Expression Blend

Meet Ken Getz, Courseware Developer for AppDev and Senior Consultant for MCW Technologies LLC, and Rob Cameron, Senior Architect Evangelist at Microsoft. In this interview, they cover a variety of topics and technologies including: Visual Studio, MSXML, Silverlight, Expressions Blend and Visual…

What’s the deal with design? This week we sit down with Sara Summers, a Senior UX Evangelist for Microsoft and author of a Microsoft Expression Blend book. Join us as we talk with Sara about how developers can dive into design, what tools are available today and how to integrate design with the…

When it comes to game design for Windows Phone 7, Microsoft turned to Plexipixel to help design the look and feel, branding, and sound for the Silverlight game called Unite.  The team that designed and developed the game using Silverlight shares the tips and lessons learned.Plexipixel…

In this session, Sr. Product Manager for Expression Blend, John Harris and Sr. Design Program Manager of the Metro language, walk you through the changes to Expression Blend and the new exciting Metro style for Windows Phone 7.The Windows Phone 7 Jump Start video training is for all developers…

In this episode, Unni Ravindranathan and Billy Chow join Jaime Rodriguez to introduce the Windows Phone 7 design templates.The design templates are XAML-based templates for building Windows Phone Applications. These templates make it possible for you to copy paste XAML…

Listen in as Mark Wilson-Thomas, the "Lord of Cider", chats with Tim Huckaby about the ease of use of "Cider" and how it differs from and complements Microsoft Expression Blend.About Mark Mark is a Program Manager on the "Cider" team, which builds the Windows…

Celso Gomes and Peter Blois blaze their way through Expression Blend and demonstrate how to create amazing Windows phone apps using our Expression Suite.   They also share the roadmap for Expression Blend for Windows Phone. This video is part of the Windows Phone Design Days…

In this walkthrough, we will create a table shuffleboard style game for Windows Phone 7 using Silverlight. Many bars feature these long wooden table games, in which players slide metal pucks down the length of the table, attempting to get as close as possible to the far end without sliding off the…

In this episode, guests Kanwaljeet Singla, Don Raman, and Wade Hilmo from the Microsoft IIS team join Peter to discuss the evolution of PHP on the Windows Platform. The IIS folks tell us about the improvements made to Windows in order to support PHP, including: Fast CGI, WinCache, PHP 5.3, the Web…

Ball Silverlight Design ContestIn this tutorial you will download the assets and code needed to start building a watch for the Ball Silverlight Contest. Download and install  Microsoft Expression Studio 4 (includes Expression Blend 4). Download the Ball Trainmaster…