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RIA jobs market trends: Silverlight vs Flex vs JavaFX
Thursday, September 17, 2009 2:05 PM

Several days ago I've received message with link to the InsideRIA. Mike Slinn of the InsideRIA has posted interesting article about job trends regarding Silverlight, Flex and JavaFX. If you go to the Indeed webpage and search for these keywords, you might... Read More...

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

Filed under: Silverlight, Flash, RIA, Microsoft, Expression / Silverlight / WPF, javafx, flex

WPF ribbon control roadmap and look into the future
Wednesday, August 19, 2009 2:24 PM

It is not a secret that Microsoft is developing its own WPF ribbon control. By default it will support Office 2007 (Fluent) user interface style and newer, Scenic Ribbon for Windows 7. I’ve blogged about this and now let’s take a look at changes planned... Read More...

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

Filed under: WPF, Expression / Silverlight / WPF, wpf ribbon, free wpf, how to, adding ribbon to wpf application, ribbon, roadmap

New Microsoft Expression 3 logos, large icons and branding
Tuesday, July 28, 2009 5:16 AM

Expression Studio 3 and all tools (Blend 3, Web 3, Design 3 and Encoder 3) now have new logos, large, beautiful icons and visual identity – in one word – branding. Take a look at the collection of new logotypes, brand new icons and other branding elements... Read More...

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

Filed under: Expression Design, Expression Blend, Expression Encoder, Expression Web, expression blend 3, blend 3, Expression / Silverlight / WPF, expression stuido, encoder 3, expression encoder 3, design 3, web 3, expression design 3, expression studio 3, logo, expression web 3, icons

Expression Studio 3 overview: Expression Blend 3, Design, Web and Encoder overview
Wednesday, July 22, 2009 2:30 PM

Expression Studio 3 now including Expression Blend 3, Web 3, Design 3 and Encoder 3 is available as of today for download. Number of improvements, targeting Silverlight 3 and rich designer experience are just some of the coolest additions. SketchFlow... Read More...

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

Filed under: Expression Design, Expression Blend, Expression Encoder, SketchFlow, Expression Web, expression blend 3, Expression / Silverlight / WPF, Featured Articles, blend features, expression stuido, encoder 3, expression encoder 3, design 3, web 3, expression design 3, expression studio 3, expression web 3, overview, new features

Silverlight 3 released, Blend 3 + SketchFlow available as release candidates
Friday, July 10, 2009 8:48 AM

Silverlight 3 has been just released by Microsoft. This release brings in bunch of new features and support for out of browser experience. Also, Expression Blend 3 with SketchFlow is now available for download as a release candidate. In this article I... Read More...

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

Filed under: WPF, Silverlight, RIA, Silverlight 3, expression blend 3, Expression / Silverlight / WPF, Featured Articles, silverlight features

Cool facts about Silverlight penetration / market share
Tuesday, June 09, 2009 3:43 PM

Recently there has been an interesting discussion about Silverlight penetration and market share. As always, people tend to connect Flash and Silverlight and use the market share as a single most important metrics - but here, I'm sharing some really cool... Read More...

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

Filed under: Silverlight, RIA, Expression / Silverlight / WPF, penetration, market share

Silverlight 3 beta – list of new features
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 12:00 PM

Silverlight 3 beta and Expression Blend 3 beta have been released today at MIX 09 conference and I am bringing you overview of new features that make Silverlight 3 best RIA platform available - IMHO. H.264 support, GPU acceleration, 3D – these are just... Read More...

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

Filed under: Silverlight, RIA, Silverlight 3, expression blend 3, Expression / Silverlight / WPF, silverlight features

Silverlight adoption rate will accelerate during the global economic crisis and recession
Saturday, January 31, 2009 3:13 PM

Silverlight has been launched in October 2008 and since it has gained impressive ground. While some keep arguing that Silverlight is immature and predict slowdown or even darker destiny to Silverlight, there are many reasons to think just the opposite... Read More...

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

Filed under: Silverlight, RIA, Microsoft, Expression / Silverlight / WPF, adoption rate, global crisis and recession

Seadragon AJAX – DeepZoom without Microsoft Silverlight
Wednesday, November 26, 2008 5:51 PM

I am pretty much sure you know what is DeepZoom and that it requires Silverlight as a platform. But what if you don’t use Silverlight and still want to have coolness of DeepZoom? Meet Seadragon AJAX – written in JavaScript it enables you to... Read More...

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

Filed under: Silverlight, AJAX, Deepzoom, Expression / Silverlight / WPF, seadragon ajax

List of new and improved features in Silverlight 3
Friday, November 21, 2008 11:47 AM

With Silverlight 2 released and already being installed on about 25% computers, we all look to new Silverlight 3. What we can expect from new Silverlight 3? What are new features in Silverlight 3 and why is this great time for you to start learning and... Read More...

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

Filed under: WPF, Silverlight, RIA, Microsoft, Silverlight 3, Expression / Silverlight / WPF

Silverlight 2 Release Candidate 0 and Expression Blend 2.0 Service Pack 1 Preview
Saturday, September 27, 2008 4:22 PM

Microsoft has just released Silverlight 2.0 Release Candidate and set of tools and technologies to ease development with Silverlight 2.0. Expression Blend 2.5 seems to be obsolete since Blend 2 now supports development for Silverlight 2. Here is list... Read More...

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

Filed under: Silverlight, Visual Studio, Expression Blend, Microsoft, Expression / Silverlight / WPF

Project Rosetta – Migrating from Flash to Silverlight
Saturday, September 06, 2008 5:57 AM

You have previous knowledge of working with Flash. You have heard about Silverlight. Now you want to use your previous knowledge and explore what Silverlight offers you. That’s just plain cool because here is Project Rosetta to help you out with... Read More...

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

Filed under: Silverlight, Flash, RIA, Microsoft, Expression / Silverlight / WPF, migration

MSN Toolbar (powered by Silverlight), good UX?
Thursday, August 14, 2008 9:41 PM

We all (mostly) hate toolbars. They are ugly, they take lot of space and they don’t look compelling and functionality they bringing in are easily described as crapware. When I say they are ugly – I mean that – grayish, with Windows 9x... Read More...

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

Filed under: Silverlight, Windows Live, UX, Microsoft, Expression / Silverlight / WPF, msn, toolbar, msn toolbar