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Posted Friday, July 10, 2009 7:15 PM by DanteG
Well, the link isn't QUITE active yet, but if you go to http://expression.microsoft.com/en-us/dd565875.aspx you will see the Overview information for Blend 3, and there's a link to download the Blend 3 RC. Now, at *THIS* particular moment, it doesn't Read More...
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The longevity of a console

Posted Wednesday, July 01, 2009 11:01 PM by DanteG
I am very passionate about Blend, there's no question there. But, I'm also a gamer... both board games and computer (PC/Console) games.I was having a conversation with a good friend yesterday, and the more I think about it, the more I just can't accept Read More...
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Working with Drawing Brushes

Posted Tuesday, June 30, 2009 6:01 PM by DanteG
Ok folks, I've got a few minutes, and I've been seeing some discussion on our internal lists about Drawing Brushes, how to use them, what they're good for, etc... Sounds like a good time for a Blog post. First off, what is a DrawingBrush? It's one of Read More...
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Cre8 and ZAAZ

Posted Wednesday, May 20, 2009 9:21 PM by DanteG
This is particularly overdue, but now that I've been featured on the Expression community site, I really need to get back to posting again :). Last month ago, I got the opportunity to present at the Cre8 summit in Orlando. I gave two presentations, one Read More...
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A Silverlight TextBlock with Tracking? Surely you jest!

Posted Friday, February 27, 2009 8:02 PM by DanteG
Well, I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted… although I’m going to be paying a LOT more attention to this moving forward. I’m hoping though that my first post back will be worth it. We’ve been talking a lot to designers about what they want, and Read More...
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Featured!

Posted Monday, March 03, 2008 4:35 PM by DanteG
Well, I just had it pointed out to me, that my blog is now listed on http://expression.microsoft.com . I'm actually pretty excited to see myself up there. It does, however, make me realize that I should spend a little time sprucing up the look of my blog. Read More...
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Moving objects around interactively

Posted Thursday, February 21, 2008 10:08 PM by DanteG
I was playing around with Blend today, and decided that I wanted to write a function to allow my user to drag the shapes around on my artboard. Granted, this could use a bit of polish, since there are some tweaks that would make it a bit better, but the Read More...
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MIX '08

Posted Wednesday, February 13, 2008 10:28 PM by DanteG
Well, it's official, I'm going to be presenting at the MIX convention! I'm really excited for this, although it's going to be busy for a little while. We need to do dry runs and such. The tentative title is "Unlocking the Creative Genome", but that title Read More...
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Getting the 'Vista' minimize with Windowless applications

Posted Wednesday, January 16, 2008 4:18 PM by DanteG
Here's the problem. Launch Blend, and create a window that has AllowsTransparency set to true (which sets the WindowStyle to None). Looks good, yes? Now, add a button, and in the Click handler, set the WindowState property to Minimized. Run the application Read More...
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Transparent Windows and how to Resize them

Posted Wednesday, November 21, 2007 7:44 PM by DanteG
A teammate came to talk to me, because he's working with a semi-transparent window, with no Border, and he wants to be able to resize it. Allowing a user to move, minimize, maximize and close it are easy, but how to resize? Well, this is actually pretty Read More...
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XBox 360 Live Gamertags in Blend!

Posted Thursday, October 25, 2007 10:23 PM by DanteG
The honorable Major Nelson just posted that someone created a Vista Gadget that will display the GamerTag information for your friends on XBox Live. Well, for those who don't know, if I'm not mistaken, Vista Gadgets are generally written in Silverlight Read More...
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Changing the selection color in a ListBox

Posted Monday, October 15, 2007 9:36 PM by DanteG
I just worked through figuring this out today, and since it was sufficiently irritating, I thought I'd post it here. Plus, I don't want all my 'loyal readers' to think I've disappeared :). Anyway, in the application I'm working on, I have a ListBox with Read More...
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Repeating an animation

Posted Friday, August 03, 2007 8:29 PM by DanteG
It may not be a huge revelation for other folks, but with some of the testing I've been doing, I really started getting frustrated with some stuff. Specifically, I've got a fairly complex animation, and I want it to repeat forever. However, setting the Read More...
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Variable Value Converters

Posted Friday, July 27, 2007 10:52 PM by DanteG
I've been asked how to create a Value Converter that you can configure the behavior of. In my Total Training series I showed you how to create a Value Converter that would return a color, Red if the value was below a hard coded value, Yellow if it's between Read More...
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One of the worst parts of my job...

Posted Friday, July 27, 2007 7:34 PM by DanteG
Is when I can't talk about something! By now, most folks should be downloading the August preview of Expression Blend 2, which I'm super excited to see finally getting out. (If you didn't already know... Get it HERE ) But, one of the features that I've Read More...
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