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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 10:14 AM

Zune Clock 1.5

A new evening away from GTA and a new version of the application. This time, I've added some media player capabilities to the player. I know, it may sound a little bit odd... or at least it did to me when somebody suggested me this on the forums. But
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Friday, May 09, 2008 2:17 AM

Zune Clock - My first XNA application

Zune Clock 1.1 Encouraged by the positive feedback I've received so far, I did my best to stay away from GTAIV during the weekend and did some more work on the Zune Clock. So, I've added a new feature: the the ability to customize the background. What's
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Friday, July 27, 2007 7:12 PM

How to detect if your code is being executed inside Expression Blend

Introduction In order to provide an editing experience as close as possible to the runtime, Expression Blend executes some of the user defined code (it instantiates controls, data sources, sets properties, etc.). But in some cases, you may want to avoid
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007 9:42 AM

Expression Blend Beta 2 is available for download

The new version can be donloaded from here . Here are some of the changes: Drag & drop to instantiate resources from the resources panel Better exception handling in the user code Better exception displayed in the scene: now you can investigate the
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Monday, December 04, 2006 7:35 PM

Expression Blend goes Beta!

And it's coming with lots of new features, a completely new UI, and... a new name (previously it was known as Expression Interactive Designer)! You may find more details on the Expression Team Blog . But wait, there is more! A new CTP of Expression Design
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006 10:42 AM

Check out Snoop - a very useful tool for debugging WPF applications

Some time ago, Peter Blois posted "Snoop", a tool which I find really useful for debugging WPF applications. It allows you to: Browse the visual tree of running WPF applications Inspect properties of elements at runtime Edit properties of elements at
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Friday, June 02, 2006 9:07 PM

Meet Funny Face and Mad Cow

Today I played a little bit more with Expression Graphic Designer ... It was the first time when I used it more seriously for drawing things (I had used it before, but mainly for adjusting and stitching photos). So, this is what I managed to draw in about
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Sunday, March 12, 2006 1:21 AM

Check out Onfolio - the new addition to the Windows Live Toolbar

The new Windows Live Toolbar includes, for free, Onfolio , which is a very nice and useful feeds reader. The features I like the most Easy to add and organize feeds (there is a button on the toolbar to search for a feed in the current page) Easy and fast
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Friday, March 10, 2006 1:10 AM

How to use a custom ValueConverter in Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer

One of the new databinding features in the March CTP of Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer is the ability to handle value converters. This article will explain how to databind 2 TextBox controls using a custom value converter which reverts the
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Friday, March 10, 2006 1:05 AM

The March CTP of Expression Interactive Designer is available for download

Your wait is over! The March CTP version of Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer is available for download. The download instructions are available on the Expression Blog here .
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Tuesday, March 07, 2006 12:15 AM

Displaying a graph using databinding and styles

This example shows how databinding and styles can be used for displaying a set of connected nodes. To better illustrate this, I've added some basic interactivity: the nodes can be dragged using the mouse and databinding will update automatically the positions
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Attachment(s): SimpleGraph.zip
Thursday, February 23, 2006 2:20 AM

The new WinFX Runtime Components (February CTP) is available for download

The February CTP of the WinFX Runtime Compoments is available for download. Note: The current version of Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer doesn't support the new version of the WinFX runtime. For more details click here .
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Thursday, February 23, 2006 2:17 AM

Top Ten UI Development Breakthroughs In Windows Presentation Foundation

Here is an interesting article presenting some of the cool WinFx features: Top Ten UI Development Breakthroughs In Windows Presentation Foundation
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Thursday, February 16, 2006 2:11 AM

Creating a simple style with one trigger

This article describes how to create a simple style with one trigger in Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer . We will create a blue rectangle which becomes red when the mouse is over it. Step 1 - Create a rectangle Draw a rectangle using the " Rectangle
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Wednesday, February 15, 2006 10:37 AM

Creating a simple master details list

This article describes how to create a master details list using Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer (and guess what: no code needed!). We are going to use databinding to achieve this. The data-source We will use a simple xml, containing the list
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Attachment(s): products.xml
 
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