Real-world WPF: Introduction to Blend (Part4)

Posted By: Nichop | Feb 28th, 2007 @ 1:33 AM | 24,568 Views | 12 Comments
The UK MCS User Experience Team and a number of UK partners have been working on WPF for over 12 months and this Real World WPF series is intended to show some of their work and capture/share some of their learnings.

Martin Grayson (Ux team) walks Richard Godfrey through the process of building a simple application in Expression Blend.

Part 1 introduced the application and the key features to be built.
Part 2 looked at the Expression Blend interface.
Part 3 built the 2D effects used in the application.
Part 4 (this part) builds the 3D effects used.

The video was captured at 1024x768 so we recommend running it full screen if possible. It is also available for download here :-http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/2/5/225283de-cda7-4a66-b4c6-bd34077b890e/Part4_3DBuild.wmv.
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#Mar 1st, 2007 @ 2:01 PM
dentaku
dentaku
That was one of the most informative C9 videos yet.
#Mar 1st, 2007 @ 2:19 PM
Nichop
Nichop
Excellent, glad you found it useful.  We'd welcome any suggestions on other WPF topics that you would find useful.
#Mar 2nd, 2007 @ 10:38 AM
jgilkey
jgilkey

A video on creating a 3D, pure WPF based Virtual Earth control would be sweet.  Beyond that, maybe a nice video of theaming a WPF app for those of us developers that are "stylistically challenged".

#Mar 3rd, 2007 @ 4:55 AM
tstorli
tstorli

This screencast series is probably one of the best I seen so far (and I have seen a lot of them). Please keep them comming. Very informative.
Here is a suggestion! How about some real business applications. Most of the developers I know do not work on virtual earth and  x-box apps. It would be great to see an actual real-world app presented the way you showed us in this series. Again, excellent job!!!

#Mar 8th, 2007 @ 9:47 AM
martin.grayson
martin.grayson

Thanks for the feedback. We are working on lots more of these, so watch this space!

On the LOB app note, I have set up a post on my blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/mgrayson/archive/2007/03/08/suggestions-for-a-real-world-wpf-video-please.aspx - to gather some thoughts about what you would be interested in seeing in a Real World WPF video on the subject. Please check it out, and let me know what your interested in.

Martin

#Mar 12th, 2007 @ 11:53 AM
vgta
vgta

Where i can download the source code of the videos ?

Thanks

#Mar 13th, 2007 @ 10:40 AM
martin.grayson
martin.grayson

Hey, I haven't made available the source code for the solution (yet!), however, you can get the assets right here...

http://blogs.msdn.com/mgrayson/archive/2007/02/14/real-world-wpf-videos-introduction-to-blend.aspx

The fun with this is to follow the videos and have a crack at making the app yourself! Its really simple, honest!

#Mar 16th, 2007 @ 11:16 AM
user2413
user2413

Thank you. This screencast has been really helpful to me. Quite detailed.

#Aug 12th, 2007 @ 6:49 AM
mrtavares
mrtavares
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