video embedded above, you may want to check out a video recorded by the Mix folks which is of much better quality showing Gavin demo Silverlight ink.
