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25 January 2009
I hate it when a designer touches XAML..

I’ve meet with a few die-hard Silverlight developers in my time and some feedback I get at times is how designers produce bad XAML. “..I hate it when a designer touches XAML..” – oh? why? My first thought was, “bad XAML?” how on earth can a designer produce Read More...

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Filed under: Silverlight, Design, Expression Studio

 

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#

 

25 March 2008
Learning Maya and the side lessons i've learnt.

I shopped around a lot in the past 5 months as I've wanted to get back into 3D modelling for quite some time. Given my day to day life is Microsoft, I needed a non-Microsoft hobby - mainly to keep me partially sane. I began to research what software out Read More...

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Filed under: Silverlight, WPF, XAML, Design

 

04 February 2008
Meet "Dax", my idea for a mascot (not official).

I like both the "blue monster campaign" and SIlverlight and given I'm dabbling around in 3D at the moment, I decided to play around with the idea of combining the two. Note : This is not the official mascot for Silverlight, instead it's simply me mucking Read More...

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Filed under: Silverlight, Flash, RIA, Comic, Design