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Designer Tool: A piece of software focused on conceptual design work. Typically used by design professionals where creating original art is the main focus of their job.  – Unofficial Unpublished Stockton Dictionary of terms Tool for Design: A piece of software focused on production design work....

Expression Blend: Designer Tool or Tool for Design →

A number of people left comments both here and at Channel 9 in response to my Pre-Loader / Splash Page post and show. Apparently people frequently run into an issue where when using a pre-loader, if the main app loads too quickly, neither app ends up loading correctly and the user is left with a blank...

Addressing the Pre-Loader Issue →

I recently had the privilege of recording an episode of Silverlight TV with John Papa where we discussed the creation of Splash pages in Silverlight. This post is a companion post to that episode so if you haven’t watched it yet, be sure to check it out after (or before) reading this post. Sample code...

Silverlight Splash Page →

Once again it’s almost time for Microsoft’s premier conference for anyone involved in the web: Mix. Building upon the success of last year, I am hoping to present again this year. This time though, things are a bit different. I can’t just schmooze a bunch of MS corporate types to try get a session approved...

My Mix10 Sessions – I hope →

I had the honor this week of being named a Microsoft Silverlight MVP! For those of you that don’t know what the MVP program is all about can read about it here . Basically this is acknowledgment by Microsoft of the commitment to community and technical expertise of individuals based on their activities...

Silverlight MVP! →

Hopefully everyone reading this already knows about CodePlex . You do right? No? Well, CodePlex is basically an open source hosting site. It’s a great way to add source control and collaborators to a project. It also is a great place to have your code when you are ready to distribute it to the world...

CodePlex, now with Silverlight →

If you’ve seen/read/heard anything about Silverlight, you probably know by now that it can do animations. In fact, Silverlight has fairly rich animation support. I would like to point out right off that I am a developer, not a designer, and that this post is aimed at other developers. As developers...

Silverlight Animations: What are KeySplines and why should you care? →

About 6 months ago I wrote a little piece about how to create simple animations. It would seem that the thing people liked best about that post was not the animation itself but the way in which I included it inline with text. So here’s a little post on how to create that effect. Creating this look is...

Silverlight Trick: Inline Silverlight Apps →

Over the next few weeks, Gavin Leader and I will be giving lunch-time training sessions on Silverlight to our co-workers at Ascentium . While these classes are limited to Ascentium employees, we will be posting a series of articles chronicling this training process. If you work at Ascentium and are not...

Silverlight Training: Week 1 – Introduction to Silverlight →

Apparently, getting a book ready to publish is a lot of work, who knew :). Chad and I have both been working hard at making sure our content is up to date with the latest releases, which means the newly released RC0. Luckily for you, our efforts mean that those of you who have purchased the MEAP version...

Silverlight 2 in Action - SALE! →