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The Microsoft Interactive Canvas, one of the coolest and most creative examples of a WPF-based application, has won a Design Week award.  Due to the miracle of web video, you can listen to the creative team AllofUs talk about the project and see the Interactive Canvas…

Jose Fajardo posted a tutorial on building a Coverflow implementation using plane Projection in Silverlight 3.  Leveraging Storyboards for the animation, Jose keeps the project Blend friendly and as a result easy for Designers to work with.

After spending some time reading recommended reading on Behaviors, Mike Taulty records his experiences creating a Drag and Drop Behavior combination.

Frank La Vigne demonstrates how he is using CC licensed SVG files from Wikipedia in his Silverlight and WPF applications.  To spoil the ending for you the secret ingrediant in this case is Mike Swanson's excellent AI to XAML plug-in.

At the WEB09 conference, a challenge was issued to both Adobe and Microsoft speakers at the event: What can you build in 2 hours using your tools of choice?  Nigel Parker has the full story including video.

En este video, observaremos la manera de crear un panel para usar dentro de Word, que contendrá fragmentos de texto a los que luego de hacerles doble click podremos insertar dentro del documento a través de Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) El panel fue diseñado usando Blend 3 y aprovechando…

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.

Als ich in Redmond war, habe ich mit Christian Schormann gesprochen. Christian ist Deutscher und arbeitet bei Microsoft Corp in Redmond als Director of Program Management für Expression.  Christian interessiert sich für Interactive-Storytelling und bessere User-Experiences.  In…

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…

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…