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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#

 

13 August 2007
RIA, building your control framework.

Silverlight 1.0 is around the corner, and it won't have controls assigned to it upon official release. Yet, this is something very important to the success of Silverlight going forward, as without a control framework there is really no point right? This Read More...

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Filed under: Silverlight, Expression Blend, RIA, Expression Design, RIA Producer, Skinning, Control Framework, RIA Handbook

 

03 August 2007
RIA is a belief, Silverlight is the execution.

I interact a lot around discussions in the Rich Interactive/Internet Application (RIA) space. I read as much as I can on it and keep tabs on what I find interesting around theories associated to RIA. I also engage folks whom never have even heard the Read More...

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Filed under: Silverlight, Flash, WPF, AJAX, Expression Blend, XAML, DHTML, Expression Design, Visual Studio 2008

 

08 June 2007
Some minor Silverlight assumptions/queries.

It's been an interesting couple of days for me, as I've meet some developers in both business meeting setting and via social setting (aka WebJam ). In my chats with these developers, they all seem very keen to learn more about Silverlight but have hesitations Read More...

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Filed under: Silverlight, Flash, Visual Studio 2005, AJAX, ASP.NET, Expression Blend, RIA, JavaScript, XAML, DHTML, Expression Design