mesh video player

i have to say that i have been loving me some live mesh lately. i have been digging into really understanding some of the scenarios where live framework and live mesh make sense and i am literally boggled by the possibilities.

i find the best way for me to learn is to actually do. some people learn really well by reading or listening… i am not one of them. so when i found out i would be on the world wind central region tour of msdn developer events talking about the live framework and live mesh, i figured i better really dig into it.

so the first thing i did was understand the framework. this was critical to me really understanding how to program with it. i checked out a bunch of pdc videos and had some help from really smart folks on the product team and corporate dpe (thanks ori, angus, nishant, arash, james, etc.). this set the basis for getting started.

by the time the chicago msdn developer conference came around, i had built my first mesh-enabled web application and felt i really could explain how it all worked. it turned out that programming the mesh is not all that difficult once you spend some time understanding the resource model. what i thought was so powerful is the ability to use existing projects and “meshify” them.

so here is a screencast of me building the mesh video player and the code associated with it. i want to give kudos to tim heuer for pointing out the great silverlight video player available on codeplex that i meshified for this project.

if you are interested in getting started building applications in the mesh and using the live framework and have not signed up, make sure you go register!