Windows 7’s Desktop Simulation in Silverlight!

Guys, I need to share screenshots of a cool demo a friend (Waqas) as well a coworker and I developed using Silverlight 2.0. Yes this is fully interactive demo of Windows 7’s Desktop Simulation in Silverlight 2.0.

The Login Screen:

The desktop:

Yes its Windows 7 running inside Internet Explorer 8 under Windows 7 :P Did not find a better way to express. And yes clock gadget is also home made.

I’ll be converting this application to Silverlight 3.0 with Offline Execution support and host on Silverlight Streaming tomorrow. What? Ofcourse I’ll be sharing the code with my next post tomorrow.

So Stay tuned to play with Windows 7 :P.

Best Regards,

Rizwan a.k.a RizwanSharp

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posted on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 11:39 PM

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# re: Windows 7’s Desktop Simulation in Silverlight! 3/26/2009 10:37 PM Adil Mughal

Man this is awesome!! All I wanted to say is WOW. Your asthetic sense seems to be very good :)
Hey, why don't you come up with the features coming in Silverlight 3?
Any ways great stuff, keep sharing (Y)

# re: Windows 7’s Desktop Simulation in Silverlight! 3/26/2009 11:11 PM Mohamed Gama El-Din

Man, ur way in writing is AWESOME :D.

Keep it up man ;)

# re: Windows 7’s Desktop Simulation in Silverlight! 3/29/2009 2:17 AM RizwanSharp

@Adil Mughal

I cannot take the credit on a thing on which Microsoft's designers worked hard :). Actually we just copied what they did.

Yes, I'll continue writing about Silverlight 3 in coming weeks.

@Mohamed Gama El-Din
Really? I'm not an author and I really don't think that its cool but I resepect you complements :)

-Rizwan

# re: Windows 7’s Desktop Simulation in Silverlight! 4/11/2009 5:59 PM Wally

Astonishing work. People like you make silverlight to shine. Keep up the good work.

# re: Windows 7’s Desktop Simulation in Silverlight! 4/11/2009 6:18 PM RizwanSharp

Hi Wally,

Glad, You liked it... Did you check the live version here: http://geekswithblogs.net/RizwanSharp/archive/2009/03/29/finally-windows-7-desktop-simulation-is-live.aspx

I have hosted the app on Silverlight Streaming and also shared the code.

Thanks,
Rizwan

# re: Windows 7’s Desktop Simulation in Silverlight! 9/12/2009 3:32 AM martin

Windows? where are windows shown in this app? Not demonstrating windows is too bad

# re: Windows 7’s Desktop Simulation in Silverlight! 9/12/2009 12:27 PM RizwanSharp

@Martin
Article title is Windows 7's Desktop Simulation not the Windows 7 in Silverlight. And doing windowing stuff is not that hard and many people had already done... there are a lot of open source frameworks on web which already support that functionality.

Thanks,
Rizwan

# re: Windows 7’s Desktop Simulation in Silverlight! 10/11/2009 5:58 PM zeeshan

I AM NAT ABLE DOWNLOAD SILVERLIGHT ON MY COMPUTER TO USE WINDOWS 7 SIMULATOR..........???

# re: Windows 7’s Desktop Simulation in Silverlight! 10/11/2009 9:18 PM RizwanSharp

HI Zeeshan,

Have you gone to http://geekswithblogs.net/RizwanSharp/archive/2009/03/29/finally-windows-7-desktop-simulation-is-live.aspx ?

It should automatically prompt you to install Silverlight and then you should be able to use the simulator.

Thanks & Best Regards,
Rizwan

# re: Windows 7’s Desktop Simulation in Silverlight! 1/14/2010 1:34 PM sandeep singh

very tough to learn.

# re: Windows 7’s Desktop Simulation in Silverlight! 5/10/2010 11:49 PM argenis

esto es bueno

# re: Windows 7’s Desktop Simulation in Silverlight! 2/21/2011 4:59 PM Jerrod

Is this still live?

# re: Windows 7’s Desktop Simulation in Silverlight! 7/12/2011 1:20 AM zamani behrooz

Hello
It was very interesting
please send source project to my email

RizwanSharp;

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