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Deep Zoom Composer Updated to Fix an Export Related Bug

Hi everyone, We have released an update to last week’s Deep Zoom Composer release to address a fairly serious bug related to the image paths we generate during export. You can download the latest version from the following location: Download Deep Zoom Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 30, 2009 3:29 PM by xprblog | 6 Comments
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The States Pane and WPF Controls

Last October I described how to use the States pane in a WPF project with Blend 2 Service Pack 1 . Things are even simpler with Expression Blend 3 so in this post I’ll remind you how to use the States pane with WPF controls. As you may know, when you Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 26, 2009 12:51 PM by xprblog | 1 Comments

Expression Blend 3 – Secrets of Working With Data

Evgeny is back with a great blog post describing some cool features related to the new Sample Data feature we introduced in Expression Blend 3. Visit his blog post to go read it: http://etvorun.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!6054141F335D00D3!130.entry Cheers! Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 23, 2009 3:48 PM by xprblog | 0 Comments

Caching and Deep Zoom Composer Downloads

Hi everyone, Some of you have let us know that the version of Deep Zoom Composer you downloaded yesterday is actually the version from a few weeks ago. The reason for this has to do with the delays in propagating the downloads across the various servers, Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 23, 2009 2:54 PM by xprblog | 4 Comments
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Deep Zoom Composer Released!

Hi everyone, To coincide with the official launch of Expression Studio 3 , we have released the first final version of Deep Zoom Composer as well. You can download it from the below location: Download Deep Zoom Composer As always, please uninstall all Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 22, 2009 9:12 PM by xprblog | 26 Comments

Expression Studio 3 LAUNCHED TODAY!

Today we announced the official launch of Expression® Studio 3 , a suite of professional design tools for creating Rich Internet Applications. This announcement comes shortly after the July 10th Silverlight 3 launch and the availability of the release Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 22, 2009 11:35 AM by xprblog | 5 Comments

A Look at Some Advanced Behaviors Features

Jeff Kelly is back with Part III of his behaviors coverage. This time, he focuses on the more advanced uses of Behaviors  - Kirupa In previous posts, I’ve touched on the basic pieces of the Behaviors API and some basic usages of them. In this post, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 15, 2009 4:14 PM by xprblog | 4 Comments

Deep Zoom Composer Updated – July 2009 / Release Candidate

Last week, to coincide with the release of Expression Blend + SketchFlow RC and Silverlight 3, we updated Deep Zoom Composer as well. You can download it from the link below: Download Deep Zoom Composer As always, please uninstall all existing versions Read More...
Posted Monday, July 13, 2009 3:39 PM by xprblog | 5 Comments

Overview of New Features in Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow: Part III

Hi everyone, Continuing the overview of all the new features we introduced in Expression Blend 3, this post wraps up our trilogy by looking at more features that fall under Workflow, Code Editing, and Extensibility. Of course, if you missed the earlier Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 12, 2009 4:35 PM by xprblog | 5 Comments

Overview of New Features in Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow: Part II

In the previous post , we starting glancing at the new features in Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow. In this post, let’s continue our overview of new features by looking at our Data, Silverlight, TFS Support, Animation, and Text improvements. General Data-Related Read More...
Posted Saturday, July 11, 2009 1:52 AM by xprblog | 2 Comments

Overview of New Features in Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow: Part 1

As you all have probably seen by now, we released the release candidate of Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow to coincide with the release of Silverlight 3 today. The previous post was just a short one letting you know about the release and where to download Read More...
Posted Friday, July 10, 2009 2:01 PM by xprblog | 1 Comments

Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow RC Released

Many of you have been waiting, but wait no more! The RC (Release Candidate) version of Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow is now available for you to download. Click on the below link to download it: Download Expression Blend 3 Preview This release builds Read More...
Posted Friday, July 10, 2009 11:10 AM by xprblog | 2 Comments

Resurrecting a Beloved Deep Zoom Composer Feature

In our latest release of Deep Zoom Composer, we removed a feature that all of you liked a lot. While I will detail this in the near future, I figure the following screenshots from a version of Deep Zoom Composer on my machine should give you an idea of Read More...
Posted Friday, July 10, 2009 12:19 AM by xprblog | 2 Comments

Deep Zoom Composer – Adding Links, Creating Menus, and Creating Slideshows

Hi everyone, As many of you may have noticed, our new release of Deep Zoom Composer contains a lot of new features. Unfortunately, due to time constraints, we did not have time to adequately update our documentation to explain how all of these new features Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 08, 2009 3:48 PM by xprblog | 0 Comments

Hatching Effect Shader for both Siverlight and WPF

Hi everyone, As you all may know, both Silverlight 3 and WPF 3.5 SP1 introduced support for effects and shaders. One of the features that I work on in Expression Blend is to make sure that you can use these custom effects easily. Beyond just writing the Read More...
Posted Monday, July 06, 2009 5:06 PM by xprblog | 1 Comments
 
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