A few of my Silverlight articles were published on the SilverlightShow site this past two months. The first one is an introduction to Silverlight/(WPF)/Blend behaviors, where I create a Silverlight Halloween Sound Player without writing a single line of code – the application is composed entirely in...
Windows 7 launch day was fun. I gave a talk on Expression tools (and related) – here’s the PowerPoint slide deck for those who asked for it: I used Expression Blend 3 to build a photo viewer application, which I’ll blog about later; key points here were designer-developer workflow + using sample data...
Microsoft Expression Blend 3 je orodje, namenjeno oblikovalcem za gradnjo privlačnih namiznih (WPF) ali spletnih, Silverlight aplikacij . Ker je dokaj novo orodje, je na začetku potrebna dodatna krivulja učenja, da lahko začnemo graditi smiselne in bogate aplikacije. Dosti razvijalcev in oblikovalcem...
Behaviors are not new in WPF / Silverlight world; it’s a common way of extending visual element’s behavior through the power of attached properties and everybody probably used one of these at least once in their projects. Now, there’s new Behaviors in town… I first learned about the behaviors in this...
Did you know you can create cool looking splash screens for your WPF application right there with the Expression Designer ? Of course you did. Expression Designer provides you with all you need to create free-shaped, part-transparent, drop-shadowed graphics and I bet the the WPF splash screen support...
One of my favorite samples when talking about WPF is showing a rotating 3D letter ' e ' in a Windows Forms application. You know, something like those "you've got mail" computer messages, seen in many Hollywood movies. Windows Forms/WPF interoperability features make this kind of...
Gradient eyedropper proved to be one of the fun features for presenting Windows Presentation Foundation / Expression Blend . While fun for presenting, its ability to capture the color spectrum of the mouse-crossed area is useful in real-time designing too. Try this for example... Start up your Blend...