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Free WPF ribbon control RTW now available for free download

UXPassion.com — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:52:35 +0000

It's been a while. But now, free WPF ribbon control is available as free download for all of you. And not – it's not a wrapper – it's a real deal – and it also come with application templates and design-time support for Expression Blend and Visual Studio. By popular demand – you can expect more WPF tutorials for ribbon control.

.toolbox: Learn Silverlight, Expression Studio and UX design

UXPassion.com — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:39:11 +0000

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.

RIA jobs market trends: Silverlight vs Flex vs JavaFX

UXPassion.com — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:05:28 +0000

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.

WPF ribbon control roadmap and look into the future

UXPassion.com — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:24:38 +0000

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.

New Microsoft Expression 3 logos, large icons and branding

UXPassion.com — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:16:55 +0000

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 overview: Expression Blend 3, Design, Web and Encoder overview

UXPassion.com — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:30:14 +0000

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 released, Blend 3 + SketchFlow available as release candidates

UXPassion.com — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:48:47 +0000

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.

Cool facts about Silverlight penetration / market share

UXPassion.com — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:43:25 +0000

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 features: SketchFlow, Behaviors, PSD and AI import, TFS support…

UXPassion.com — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 14:34:12 +0000

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.

Silverlight 3 beta – list of new features

UXPassion.com — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:00:28 +0000

Silverlight 3 beta and Expression Blend 3 beta have been released today at MIX 09 conference and I am bringing you overview of new features that make Silverlight 3 best RIA platform available - IMHO. H.264 support, GPU acceleration, 3D – these are just some of the more than 50 new features.

Silverlight adoption rate will accelerate during the global economic crisis and recession

UXPassion.com — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:13:34 +0000

Silverlight has been launched in October 2008 and since it has gained impressive ground. While some keep arguing that Silverlight is immature and predict slowdown or even darker destiny to Silverlight, there are many reasons to think just the opposite. Here is why Silverlight will win the market. Let’s just focus to Silverlight 2. Since [...]

Seadragon AJAX – DeepZoom without Microsoft Silverlight

UXPassion.com — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:51:41 +0000

I am pretty much sure you know what is DeepZoom and that it requires Silverlight as a platform. But what if you don’t use Silverlight and still want to have coolness of DeepZoom? Meet Seadragon AJAX – written in JavaScript it enables you to add DeepZoom viewer into your blog or website. Let’s make one [...]

List of new and improved features in Silverlight 3

UXPassion.com — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:47:01 +0000

With Silverlight 2 released and already being installed on about 25% computers, we all look to new Silverlight 3. What we can expect from new Silverlight 3? What are new features in Silverlight 3 and why is this great time for you to start learning and exploring Microsoft Silverlight technology? Silverlight 2 is here, but [...]

Silverlight 2 Release Candidate 0 and Expression Blend 2.0 Service Pack 1 Preview

UXPassion.com — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:22:51 +0000

Microsoft has just released Silverlight 2.0 Release Candidate and set of tools and technologies to ease development with Silverlight 2.0. Expression Blend 2.5 seems to be obsolete since Blend 2 now supports development for Silverlight 2. Here is list of resources to help you out. So, as usual, first things first… Silverlight 2 Release Candidate [...]

Project Rosetta – Migrating from Flash to Silverlight

UXPassion.com — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:57:20 +0000

You have previous knowledge of working with Flash. You have heard about Silverlight. Now you want to use your previous knowledge and explore what Silverlight offers you. That’s just plain cool because here is Project Rosetta to help you out with some nice resources. It is Microsoft’s effort and website with articles that will be [...]

MSN Toolbar (powered by Silverlight), good UX?

UXPassion.com — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:41:26 +0000

We all (mostly) hate toolbars. They are ugly, they take lot of space and they don’t look compelling and functionality they bringing in are easily described as crapware. When I say they are ugly – I mean that – grayish, with Windows 9x look, they seem to be outdated by years (in IT = centuries). [...]