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Accessibility is important to consider when designing applications. Not only do those with visual, physical, speech, cognitive, and neurological disabilities benefit from software that is accessible, but those without these disabilities benefit as well.
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Before I dive into the Silverlight 3 application themes, I would like to mention some research that my co-workers on the Visual Studio User Experience Team are doing focused on professional and non-professional web/application developers. The research
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Props to Colaab and SchoolMaster ; two nice looking Silverlight applications with very compelling functionality. Collab has been designed for people to upload, review, and collaborate on content in real time. I can imagine some great experiences this
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Mix 09' was amazing! There were so many great announcements and a wide variety of very interesting presentations. The two keynotes were exciting as well, and I particularly enjoyed the keynote on day 2 where Deborah Adler talked in depth about how she
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The first public release candidate for Silverlight 2 is available now, so please download it and start updating your applications as soon as you get a chance! You can download the release candidate and accompanying Visual Studio and Blend support for
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One thing that I forgot to mention about the Silverlight beta 2 rough skin is that it is very easy to customize now. At the top of the Page.xaml file in my sample project are several resources that can be used to quickly change the colors for all controls.
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I finished updating the rough skin to beta 2. If you would like to use this skin feel free to download and use my sample project using the link below, and you can view it live if you'd like too... Rough Skin View live... Download skin...
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All of the code for the sample application described in my previous post is updated and working in Silverlight 2 beta 2 now, and it is using live data services from various places on the web including MSN Video, Flickr, Digg, and Ebay. My passion is not
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RiaPalooza was a fun and engaging event that I had the opportunity to attend back in May of this year. It was focused on exploring and promoting the development of Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), and the best part for me was having the opportunity
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I finally had a bit of free time to update the bubbly skin to beta 2. If you would like to use this skin feel free to download and use my sample project using the link below, and you can view it live if you'd like too... Bubbly Skin View live... Download
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Silverlight 2 beta 2 was just released on June 6th with lots of new features and functionality (check out Scott Guthrie's blog for specific details). Control skinning has changed slightly since in beta 1, and I just finished updating my red and flat skins
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In early March, I did Scott Guthrie's Silverlight 2 Digg sample application walkthrough , and it was amazing to see how easy and with so few lines of code it was to put together such an application. The UI I generated in the walkthrough was very basic,
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As a user experience designer, the visual design of content I produce is an important consideration. Therefore, I had to create a new visual design for my blog because the default was a bit dull for my tastes, and I felt that it didn't represent me as
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One more set of control skins is up and ready for you to use. I had hoped to have two ready, but one set needed some additional tweaking work that I haven’t been able to finish while on vacation in Thailand, and I’m going to stop trying until I return
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This is a walkthrough of how to hook data up to both ListBox and Datagrid. In this walkthrough, we'll create a small collection to use as the data source. For this walkthrough, you'll need Visual Studio 2008, the new Microsoft Silverlight Tools Beta 1
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