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• Announcing Family.Show 2.0

  Three months ago, we launched Family.Show, our first end-to-end reference sample for WPF. Family.Show is a genealogy program that demonstrates the usage of WPF for a complex, realistic scenario. If you're a fledgling WPF developer who wants to pore over some code that demonstrates best practices for application construction, there's nothing better out there today. In the intervening months, we've had many thousands of downloads of both the binary and the source code. We've had several offers to localize the application into languages ranging from Spanish to Russian, many people have sent in feature requests, and we've had some great feedback about the application itself. Here's a few examples: "This is incredible application. So nice and powerful. That is exactly what I am searching for in applications: Simplicity, Power and Beauty... You cannot imagine how many people was impressed by it, including myself." "This is just a gorgeous program. The graphics are extremely scalable, the visuals Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 17, 2007 2:26 PM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: WPF, Expression, Sample, RIA, blend

• Hours of Free Training on Expression Blend and Design

  Arturo Toledo (one of our ace designers) posted a reminder on an internal email list that lynda.com have heaps of free training on Expression Blend and Expression Design available as screencasts. The Expression Blend material is presented by Lee Brimelow (author of the well known blog thewpfblog.com ) and progresses through from a basic overview of the tool to specific techniques for dealing with text, animation, 3D, media, layout, controls and data. There's just over sixty individual nuggets - Dr Sneath prescribes that you take two a day for a month and you'll feel great! I haven't looked so closely at the Expression Design material , but it's similarly comprehensive if the syllabus is to be believed. Ted LoCascio is the author of the six and a half hours of material available here. They also have paid-for material on many other topics, including Expression Web. My only frustration is that they missed a trick by producing the material in QuickTime format. Hopefully they'll see the light, Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 05, 2007 4:15 PM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: WPF, Design, Expression, silverlight, silverlight streaming, blend

• WPF / Expression Technical Chat: February 21st

  We had a pretty successful online technical chat in December , where we brought about twenty members of the WPF team together to answer your technical questions and listen to your feedback. Based on the response, we're going to host a similar event at the end of this month, covering both WPF and Expression Blend. If you're working on a WPF application as a developer or designer, or even just thinking of using WPF, you'll get a lot of value out of this, I think. Specifically in this chat, as well as general technical Q&A, we'd love to hear even more in the way of feedback from yourselves on what we're doing right and wrong with WPF. What would you like to see in the next release of WPF? We'll hopefully give you a bit of information about our current plans and invite feedback. The chat takes place on Wednesday, February 21st 2007 at 11am Pacific (that's 2pm Eastern, 7pm UK/GMT, 8pm Europe). Use this link to add an appointment to your calendar, and use this link to enter the chatroom on Read More... Posted Monday, February 05, 2007 5:44 PM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: WPF, msdn, chat, Expression, events

• New Screencast Show on WPF and Expression

  The first show of a potentially great new series on WPF and Expression has just hit the wires . Andrew and Dax are going to do a series of screencasts covering the use of .NET Framework 3.0 presentation technologies over the next few months. In this first episode, they use Expression Blend to bind a Flickr RSS feed to a WPF application. This looks like a very promising series... One small piece of constructive criticism - I'm not hugely enamored of the way the WMV files are compressed with a utility that requires admin rights to open it. Judging from their website, it looks like you should be able to extract the movie with WinRAR as an alternative. Maybe they'll switch to something simple and ubiquitous like zip moving forward... (hint, hint!) Read More... Posted Monday, February 05, 2007 11:20 AM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: WPF, Expression, flickr, screencast