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Friday, May 22, 2009 11:52 AM

I’m committed to Two Tool Development

I confess. After years of developing with separate debuggers, editors and compilers it was a wondrous thing to have an Integrated development environment in which all three and more were combined. I love Visual Studio.  And for the past year or so...
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Monday, May 04, 2009 12:39 AM

Validation. Hey! You’re Done!

div.live { border : blue solid medium; width:550; height:300 } Towards the end of my “ What’s New In Silverlight 3 ” presentation for Tech Ed, I discuss the (much anticipated) enhanced Data Validation in SL3. Now, anyone who has been around the block...
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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, November 09, 2008 12:29 PM

Using Blend with Visual Studio

For the past six months or so I've been experimenting with and then "preaching" the idea of developing with two tools: Expression Blend for the UI and Visual Studio for the code. This has paid big dividends for me in productivity and it fits in well with...
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Thursday, October 16, 2008 10:15 AM

Something New Coming – Pocket MFA

My theory, based entirely on my own experience is that many developers would like to know just a bit more about design (not all developers, and not a lot more, just some developers, and just a bit more). Our reasons include: 1. The bar has been set higher...
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Thursday, October 16, 2008 9:50 AM

Liberty – Shill?

Okay, I never thought this was an issue I was likely to face, but the folks in Marketing wanted to run this ad, and so I was faced with that interesting question of what we used to call “Selling Out.” (yeah, yeah, i work for Microsoft, so my radical friends...
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Monday, September 15, 2008 12:17 AM

Throwing Together An Application

Creating a Quick and Dirty App in Silverlight There comes a point, usually within 3-6 months after I commit to a new technology, when it becomes my platform of choice for throwing together quick applications… when I just find it easier to think in terms...
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Thursday, August 07, 2008 1:16 PM

A third way to handle Templated Buttons & Images

In yesterday’s blog post I suggested that there were two solutions to crating a templated button that used an image. One was to create a different template for each image (yuck) and the other was to create a custom temlpated button. A third, and excellent...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008 6:53 PM

New Tutorial: DataBinding and Data Templates

I’m pleased to announce that we’ve posted a new tutorial: DataBinding and Data Templates Using Expression Blend available in HTML and pdf with source code.   This should nicely complement the three new videos on DataBinding An overview of Databinding...
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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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Friday, July 18, 2008 10:42 AM

Webcast schedule has been updated

The Webcast schedule has been updated slightly. You can find it here . You can always find it in the sidebar as well: The key change is this September 10 Silverlight Animation and Expression Blend
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Thursday, July 17, 2008 9:47 PM

Three New Videos On Data Binding

[Temporary Notice – The video DataBinding and Data Templates in Xaml has been pulled due to a production problem that is expected to be resolved no later than Tuesday.] I’m pleased to announce that we’ve posted three new videos on DataBinding and on DataTemplates...
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Friday, July 11, 2008 9:11 AM

Styles and Templates - Three Videos

I’m very pleased to announce a three part video series (currently listed in reverse order) as companions to my new tutorial ). The three videos are Creating Styles Templates without Visual State Manager Templates and Visual State Manager   The new...
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Friday, July 11, 2008 8:57 AM

Green Eggs and Blend

  I’m pleased to say that the accident of not recording my first ( new series ) Webcast led to the opportunity to reformulate it as a video, which is now available for viewing or download. This is a brief, somewhat  tongue in cheek overview...
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