Entries tagged with expression blend - Channel 9

FandomU brings worldwide enthusiasts and passionate individuals closer via events/conferences

John O'Donnell — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:22:00 GMT

Larry Gregory talked to Christopher Stuckey, Stephen Reid, Jessica Merriman from FandomU at a recent Microsoft BizSpark Incubation Week @ Atlanta, hosted by Sanjay Jain. With a few days of design and development effort FandomU developed a prototype on Windows Azure.

Enjoy the show!

John O'Donnell
Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation
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ARCast.TV - The Story of MyChristmasCatalog.com

Bob Familiar — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:07:00 GMT

‘Twas the week before the holiday season… in this interview, with Jeff Barnes from Microsoft, Ron Teblum, CEO of Catalog Enterprises Inc. and Raphael Parentes, lead graphic designer, discuss the launch of MyChristmasCatalog.com and their innovative use of Silverlight3 and Expression Blend and to deliver a truly unique one-stop, holiday shopping destination and experience.

Catalog Enterprises was one of the first registered Microsoft Bizspark Partners when the program launched almost a year ago - and now they are leading the race in e-Commerce 3.0 using Microsoft technologies. By leveraging all the rich media capabilities in Silverlight 3, they have brought together all the familiar sights and sounds of Christmas, including Christmas in New York, Silverlight games for the kids, the narrated Christmas story, Christmas for soldiers, and a truly unique shopping experience to help you find that perfect gift for those on your holiday list this season.

And don’t forget to check the Christmas Traditions section - they have digitized all the old catalogs from your childhood; Sears, Spiegel’s, Schwarz, and JC Penney’s using their proprietary print media conversion tool that converts them into digital flip-books. And using the Silverlight Deep-Zoom technology – you can once again see all the cool toys you didn’t get for Christmas…

Silverlight FireStarter (Part 9 of 9): Q&A Panel

Emily Gibson — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:12:00 GMT

This video is a question and answer panel with all of the presenters for this event.

Silverlight FireStarter (Part 8 of 9): Building Silverlight UIs with XAML Power toys

Emily Gibson — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:12:00 GMT

This video covers building Microsoft Silverlight UIs with XAML.

Silverlight FireStarter (Part 7 of 9): RIA Services

Emily Gibson — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:12:00 GMT

This video covers building Rich Internet Applications (RIA) using Microsoft Silverlight.

Silverlight FireStarter (Part 6 of 9): Toolkit & Controls

Emily Gibson — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:11:00 GMT

This video covers Microsoft Silverlight toolkit and controls.

Silverlight FireStarter (Part 5 of 9): Sketch Flow

Emily Gibson — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:11:00 GMT

The Microsoft Silverlight 3 FireStarter sessions took place in Redmond, WA on Thursday, September 17th. There was a stellar line-up of Microsoft speakers, including a keynote from Scott Guthrie and presentations from Tim Heuer, Brad Abrams, Karl Shifflett and other community leaders. You'll learn what's new and noteworthy in the latest releases of Silverlight and Microsoft Expression 3.

This session covers sketch flow with Microsoft Expression Blend.

Silverlight FireStarter (Part 4 of 9): Expression 3 Overview

Emily Gibson — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:11:00 GMT

This video covers the tool, Microsoft Expression Blend.

Silverlight FireStarter (Part 3 of 9): Key Silverlight Scenarios

Emily Gibson — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:10:00 GMT

This video covers key scenarios with Silverlight 3.

Silverlight FireStarter (Part 2 of 9): Keynote

Emily Gibson — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:10:00 GMT

This video is the keynote from the event.

Silverlight FireStarter (Part 1 of 9): Event Kick Off

Emily Gibson — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:10:00 GMT

The Microsoft Silverlight 3 FireStarter sessions took place in Redmond, WA on Thursday, September 17th. There was a stellar line-up of Microsoft speakers, including a keynote from Scott Guthrie and presentations from Tim Heuer, Brad Abrams, Karl Shifflett and other community leaders. You'll learn what's new and noteworthy in the latest releases of Silverlight and Microsoft Expression 3. We'll also give you a rundown on Microsoft .NET RIA services, toolkit, and more. Don't miss this sizzling opportunity to go deep into Silverlight 3 with Microsoft's best and brightest.

Freeltor uses WPF and Windows 7 Touch to drive increased business for real estate agents

John O'Donnell — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:50:00 GMT

Larry Gregory talked to the team of Adrian Manzano and Rene Nario of http://www.freeltor.com at a recent Bizspark incubation event hosted by Sanjay Jain.

