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3D has traditionally been complex and challenging but with the advent of WPF, incorporating 3D into your applications is much more realistic. These 4 videos walk through the process of building a very simple 3D application. I start by creating a re-usable 3D model of a yoghurt pot in  Blender…

3D has traditionally been complex and challenging but with the advent of WPF, incorporating 3D into your applications is much more realistic. These 4 videos walk through the process of building a very simple 3D application. I start by creating a re-usable 3D model of a yoghurt pot in  Blender…

Josh Holmes caught up with team from Yahoo! that's working on the Yahoo! Messenger Application for Vista. We talked a lot about the new feature set that went live yesterday (including an easter egg...) and how the process of developing a WPF application with Developer and Designers  went…

Leverage your existing SVG assets in Expression Design to produce XAML elements for WPF and/or Silverlight applications. This screencast demonstrates converting SVG files to XAML using Expression Design and consuming them in a Silverlight application.

Brief walkthrough on using Blend to style a WPF application originally created with VS 2008 Cider designer;  see how you can seamlessly go back and forth between the two tools to get the best out of a developer (intellisense, code wiring, etc.) and designer ( styling, templating) tools for…

In this third part of a five-part series, we'll further explore the animation capabilities in Blend. To make the chicken cluck, we'll create a timeline as a resource that is invoked from JavaScript (some code involved). We'll also synchronize an MP3 audio file with the animation. Download the…

In this second of a five-part series, the animation tools of Blend are introduced. Using the chicken drawn in the earlier screencast, we'll add animation onto the stage using transforms, both a scale transform and a translation. No code is touched in the animation of this chicken. Download the…

In this first of a five-part series, you'll see how to use the drawing tools in Blend to unite and divide geometries so as to create a chicken. Covers concepts like the path tool, path combining, fills and strokes. Download the sample code By clicking the link above you accept the  license.