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Following on from my post about the Expression family , I said I’d follow up with some more details on Expression Design. Someone commented on my other post that Expression Design is “too basic” and I suppose for many people that will be a fair criticism.
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Blend, Encoder, Web, Design, Media, Studio – it’s easy to get confused by the plethora of Expression family products but given we’re nearing another release I thought it might be worth a few posts to try and to try and simplify things as well as provide
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Rich Client Sample Sites http://www.thirteen23.com/experiences/desktop/blu/ (Desktop Twitter Client – it’s been renamed from Chirp to Blu) http://www.photosuru.com/ (Desktop Photo browsing / sharing application) http://www.mscui.net/PatientJourneyDemonstrator/
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Thanks to everyone who turned up for a very busy event today at Cardinal Place. The slides are now available on SlideShare and the originals will be on the MSDN Events Website in a few days. Catching up on Rich Clients Part 1 of 2 View more presentations
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I’m a huge sceptic when it comes to code competitions – perhaps Terrarium has left a permanent impression on me – I think they tend to promise much yet offer little. It’s an easy answer to a difficult problem. The barrier to entry is usually too high
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I’m afraid my screen clipping doesn’t really do it justice but it’s easily the best looking Twitter client I’ve seen. Things I like: It’s WPF It’s ClickOnce Lovely UI design Infinite tweet scroll Nice transitions Very intuitive Things
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My screencasts for Creating 3D Models for WPF have started to appear on Channel9. You can find Part 1 and Part 2 there already. Technorati Tags: wpf , 3d , blender , blend , screencast , channel9
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I’ve had an opportunity recently to play around with WPF’s 3D capabilities to try and recreate part of the Tesco product viewer demo at PDC08 . Of course one of the first hurdles is actually having some sort of 3D model to play with (once you get bored
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That's right, there's a 40% discount available for the first 200 registrations using RSVP code MIXspecial1 . Simply visit the registration page , click on "Register for the event using an RSVP Code" and, well you can figure out the rest... Even
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I wanted to display the list of search terms at the top of my Twitfeed Silverlight app (see below) and highlight the current search term. The obvious way to do this is to databind a ListBox to the search terms collection. I ran into a few things I needed
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Thursday, February 26, 2009 1:00 PM to 4:30 PM MSDN: Catch Up with Microsoft Rich Client Technologies for 2008 This event is free to attend but you must register at http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032397778&Culture=en-GB
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When I threw together Twitfeed one of the things I wanted to do was to have the "swatches" scale appropriately so if there were only a few words in a particular tweet it wouldn't look too lost. The Viewbox (currently in preview as part of the Silverlight
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM MSDN: Catch Up with Microsoft Rich Client Technologies for 2008 Registration is required for this event. In this half-day session we’ll do a refresh of the technologies that we can use to build rich,
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No keynote today so straight into the breakout action... TL36 Microsoft .NET Framework: Declarative Programming Using XAML Meant to be a very good session on what you'll be able to do direct from XAML in the future PC49 Microsoft .NET Framework: CLR Futures
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PDC's just out of the way and it's already time to start thinking about MIX. I saw this logo on the website and thought we were going to be expected to run a 10K in the desert. Fortunately it's 10K of storage and a challenge to do as much as you can with
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