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Friday, November 20, 2009 11:06 AM

Silverlight 4 Fluid UI

This is the first of many mini-tutorials on Silverlight 4 features. An enhancement has been made that allows you to add animation when items are added ,or removed from, the list box.  Silverlight 4 adds a new StateGroup to the ListBoxItem class:...
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Thursday, August 27, 2009 10:22 AM

3 New Podcasts on Silverlight 3

  This month I had the opportunity to be on Sparkling Client three times to talk about Silverlight 3 features Easing – August 13 Element to Element Binding – August 20 Validation – August 26
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Monday, July 20, 2009 3:41 PM

What’s New In Silverlight 3? Easier Easing

Animated movement often seems much more natural and realistic if the moving object accelerates up to speed or decelerates before stopping. The technique of adding that change in velocity is called Easing. You can imagine that the acceleration to speed...
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Saturday, July 18, 2009 2:05 PM

What’s New In Silverlight 3 - Validation

Data Validation is fully implemented in Silverlight 3, utilizing the object the input control is bound to as the decider of what is valid, and the Visual State Machine to provide feedback to the user. The process is best understood as a sequence of steps...
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009 11:16 PM

Animated Visual State Transitions with the Transitioning Content Control

div.live { border : blue solid medium; width:400; height:150 } The Silverlight Toolkit is innovative in many ways, not least of which is that controls are released in one of four quality bands : Mature : ready for release Stable : suitable for most scenarios...
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Friday, April 24, 2009 6:23 PM

Easing is… Easier

For those who have been wondering “Where’s Jesse??” the answer is that I’ve been head’s down preparing for my presentation at Tech Ed (you are going to Tech Ed aren’t you?!) Microsoft has three major conferences. The following is my personal description...
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Sunday, March 29, 2009 11:02 PM

Quick 3-d Update

I mentioned in a previous blog post that I'd posted a two part video on the new 3d capabilities in Silverlight 3. Since then I've had a few great conversations with Jeff Paries (who knows more about Silverlight Animation than most people on the planet...
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Thursday, February 19, 2009 10:10 PM

Carousel Video Posted – Parts 1 and 2

I'm very pleased to be able to announce that the videos Creating a Carousel Part 1 and Creating a Carousel Part 2 are now available.  These videos cover the material that is also discussed in my two part blog entry (beginning here ) including such...
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Monday, February 16, 2009 7:22 AM

Putting the Silverlight Layout System to Work

In my previous blog entry I described the fundamentals of the Silverlight Layout System ( SLS ). Today, I'd like to build a simplified version of the custom Carousel control that I create in greater detail in a forthcoming video, and examine the role...
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Wednesday, February 04, 2009 12:29 AM

The Expander – Part 2

I recently examined the Expander control and in that entry I promised to return and show how templating can add value to the user experience of this Silverlight Toolkit control. You will remember that when we left the expander, it was able to display...
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008 2:51 PM

Podcast interview on animation

I'm pleased to announce that my Sparkling Client interview on Animation is now posted. In honor of that interview, I've created a button with in-state animation that will take you to the podcast, presented here through Silverlight Streaming, and analyzed...
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 4:56 PM

Animation Web Cast

Due to technical difficulties (total video chaos) today's animation webcast was scrubbed.  To make up for that, I'll be recording a video on Animation From Soup to Nuts in the next 2 weeks which we'll post as quickly as we can. In the...
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Sunday, August 17, 2008 8:09 PM

From-To Animation vs. Linear Keyframe

In much of the writing about animation in Silverlight, one question that seems to recur is this: why bother with a linear key-frame animation if it is less intuitive and more complex than a simple from-to animation Let’s back up and examine that for just...
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Saturday, July 26, 2008 10:52 PM

In-State Animation In A Nutshell

I’ll be covering this in videos and tutorials in depth, but I’ve come to realize that in-state animation is so straight forward that it can be explained in a quick blog entry. In fact, the really hard part is explaining what it is viz: the Visual State...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 1:42 PM

Templates and Animation Webcast – Follow up

I had the pleasure of presenting a Webcast on Templates and Animation today, and as promised, here is the answer to an open question, and the set of links that were mentioned. The videos that may be of help as background information are here Here is the...
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