Entries Tagged 'Expression Blend' ↓

Steve over at the Expression Blend and Design blog has an article and source available on animating paths in WPF. Wish I found this 2 months ago.

Source code and writeup available here

Pete Blois at The Expression Blend and Design Blog has some useful tips for debugging design-time exceptions from Expression Blend projects.

Jesse Liberty has put together a great Silverlight tutorial on styling controls and using visual state manager in Expression Blend.

Scott Gu has put together a very nice tutorial on how to build a Silverlight Chat Application in Expression Blend. We’ll forgive you for using Comic Sans Scott.

What can an 8 year old do with Expression Blend? Whip up some pretty cute Silverlight animations.

Check out what Rob Relyea’s son has been up to.

Microsoft’s Phizzpop is sponsoring an interactive design challenge where top interactive agencies are challenged to come up with innovative applications built on Microsoft technologies.

Looks like anyone can register to attend the receptions in Chicago, LA, Boston and Austin.

36 teams enter. 1 team leaves.

The PhizzPop Design Challenge pits top interactive, Web, and design agencies against one another to push the limits of technology and creativity in a battle royale. Think Mad Max for design.

The regional teams have been selected and will duke it out in New York, Boston, Chicago, Austin, and Los Angeles, with the regional winners competing against one another, and San Francisco winner AKQA, at the South by Southwest Interactive Conference in Austin, TX.

We invite you to register and watch the creativity unfold as you enjoy cocktails.

The good folks at WPF Studio sent me a link to their new window control.

WPFTheme is a FREE skinnable / theme-able window control and a set of predefined themes for this WPF window. In a few line, defines the window style you desire, also you can swicth your theme at run time. You will never spend many time on programming for skin support.

…and don’t miss the rest of their site, looks like they’ve got some cool stuff going on. http://www.wpf-studio.net/

File this under better late than never. The Microsoft Expression Blend 2 September Preview is available for download.

Electric Rain has released Harmony™, a Flash SWF-to-XAML Converter.

Electric Rain claims Harmony will convert SWF files to WPF and Silverlight based XAML. Sound to good to be true? Give it a try and let us know how it works.

Infragistics has partnered with Amazon and Microsoft to release a nice reference application for WPF called Tangerine™. The team at Infragistics built the reference application (called an “exemplar”) using NetAdvantage for WPF.

While you’re on their site don’t miss the other examples of NetAdvantage for WPF. It has some really nice controls with downloadable samples.