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Just a note to say my first part of a six part Silverlight tutorial for Expression Newsletter has just been sent out, you can read the full tutorial here: http://expression.microsoft.com/en-us/dd279541.aspx - hopefully after this tutorial you will be familiar with the basic concepts of styles, templates and storyboards within Blend and ...

Nothing too exciting about this, I am building a Silverlight project for a client and thought I'd compare how the Flash player and the Silverlight plugin handle font display. Without tweaking any advance settings, here they are - guess which is which then right-click to see the answer ;) The font used is FF DIN Medium, embedded.  ...

Click here to view the Silverlight Skin demo You will need the Beta 2 plugin from here. Since Silverlight 2 Beta 2 came out and trashed my Beta 1 skin that I'd lovingly hand-crafted in code view, and with the new June preview version of Expression Blend with the super-helpful Visual State Manager (VSM) I decided to have another crack at the ...

My first attempt at 3D animation using Maya, hosted with silverlight streaming

Here are couple of thoughts on what's great about the new Microsoft technologies: WPF and Silverlight. It's making it easier for both designers and developers to create good quality work, and to produce it faster! Current scenario vs WPF approach Typical current scenario: Designer creates a design in Photoshop, passes it over to ...