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• Showing off the power of Silverlight 2.0 - Windows Media Player redone

  A couple of months ago I recreated the Windows Media Player interface using Blend and Silverlight 1.1 alpha refresh, I wired up the UI so that it behaved similar to the actual application. It had a lot of code in the code behind that managed the resizing... Posted Mar 17 2008, 05:23 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, Blend, Technology, Blend Candy

• Blend Candy: How to create a Gold and Sparkly effect

  In this post I’m going to get creative, I’m going to create something shinny and sparkly. Recently I saw a great adobe Photoshop tutorial showing how to achieve a “gold effect“. I wanted to try to re-create that same gold effect... Posted Jan 26 2008, 05:45 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, Technology, Blend Candy

• "Colour the World" - my version of an iPod Touch Colour Picker done with SilverLight

  I shouldn’t have to tell you of the importance a great colour scheme has on the success of your application or web site. To create that amazing user experience you have to have a great UI and one of the most important ingredients to a great UI is... Posted Jan 11 2008, 05:53 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, Technology, Blend Candy, Projects

• Blend Candy - Windows Media Player

  In a previous post, “Blue glowing glass button”, I confessed my adoration for the user interface of windows media player 10. I talked about how I loved the dark coloured theme, the glowing effect of the buttons and the glass effect overall... Posted Jan 01 2008, 04:07 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Silverlight, Blend, Technology, Blend Candy

• Blend Candy : Another Blue Glowing Glass Button in the style of Web 2.0

  Does anyone else here like the Windows Media Player UI besides me? I have to admit that I’m a sucker when it comes to rich dark colored UI’s. I love black and I love the glass effect. [screen shot of my Windows Media Player 11 - Beautiful... Posted Nov 09 2007, 01:11 AM by Community Blogs Filed under: Technology, Blend Candy

• Blend candy - have a drink on me!

  I’ve started actively posting again, as if you haven’t noticed! I’ve been dead busy at work but have now forced myself to make time for my SilverLight passion! I’ve got so many small SilverLight projects running in parallel, and... Posted Nov 03 2007, 06:05 PM by Community Blogs Filed under: Technology, Blend Candy