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Microsoft Expression offer in UK 40% off
11 May 09 09:28 PM
If you are a designer or developer that works with Microsoft technology (ASP.NET, Silverlight, etc) then this is a cracking offer from the guys over in the Microsoft Store – 40% off which means you can bag Expression Web (upgrade) for just under £60 for
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Expression UK Newsletter launches - and every issue includes a free gift....
01 December 08 08:21 PM
I love working on Expression stuff, it gives me the opportunity to work with inspirational designers and developers who care about user experience and design in software. The launch of the Expression UK newsletter is to let you know about all the great
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End to end WPF demo - Family.Show
30 April 07 04:05 PM
Vertigo Software have just shipped Family.Show (family history explorer - stuff that my Dad would dig really!), a complete end to end reference example of building an application using Windows Presentation Foundation The Source Code is available for download
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Workaround for Visual Studio 'Orcas' March CTP and Blend not playing together
29 March 07 01:00 PM
I've had a couple of email exchanges with customers who are playing with Visual Studio Orcas and Expression Blend and facing challenges with incomaptibilities. The problems arise when trying to open Blend created projects in Orcas and Blend not being
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Expression Blend tutorial videos
15 February 07 10:01 AM
Martin Grayson , a UX guru in the Microsoft Services part of our business has worked with a colleague in my group, Richard Godfrey to put together these excellent video tutorials of working with WPF (from a real world project perspective) and Expression
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WPF app - Yahoo Messenger looks amazing
09 January 07 09:48 AM
With Vista general availability under 3 weeks away, there are more and more companies jumping on the WPF and great user experience bus. Yahoo has just announced its new Messenger applicatin which takes advantage of the .NET Fx 3 and more importantly WPF
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So much to do, so little time...
22 November 06 10:28 PM
Well, all I seem to talk about these days is that I am going away on holiday for a granduoso 3 weeks to Australia (maybe I should meet up with other DPE folks like Frank or Dave). The countdown is on now with under 2 weeks til we fly off - can't wait.
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SWF to XAML converter released by Michael Swanson
21 November 06 08:23 PM
Michael Swanson has released a free converter to take SWF to XAML converter. "Finally! After months of tinkering around in my spare time, I've managed to assemble a relatively useful tool called SWF2XAML . The first version of this tool allows you to
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Getting design time rendering of ASP.NET Themes in Expression Web
22 September 06 12:22 PM
MikeO on my team asked me what was Expression Web's support for ASP.NET Themes - a great bit of functionality in ASP.NET 2.0 which allows developers to dictate the appearance of controls in a web application using template files with a .skin extension
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NextDesignNow - great resource for budding UX gurus like me!
23 July 06 08:46 PM
http://www.nextdesignnow.com/ David Shadle is a User eXperience Evangelist at Microsoft in Redmond and maintains a great set of resources for all the different presentation technologies. I have started to work my way through some of the links and there
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