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CompositeTransform simplifies transforms in Silverlight 4 Beta
Monday, November 23, 2009 12:53 AM

One of the features you may have missed that was added to the Silverlight 4 beta is the new CompositeTransform class. The new class provides a simpler way to transform an element, by simply offering a single object to instantiate rather than a group of... Read More...

by Adam Kinney » Silverlight

Filed under: silverlight, Client Technologies

Rundown of Silverlight 4 Beta Features and 6 Hands on Labs
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 1:40 PM

As a welcome to Silverlight 4 Beta to the world and John Papa to the Channel 9, we put together a short video on the top features in Silverlight 4 Beta. The video is a summary of John’s whitepaper entitled What’s New in Silverlight 4 Beta. A document... Read More...

by Adam Kinney » Silverlight

Filed under: silverlight, Tutorials, Client Technologies, PDC09

Silverlight Developers Guide to PDC09
Friday, November 13, 2009 2:41 PM

The 2009 edition of the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference, affectionately known as PDC09, is next week. If you share my interest with Silverlight and related technologies, the list below should help provide some guidance to getting the most... Read More...

by Adam Kinney » Silverlight

Filed under: silverlight, events, Client Technologies, PDC09

A Photosynth of Neil Gaiman’s Library
Wednesday, November 04, 2009 1:52 AM

A well composed Photosynth can offer an interesting way to explore 3D space. Even better when the content is as interesting as the method of exploration. Above is a distorted view captured from the Neil Gaiman’s Library Photosynth which allows you to... Read More...

by Adam Kinney » Silverlight

Filed under: silverlight, Storytelling, Client Technologies, Photosynth

10 Expression Blend 3 Tutorials for Silverlight available for download
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 6:15 PM

The 10 tutorials from the Eyes of Blend series on Project Rosetta site are now available for download in both Word and PDF format. The .zip files also contain source code for the starter projects and resource files if appropriate. One thing that’s... Read More...

by Adam Kinney » Silverlight

Filed under: expression, silverlight, blend, Tutorials, Client Technologies, Project Rosetta

New Tutorial: Import an Adobe Photoshop File into Expression Blend
Friday, October 23, 2009 9:51 PM

While preparing my demos for the European ReMix Tour (photos), I realized that I was missing an important tutorial in the Through the Eyes of Expression Blend series. One of the great features added in Blend 3 was the ability to Import Adobe Photoshop... Read More...

by Adam Kinney » Silverlight

Filed under: expression, silverlight, blend, Client Technologies, Project Rosetta

An early look at the new Project Rosetta tutorial site
Monday, September 28, 2009 2:22 PM

One of the projects I’m working on this year is the revitalization of the Project Rosetta site. The goal of the site is to provide tutorials for designers and UI developers demonstrating how to use existing skills with new technologies. The first... Read More...

by Adam Kinney » Silverlight

Filed under: silverlight, blend, Tutorials, Flash, Client Technologies, Project Rosetta

How to Share Workspaces in Blend 3
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 3:15 PM

Let me start with a disclaimer that this is not a fully supported feature in Blend 3. This post describes how to share the workspaces manually and by bravely editing the config file. Proceed with care or not at all. Adjusting and customizing workspaces... Read More...

by Adam Kinney » Silverlight

Filed under: silverlight, blend, Tutorials, Workspaces, Client Technologies

Speaking on Designer/Developer workflow tools with Ryan Stewart on Oct 21
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 2:52 PM

Since its inception, the Seattle Interact group’s goal has been to talk about designer and developer integration topics without a specific technology bias. The experiment has been interesting, but this October we are putting the idea to a true test. Ryan... Read More...

by Adam Kinney » Silverlight

Filed under: silverlight, events, blend, Flash, Client Technologies, D2D, Catalyst