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• Using Blend with Visual Studio

  For the past six months or so I've been experimenting with and then "preaching" the idea of developing with two tools: Expression Blend for the UI and Visual Studio for the code.  This has paid big dividends for me in productivity and it... Posted Nov 09 2008, 12:29 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: XAML, Tools, Digging Deeper, Blend For Programmers, Building Apps, Observations, Dependency Properties

• Toolkit release & Themes

  Today at Microsoft PDC , Scott Guthrie demonstrated some of the new controls that have been provided as a part of the Silverlight Toolkit .  The Silverlight Toolkit was what was previously named the Silverlight Control Pack in the press release when... Posted Oct 28 2008, 02:33 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: XAML, user interface, Blend For Programmers, Themes

• Throwing Together An Application

  Creating a Quick and Dirty App in Silverlight There comes a point, usually within 3-6 months after I commit to a new technology, when it becomes my platform of choice for throwing together quick applications… when I just find it easier to think in terms... Posted Sep 15 2008, 12:17 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: XAML, Tools, Blend For Programmers, Building Apps, App Development, Walk-throughs

• A third way to handle Templated Buttons & Images

  In yesterday’s blog post I suggested that there were two solutions to crating a templated button that used an image. One was to create a different template for each image (yuck) and the other was to create a custom temlpated button. A third, and excellent... Posted Aug 07 2008, 01:16 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: XAML, Webcast, Digging Deeper, Blend For Programmers, Templates, Multi-page, Building Apps

• Three New Videos On Data Binding

  I’m pleased to announce that we’ve posted three new videos on DataBinding and on DataTemplates (creating templates that control the display of a collection of data in a list control such as a list box) Unfortunately, we swapped the images for the Blend... Posted Jul 17 2008, 09:47 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: XAML, How Do I Videos, Data Binding, Digging Deeper, Blend For Programmers

• Styles and Templates

  I’m about to release a tutorial and a few videos on Styles and Templates. To set the stage, I wanted to discuss one aspect of templating in Silverlight that is in some ways revolutionary. The designers of the Silverlight 2 control libraries established... Posted Jul 05 2008, 08:36 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: XAML, Digging Deeper, Blend For Programmers, Styles and Templates