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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…

In this screencast we'll cover the topics needed to create custom skins for WPF and Silverlight. Topics include Resources, Templates, Styles and Dictionaries, and we'll see how each builds upon the other to provide a very rich and flexible skinning system on these platforms.…

What do you get when you invite 17 companies together and throw a bunch of new stuff in their face and ask them to use it? Well, in Wellington, it was called Expression for Art’s Sake. This was a bit of an ‘artist in residency’ program where Microsoft invited some companies to bring their…

What do you get when you invite 17 companies together and throw a bunch of new stuff in their face and ask them to use it? Well, in Wellington, it was called Expression for Art’s Sake. This was a bit of an ‘artist in residency’ program where Microsoft invited some companies to bring their…

Unni Ravindranathan takes on a tour of the new Expression Blend 3 Preview released at MIX09.  Not only has Blend been updated to support Silverlight 3, but many new features have been added including improved graphic design tools, Intellisense, TFS integration and improved extensibility.

During this morning’s keynote speech at the MIX09 conference, Microsoft made several announcements about updates, new releases, and enhancements to the Microsoft web technologies. Scott Guthrie came on stage to deliver a keynote speech where he talked about the new version of Silverlight 3 as well…

It is not everyday that the best sailors on the planet set up shop 150 metres from your work and race each other over a two week period but that is exactly what is happening for me right now. Check out http://lvps09.com and watch this screencast to learn more . A few things in the end made this…

Steve Guttman, Product Unit Manager for Expression Web,  is hard at work on a session to be presented at MIX09 which will illustrate how Expression Web can be used to build resilient standards-based sites for use across a wide range of browsers and platforms. In this episode we discuss the…

This video shows how a designer can have a large impact on the look and feel of an application without having to write a lot of code or interfering with the core logic of the application. To highlight this, Celso Gomes will re-style a basic Twitter application built in Silverlight using only his…

Join Scott Hanselman for this lots-of-code-minimal slides talk that walks through the sheer joy of building out a .NET Framework application with Visual Studio using many of the new advances in the .NET Framework 3.5SP1 and 4.0. We have a data layer with Entity Framework, use REST web services…