Their solution reduces the administration overhead of running a business for the real estate agent and frees them to focus on their clients and buying and selling property. In a few short days Freeltor took advantage of touch in Windows 7 and Expression Blend to deliver both an administration tool as well as a Windows 7 gadget.

Enjoy the show!

John O'Donnell Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation
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Take Comics builds new comic publishing solution with Windows 7 and Touch

John O'Donnell — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:45:00 GMT

Larry Gregory talked to the team of Kevin Mann and Tony Williams of http://www.takepublishing.com at a recent Bizspark incubation event hosted by Sanjay Jain.

Their solution called TakeComics finally solves the problem of trying to find that missing issue of your favorite comic as well as new comics and render them digitally on many devices.

In a few days of development the TakeComics team were able to build a solution that could render comics and let you interact them using Windows 7 touch capabilities.

Enjoy the show!

John O'Donnell Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation
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Importing Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop files in Expression Blend 3

Adam Kinney — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:47:00 GMT

Janete Perez has posted a few blog posts on Photoshop Import in Expression Blend 3 and recently one on Importing Adobe Illustrator files in Expression Blend 3. The posts are definitely worth checking out if you think will ever need to import graphics into Blend.

Silverlight Control Template Modification Walkthrough from Dan Wahlin

Adam Kinney — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:08:00 GMT

Dan Wahlin has posted a tutorial on Cleaning Up the Disabled State of a Silverlight Control using Expression Blend. He shows how simple it is to update a control's template when it doesn't match the look of your UI.

Embed the PDC2009 font in your Silverlight application

Adam Kinney — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:20:00 GMT

David Isbitski demonstrates how to install the PDC2009 font and then embed it in a Silverlight application. The nice thing is that the Font embed work can be done and customized with just a few clicks in the Font Manager tool in Blend.

Scale 9 Grid for Silverlight from Peter Blois

Adam Kinney — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:45:00 GMT

Peter Blois has created a Scale 9 grid in Silverlight. Using pixel shaders and Blend extensibility, Peter has a found a solution with design-time support and good performance.

The Power of Visual States in Silverlight from Jose Fajardo

Adam Kinney — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:28:00 GMT

Jose Fajardo has published a 4-part video series on the Power of States which highlights both the States feature within the Silverlight platform and the support for the feature in Expression Blend. He demonstrates his own technique along with the new features in version 3.

Making Silverlight Code More Compatible with Blend using IsDesignTime

Adam Kinney — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:22:00 GMT

Dan Wahlin demonstrates a simple but very effective tip for Making Silverlight 3 Application Code More Compatible with Blend. The topic is centered around using a method exposed by the platform allowing to check when your code is running in DesignTime.

Drag and drop data features in Expression Blend

Adam Kinney — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:25:00 GMT

Evgeny takes us on a tour of some of the new functionality in Blend for working with Data. He demonstrates how can easily work with your sample-generated or working data by dragging and dropping fields to specific controls and areas in the workspace.

A new version of the Fireworks to XAML Panel is available

Adam Kinney — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:00:00 GMT

Grant Hinkson has a published an updated Fireworks to XAML panel which allows to output XAML from your Fireworks designs. The new version includes a new CS4 skin and additional features resulting in much cleaner XAML.

A Developer Primer for Behaviors in Expression Blend 3

Adam Kinney — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:36:00 GMT

Behaviors, Triggers and Actions released with Blend 3 allow for developers to wrap up logic into objects that can instantly add interactivity and functionality to an application just by dragging and dropping. This encapsulation is great for reuse along with empowering designers.

Jeff Kelly, one of the developers behind Behaviors has 3 posts covering an Introduction to the API, API Details and Constraining Types and Advanced Behavior Features. Michael Washington has a tutorial on creating a very simple Behavior. And don't miss the Expression Blend Behaviors Samples library on CodePlex which offers a collection of extra Behaviors to use, along with source code.

A quick look at a few new features in Expression Blend 3

Adam Kinney — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:14:00 GMT

Timmy Kokke posts a list of 9 little new things in Expression Blend 3 that he's found useful. Its a quick pictorial walkthrough of a few of the new features in Blend 3.

Files for "Creating Lookless Controls" Screencast

Jared Bienz — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:55:42 GMT

Attached are the files for the Creating Lookless Controls for WPF and Silverlight screencast.

Creating Lookless Controls for WPF and Silverlight

Jared Bienz — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:50:00 GMT

This screencast is a continuation of a previous screencast entitled “Skins for WPF and Silverlight”. In this session we go beyond skinning built-in controls and learn what’s required to create our own skinnable (or ‘lookless’) controls.

This screencast assumes existing knowledge about styles and templates, so if you aren’t up to speed on those topics please consider watching the skinning screencast first.

The sample demonstrated in this screencast can be downloaded here.