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• nibbles: snack tutorials for hungry designers

  Celso Gomes has a new site up called nibbles : snack tutorials for hungry designers . In his words: The concept of nibbles is simple: snack tutorials for hungry designers. The tutorials will teach a few steps at a time, so they will be short and easy to follow - the perfect creative snack. There are a few tutorials on using Expression Blend and Silverlight already up, with content on Blend and WPF coming soon. New additions will be announced on the nibbles blog . Read More... Posted Thursday, June 21, 2007 12:57 PM from Even a chimp can write code | 0 Comments Filed under: WPF, Design, Windows Presentation Foundation, Expression Blend, silverlight

• COLLABORATING ON CREATING ANIMATIONS IN WPF AND BLEND: POSSIBILITIES AND LIMITATIONS

  One area that is currently top of mind for me is designer and developer collaboration with WPF and Expression Blend, in particular around animation. I'd like to start documenting some techniques and outlining things that can and can't be done. Before diving in, let's quickly review the animation system in WPF. The two ways to do animation in WPF is either declaratively (XAML) or procedurally (code). If you use Expression Blend to create your animations, you will be in effect using the declarative (XAML) method. What gets slightly confusing is that the two methods, declarative and procedural, are not entirely in parallel. For example, the only way to begin an animation declaratively (XAML) is through the < BeginStoryboard > tag. However, the equivalent call in code is to call the Begin method off a UIElement and passing it the storyboard to fire. The other option is to call the Begin method from a storyboard itself, passing it the UIElement to which the storyboard should be applied. Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 20, 2007 7:16 PM from IRhetoric - Karsten Januszewski | 0 Comments Filed under: WPF, Windows Presentation Foundation (Avalon), Expression Blend

• FLITTERBOOK: INTEGRATING WITH THE FACEBOOK PLATFORM

  I'm here at the Facebook Developer's event down here in San Francisco. Dan'l Lewin from Microsoft was on stage as a parter: Lots of good stuff announced as far as Facebook/Microsoft partnership: Microsoft just released a great wrapper to the Facebook API written by the guys at Clarity Consulting . They've got some nice sample applications, including a cool WPF app that is a rolodex of your Facebook contacts. Also, Popfly also added support for the Facebook API to their mashup builder. Speaking of Silverlight, there's support for Silverlight in FBML via the FB:Silverlight tag, although it is undocumented right now and not quite there. However, you can host Silverlight in an iframe using FBML. More on that to come. I implemented in an updated version of Flitterbook, which you can download here . This version of Flitterbook now has support for the Facebook API and pulls all images from your friends along with Twitter feeds and Flickr data. Again, this is still alpha code: no promises! One Read More... Posted Friday, May 25, 2007 1:50 AM from IRhetoric - Karsten Januszewski | 0 Comments Filed under: WPF, Expression Blend

• THREE NEW EXPRESSION BLEND HANDS-ON LABS

  I just posted three new hands-on labs for Expression Blend that were created for MIX but haven't been posted for the world yet. There's lots of little nuggets in there worth checking out, things like creating a user controls, databinding, triggers, styling controls, using web services, paging, data input and more. The more I use Blend, the more I love it, but it has its own learning curve , above and beyond WPF. The first lab is a UI for Windows Live Search , including Image Search. The second lab is a color swatch lab . The third lab is a recipe viewer application . Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 22, 2007 10:26 AM from IRhetoric - Karsten Januszewski | 0 Comments Filed under: WPF, Expression Blend

• Expression Blend is Release Candidate

  The Expression Blend team quietly announced their excellent designer surface for Windows Presentation Foundation went to Release Candidate status. The new build has a bunch of fixes but no new features (that I'm aware of) over the most recent CTP. It does however introduce some spectacular starter samples built using Blend. If you have a creative bone in you, I really recommend downloading Blend RC and taking it for a spin. Either way, check out the ClickOnce powered online samples that the ever resourceful Karsten has posted. I know Robbie and Nathan are impressed. Read More... Posted Saturday, March 17, 2007 10:34 AM from Even a chimp can write code | 0 Comments Filed under: WPF, Windows Presentation Foundation, Expression Blend

• Announcing Expression Blend Beta 2 and Expression Design Beta 1

  You can now go download Expression Blend Beta 2 as well as Expression Design Beta 1 . Both applications have received significant work since their last incarnation with tons of bugs fixed. Go give 'em a whirl. Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 31, 2007 12:32 AM from IRhetoric - Karsten Januszewski | 0 Comments Filed under: WPF, Avalon, Windows Presentation Foundation (Avalon), Expression Blend