MIX08: Ten Code Snippets to Empower Your Inner Artist
Learn how to increase what a designer can do with WPF and Silverlight using our designer's code "toolbos"-10 simple concepts that will give you an edge when making your best ideas a reality. We share the code, teach you how to use it and introduce the concepts behind it.
MIX08: Making It Simple - Developer / Designer Worfklow
How do you combine a designer's vision with the requirements of productive software? Left brain / right brain workflow is a sophisticated problem that impacts us all but has no easy answers. Industry experts will share their learnings and invite you to join in on a lively discussion about their merits and costs of different approaches.
Redmonk Podcast: RIA Weekly Episode No. 5
A few months ago, I had the chace to sit down with (well, have a telephone call with) Michael Coté and Ryan Steward to discuss the future of Silverlight and RIAs.
Channel 9: Designers, Developers and Integrators
You may be a developer who sometimes does layout or has to spend time slicing images to stuff into your UI. Or you may be a designer who wants to get that control to function a certain way, so much that you crack open the code. These hybrid tasks exist and in my mind have become more pronounced with new client technologies like WPF and SIlverlight. Enter the Integrator or at least the recognition of Integration tasks.
MIX07: ZAP! WHAM! KAPOW! - WPF and the Next Generation of Comic Reading
Come see us demonstrate the development of the comic reading experience using Microsoft Expression suite of design tools. Just as the NY Times Reader project dramatically improves the newspaper reading experience, our WPF-based approach to comic reading does the same thing for traditional print-based comic books.
Expression Launch Event: Designing Windows Experiences
Join two top designers as they show how they created next generation experiences using Expression Blend and Expression Design. Learn best practices for creating experiences that are anything but lowest-common-denominator.
Channel 9: Reskin Your Application with the KevinButton
With Windows Presentation Foundation, we want to make it possible for you to build a more emotional connection with your users. In this video, Kevin Moore and Robby Ingebretsen take this to its extreme as they show you how to build KevinButton using styles and templates. What would Windows look like if these guys were in charge of the whole interface, I wonder?
MIX06: A Designer's Overview of WPF
Windows Presentation Foundation (formerly code named "Avalon") is Microsoft's new graphic presentation technology that includes support for: advanced typography, layout, rich media, vector and 3D graphics. WPF changes the way designers and developers collaborate. In this designer-oriented session, learn about the process, technologes and design tools available for WPF applications that run on the desktop or in the browser.