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Creating a button is the “Hello World” example of learning Blend. In this tutorial, I’ll show to how to create a reusable glossy button with Expression Blend 3. The concepts I’ll be covering are: using gradient brush to create glossy effect turning graphics
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In just less than a week, TechDays will kick off in Vancouver. There are tons of activities happening around TechDays next week, and I’ll be doing a presentation on Expression Blend for Developers. I really enjoy demoing Expression Blend to developers
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The idea of creating rich interactivity without code should sound very appearing to designers, because we want to turn static UI into interactive prototypes and test out our design ideas quickly. In Blend 3, “Behaviors” are packaged, re-usable building
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As your project evolves from simple sketches to prototypes, you may want to add some real interactivity to it. There are two useful tools in Blend make this really easy: Sample Data and Behaviors. This tutorial will focus on Sample Data and how designers
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Bill Buxton talks about the difference between “Sketch” and “Prototype” in this his Sketching User Experiences . (see the summary below) I agree sketching is an important part of the design process, but often times it’s hard to share our paper and pen
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Two years and an half ago, when I first joined Microsoft, we were getting ready to release Expression Studio 1. Expression Blend is a key product in the studio and works closely with Visual Studio. It was a great first step to support designers with visual
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In the last Silverlight User Group meeting, someone asked me about Expression and Silverlight resources for designers. Here’s a list of resources that my friend Arturo Toledo at Expression marketing team provided. expression.microsoft.com – Expression
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This is the last Silverlight user group meeting of the year. Hope to see you all there! Time: 6:30PM, Tuesday December 2nd, 2008. Location : MSN Office Downtown Toronto, 222 Bay St. Toronto, ON Agenda : 6:30 – 7:30: Animations and Databinding in
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Earlier this week, we shipped the final release of Silverlight 2 ! This is an important milestone for us in terms of providing rich media and interactive experiences on the web. Scott Guthrie has a very comprehensive blog post on the improvements of Silverlight
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In the last Silverlight user group meeting, Mano and Chris gave everyone an overview on Expression Blend and demoed the workflow between designers and developers using the new toolset to create Silverlight applications. In the next user group meeting,
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Last Friday, we released both Silverlight 2 Beta 2 and Expression Blend 2.5 June Preview . This was a major milestone for us. Many features people were asking for in Silverlight and Expression Blend at last week's Silverlight User
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In my last mini-tutorial , I showed you how to publish Silverlight video experience to Silverlight streaming using Expression Encoder. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create your own video player template and reuse it on your blogs or websites.
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With the recent release of Visual Studio 2008 , the December Preview of Expression Blend 2 is available now to better integrate with VS2008 and support designers and developers working together. Also, just last week, the Expression Blend team released
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