One of the things that I’ve been fascinated by since last year’s MIX conference is the motion design in place in Windows Phone 7. In a past life I worked as a video producer and I’m always stunned to see how well people respond to beautiful animations… especially in interface design. You can see this…
In the comments of my Silverlight unemployment visualization, someone asked about where I got the US outline. I got it from the WikiCommons website which has an SVG (scalable vector graphics) version that I pulled into Adobe Illustrator and then exported as a XAML file using Mike Swanson’s Illustrator-to-XAML plugin. I realized this might not…
Thanks to Joe McBride and Jason Alderman, who discovered this technique in some of Microsoft’s theme packs. I’m trying something a little new… I’m going to post all future Silverlight tutorials on CodeRun, an online IDE. Basically, just follow the link below and click “Run” and you’ll see this in action. You can change the…
I finally cleaned out my Google Reader list and picked out the stuff I like. Carsonified » 5 Advanced Photoshop Techniques for Web Designers Carsonified » Advanced Photoshop Techniques for Web Designers – Part 2 Source code for “WPF Control Development Unleashed” – From Pavan Podila, control development in WPF is pretty powerful… might be…
UPDATED 05/22/09 In the comments, someone mentioned that the project wasn’t working properly for keyed scrolling. I’ve updated the project with: Key scrolling (left, right, up, down, page up, page down) CanKeyboardScroll property on the AnimatedScrollViewer so that keyboard scrolling can be turned off ScrollToSelectedItem property on the AnimatedListBox so that the user can have…
First things first, here are my INotifyPropertyChanged snippets. INotifyPropertyChanged snippet (PropertyChangedEventHandler and RaisePropertyChanged method) INotifyPropertyChanged Property snippet Just download them into your "Visual Studio 2008CodeSnippetsVisual C#My CodeSnippets" folder and they should work. Just type "notify" and intellisense should show you "notifyo" (for NotifyObject) and "notifyp" (for NotifyProperty). Hit tab twice and the code should dump…
I’ve been meaning to totally overhaul my Wiimote WPF visualizer for weeks now and I simply haven’t been able to find the time. But in the meantime, people keep having problems with my old version. So… my solution is to get my semi-updated version out there. This version works with the latest version of Brian…
I was working on a project recently and I wanted one of my layout controls to have a different margin based on a certain piece of data. (It’s a long story… let’s just say that this is a good post if you want to change properties of a control based on a piece of data…
I’d been holding out on this post in the interest of getting it just right. I think with more time I would add more stuff, but I stumbled across Scott Barnes’ post “I hate it when a designer touches XAML” and I knew that I need to get this posted. Here we have these fantastic…
Karsten Januszewski has a post on getting intellisense into Blend. Apparently it only works for WPF (it “works” for Silverlight, but it pulls from the WPF XML schema, which sounds like it could be more confusing than useful). I’ve been begging for this for a while. I’m glad to see it in there… its has…