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• 11.11.08
  Silverlight FAQ from TechDays Silverlight, Silverlight 2 | (0)

  Thanks for everyone who came out to the Toronto and Montreal TechDays. The three Silverlight sessions in both cities are extremely popular with long line-up of people wanting to ask questions about after the presentations. Robert Burke (Silverlight Samurai Skills presenter in Toronto), Laurent Duveau (Silverlight Samurai Skills presenter in Montreal), and I (presented Silverlight Control Framework) gathered some frequently asked questions below and provide our answers to share with you. 1. What tools do I need for building Silverlight 2 applications? From the design side, you need  Microsoft Expression Blend 2 and then install Microsoft Expression Blend ...
• 10.19.08
  Silverlight 2 is Released! Expression Blend, Silverlight 2 | (0)

  Earlier this week, we shipped the final release of Silverlight 2! This is an important milestone for us in terms of providing rich media and interactive experiences on the web. Scott Guthrie has a very comprehensive blog post on the improvements of Silverlight 2 RTW. Many of you may already have upgraded to the RTW version without knowing it because we've migrated Silverlight.net to the RTW version over a week ago. Later this month, people who have previous versions of Silverlight will be automatically upgraded to the final Silverlight 2 release. Couple of weeks ago, ...
• 10.10.08
  Cozying Up to Silverlight Controls at TechDays Event, Silverlight, Silverlight 2, User Experience | (0)

  Now the words are out about TechDays and the first stop at Toronto is just around the corner. I'm really excited about the conference because I took up an exciting challenge for myself as a presenter at the Wed Developer track. The challenge has two favors... First is I have been talking about Silverlight as our rich web platform from a user experience perspective for the past year and most often my audience are designers or academics focusing on UX design. I demonstrated to them how to use Expression Studio tools especially Expression Blend to create rich interactive ...
• 09.29.08
  Silverlight 2 Release Candidate Now Available Silverlight 2 | (0)

  Late last week, Scott Guthrie announced the availability of the Silverlight 2 Release Candidate.  This is pretty exciting news as it represents a significant milestone towards the go-live of Silverlight 2.  The RC release of Silverlight 2 represents a developer release with the intent of providing a glimpse of what the final Silverlight 2 product will look and behave like prior to its release.  The reason this is being done in this particular case is that so that Silverlight solutions built with the Beta code can be tested with bits that are considered very close to the go-live release to ...
• 09.15.08
  Deep Zoom Functionality for PowerPoint Office, Silverlight 2 | (0)

  Back in April Qixing wrote a post about how Deep Zoom could provide an innovative way to present slides.  Apparently others have found this idea interesting as well as the Microsoft Office Labs team in Redmond has released a plug-in called pptPlex that allows you to view your PowerPoint 2007 slides in Deep Zoom format.  You can download the plug-in here, but I highly recommend you visit the pptPlex page to view some of the videos describing it and how it can be used. The Microsoft Office Labs team has a number of great ideas that you ...
• 08.05.08
  Silverlight Training in French Expression Studio, Silverlight 2, Training | (0)

  One of our great partners out of Quebec, RunAtServer Consulting, has just created a great, three-day course on Silverlight 2 and they will be conducting it in various cities in Quebec.  The details of the course can be found here and here, but it is a very in-depth course for those of you interested in building really solid and compelling RIAs (Rich Internet Applications) with Silverlight 2. The dates and locations of when and where they will be conducting the course are below for your reference: September 3-5, 2008 (Montreal) November 5-7, 2008 (Quebec) November 19-21, 2008 (Montreal) January 26-28, 2008 (Montreal) I've ...
• 07.28.08
  Microsofties in Residence Silverlight Training - Day 5 Designer/Developer Workflow, Silverlight 2, Training, silverlight training toronto | (0)

  This is it! Day 5 was the last day of our training, and we were scheduled to present our project at 3:30 in the afternoon. The atmosphere in the training room was very intense, and nobody felt there was enough time. From the design side, I needed to restyle the main UI, adding a logo component for our application and a DeepZoom component to indicate the distance between two individuals who are sharing the virtual table. From the development side, John needed to attached drag-n-drop interactions to all the objects on the table and hopefully to work out the detection ...
• 07.26.08
  Microsofties in Residence Silverlight Training - Day 4 Designer/Developer Workflow, Silverlight 2, Training | (0)

  Day 4 involves a lot of hard work (9 am - 12 am). It feels like the crunch time before final projects back in grad school.  At the start of the day, we reviewed each other's progress and decided the underlying messaging framework for two Silverlight applications to communicate with each other was too time consuming to implement. Our priority should be integrating XAML with backend code logic and demo the use cases locally by creating two surface tables on one page. Things we learnt today from our designer-developer workflow: Since Blend doesn't integrate ...
• 07.24.08
  Microsofties in Residence Silverlight Training - Day 3 Designer/Developer Workflow, Silverlight 2, Training | (0)

  John and I started parallel working in Day 3 and chatted back and forth on each other's progress using Office Communicator. On the Design side, I first focused on creating graphical elements in Expression Design. For each of our application scenario: sending gift, touching hands, and playing games, I created graphics for three different states: the normal states, the mouseover state when a user enters the tool/object, and a disable state when a user starts to drag the object onto the surface table. The second part of my work is to create controls and ...
• 06.12.08
  New Silverlight and Expression Blend Beta Expression Blend, Silverlight 2 | (0)

      Last Friday, we released both Silverlight 2 Beta 2 and Expression Blend 2.5 June Preview. This was a major milestone for us. Many features people were asking for in Silverlight and Expression Blend at last week's Silverlight User Group meeting such as rich UI controls, control skinning, and web services are available in the new release. ScottGu has a comprehensive list of new features in his post. Expression Blend Team blog illustrates the detailed new features in Blend and Deep Zoom composers in their latest posts. These are two great places to learn more ...

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