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30 June 2008
Silverlight: VisualState Manager, Storyboards and why designers should care about them both.

I've seen a lot of talk around VisualState Manager online and it mostly covers button states and so on. What I want to do here in this post is illustrate why VisualState Manager is a handy tool for the average interactive designer out there and how it Read More...

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Filed under: Silverlight, Expression Blend, RIA Handbook, Animation, Design

 

29 June 2008
Silverlight Experiment: Create a PullDown Menu using Storyboards.

This is a basic example of how to create a "PullDown Menu" using Silverlight and Expression Blend. The Objectives The GUI will have a PullDown Menu (UserControl) under the main outer chrome. It's intended that when a user clicks on the "MainMenu" Read More...

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Filed under: Silverlight, WPF, Expression Blend, XAML, Visual Studio 2008, Art, RIA Handbook, Animation, Design, Frameworks, Nexus, C#

 

15 November 2007
POC #1 - Project Harmony (pt1) (Silverlight & Flash)

I've been enjoying the overall experience of what Silverlight has to offer since I started with Microsoft back in January 07. That being said, I've often been an internal "goto" person at times for some Flash advice on behalf of Microsoft customers Read More...

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Filed under: Silverlight, Flash, Adobe, AJAX, Mashup, RIA, Microsoft, Going Flex to Silverlight, UXE, RIA Producer, Art, Skinning, RIA Handbook, Animation, Rich Internet Application, Rich Interactive Application, POC

 

23 October 2007
Silverlight: Keep it simple stupid.

A while back I posted about how I used our AJAX Control Toolkit to animate with Silverlight . I stated that the end reason for this approach was simply due to lack of animation capabilities within Silverlight 1.0. Michael Scherotter being the brilliant Read More...

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Filed under: Silverlight, Animation

 

03 October 2007
How To: Using AjaxControlToolkit to animate Silverlight.

In my Silverlight travels, I was thinking on how one is able to animate a "PullDown" menu, in that it comes down and then goes back up upon triggered events. Approach A. I decided to approach this using simplistic rules, where I'd create two Read More...

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Filed under: Silverlight, AJAX, ASP.NET, JavaScript, Animation

 

05 September 2007
Adobe vs Microsoft, the comic.

I'm always amused online when I see the usual Adobe vs Microsoft rant, it always ends up in someone fighting with the author or rogue commenter's shooting shots from the side, echoing the same points. There is hope though in this battle royale, as you Read More...

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Filed under: Adobe, Microsoft, Web On The Piste, Nectarine, Animation