Disabling design view in Visual Studios
For those that missed my blog earlier today, I am going through the Victor Gaudioso’s book on Blend 2, and one of the first things he has you do is create your application, not in blend, but in Visual...
View ArticleChapter 2′s “Hello World”
Going through Victor’s book – chapter 2 is fairly short, but the “lab” at the end of it, the typical “Hello World” which is seen, as he mentions in his book, in most every book or introductory guide to...
View ArticleVictor’s book, Chap 2 – Alert! A discrepency is spotted!
There is no possible way to actually get through and locate every single error and discrepency in a book. The hundreds of times the author and editors comb through the book and modify things – by the...
View ArticleXamlFest – 2 day training
The most recent group meeting with the Seattle Developer / Designer Interaction group was great – I think one of the most fun that we’ve had so far. One of those attending was development Evangelist,...
View ArticleI’m not the engineer
Its been about 2 weeks since I completed Victor Gaudioso’s book on Blend 2 and just after I wrote the review on his book, I blogged that next on the order of business was to start going through the...
View ArticleCreating a Silverlight project in Visual Studio vs. Blend
You’d think that the creation of a project in either Blend or Visual Studio, that they would start the entire solution with the same files. Unfortunately that is not the case, and this is bad, not...
View Article2 perspectives on animations
On one hand, a friend of mine tells me, “Man, don’t even worry about the XAML – just design, use Blend, go crazy. Be artistic.” and on the other hand, I have a different friend who groans at the messy...
View ArticleFun commenting in c#
There’s this little piece of FacingBlend that I originally designed just as an icon and my buddy David said, “Hey! You should make that into the REAL THING!” So I did – I made it larger. There were a...
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Look ma’! I made Simon in Silverlight 2!
If you’re so inclined, you should join me in doing a happy dance! Its finally ready! Presenting: Simon, in Silverlight 2! I’ve had this sitting on the front and back burners for the last… few months...
View ArticleHow did I miss this site?
A friend just sent me a link to this site and I’m having to wonder what closet I’ve been living in for not having seen nor heard about this site at all. The tagline says it all, “SilverZine -...
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