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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.

Nick Petterssen from Electric Rain demonstrates how to use ZAM 3D with Blend to create true 3D content for WPF. Once the 3D object is then added to the scene he shows how to animate it using the familiar Storyboard objects used for animating 2D objects.

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…

PlayBits is launching their Silverlight Game Engine Early Adopter program on June 30th.  The details of the Program are available on the PlayBits blog.  Check out their Video Gallery to see the Game Engine in action.

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.

Simon Guest walks through the features and expected workflow of SketchFlow, a prototyping tool for WPF or Silverlight applications originally shown at MIX09.

Abstract: In this step-by-step series, we will show you how you can create a lightweight, dynamic version of the Memory Game in Blend using CSS3, HTML5 and JavaScript.  Part 2 will show you how to create a Grid Layout. Next Steps: Step #1 – Download Windows 8 Release Preview and Windows 8 SDK…

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…

User Experience is important at Microsoft. One place where UX really shines is in Visual Studio, and the tooling and templates for Silverlight. In September, I had the pleasure of catching up with Tsitsi Gora, UX designer at Microsoft. We discussed what it's like to be a designer in developer…

Janete Perez covers in detail the process of importing a Photoshop (.PSD) file into Blend 3. Its really great to see the new amount of information that is persisted during the import, including detailed functionality like Maximize Compatibility. Looking forward to Part 2 which will be posted on…