Microsoft’s .toolbox website plans to teach you Silverlight, Expression Studio and UX design principles and fundamentals. You can choose from two available tracks (Design Scenarios and Design Principles), learn a lot, collect badges and brag about that. And you get all that in a nicely designed and packed website.

Several days ago I’ve received message with link to the InsideRIA. Mike Slinn of the InsideRIA has posted interesting article about job trends regarding Silverlight, Flex and JavaFX. If you go to the Indeed webpage and search for these keywords, you might be surprised. Here are some really interesting facts.

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.

Expression Studio 3 and all tools (Blend 3, Web 3, Design 3 and Encoder 3) now have new logos, large, beautiful icons and visual identity – in one word – branding. Take a look at the collection of new logotypes, brand new icons and other branding elements. Basic colors and related visual identities have been preserved, though.

Expression Studio 3 now including Expression Blend 3, Web 3, Design 3 and Encoder 3 is available as of today for download. Number of improvements, targeting Silverlight 3 and rich designer experience are just some of the coolest additions. SketchFlow in Expression Blend 3, SuperPreview in Expression Web 3 – just to name a few…

Silverlight 3 has been just released by Microsoft. This release brings in bunch of new features and support for out of browser experience. Also, Expression Blend 3 with SketchFlow is now available for download as a release candidate. In this article I am sharing resources and news about these releases as well as some background info for you.

Recently there has been an interesting discussion about Silverlight penetration and market share. As always, people tend to connect Flash and Silverlight and use the market share as a single most important metrics – but here, I’m sharing some really cool, interesting and surprising (?) facts about Silverlight market share.

Expression Blend 3 brings a bunch of new and exciting features. They target designers and also address some challenges regarding designer – developer collaboration. SketchFlow, Behaviours, support for PSD and AI file import are some of the coolest new features.