Alan Gasperini's blog

Earlier this year, I gave a presentation about using Blend to create Silverlight applications at TechEd with another member of the Blend team, Unni Ravindranathan . You can see a video of the presentation here: http://www.msteched.com/2010/NorthAmerica...

Data binding is an extrememly cool avalon feature that lets you automatically populate UI with data. Value converters supply a generic way to adapt a model to the view without having to write custom code. For instance, it is fairly common to set visibility...

Focus scopes are a mechanism in avalon for allowing multiple elements to have focus simultaneously. A very common example of multiple focus can be seen in Word - say you want to change the font size of a selection of text. You select the text, then start...

Since this is my first blog entry, I'll introduce myself. I'm a developer at Microsoft working on Expression Interactive Designer . I'll be using this blog to talk about Expression, Microsoft, and software development in general. In other words, it will...