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 if you one running Vista ultimate on a system that supports Dreamscene then
you need eye candy! Checkout Background
Motion. Darryl Burling provides more
info…

What is it?

Backgroundmotion.com is two things. 

Firstly it is a community website to allow you to share backgrounds and background
video for the DreamScene features
of Windows Vista Ultimate.

Secondly it is a great example of a modern web application built on .Net 2.0. 
When I say example, I also mean sample - the source code for the site is
available on codeplex for you to download and
pull it apart. 

There is also a “Code” tab on the site to help you get up and running with the source
code.  The developer
section of the site includes sample code, short introduction videos and resources
to lower the bar to use these technologies.

Technologies used

One of the things that the guys did was to build in all the latest technologies and
making the code available means that you can go and see how they did it.  Specifically,
the technologies and tools they used include:

• .Net Framework 2.0
• .Net Framework 3.0
• ASP.Net 2.0
• ASP.Net AJAX 1.0
• Silverlight
• NUnit
• LINQ (May CTP)
• Web Client Software Factory (Composite Web Block)
• Lucene.Net
• RSS Toolkit (which was extended for the solution)
• Virtual Earth
• Sidebar Gadgets

Background
Motion - now live!

Very cool. Well done guys!

I’ve had a fantastic time meeting up with some most of my fellow
tablet MVPs over the last couple of days.  I’ve been jamming as much as I can
into the time here in Seattle and have not had a chance to blog about it much.

Fortunately Hugo is doing a great job of this - having already posted a video from
one of the early meet-ups and
the unscheduled
dinner we had last night.  The official event was a regional dinner, which
I hated to miss.  I need a clone…

That said the dinner with the other Tablet MVPs and some other key players in the
tabletscape was a definite highlight of my trip so far.  The conversation was
intense, interesting and - not surprisingly - extremely pen and touch centric. 
Oops - forgot to mention that the food (and wine - hic!) were excellent.

Big shout out to GottaBeMobile.com and JK
on the Run who picked up the tab for dinner.  That was both unexpected and
much appreciated.

Tonight the fun just keeps on coming - we are all off to Boeing Field to the Museum
of Flight for the Big Party.  Should be a great night.