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Silverlight 3 Beta Sample - Slidentity - Presentation Creation App

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I’ve been working on Silverlight 3 since July of last year, when we started planning the key features in the release. It’s really exciting to have the blog ban lifted and be able to talk about the new functionality of the platform as well as show off some of the samples that our team has built internally.

 

I’ll start with a project I’ve been working on for the last month or so. Slidentity is a Silverlight 3 based presentation app. This app lets users create slides and save them to their machine (thanks to the new SaveFileDialog). The app also lets you view the presentation in fullscreen mode and the transition between slides uses the new Perspective 3D feature to create a spinning cube effect. Slidentity also runs out of browser and can run when disconnected from the network (it stores its background image library in IsoStore). Finally, the app can load a slide show from a query string parameter. If you click the image below, it will run the app with a sample slide deck I created. Click this link to run the app with a new presentation.

 

Get the code for Slidentity.

 

Slidentity

 

To be honest, I’m not wild about the name, and I’ll probably change it. If you have better name suggestions, please leave a comment.

 

I’m using Slidentity to give my Silverlight 3 out of browser talk later today. I’ll post my “slides” and other demos after the talk this afternoon. Hopefully the MIX crew will get the session videos posted in under 24-hours like they did last year. When the video is up, I’ll link to that as well.

 

[Edit] In the rush to get all this stuff posted for MIX, I forgot to give credit to some of the code that helped me create this app. First I want to thank Mattias Shapiro for his color picker control which I'm using in the product. Also, Dave Crawford and Tim Huer helped out by pointing me to the final SL2 versions of Dave's glossy control style inside of Blacklight. .

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  • Anonymous
    March 18, 2009
    PingBack from http://blogs.msdn.com/mharsh/archive/2009/03/18/silverlight-3-beta-sample-slidentity-presentation-creation-app.aspx

  • Anonymous
    March 20, 2009
    My suggestion for a name would be "Sliderule".

  • Anonymous
    March 21, 2009
    Silverlight 3 Sample Application: Slidentity

  • Anonymous
    March 21, 2009
    One of the great things about the Silverlight team is that usually in the home stretch most of the feature

  • Anonymous
    March 21, 2009
    I get a blank page (filled with a blank silverlight control) . Tried in both IE8 and Firefox 3.1b3. SL3 developer release installed.

  • Anonymous
    March 22, 2009
    Thank you for submitting this cool story - Trackback from progg.ru

  • Anonymous
    March 22, 2009
    Session: MIX 09, T45F, video Mike Harsh , Silverlight Program Manager Notes: Before Silverlight was called

  • Anonymous
    March 24, 2009
    I guess "Slight" isn't a very descriptive name option :) Since it's for presentations - how about "Silverbullet" Really like the app tho', and am inspired by the UI to tidy up some of my work - I think you've got "just the right amount" of ribbon-ness.

  • Anonymous
    March 25, 2009
    My name submission would have to be "Sliderule".

  • Anonymous
    March 25, 2009
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    March 27, 2009
    For those of you that aren’t aware, I spent the majority of last week in Las Vegas, Nevada for

  • Anonymous
    April 02, 2009
    http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2009/03/21/slidentity-silverlight-sample-application.aspxSilverLi...

  • Anonymous
    June 07, 2009
    I have previously written about the UNPLUGGED road trip that Mike , Nathan and I have been on. I also

  • Anonymous
    June 13, 2009
    Tim Heuer has written a good developer-level guide to the new features in Silverlight 3 - A guide to