Learning more about WPF and Silverlight
Posted in Expression on Nov 13th, 2009
Do you have a WPF shader effect that you are proud of? Do you want to bask in the adulation of your peers? Or do you just want to show off your HLSL prowess?
Your shader could be part of the ShaderGallery, the free Expression Blend effects add-in.
Send me a copy of your shaders [...]
Posted in Expression, PDC, Silverlight, WPF on Nov 13th, 2009
One of the neatest additions to Expression Blend 3 is the Effects pane. You’ll find it in the Asset panel.
This makes it dead simple to add an effect to an item on the Blend Artboard. Just drag the effect onto the desired item and you get an instant effect.
The effect is easy to [...]
Posted in PDC on Nov 12th, 2009
Here’s a list of the Expression Blend specific talks next week at PDC 09.
SketchFlow: Prototyping to the Rescue
See how SketchFlow lets designers and developers create, distribute, review and evolve compelling, rich prototypes cost-effectively and easily. Learn how SketchFlow can help you improve your designs through rapid prototyping, and how you can extend and adapt [...]
Here’s a list of the Windows 7 and DirectX specific talks next week at PDC 09.
Windows 7 and Graphics
Windows Touch Deep Dive
Windows provides applications a default experience for gestures and touch interaction. Applications that want to go beyond that basic experience have a powerful platform to build on top of. This session is targeted [...]
Posted in PDC, Silverlight on Nov 10th, 2009
Here’s a list of the Silverlight specific talks next week at PDC 09.
Silverlight
Getting the Most out of Microsoft Silverlight 3
This is an all day workshop on Monday. It promises to be full of great content from developers working in the Silverlight trenches.
Come learn how the robust features of Silverlight 3 help developers to create [...]
A common dilemma while attending big conferences is choosing which sessions to attend. Look around you at break time and you’ll see scores of attendees analyzing the conference schedule and making pencil marks next to the talks they find interesting. Once they’ve settled on a plan they scurry off to the session, grabbing a few [...]
Posted in PDC on Nov 4th, 2009
You probably don’t need me to tell you that the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference (affectionately known as PDC) is coming up soon. There are still plenty of tickets left for the event. Come on down, I’ll buy you a mocha.
Posted in Prism, Silverlight on Nov 2nd, 2009
The February 2009 release of the Composite WPF supported WPF and Silverlight 2. Since that time Microsoft released Silverlight 3 which contains plenty of great new features. Last week, Microsoft released a version (October 2009) of Composite WPF that supports Silverlight 3. There are only a few minor changes in this release; here is a [...]
