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February 2006 - Posts

Where can I go to learn about WPF?

Tim Sneath, a technical evangelist for Windows Vista, is often asked, "Where can I go to learn about WPF?" He enumerates some great resources to answer that question in his blog post [1]. [1] http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2006/02/16/533301.aspx Read More...
Posted Monday, February 27, 2006 8:30 AM by xprblog | 0 Comments

Designers and developers are essentially doing the same thing...

...they're solving business problems. In their latest Channel 9 video [1], Kevin Moore and Robert Ingebretsen talk about how Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) affords the beauty and visual flexibility of the Web but with the richness of the Windows Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 26, 2006 11:02 PM by xprblog | 0 Comments

How do I choose between ASP.NET, Atlas, Windows Forms and WPF?

In his blog post [1], Tim Sneath answers the following questions about considering when and where to use the most appropriate presentation layer technology: How do Windows Presentation Foundation, XAML and ASP.NET fit together? I've heard you can build Read More...
Posted Friday, February 24, 2006 8:34 AM by xprblog | 0 Comments

Top Ten UI Development Breakthroughs In Windows Presentation Foundation

Ian Griffiths and Chris Sells (the authors of Programming Windows Presentation Foundation [1]) have published an excellent MSDN Magazine article called Top Ten UI Development Breakthroughs In Windows Presentation Foundation [2]. Well worth a read. [1] Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 23, 2006 12:29 PM by xprblog | 0 Comments

The WinFX Runtime Components February CTP has been published!

But if you want to continue to use the January CTP of EID then please read this post before rushing off and installing anything. As you know, the WinFX Runtime Components (RTC) are the redistributables (runtime binaries) needed for executing WinFX applications. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 22, 2006 10:32 AM by xprblog | 12 Comments

Team posts on Styles and Templates

Check out a couple of personal blog postings from some members of the Expression team. Adrian Vinca [1] explains how to create a simple Style which has a Trigger [2]. Mario Guzzi [3] explains how using Expression Interactive Designer makes things like Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 21, 2006 3:05 PM by xprblog | 0 Comments

How to create Aqua Gel Buttons

Valentin Iliescu [1] deserves another mention for his tutorial on creating aqua gel buttons [2]. [1] http://www.valil.com [2] http://spaces.msn.com/viliescu/blog/cns!A7CD34FAB0459777!252.entry Read More...
Posted Monday, February 20, 2006 10:27 PM by xprblog | 1 Comments

XAML namespace changes for the upcoming February CTP of WPF

Rob Relyea 's [1] blog is worth knowing about if you're interested in Windows Presentation Foundation (and if you're into Expression Interactive Designer then you're interested in WPF!). Rob has blogged about the upcoming XAML namespace changes in the Read More...
Posted Friday, February 17, 2006 4:23 PM by xprblog | 0 Comments

Valentin Iliescu's Portal UI XBAP

Valentin Iliescu has developed a XAML Browser Application with a portal interface [1] (similar to Windows Live Beta [2]). Try out moving the panels around or expanding/collapsing them. The application is compatible with the January CTP of the Windows Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 16, 2006 12:20 PM by xprblog | 0 Comments

Pavan Podila's quicksort animation in WPF

We'd like to share a link to Pavan Podila's QuickSort animation in WPF [1] sample application. Pavan says: "The idea of creating a QuickSort animation struck me when I was explaining this algorithm to someone at UH. I thought it would be cool to animate Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 15, 2006 8:24 PM by xprblog | 2 Comments

Saturday Afternoon Fever with Expression Graphic Designer

On his blog, Claudio Castelli [1] has published some artwork which he created with Expression Graphic Designer [2]. The piece we'd like to spotlight is called La febbre del Sabato Pomeriggio (Saturday Afternoon Fever) [3]. It is, in Claudio's own words, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 14, 2006 2:11 PM by xprblog | 1 Comments

Designing FreeCell using Expression and Visual Studio Toolsets

Unni Ravindranathan [1], Program Manager on Expression Interactive Designer, has an article published on Coding4Fun [2] called Designing FreeCell using Expression and Visual Studio Toolsets [3]. In the article Unni tells how he re-created the game FreeCell Read More...
Posted Monday, February 13, 2006 12:30 PM by xprblog | 1 Comments

A small 3D tutorial

Lingesh Palaniappan [1], a Software Design Engineer in Test in the Expression Interactive Designer team, has published a small 3D tutorial [2] on his blog. In the tutorial, Lingesh walks through creating a sample 3D project in Expression Interactive Designer. Read More...
Posted Friday, February 10, 2006 7:01 PM by xprblog | 0 Comments

Binding to data which loads in the background

This is to announce that Karsten has a blog post (authored by Andrew Whiddet) on the subject of asynchronous data binding [1]. It's likely to be of interest to you if you're a software developer or you're a designer with a developer sensibility. It's Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 09, 2006 7:14 PM by xprblog | 2 Comments

AdventureWorks Product Photos - a new EID tutorial

We have published a new Expression Interactive Designer tutorial targeting the January 2006 CTP. It's called AdventureWorks Product Photos [1]. Here's the overview: In this tutorial, you will process an ADO.NET DataTable into an ObservableCollection ready Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 08, 2006 3:47 PM by stevewhitepsfd | 2 Comments

Americo's tutorials about 3D in WPF

Americo Damasceno has built some demonstration applications showing 3D virtual worlds in a fun and colorful building-brick style. He's also published tutorials [1] showing how he build the applications and you can download and run them directly from his Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 07, 2006 2:18 PM by xprblog | 0 Comments

Imagine Cup Competition 2006

You'll be interested in this if you (or someone you know) currently attend school/college/university, are 16 years or over, like to imagine, would be keen to earn a few thousand dollars in prize money and a free trip across the world to see the Taj Mahal, Read More...
Posted Monday, February 06, 2006 6:14 PM by xprblog | 2 Comments

ImageButtons - a new EID tutorial

We have published a new Expression Interactive Designer tutorial targeting the January 2006 CTP. It's called ImageButtons [1]. Here's the overview: Because Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is based on the .NET Framework, you can customize the functionality Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 05, 2006 9:52 PM by xprblog | 6 Comments

Electric Rain news

Here are some links to news and samples from Electric Rain. Electric Rain RainStorm Newsletter Jan/Feb 2006 [1] RAZR Flip-Phone 3D Product Visualization Concept Application (please visit http://www.erain.com/products/zam3d/examples to see previews of Read More...
Posted Friday, February 03, 2006 12:06 AM by xprblog | 5 Comments

Correctly parenting new and existing elements in EID

In a previous post [1] we talked about creating a new element by double-clicking in the Library palette ( View > Library ), and how to indicate the new element's intended parent. The other way to create a new element is to select the element type in Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 01, 2006 5:27 PM by xprblog | 0 Comments

Inside Amir's and Peter's Flickr Browser sample - Part 2

The mechanics of the custom classes which provide smarts to the Flickr Browser sample were described in the previous part of this post [1]. Building on that, this post will show how the classes were used in the main Flicker Browser sample [2] application. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 01, 2006 12:16 AM by xprblog | 3 Comments
 
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