Just another side of me : VS2010, WPF

Using Windows 7 Text-to-Speech From .NET 4 and WPF (Part 2)

fantasista — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:14:00 GMT

Postingan kali ini melanjutkan postingan saya yang ini tentang Windows 7 Text-to-Speech. Well, due to some circumstances (tugas yang banyak), I can't explain about it too much in this post.

So, I hope all readers can use MSDN Library to study my code that I learn from browsing the internet.

You can download the code here. Enjoy...

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Using Windows 7 Text-to-Speech From .NET 4 and WPF (part 1)

fantasista — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 11:48:00 GMT

Pada postingan kali ini, saya akan menjelaskan tentang cara menggunakan fasilitas Text-to-Speech yang ada di Windows 7 dengan menggunakan .NET 4 dan WPF dalam beberapa bagian dan ini adalah bagian yang pertama. Windows 7 Text-to-Speech ini bisa ditemukan di Control Panel -> Ease of Access -> Speech Recognition -> Text to Speech. Fitur Text to Speech tersebut secara default akan menggunakan Microsoft Anna dan bahasa yang digunakan adalah English (United States).

Pada tutorial kali ini, environment yang saya gunakan adalah:

Microsoft Windows 7 Professional
Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate RTM
Microsoft .NET Framework 4

Cukup basa-basinya, let's begin coding...

1. Buat project baru di Visual Studio 2010.

Project ini saya beri nama WpfTextToSpeechDemo. Feel free to change it to your liking :D

2. Tambahkan reference System.Speech ke dalam project.

Reference ini dibutuhkan agar kita bisa menggunakan Text-to-Speech recognition yang ada di Windows 7.

3. Buat folder baru di dalam project untuk menampung View Model dari project ini.

4. Buat class baru di dalam folder yang telah kita buat tadi.

Oke, langkah awal sudah beres. Untuk tutorial kali ini, saya belum akan mulai mengcoding tetapi saya akan membuat UI-nya terlebih dahulu. So, let's continue...

5. Kita akan membuat UI untuk project kita kali ini. Tambahkan kode berikut ke dalam MainPage.xaml Anda.

<Grid>

<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>

</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>

</StackPanel>

</Grid>

Tampaknya cukup sekian dulu untuk tutorial bagian pertama ini. Masih banyak deadline tugas menanti soalnya. Hehehe..

Enjoy...

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The Microsoft User Experience Kit Is Live

fantasista — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:12:00 GMT

Microsoft’s User Experience ecosystem is a universe complex enough for an overall perspective or deep insights to not easily come in handy. The Redmond company has worked to streamline efforts from what it calls technical and creative leads interested in taking a closer look at the relation between its UX collateral and the Microsoft “stack.” In this regard, the software giant announced the availability of the Microsoft User Experience Kit at SXSW.
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“The UX Kit is unique because while many technology-specific repositories exist, this is the first kit that helps ‘map’ the Microsoft ecosystem, technology, and tools stack to that of the user experience, agency, and creative world,” a member of the Silverlight team revealed.

The promise that comes with the kit is that the resource is capable of simplifying the understanding of the tools, technologies, and scenarios available to third-parties that leverage Microsoft’s User Experience ecosystem. Companies interested in a variety of scenarios from rich media delivery to content publishing, but also publisher advertising and additional media publishing, digital marketing, and campaign experience will be able to get insights from Microsoft via the dedicated UXKit website.

Microsoft even gave examples of three topics that could be explored in depth, such as “Building Immersive Multi-channel Solutions using Expression Studio” and “High fidelity and high Performing Desktop Touch Applications using Windows 7,” but also “Web Branding and Audience Targeting using SharePoint.” The Microsoft User Experience Kit Is Live offers companies videos, presentations, sample code, and additional resources to help them take advantage of the UX that comes with the company’s technology stack.

“Included in the UX Kit is a range of collateral and resources including: videos, reference implementations, sample code, live demos, installable tools, presentations, whitepapers and more. Featured technologies include Silverlight, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows 7 Touch, Microsoft Surface, Windows Phone, SharePoint, Expression Studio, and Microsoft Advertising. Topics covered on the kit range from Rich Media Delivery using Silverlight and Deep Zoom to Multi-Channel Digital Marketing using Windows 7, SharePoint, Windows Phone, and Surface,” the Silverlight team representative added.

Sumber: http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-Microsoft-User-Experience-Kit-Is-Live-137404.shtml

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Expression Blend 4 Beta Released

fantasista — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:05:00 GMT

As Microsoft’s alternative to Adobe Flash evolves, so does the development tools designed to assist developers in creating content for Silverlight. At MIX10, concomitantly with the unveiling of Silverlight 4 Release Candidate, the Redmond company also announced the availability of the first Beta for Expression Blend 4. At MIX10, the software giant emphasized the fact that Expression Blend 4 was designed to enable developers to build applications for the next version of Silverlight, which is scheduled to be released to web in April 2010.

In addition to being tailored to Silverlight 4, Expression Blend 4 also plays nice with Silverlight 3, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) 3.5 with Service Pack 1 (SP1) and WPF 4. Developers can turn to Expression Blend 4 to build both websites and applications for Silverlight 3 and 4, and desktop apps for WPF 3.5 SP1 and WPF 4.

“Blend 4 now supports Silverlight 4 and WPF 4, and of course it works great together with VS 2010. As many customers still need to deliver SL3 (and of course, Windows Phone) or WPF 3.5 projects, Blend can now handle multi-targeting – which is the ability to target a project at either the current or the previous generation of the platforms,” Christian Schormann, responsible for product planning and definition of Expression Blend and Design, and for long-term product strategy of the Expression suite as a whole, revealed.

But, at the same time, Blend 4 expands beyond Silverlight and WPF, the tool allowing developers to create applications for Windows Phone 7 Series, according to Microsoft. But this is not the only evolution of Blend 4. SketchFlow, for example, was taken to the next stage, with the addition of new behavior.

Another change involves the extra flexibility introduced for the creation of layouts. Blend 4 is capable of translating drawings made by devs into custom layout panels, without requiring them to write a single line of code. “With the new PathListBox control, this is exactly what you do: You simply draw one or more curves or shapes, and Blend will layout elements or data along the geometry you created. A radial list box? Instead of writing a radial layout manager, just draw a circle. A spiral? Just draw it,” Schormann stated.

At the same time, Blend 4 brings to the table smooth layout morphing between layouts. This is done through a feature called Fluid Layout, which makes possible smooth transitions between layouts. In addition, the promise from Microsoft is that Blend 4 streamlines the process of building business applications, by simplifying the workflow between developers and designers, and that it introduces new transitions.

“In Blend 4, we’re adding transition effects that are applied during a state transition, just like transitions in a video editor,” Schormann explained. “Blend comes with a set of new shader effects specifically for transitions and you can also roll your own.”

Expression Blend 4 Beta is available for download here.

Silverlight 4 Release Candidate (RC) Build 4.0.50303.0 is available for download here.

Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP are available for download here.

Visual Studio 2010 Premium Release Candidate (RC) is available for download here.
Visual Studio 2010 Professional Release Candidate (RC) is available for download here.
Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Release Candidate (RC) is available for download here.

Sumber: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Expression-Blend-4-Beta-Released-137573.shtml

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