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PDC09 – Meet the Griffs Code drop
Thursday, November 19, 2009 1:58 PM

Ian and myself really enjoyed presenting our pre conference session “Getting the most out of Silverlight” and we both hope that you enjoyed the sessions. The slide decks will be posted at some point by the event team and I will update the post when this... Read More...

by xaml ninja

Filed under: Silverlight, Blend, MVVM, Ninject, PDC09

PDC09 Day 1 – Sketch Flow
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 11:45 AM

Live blogging… Last session for today – and it is SketchFlow prototyping with Christian Schormann. The session is good, with very nice demos. Chris talking about SketchFlow in a nutshell - dynamic, interactive prototypes. For modern UX the static mockups... Read More...

by DevCorner

Filed under: WPF, Silverlight, Blend, DEV, blend 3, PDC09, SDP, Sela

Expression Blend tutorial: Brushes, gradients, fills and strokes (webcast)
Tuesday, October 06, 2009 10:48 AM

This Expression Blend 3 tutorial introduces you to brushes and how to change the appearance of the specific object. You will learn how to use different types of brushes, and the special emphasis is given to gradient tools. How to create and modify gradients... Read More...

by UX Passion - Things about user experience, usability, IA, SEO, tutorials, blogging and Microsoft » silverlight

Filed under: WPF, Video, Silverlight, webcast, Blend, Design, Tutorial, Screencast, brushes, Expression Blend tutorials

Using contextual design time data with SketchFlow
Friday, October 02, 2009 6:15 AM

Design time data can be used to provide contextual data for your sketches and prototypes when demonstrating these ideas to your clients.  I want to highlight some of the areas that I am leveraging today that have helped to speed up the process of... Read More...

by xaml ninja

Filed under: XAML, Blend, SketchFlow

MVVM, design time data, and Blendability
Friday, October 02, 2009 4:44 AM

With the introduction of design time data support in Blend I thought that I would try and take advantage of using design time data and MVVM. For a while now I have been using Ninject, with a Service Locator Pattern to provide the ability to build WPF... Read More...

by xaml ninja

Filed under: WPF, XAML, Silverlight, Blend, MVVM, Ninject

The power of "States" in Blend 3
Thursday, August 06, 2009 5:39 AM

The "states" feature in Blend 3 has had some pretty significant enhancements made to it, so significant that I believe it will change the way you build your apps. I've recorded a 40 minute video of how I envision using states in the new Blend 3 / Silverlight... Read More...

by Jose Fajardo

Filed under: Blend

Silverlight 3 Drag Behavior
Thursday, July 30, 2009 1:35 PM

By now most Silverlight developers should have stumbled on a great new feature of Silverlight 3 and Expression Blends, custom Triggers and Behaviors. I seriously don’t know how I lived without them! In this blog post I am going to demonstrate a... Read More...

by Silverlight | WPF | Microsoft.Net

Filed under: Silverlight, Blend, Microsoft, Silverlight 3, System.Windows.Interactivity, Interaction.Behaviors

HOW TO: Getting started with Silverlight 3
Saturday, July 11, 2009 7:39 PM

Silverlight 3 is released. Once again, same questions appear: What tools and software do I need to start building Silverlight 3 solutions and experiences? Where to get all those tools and how to get started? In this short guide I am sharing with you all... Read More...

by UX Passion - Things about user experience, usability, IA, SEO, tutorials, blogging and Microsoft » silverlight

Filed under: Silverlight, Blend, Expression Blend, Silverlight 3, Silverlight / WPF tutorials, expression blend 3, blend 3, downloads, getting started

Blend 3 + Silverlight 3 = Luv (video demo)
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 11:36 PM

A couple of weeks ago I walked through a demo application to a small group of Silverlight enthusiasts in Sydney. I created this demo to demonstrate some of the really cool features arriving in Blend 3 and Silverlight 3. Unfortunately I didn’t have enough... Read More...

by Jose Fajardo

Filed under: Blend

"Follow the Cursor" Animation - lets do it with behaviors :)
Thursday, April 23, 2009 11:42 AM

Most day’s I spend lunch time looking at what animation interactions people are building. There’s one particular animation pattern that seems to be popular for pre-loaders and it’s what I’m happily calling “follow the cursor” pattern :) Basically while... Read More...

by Jose Fajardo

Filed under: Blend

A RIA’s background is vital to achieving that perfect UX
Monday, December 15, 2008 1:57 AM

One of the hardest things to get right when building out a RIA is designing the background. You can make or break the users experience by designing a bad background.. In my opinion this is a beautiful example of a well executed background. Posted in Blend... Read More...

by Online Advertising, Web Development & General Rantings

Filed under: Silverlight, Blend

Bind with Expression Blend: cannot create Instance Exception
Monday, August 11, 2008 1:40 AM

Databinding with XAML is a lot of work. There is no drag drop table wizard, don’t search for it. Expression Blend (2.5) have a little bit more automatic support for binding Objects. When Blend is in Design View there is under Project tab a Data tab. Step1... Read More...

by Hannes Preishuber : Silverlight

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, Blend

Live Messenger - Login Screen UI
Friday, March 28, 2008 12:41 AM

2 days ago I set myself 1 simple task, to build the UI for the Login screen of windows Live messenger! 1 day later I was done! Equipped with the knowledge gained from my control skinning adventures I set out on creating the UI as best I could pixel for... Read More...

by Online Advertising, Web Development & General Rantings

Filed under: Blend, Design

How to make a spiral xaml asset with Design
Monday, March 24, 2008 10:34 PM

This is going to be a simple post BUT I thought I’d share it because I have been racking my brain for so long trying to work out how to do something like this in pure xAML. This shows why design is just as important to the UX toolset as blend is... Read More...

by Online Advertising, Web Development & General Rantings

Filed under: Silverlight, Blend, Design, Technology

Showing off the power of Silverlight 2.0 - Windows Media Player redone
Monday, March 17, 2008 5:23 PM

A couple of months ago I recreated the Windows Media Player interface using Blend and Silverlight 1.1 alpha refresh, I wired up the UI so that it behaved similar to the actual application. It had a lot of code in the code behind that managed the resizing... Read More...

by Online Advertising, Web Development & General Rantings

Filed under: Silverlight, Blend, Technology, Blend Candy

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