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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.

Multi-Touch Surface with Physics Engine

maholmes — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:14:58 GMT

Fresh up on the YouTube Channel is this awesome piece of work from the guys in the Microsoft Technology Centre . I’ve talked about the value the MTC for a business before . This particular work was by Dave and Andy who are some of the smartest guys I...(read more)

Silverlight vFuture to support H.264 and AAC

maholmes — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:53:42 GMT

Given I work in the media space, I should probably be among the first to blog about such things, but of course I never am. This is some of the big news for IBC . This is a pretty big deal though and represents choice for anyone utilising Silverlight,...(read more)

Linerider in Silverlight

maholmes — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:47:50 GMT

Linerider has been moved to Silverlight . Very cool, and a nice integration with Messenger and the Contacts API. It’s a winner, casual gaming fans!...(read more)

It’s what your DeepZoom was made for…

maholmes — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:12:47 GMT

Great DeepZoom example – a Barack Obama collage made from 12,000 thumbnails from his supporters . I wonder if they could rustle up enough photos to do one of Gordon Brown? (Note: cheap jibe, rather than some description of my political bias.)...(read more)