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Something New Coming – Pocket MFA

My theory, based entirely on my own experience is that many developers would like to know just a bit more about design (not all developers, and not a lot more, just some developers, and just a bit more). Our reasons include: 1. The bar has been set higher by Silverlight and other application development...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-16-2008
Throwing Together An Application

Creating a Quick and Dirty App in Silverlight There comes a point, usually within 3-6 months after I commit to a new technology, when it becomes my platform of choice for throwing together quick applications… when I just find it easier to think in terms of the new technology than one of the old. I also...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-14-2008
Liberty – Shill?

Okay, I never thought this was an issue I was likely to face, but the folks in Marketing wanted to run this ad, and so I was faced with that interesting question of what we used to call “Selling Out.” (yeah, yeah, i work for Microsoft, so my radical friends would say that happened long ago!) And, actually...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-12-2008
A third way to handle Templated Buttons & Images

In yesterday’s blog post I suggested that there were two solutions to crating a templated button that used an image. One was to create a different template for each image (yuck) and the other was to create a custom temlpated button. A third, and excellent alternative was suggested to me by email by Justin...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-07-2008
New Tutorial: DataBinding and Data Templates

I’m pleased to announce that we’ve posted a new tutorial: DataBinding and Data Templates Using Expression Blend available in HTML and pdf with source code. This should nicely complement the three new videos on DataBinding An overview of Databinding and Data Templates using Expression Blend DataBinding...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-30-2008
In-State Animation In A Nutshell

I’ll be covering this in videos and tutorials in depth, but I’ve come to realize that in-state animation is so straight forward that it can be explained in a quick blog entry. In fact, the really hard part is explaining what it is viz: the Visual State Manager uses animation (story boards) move from...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-26-2008
Templates and Animation Webcast – Follow up

I had the pleasure of presenting a Webcast on Templates and Animation today, and as promised, here is the answer to an open question, and the set of links that were mentioned. The videos that may be of help as background information are here Here is the Tutorial introduction to Styles and Templates...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-23-2008
Webcast schedule has been updated

The Webcast schedule has been updated slightly. You can find it here . You can always find it in the sidebar as well: The key change is this September 10 Silverlight Animation and Expression Blend

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-18-2008
Three New Videos On Data Binding

I’m pleased to announce that we’ve posted three new videos on DataBinding and on DataTemplates (creating templates that control the display of a collection of data in a list control such as a list box) Unfortunately, we swapped the images for the Blend video and the Xaml video which is a bit confusing...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-17-2008
Styles and Templates - Three Videos

I’m very pleased to announce a three part video series (currently listed in reverse order) as companions to my new tutorial ). The three videos are Creating Styles Templates without Visual State Manager Templates and Visual State Manager The new Visual State Manager and Parts model are very exciting...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-11-2008

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