mesh video player

Posted on January 31, 2009

mvp

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!

What Others Are Saying

  1. Anonymous February 3, 2009 at 5:22 AM

    Brian,

    Fantastic video – really brings home the simplicity of it. Great work!

    Definitely a “Pick of the week” contender for “This week on Channel9″.

    -Jamie

  2. Anonymous February 4, 2009 at 4:59 AM

    very cool

  3. Anonymous February 5, 2009 at 2:06 PM

    hi Brian

    great screencast, great app :) I will blog about it right now, it will certainly raise awareness and interest for the Live Mesh framework.

    my audience is not so fluent in english, though. it would be great if I could add a voice over to your video and publish it in my own language, brazilian portuguese.

    what do you think about it?

    thanks in advance

  4. Anonymous February 6, 2009 at 6:00 AM

    Very very impressive! Congratulations.

  5. Anonymous February 6, 2009 at 3:17 PM

    Very cool use of the SL2 video player Tim and I developed. I loved it!

  6. Anonymous February 7, 2009 at 10:05 PM

    this has been tagged in forums and delicious for larger community awareness:

    social.msdn.microsoft.com/…/62ffae39-bc78-4

    delicious.com/…/LivefxScreencas

  7. Anonymous February 10, 2009 at 4:39 AM

    Does somebody know when the CTP of Mesh will be available for anyone?

  8. Anonymous February 10, 2009 at 8:45 AM

    Very Cool and impressive Brian!

    Manuel.

    -> Your screencast doesn’t seems to work in Firefox 3.0 :(

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