October 16th, 2008 — Expression Blend, Expression Design
Colorful Expression is an add-in for Expression Blend and Expression Design inspired by the Adobe Kuler community. It brings the Kruler functionality right into Expression. This is an awesome add-in for designers, but more importantly it may give you ‘color balance challenged’ developers some much needed help.
Source: Jonas Follesø
October 15th, 2008 — Expression Blend, Silverlight
The Microsoft Expression team have released an updated version of Deep Zoom Composer (v0.9.000.5) to coincide with the release of Silverlight 2. There are a few minor reliability updates in this release but most notably are the updated project templates that are made to be 100% compatible with Silverlight 2.
August 20th, 2008 — Expression Blend, WPF
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
July 24th, 2008 — Expression Blend
Pete Blois at The Expression Blend and Design Blog has some useful tips for debugging design-time exceptions from Expression Blend projects.
July 24th, 2008 — Expression Blend
Jesse Liberty has put together a great Silverlight tutorial on styling controls and using visual state manager in Expression Blend.
July 5th, 2008 — Expression Blend, Silverlight
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.
April 16th, 2008 — Expression Blend
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.
December 4th, 2007 — Expression Blend, Silverlight, WPF
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.
December 4th, 2007 — Expression Blend, WPF
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/
September 21st, 2007 — Expression Blend
File this under better late than never. The Microsoft Expression Blend 2 September Preview is available for download.
