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• From-To Animation vs. Linear Keyframe

  In much of the writing about animation in Silverlight, one question that seems to  recurs is this: why bother with a linear key-frame animation if it is less intuitive and more complex than a simple from-to animation Let’s back up and examine that... Posted Aug 17 2008, 08:09 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: XAML, animation, Digging Deeper, Transforms

• Four Transforms

  I haven’t really written much about transforms in a long while. We looked at them in depth during the Silverlight 1.0 time frame and then more or less took them for granted ever since. It may be time for a review – perhaps a quick video (it’s on my list... Posted Aug 16 2008, 09:21 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: XAML, Digging Deeper, Transforms

• 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

• Web Cast and Digging Deeper

  Today I had the pleasure of presenting a web cast on building an application with more than one page and passing data among those pages. I have 2 videos on this topic, so if you missed the web cast and are interested, you may find this first video on... Posted Aug 06 2008, 11:25 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Webcast, Digging Deeper, Templates, Multi-page

• Page Switching With Parameters (the short version)

  I recently finished Part 2 of Page Switching in which I demonstrate how to pass parameters between Silverlight pages (this video is in production and should be available soon.) A reader asked if I could provide the essential information, so here... Posted Aug 01 2008, 12:46 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: How Do I Videos, Digging Deeper

• Programming Silverlight 2 – Jesse Liberty & Tim Heuer

  I do not pre-announce books. That said, this book is likely to be of significant interest to this community, and so, now that it is officially listed on Amazon , I thought it reasonable to mention that it is on the way, and that Tim and I are exceedingly... Posted Jul 31 2008, 08:50 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, silverlight 2.0, Recommended Resources, Digging Deeper, Community

• 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

• Digging Deeper: Templates and the Visual State Manager

  There has been a number of requests for videos, tutorials and Webcasts that dive deeper. A few weeks ago I scheduled a Webcast for this Wednesday to cover  the Visual State Manager which presents a good opportunity to do so. During this Webcast I... Posted Jul 20 2008, 10:27 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Webcast, Digging Deeper, Templates - VSM

• 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

• 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

• Progressive Metal – And, oh yeah, Silverlight

  Do you have fits of interest? I go through bursts of reading fiction and I’ll find myself reading everything I can get by suddenly favorite authors (lately it has been Ian McEwan, and  Cormac McCarthy) Atonement by Ian McEwan Read more about this... Posted Jun 29 2008, 12:58 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Digging Deeper, 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