The Windows experience is familiar to millions of users worldwide. By using highly responsive, AJAX-enhanced components, you can deliver this familiar experience in any web application and take your usability to a higher level. Great web applications offer great interactions that make the users life easier and in the end give them a positive experience. With ASP.NET AJAX and the wide array of visual controls in the market, we have the tools to create incredible experiences without getting bogged down with the code required to do so. In the following Demo I will walk you through an innovative web application that mimics the Windows Experience and make the user feel right at home.

Downloads

• PowerPoint: WindowsWeb.ppt (6.21 mb)
• ASP.NET Project: WebDesktop.zip (3.76 mb)

Resources

• ComponentOne Studio for ASP.NET
• Windows User Experience Guidelines
• Microsoft Visual Studio
• ASP.NET AJAX

Enjoy!

 I will be presenting "Bringing the Windows Experience to the Web" on behalf of ComponentOne on Saturday, April 12th. I will be showcasing a new application I created that mimics Windows Desktop, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Outlook. I am really excited to go to this event since it is in my home town Pittsburgh! Feel free to sign up and check out the great lineup. It is going to be a fun gig with LOTS OF CODE and only a little powerpoint. This is for the true coders and creatives. The ones dedicated enough to spend a Saturday digging deep into .NET. Come join in the fun!

Well, it's the weekend before MIX08 and I am getting really excited. I am going with my coworkers at ComponentOne and I can't wait! I got added to the team last minute, but I would still be going if I got added at the last second. I really can't wait to go mingle with so many of my users, collegues, and heroes.

Live and Learn 

I am going to take full advantage of interfacing with so many designers and developers. I am curious to see if my perception (from experience) is close to the reality of the world of software development. I hope to come back armed with knowledge and creativity. I will definately post a few articles on subject I left from at MIX. Let me know if you are going by posting a comment.  I hope to see some of my fellow RIAnimators out there!

Las Vegas, here I come!

Hey guys, I just published the latest version of RIAnimation. It is the latest build for both the .NET 2.0 and 3.5 Frameworks. The build contains some nice new features and some fixed bugs.

What's New? 

I have added HoverOver and HoverOut as officially supported events. I have also added a much requested Toggle event. This is a click event that fires a function on the even clicks and the opposite on the odd clicks. This is a really nice feature to implement animations on toggled modules. I used it on my site as the expand and collapse lists of RIAnimations properties. Please keep sending feedback and let me know how you are using it! I would love to post about someone using it in a real world app.

Keep it fresh -Chris 

I just finished building the RIAnimation ASP.NET animation framework for .NET 3.5. This is fully compatable with the baked in Ajax and Animation with ASP.NET 3.5. Let me know if you have any issues.

Enjoy 

 RIAnimation3.5.zip

I just published a Shopping Cart Demo for RIAnimation. It is a standard ASP.NET application with Animation added via the RIAnimator control. Check out the live demo here: http://labs.hushhushmedia.com/rianimation/demo/

I hope to be releasing RIAnimation Version 1 within the next week or two. It is pretty stable and only needs some fine tuning. I also want to finish the MassRIAnimator control for this release.

...with RIAnimation

I have just published the early Alpha Release of RIAnimation. The build includes a very simple sample website and the source for the custom RIAnimator ASP.NET control. The RIAnimator control provides a ridiculously simple way of adding Rich Interactive Animation to your ASP.NET projects. It exposes a few properties which compile a nice clean JavaScript block for you. The RIAnimator contol builds the animation using the RIAnimation.RIAnimationScripts Class. These scripts include default settings and make it easy to create custom animations that go far beyond your needs.

The goal of RIAnimation was to create a Rich Interactive Animation Library for building robust animations, but at the same time provide a simplified control to expose only the necessary properties. We built RIAnimation on top of JQuery and Interface. JQuery is a comprehensive JavaScript library that has a very useful seletor class and exposes events quite nicely. Interface is an effects extension for JQuery. It has some really nice prebuilt animations that are easy to implement.

RIAnimation is fully compatible with ASP.NET AJAX and is insanely easy to use. You can add animation to your ASP.NET projects without writing a single line of code! 

Please cheack back soon for a production-ready build with loads of improvements! 

We have just revamped the site in order to showcase our new work. We have some really exciting new projects in the lab. Please check back soon for updates and releases.

Remember, everything coming from HushHushMedia is:

simple. innovative. smart.