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Nice video over on BlendInsiders giving an overview of using Blend for Windows 8 Metro style apps. Watch over here . Don't give up on it at the "Hello World" point - it goes quite a way beyond that.
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It was a long weekend here in the UK and it rained a little and so I had a bit of spare time to put together a make-it-up-as-you-go-along screencasts around a simplistic Windows 8 metro style app that lets me play music from albums found in my music library. I chose to do this in HTML and JavaScript...
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At last week’s Windows 8 developer events in London , I did a simple demo of putting together a flickR search for photographs using the Windows 8 Metro style app search contract. I didn’t implement all of the search contract, just a little of it and we didn’t get into how your application is launched...
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An additional resource I should definitely have added to the list that I published the other day around Windows 8 and Metro style app development; I’ve been a big Blend user for quite a number of years and while I thought that the preview that came out back at BUILD in September was a revelation in that...
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Silverlight 5 has been released today – you can find the official announcement over on the Silverlight site along with a link to the download and a list of the improvements in Silverlight 5 up on MSDN including features like; platform invocation integration of the PivotViewer control 3D Graphics capabilities...
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If you moved to the Silverlight 5 RC then you’d probably be wanting the companion version of Expression Blend. Microsoft Expression Blend Preview for Silverlight 5 Enjoy
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I’d managed to get my Windows Phone upgraded to the ‘Mango’ developer beta 2 release and so I thought I’d revisit my amazing ContactShare application that I’d built against the RTM version of Windows Phone. Firstly, I thought it’d be good to do a quick review and see how well my application had...
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I’ve been asked about what will happen at the BUILD conference ( http://www.buildwindows.com ) many times over the past few weeks and how it will or won’t affect existing client technologies like Silverlight, WPF and so on. There’s very little that I can say around this area – the company is, understandably...
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The videos from the recent Tech.Days Live event are available and one of those is the excellent Gill Cleeren of Ordina talking about RIA Services; View this video as a WMV This is served up via smooth streaming so if you have decent bandwidth then you should get a pretty good quality 1280x720 stream...
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The videos from the recent Tech.Days Live event are available and one of those is the excellent Laurent Bugnion of IdentityMine who did an excellent session around MVVM which you can enjoy from here; View this video as a WMV This is served up via smooth streaming so if you have decent bandwidth then...
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The videos from the recent Tech.Days Live event are available and one of those is the excellent Rich Griffin of XamlNinja.com taking you through a two part session on Expression Blend; Practical tips for use of the tool A worked example going from artwork through to implementation Rich is an MVP for...
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The videos from the recent Tech.Days Live event are available and one of those is my own session on “What’s New in Silverlight 5?”. You can find the main Tech.Days site by clicking on the image below; This is an overview where I try and give reasonable coverage to most/all of the new features that are...
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I wanted to have a bit of fun with Windows Phone 7 and so I thought I’d build a little application as a background task. One thing that I miss from previous phones is that scenario where you meet someone and want to quickly swap contact details. With previous phones there was a notion of “beam contact...
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If you’ve been around Silverlight a little then you’ll know that there’s a framework called the Silverlight Media Framework (or SMF for short which is pronounced Smurf ) and it contains a tonne of pre-written code for playing media including things like smooth streaming support and so on. If you’ve been...
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I did a fun talk on Expression Blend at the recent DevDays conference at the Hague in Holland. The basic idea of this talk was to (as much as possible in 75 minutes) take Expression Blend from scratch through to putting something together that involved things like; layout, resources, styles, data-binding...