Silverlight Design Day Registration Open for Boston

The registration links for the Silverlight Design Day event in Boston is now available. May 14 – Boston, MA, US

Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow RTW

Congratulations to the Microsoft Expression teams for another great release ! If you are an MSDN Premium subscriber, you’ll probably want to wait a week or so until Expression Studio 3 show up on MSDN. That will take about a week or so. The exciting news buried in that sentence is that MSDN Premium Subscribers will get all of Expression Studio 3 (including SketchFlow) as part of their subscription . You can download and install the trial now if you wish, but you’ll need to uninstall once you get the MSDN version.

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Expression Blend 3 released!

On July 10th Scott Guthrie and Soma launched Expression Blend 3 and and SketchFlow, and today, the full version of Expression Blend 3 including SketchFlow was released. You can check out the Expression Web site , and don’t forget to download the 60 day…( read more )

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SketchFlow: A Bit of History

SketchFlow, the dynamic prototyping toolset for Expression Blend, has now officially graduated! You can get a trial here. As I always love to see how people, ideas or products evolve, I thought you might enjoy a quick look into the past of SketchFlow…( read more )

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Physics Behaviors for Silverlight 3!

Today I released an initial version of “ Physics Helper 3 ” to Codeplex. This includes a collection of new Behaviors for Expression Blend which makes it very quick to create physics games and simulations in Silverlight using the Farseer Physics Engine . This release requires Silverlight 3 and Expression Blend 3, which you can get here . DOWNLOAD PHYSICS HELPER 3 Demos There are four new demos using Behaviors, plus the original demos depending on the older User Control model. Note that version 3 still supports the User Control model, but I would recommend checking out the new Behaviors model as there is nice design time support in Blend. VIEW ALL DEMOS Falling Astronaut Rag Doll Truck w/Camera Flying Astronaut Getting Started Videos I have a couple of quick (10 min) screen casts which show how to use the new Physics Behaviors: VIDEO ON “THE BASICS”: VIEW | DOWNLOAD VIDEO ON “JOINTS + PROGRAMMING”: VIEW | DOWNLOAD Enhancing Behaviors with Code Behaviors are great, but I can’t imagine creating a full game using only canned behaviors

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Styling a TreeView in Silverlight and Blend 3

Introduction Today I would like to show you how to style a TreeView control in Silverlight using Expression Blend 3. The TreeView is a control to visualize hierarchical data structures. The TreeView control isn’t part of the standard Silverlight 2 or 3 download, but can be downloaded from http://www.codeplex.com/silverlight . The TreeView control is available in WPF natively and styling is only a small bit different than in Silverlight. I try to explain one way of doing this and there are oth

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Principles of Design Series: Learning about Symmetry and Asymmetry using Expression Design

This Principles of Design Series video describes Symmetry and Asymmetry, two styles of composition you can use in your user interface design. Watch this video to learn more about these concepts while exploring Expression Design. There are 13 videos in…( read more )

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Silverlight 3 Made Easy with Expression Blend

When developing Silverlight applications in Visual Studio, writing XAML by hand is error prone and somewhat difficult. That’s where Expression Blend comes in to make the task significantly easier….

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Windows Mobile 7 User Interface to be built from Silverlight

UXEvangalist , who keeps their ear very close to the ground, has stumbled across a resume of a industrial designer working in the Windows Mobile team. Her resume says: Windows Mobile UX Created designs for Windows Mobile 7 controls (UI still in progress) Created XAML layouts for controls and dialogs (Silverlight created in Expression Blend) While we have known for a while that Silverlight will be available to developers for creating user interfaces, this is the first confirmat

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Behaviors in Expression Blend 3

One of the really fun and productive things coming to Expression Blend 3 and Silverlight 3 is the concept of Behaviors .   In a nutshell, you will be able to drag/drop a Behavior in Blend 3 onto a UI Element on the design surface, and that will automatically inject runtime logic into that element. Behaviors aren’t a new concept, and there is even an equivalent in the ASP.NET AJAX world if you’ve played with creating custom controls in that universe. Physics Behaviors! One of the most fun examples I’ve seen using Behaviors was done by Pete Blois, a Program Manager on the Expression team at Microsoft. Pete and another developer created some Physics Behaviors which very closely mirror the Physics Helper Library I created for the Farseer Physics Engine . I first saw Pete demo the Physics Behaviors at the MVP Summit a few weeks ago, and my jaw dropped at the similarities! Pete & Co.’s Physics Behaviors use the Box2D Physics Engine . Getting Started with Behaviors If you’re playing with Silverlight 3 and Blend 3, why wait? You can play with Behaviors today! Note this is all Beta level stuff, so be prepared for some hiccups along the way Pete’s MIX Session – Pete Blois gave a great overview of Behaviors in this MIX 09 session. Using Behaviors – A quick Walkthrough by Kirupa on how to use behaviors! Pay special attention to where you find the assembly Microsoft.Expression.Interactivity.dll - you’ll need that for the next link. MIX Behavior Pack – this contains the Physics Behaviors, as well as a bunch of others. Creating New Behaviors It turns out it’s pretty easy to create your own behaviors, and I’ll be covering this in a later blog post. But if you can’t wait, just download the MIX Behavior Pack and have a look at the Behaviors, all of their source code is included!    

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