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A bunch of Expression/Silverlight Links

maholmes — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:03:42 GMT

I've got a bunch of 'ooh, that looks interesting' links in my reader from the past couple of months. So here they are:

Expression

Big list of example triggers, actions and behaviours for Blend 3 from Peter Blois
An 'explode' behaviour (also from Peter)
Loads of great Blend and Sketchflow stuff at Silverlight Buzz
Bill Reiss commenting on the impact that behaviours have for Silverlight game programming.
Awesome, awesome, awesome physics behaviours from Andy Beaulieu
And then Andy follows up with some "how to" on behaviours.
A 40-minute video from Jose on the power of states in Blend 3.
A game "star field" implementation.
Don Burnett talking about prototyping in Sketchflow.
Katrien's 3mins on Blend 3 series - great Sketchflow examples.
A tutorial on using Sketchflow Map.

Silverlight

Silverlight 3 Multi-touch: The Basics (from Tim - who still hasn't renamed his blog "Heueristics"...)
Animating when Data Changes - parts one and two from Josh Twist.
An out-of-browser install pattern (also from Tim).

Links cleared - hope they help.

MSDN Beginner Developer Center

maholmes — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:46:37 GMT

There are times when I feel like a beginner developer these days, but I suppose I'm not really: more of a lapsed pro (I use the term 'pro' fairly loosely: they used to pay me for it if that counts). Maybe I'm just 'lapsed'. Anyway, if you are a beginner, or you've got friends who want to know how to get started, then pointing them at MSDN might be a little intimidating.

Then I saw this 'Beginning Developer' center which has a bunch of guidance for beginners starting with web or client development. I'll certainly be using, er, passing it to friends for them to use.

Canvas for OneNote

maholmes — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:16:55 GMT

From @stevecla comes news of this excellent deep-zoom-y experience for OneNote called Canvas. It’s a bit like pptPlex for PowerPoint but in this case for exploring your various notebooks. If you’re a OneNote junkie like me, then it is definitely worth...(read more)

New Tech Releases

maholmes — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 08:09:03 GMT

Worth noting that you can now get your hands on the following: Beta 2 of Expression Blend - tons of bug fixes. Beta 1 of Expression Design - also tons of bug fixes. WPFE Feb CTP - you need this because your current CTP just time-bombed. (Go on, check)....(read more)