Silverlight TV 12: The Best Blend 3 Video Ever!

Posted By: John Papa | Mar 3rd @ 6:00 AM | 40,508 Views | 17 Comments
You never know what hijinks are in store when Adam Kinney and John get together. In this episode, Adam makes his theatrical return to Silverlight TV and claims to have filmed the best Expression Blend 3 video ever! Adam demonstrates:
  • sketching with SketchFlow
  • importing images
  • path conversion to elements
  • sample data
  • editing item templates
  • data binding
  • behaviors
  • effects
  • visual states
  • easing

This is a great and very practical demonstration of Blend 3 from the Expression Evangelist himself.

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#Mar 3rd @ 8:05 AM
ampaiva
ampaiva

Very nice! Lots of valuable tips! 

#Mar 3rd @ 9:32 AM
shaggygi
shaggygi

Very good!  Any details regarding release and/or features of Blend 4?

#Mar 3rd @ 9:52 AM
AdamKinney
AdamKinney
Agent of Change

Thanks!  Nothing to share yet on Blend 4, the latest release is still the Blend Preview for .NET 4 from PDC09.

#Mar 3rd @ 10:41 AM
ecofriend
ecofriend

Great video guys! FWIW, I think Adam and John both have a wonderful voice!

#Mar 3rd @ 10:58 AM
jopapa
jopapa
Silverlight Shaker

ecofriend - Thanks. Adam had to suffer through me losing my voice in this video a few times due to a cold I can't shake. But it did not stop this from being the BEST BLEND 3 VIDEO EV-UH! Smiley

#Mar 3rd @ 12:09 PM
figuerres
figuerres
???

Hey as if you guys don't know this like 100,000 times over ....

 

we are all looking for a new drop of silverlight 4 for VS 2010 any day now.... so like get on it guys... we need them bits .... crack the whips or pay more overtime or can we send in more pizza and soda to the team ???

Big Smile

to the tune of "I want my MTV"

I Want My ... I want my SL4

....  cue in Dire straits ...

Wink

#Mar 3rd @ 12:39 PM
ChrisStepaniuk
ChrisStepaniuk

Blend is such a dense product, I remember when I first used Visual Studio, I'm still learning about it.  Are there videos posted online for Blend?  Maybe I'm just not Binging hard enough Smiley

 

Also, could you guys also release 720p MP4's as well?  It would make the bus ride home easier, instead of converting the WMV to MP4 first for my iPhone.

 

Cheers!

#Mar 3rd @ 1:06 PM
jopapa
jopapa
Silverlight Shaker

ChrisStepaniuk - There is an iPhone version of Silverlight TV that you can download from this page. Or, you can subscribe to Silverlight TV from iTunes. It is an approved podcast Smiley

#Mar 3rd @ 1:07 PM
AdamKinney
AdamKinney
Agent of Change

Yes, happy to help.

 

This is a link to the series of Blend tutorials that cover a lot of what was shown in the video: http://visitmix.com/labs/rosetta/EyesOfBlend/

 

Otherwise check out Arturo's post which has links to starter kits that include video tutorials: http://ux.artu.tv/?p=136

 

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