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January 2006 - Posts

"Panel-like" system

Someone asked me how to implement a “panel-like” system using Expression / WPF. This led me to do a small take on Expression Interactive Designer itself J . Though the panel system presented here is only 1/100 th as complex as our real Palette management Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 31, 2006 1:33 PM by unnir | 21 Comments

Designing FreeCell using the Expression/VS toolsets

Many people asked me share an article describing my experiences in trying to create an Application using Expression and VS. You can read that article here . Read More...
Posted Monday, January 30, 2006 4:21 PM by unnir | 1 Comments

XBox 360 Rocks!

Though I am still disappointed that I could not get my own 360 (each time one was in town, I was out!), I got to check out a few games on my friend's console, and they were just awesome. So here is my little Interactive Designer thanks to the 360 teams Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 25, 2006 11:57 AM by unnir | 16 Comments

FreeCell done using Expression tools

During one of our past bug-bashes, I worked on the very popular (but simple) FreeCell game. One of the cool things I like about WPF is the ability to keep the business logic separate from the user interface - the biggest benefit is you can pull out Expression, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 24, 2006 4:25 PM by unnir | 9 Comments

Try Expression Interactive Designer today!

Our first public CTP is now available: please visit http://www.microsoft.com/expression . -Unni Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 24, 2006 10:22 AM by unnir | 0 Comments

Throbbing Items Control

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) provides a bunch of controls that are “data aware” – you can simply bind them against any data source – Xml, CLR class, etc. I tried extending once such control - ItemsControl – which serves at the base class for Read More...
Posted Monday, January 23, 2006 7:16 PM by unnir | 8 Comments

The common welcome post

Hi - welcome to my blog! Let me begin my first post by introducing myself. I am a Program Manager on the Expression Interactive Designer team. Though my background is majorly in software development and research (Information Retrieval, Visualization, Read More...
Posted Friday, January 20, 2006 6:37 PM by unnir | 3 Comments
 
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