My editor at Sams (hey Neil :)) and I decided to convert the book I am almost done writing into an Unleashed. There are multiple reasons for that, the most important being that the book addresses multiple audiences, and has a broad range of coverage, which is typical of the Unleashed series. The content goes enough in depth (according to Neil) to be placed in the Unleashed series. While the Unleashed series usually targets more advanced users than the Teach Yourself one, this book has lots of content

Currently, Expression Blend does not have a scissor tool which allows you to cut shapes like you can in Expression Design. Instead, what you do have are geometric operations that allow you to not only achieve a similar result as “cutting a shape” but...( read more )

Wow. That's an incredible feeling, seeing my name on Amazon :) The book is in pre-order!! I'd better get back to editing it then :)

I've been working since September 2007 (more or less) on an upcoming Silverlight book titled "Teach Yourself Silverlight in 24 Hours" at Sams. This book will be aimed at beginners with the technology (and maybe even beginners in programming). The reader is walked (with a lot of code samples and step-by-step examples) through most features of this amazing technology. The book has 24 chapters, each of them taking more or less (maybe rather a little more than a little less, to be honest :)) one hour

In Blend you use the Pen tool to draw lines and they appear in the XAML as <Path> elements. But after you’ve drawn your lines and you test your application, the Paths appear immediately: they don’t replay the gestures you used to create...( read more )

A few months ago, we asked you for feedback on what are some of the things you would like to see improved in Expression Blend. You all had a lot of great suggestions...A LOT. If you are interested in helping us both implement some of the feedback but...( read more )

Je viens de voir passer ce post, sur le blog de Stefan Dobrev, qui devrait faire plaisir à plus d'une personne En effet, il a développé un petit addin à Expression Blend qui lui permet d'avoir... l'Intellisense: Le téléchargement et la procédure...

One of the things that we are planning on doing is providing easier access to learning content. Besides the influx of learning content (videos, articles, etc.) we will be generating ourselves, we also want to link to content around the web that many of...( read more )

You’re probably very familiar with Content in WPF and Silverlight. For example, two Buttons can use the same Template but can look different by virtue of having different Content in them. And the Content property is of type object so it can be Text, or...( read more )

A great site that covers designer-oriented Expression Blend topics is Celso Gomes’s Nibbles Tutorials site: This all-Silverlight site features some nice articles on how you can use Blend to create WPF, Silverlight 1, and Silverlight 2 applications. He...( read more )