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Expression-Blend
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You may have noticed that your current copy of Expression Blend
for Silverlight 5 expires in the next day or two. A new version of
Expression Blend Preview for Silverlight 5 is now out. Get it here.
This new version has the all important go-live license, and also
extends the expiration date to June 20, 2013 (over a year from
now)..
More information on the Expression Blend Team Blog.
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I had the pleasure of speaking at Tech Ed Atlanta last week.
While there, I also spoke at the Atlanta Silverlight User Group.
The week prior, I also got to speak at the Hampton Roads .NET User
Group in Virginia Beach, VA. I had a great time at of them, and met
some great developers interested in Silverlight and WPF.
Here are the materials from those events
DEV331 (and DEV331-R) A La...
Published
Monday, May 23, 2011 |
Tagged:
.NET, Silverlight, Events, Expression-Blend, Windows-Forms, WindowsClient, Video, Presentations, Tutorial-General-Silverlight, Tutorial-Winforms-Modernization |
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This is Windows Client Developer roundup #28.
The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of
interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF, Silverlight,
Visual C++, XNA, Expression Blend, Surface, Windows 7, Windows
Forms, Windows Phone and Visual Studio. If you have something
interesting you've done or have run across, or you blog regularly
on the topics includ...
Published
Monday, June 14, 2010 |
Tagged:
.NET, WPF, Silverlight, Expression-Blend, XNA, ASP.NET, SketchFlow, WindowsClient, WindowsClientRoundup, WCF-RIA-Services |
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This is Windows Client Developer roundup #27 -- on Expression
Studio 4 Launch Day!
The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of
interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF, Surface, Windows 7, XNA,
Windows Forms, Silverlight, Windows Phone and
Visual Studio. If you have something interesting you've done or
have run across, please send me the URL and brief de...
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This is Windows Client Developer roundup #26 on Memorial Day
2010, a few hours late.
The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of
interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF, Surface, Windows 7, XNA,
Windows Forms, Silverlight, Windows Phone and
Visual Studio. If you have something interesting you've done or
have run across, please send me the URL and brief ...
Published
Tuesday, June 1, 2010 |
Tagged:
.NET, WPF, Silverlight, Expression-Blend, XNA, CPP, WindowsClient, WindowsClientRoundup, Windows-Phone, WCF-RIA-Services |
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Adam Kinney wrote that Expression Studio 4
will launch at the Internet Week conference in New York City on
June 7th. Here's what he had to say about it:
Expression Studio 4 will launch
at the Internet Week conference in New York City on June
7th!
Bill Buxton will be there as our featured guest speaker and many
of your other favorite Blenders will be there, too:
Christian
Sc...
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This is Windows Client Developer roundup #20.
The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of
interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF, Surface, Windows 7, XNA,
Windows Forms, Silverlight and Windows Phone.
If you have something interesting you've done or have run across,
please send me the URL and brief description via the
contact link on my blog.
Of co...
Published
Monday, April 19, 2010 |
Tagged:
.NET, WPF, Silverlight, Expression-Blend, XNA, Visual-Studio, WindowsClient, WindowsClientRoundup, Windows-Phone |
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This is Windows Client Developer roundup #18.
Starting with this issue, I'll be combining the WPF and
Silverlight sections, in recognition of the shared nature and dual
applicability of many of the posts, and breaking out the topics
more by topic area than just technology.
The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of
interest to Windows Client Developers, including...
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A month ago I recorded this video with Expression Blend PM Pete
Blois. Pete is a great guy to talk with, especially if you're
interested in Expression Blend. We chatted about Silverlight 4,
Silverlight for Windows Phone (and the Blend designer for that),
how multitargeting works in Blend, and about rooler, Pete's great
tool for measuring, screen cap and more.
PS. Yes, I used roole...
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Prior to joining Microsoft, I worked at a consulting company for a bit over 13 years. Prior to that, I started the IT department at a medical billing company and worked there for 4 years while completing my Computer Science degree. Seeing Scott’s post on past work he did years ago at SparkFun and 800.com got me to thinking about some of the interesting projects I’ve been on. I’ve been a develo...
