Silverlight Applications

by Shawn Featherly

• Scorecard

  Nov 2012
  Created internal tool for the Microsoft O365 team with 4 other developers under the management of Jason Lichtenberger.
  • Themed with Telerik Metro
  • Created WCF RIA services to interact between Silverlight and database

• CMDB

  March 2012
  Created internal tool for the Microsoft O365 team under the management of Jason Lichtenberger.
  • themed with JetPack
  • Created OData based webservice to interact between Silverlight and database

• Mosaic

  Dec 2011
  Maintained internal tool for the Microsoft Bing NQS team with 2 other developers under the management of Sabina Sutkovic.
  • Interacted with multiple WCF services
  • Created custom & themed controls
  • Live Tiles control
• BouncyLasers Oct 2010 - Jan 2013
  Personally created and published a game that was in the official store since the launch of Windows Phone 7.
  • Procedurally generated levels
  • Facebook API
  • WCF services
  • Scores stored in SQL database on a cloud platform
  • Strong encryption for scores to deter cheating
  • AdDuplex and Microsoft ads for marketing and monetization

The following are unpublished and incomplete works I designed and created to help myself thoroughly learn the Silverlight platform.

• MyMovies

  May 12th, 2010
  application to browse a personal collection of movies.
  • Created WCF based webservice to interact between Silverlight and database
  • YouTube API calls to view movie trailers
  • NetFlix API calls to pre-populate movie details
  • Design and creation of database specific to this application
  • Mapiulate HTML of hosting page

• MediaPlayer

  Feb 20th, 2010
  Demonstration of creating app to play video files for Broncus / Yon Chung. By default plays a *.WMV file showing a viral video of Christmas lights on a house. The button on the top can be used to load any file on your computer to be played through this player.
  • Heavy Manipulation of MediaElement for seeking to different time positions
  • OpenFileDialog to open files that the user has access to
• Converter Feb 12th, 2010
  Converts one unit type to another. Converts miles to kilometers, decimal to fractions, and more.
  • Creation of templateable custom controls (each tab is of type GenericConverterTab)
  • Right click the app to create an out of browser experience with custom icon
• Equality Feb 8th, 2010
  a game to test skills with equal, greater than, and less than.
  • Extensive use of styles
  • Use of childwindow control

• DrMario

  v0.2 April 19th, 2010
  Incomplete version of a DrMario clone. At the stage of understanding and working with object collision. The capsules collide and stack with one another.
  • Multiple keyboard input. uses arrow keys (up, down, left, and right)
  • Linked animation elements to timers and keyboard events
• Fraction and Percentage Oct 23rd, 2009
  Use your best judgment to guess fractions and percentages out of a whole.
  • Heavy use of algorithms
  • Manipulation of basic shape primitives