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• 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

• Liberty – Shill?

  Okay, I never thought this was an issue I was likely to face, but the folks in Marketing wanted to run this ad, and so I was faced with that interesting question of what we used to call “Selling Out.” (yeah, yeah, i work for Microsoft, so my radical friends... Posted Sep 12 2008, 05:58 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Recommended Resources, Blend For Programmers, Opinion, Community

• 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

• New Tutorial: DataBinding and Data Templates

  I’m pleased to announce that we’ve posted a new tutorial: DataBinding and Data Templates Using Expression Blend available in HTML and pdf with source code.   This should nicely complement the three new videos on DataBinding An overview of Databinding... Posted Jul 30 2008, 06:53 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Recommended Resources, Tutorials, How Do I Videos, Data Binding, Digging Deeper, Blend For Programmers

• In-State Animation In A Nutshell

  I’ll be covering this in videos and tutorials in depth, but I’ve come to realize that in-state animation is so straight forward that it can be explained in a quick blog entry. In fact, the really hard part is explaining what it is viz: the Visual State... Posted Jul 26 2008, 10:52 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: animation, Digging Deeper, Blend For Programmers, Templates

• Templates and Animation Webcast – Follow up

  I had the pleasure of presenting a Webcast on Templates and Animation today, and as promised, here is the answer to an open question, and the set of links that were mentioned. The videos that may be of help as background information are here Here is the... Posted Jul 23 2008, 01:42 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Webcast, animation, Digging Deeper, Blend For Programmers, VSM, Templates

• Webcast schedule has been updated

  The Webcast schedule has been updated slightly. You can find it here . You can always find it in the sidebar as well: The key change is this September 10 Silverlight Animation and Expression Blend...( read more ) Posted Jul 18 2008, 10:42 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Webcast, Blend For Programmers

• 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 - Three Videos

  I’m very pleased to announce a three part video series (currently listed in reverse order) as companions to my new tutorial ). The three videos are Creating Styles Templates without Visual State Manager Templates and Visual State Manager   The new... Posted Jul 11 2008, 09:11 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Recommended Resources, Digging Deeper, Blend For Programmers, Templates - VSM

• Green Eggs and Blend

  I’m pleased to say that the accident of not recording my first ( new series ) Webcast led to the opportunity to reformulate it as a video, which is now available for viewing or download. This is a brief, somewhat  tongue in cheek overview... Posted Jul 11 2008, 08:57 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Presentations, Recommended Resources, How Do I Videos, 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

• Green Eggs and Ham Webcast Presentation

  I presented the first of a new series of live web casts today in which a number of resources were mentioned. As promised, here are links to all of them Silverlight.net Getting Started Page Learn Page Silverlight Microblog Scott Guthries’s blog entry on... Posted Jun 25 2008, 03:03 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Presentations, Webcast, Recommended Resources, Digging Deeper, Blend For Programmers

• This Ain’t No Ordinary Webcast

  I know flogging your own webcast is bad form, but I’ve been working on this first new webcast for much of the day, and I have to say that if you’re free on Wednesday, you really want to sign up – especially if you attended one of my old webcasts. Just... Posted Jun 23 2008, 11:55 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Presentations, Webcast, Blend For Programmers

• Beta 2 Month

  Beta 2 has been announced, and as you know from Tim’s post and Karen Corby’s , one of the big and wonderful additions to Beta 2 is a new model for skinning Silverlight controls. This is so exciting, and so important, that my plan is to make it a central... Posted Jun 04 2008, 07:28 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Webcast, silverlight 2.0, Tutorials, How Do I Videos, Blend For Programmers, Beta 2, Visual State Manager

• Blend, VS, Events and C#

  From now until the summer I'll be working on videos , tutorials , presentations and blogging, but I'll also be writing Programming Silverlight 2 with Tim Heuer . Rather than convincing you that I'm continually hawking my book, I'd rather... Posted May 18 2008, 08:56 AM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, silverlight 2.0, Digging Deeper, Blend For Programmers, Managed Code