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• Cutting Shapes in Expression Blend

  Somebody asked the other day how one can cut a shape in Blend. Blend doesn’t currently have a scissor tool, but Blend has a set of geometric operations that can be used for this. Suppose we have a shape like this: And now suppose you want to cut... Posted Aug 24 2008, 01:04 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: expression, blend, tutorial, Geometry

• New VSM Tutorials by Celso Gomes

  See http://www.nibblestutorials.net/ for a bunch of great tutorials with Blend. In particular, Celso just posted a tutorial for VSM. See the Blend 2.5 & Silverlight 2 section…...( read more ) Posted Jun 09 2008, 08:40 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: silverlight, expression, WPF, blend, tutorial

• Silverlight Animations (Part 1 - Basic Animation)

  Creating animations is one of the main reasons for even being interested in Silverlight and so I'm going to put together a series of posts that go over Silverlight animations - from dead simple to sophisticated and cool. Along the way, I'll be... Posted Mar 20 2008, 07:40 PM by Blogs Filed under: silverlight, blend, animation

• Download Links for MIX08 Announcements

  Here's a consolidated list of all the key downloads you'll need to update your developer workstation to the latest and greatest technologies announced this morning: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Windows Vista / Windows Server 2008 (x86) Windows Vista... Posted Mar 05 2008, 03:57 PM by Blogs Filed under: silverlight, expression, ASP.NET, blend, Mix08, silverlight 2.0, ie

• The New Iteration: A Whitepaper on the XAML Revolution

  Whenever we run a WPF or Silverlight training event or lab, the one question that is guaranteed to come up relates to the designer / developer workflow on a project team. In the old days of Win32 or Windows Forms, the workflow was straightforward (albeit... Posted Dec 07 2007, 08:26 PM by Blogs Filed under: silverlight, WPF, Design, XAML, blend, whitepaper, workflow, user interface

• Attend the WPF Virtual Bootcamp - no need to register!

  People frequently ask me how they can learn WPF quickly. Now the technology has been on the market for a while, there are a number of different choices: books from the likes of Petzold , Moroney , Nathan , MacDonald , Anderson and Sells/Griffiths , classroom... Posted Oct 26 2007, 05:49 PM by Blogs Filed under: silverlight, WPF, lab, events, training, presentation, blend, cider, screencast

• Silverlight 1.0 RC1 is Here!

  As indicated in a previous post , we're homing in on the launch of Silverlight 1.0, and today marks another milestone with the launch of the first release candidate. Since the beta we released at MIX, we've fixed approximately 2000 bugs and work... Posted Jul 27 2007, 03:00 PM by Blogs Filed under: silverlight, expression, Visual Studio, blend, media encoder