Monthly Archives: July 2009

SketchFlow: A Bit of History

Posted on July 23, 2009 by Peter Loebel

SketchFlow, the dynamic prototyping toolset for Expression Blend, has now officially graduated! You can get a trial here. As I always love to see how people, ideas or products evolve, I thought you might enjoy a quick look into the … Continue reading →

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Prism’s Plugin Architecture

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Peter Loebel

URL: http://wildermuth.com/downloads/CustomModularit… I  (Shawn Wildermuth) was with a client recently and we were looking at refactoring some of their system to use Prism. This client had created a lot of infrastructure to do what Prism does (before Prism was released … Continue reading →

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Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization resources

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Peter Loebel

In the time since posting my last collection of Silverlight/WPF Charting links, there’s been some great activity! Of particular significance, the June 2009 WPF Toolkit includes the same Data Visualization goodness that was introduced for Silverlight and the July 2009 … Continue reading →

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New controls in Silverlight 3

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Peter Loebel

Silverlight 3 runtime and SDK introduce many new controls. Some of these controls were previously released as part of the Silverlight Toolkit and some are completely new. Regardless of their origins, since they are now part of the Silverlight 3 … Continue reading →

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Import Photoshop files to Blend 3

Posted on July 21, 2009 by Peter Loebel

Many graphic designers are comfortable with using Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator. When designing an interface, you might find yourself duplicating efforts  if creating your designs first in Adobe Photoshop and then again in Expression Blend. But with the introduction of … Continue reading →

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Expression Blend Samples

Posted on July 21, 2009 by Peter Loebel

This project contains a collection of useful sample behaviors and effects for use in Expression Blend. Media Behaviors PlayMedia Action to play a media element. PauseMedia Action to pause a media element. TogglePlayPauseMedia Toggles a media element between play and … Continue reading →

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Public Clouds,Are they any different?

Posted on July 21, 2009 by Peter Loebel

The Azure pricing seems to be finally out. Here’s my take on the announcement. http://www.microsoft.com/azure/pricing.mspx I have taken a stab at comparing the Azure pricing versus value proposition vis-à-vis that of the two other major cloud providers in the market today. Let … Continue reading →

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iPhone_Silverlight MonoTouch Roadmap

Posted on July 21, 2009 by Peter Loebel

This is what we would like to see happen with MonoTouch, priorities and goals will change based on what we hear from developers. Version 2.0 Silverlight to iPhone compiler. There will be Limitations on it. Debugger support. Expand the API … Continue reading →

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