Published
Friday, January 22, 2010 |
Tagged:
.NET, WPF, Silverlight, RIA, Expression-Blend, AIS, Facebook, Retro, ASP.NET, Web-Development, SketchFlow, Windows-Forms, CPP, WindowsClient, geek |
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Congratulations to the Microsoft Expression teams for another great release! If you are an MSDN Premium subscriber, you’ll probably want to wait a week or so until Expression Studio 3 show up on MSDN. That will take about a week or so. The exciting news buried in that sentence is that MSDN Premium Subscribers will get all of Expression Studio 3 (including SketchFlow) as part of their subscript...
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Thanks again to Marc Schweigert for hosting last night’s DevDinner in Reston. My blog is at www.irritatedVowel.com/Blog and you can follow me on twitter, or message me on twitter via @pete_brown. Below are demos I used and links I mentioned or wanted to mention. Tons of good Silverlight links and information below, even for folks who didn’t attend the DevDinner. Introduction The “Hello Wo...
Published
Thursday, April 30, 2009 |
Tagged:
.NET, Silverlight, Events, RIA, Expression-Encoder, Expression-Blend, Business-Applications, Seema-Ramchandani, Silverlight-Business-Applications, scottgu, WorldWide-Telescope, Marc-Schweigert, MIX09, Synthesizer |
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Three makes it a meme, right? :) Shawn and John recently posted about their Silverlight toolkit, so I thought I’d do the same. These are the tools and products I use on a regular basis when working in SL. There are others that pop up now and again, but I figured I’d only list the things I really rely on daily. I try to keep my working set fairly small so I can stay focused. Visual Studio 2...
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The Expression Newsletter is out. In the current issue, you’ll find my article about styling charts in the Silverlight Toolkit. I learned a lot while writing that article, and I hope you learn a lot from reading it. As promised, here’s the follow-up article on using overlays. I’m looking forward to seeing some cool data visualization in Silverlight 2!
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A great but sometimes overlooked resource for Silverlight and WPF developers is the Expression Newsletter. It covers the Expression suite as a whole, but always has good content for Blend, Design and folks writing applications for WPF and Silverlight using VS2008. I like the focus; while it certainly includes Expression tools, it is more about how to get something done - when appropriate author...
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I'm doing a MSDN GeekSpeak next week on Connecting Silverlight and wanted to make sure I had another shot at working with sockets before then, so here is part 2 of the Chat Application post. This is Part 2 of the Silverlight 2 Beta 1 simple chat application how-to. In Part 1, we covered using Expression Design and Expression Blend to create and animate our chat balloon. In this part, we'...
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On June 13, 2008 in the Microsoft Reston Technology Center, join AIS, Cynergy and Microsoft for the first Silverlight TechFest. This is a full day event focusing on Silverlight and Expression. We'll build a full application showing key parts of the process both on the UI side with the designer/developer relationship, and on the back end with WCF services and and business logic. I'll be ...
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I've had a number of folks request I provide a walkthrough and/or source code for the chat application demo I did at the CMAP Spring Code Camp, so I put together this two part series. This is essentially the same demo I do live. Total time it takes me when presenting live is about 1 hour, assuming the sockets code is mostly pre-built. If you're new to Expression Design or Expression Ble...
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For all of you attending tomorrow's CMAP code camp, here's a sneak peek at what I'll be building in my 10:30 Silverlight 2 and Microsoft Expression session. The session is targeted towards developers, but anyone with an interest in Silverlight or Expression is welcome and encouraged to attend The application has a server piece (the windows forms app) and, in this instance, two Silve...
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A quick reminder that the CMAP Code Camp is coming up quick!I have a morning session where I'll build out a small Silverlight 2 application using Microsoft Expression Design, Expression Blend, and Visual Studio 2008. Almost all live demo, with only a slide or two at most. I really think you'll enjoy it.Hope to see you there on April 12, 2008! Loyola College Graduate Center - C...
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A recent post on Silverlight.net led me to revisit something I haven't played with in quite some time: DPI.If you wonder why you sometimes drag those pngs or other images onto the design surface in blend, and they come out the wrong size, there are several things to consider:Do I have the image inside a grid cell that is constraining or stretching it?Did I use the mouse to set the size of t...
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I'm still adjusting to the 3 hour time change plus 1 hour daylight savings time (why do they even bother with that any more?) However, here are some useful sites and links that came out of MIX08:First, of course, is the Microsoft Silverlight Community site. This is the first place to visit if you are at all interested in learning Silverlight. Visit the getting started section, and then head...