Silverlight tutorial: How to use ChildWindow (webcast)

This Silverlight tutorial (webcast) will show you how to use and customize ChildWindow object. ChildWindow can be used as a pop-up dialog or window in your Silverlight 3 applications. This webcast shows how to add, launch, change background overlay color and opacity and position your ChildWindow.

Silverlight tutorial: Play HD YouTube videos with Silverlight

You can play HD YouTube videos with Silverlight 3 easily. Basically, since Silverlight 3 supports H.264 format you can create your own media player and play high definition video content directly from YouTube in your Silverlight application. Let me show you how you can do it…

WPF ribbon control roadmap and look into the future

It is not a secret that Microsoft is developing its own WPF ribbon control. By default it will support Office 2007 (Fluent) user interface style and newer, Scenic Ribbon for Windows 7. I’ve blogged about this and now let’s take a look at changes planned for V1 and when can we expect it.

Shine Draw – your Silverlight vs Flash blog (and one year of UXPassion.com)

Shine Draw - Silverlight vs Flash logoToday is exactly one year from the first article published here on UXPassion.com and today is the day when I’d like to introduce you to Shine Draw blog. His author Terence Tsang from Hong Kong is my colleague Microsoft MVP and hooked on all things Silverlight vs Flash. We are also announcing an interesting partnership.

Expression Blend tutorial: Introduction to Blend 3 user interface (webcast)

In this Expression Blend 3 tutorial I’m going to introduce you to the new Blend 3 user interface and some significant changes. I will explain new way for customizing your workspace, Assets and Visual States manager panes, Behaviors, Effects and some basic code editing (XAML and C#) improvements. Enjoy this webcast!