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Tomorrow, Thursday June 16th, I’ll be doing another webinar for SilverlightShow. I think that this one if the 7th webinar I’m doing for them!
This one is totally devoted to Expression Blend: Expression Blend for developers. That means (sadly) that I won’t be doing any drawing or graphics-related stuff! I’m going to talk about how I think XAML developers can be more productive with Expression Blend instead of only using Visual Studio for their work.
This is the agenda:
- 5-minute guided tour of Blend
- Great work starts with a sketch: SketchFlow
- Push the button: sample data generation
- Binding with Blend: how to use data-binding
- Customization bonanza
- Styling
- Resources and resource dictionaries
- Templates
- A custom control
- Blend behaving badly: behaviors
- Animations and other moving things
- Blend welcomes WP7
- The Blend-bag-of-tricks
The outline of the webinar is here and of course you can subscribe for free. The webinar takes about 75 minutes.
A nice extra is that my publisher (Packt Publishing) is giving away 3 copies of the LITE edition of the book I wrote together with Kevin Dockx. So by simply attending, you could win a book!
I hope to see you online tomorrow!
Yesterday, another CTP of Blend 2, THE tool for create Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation applications, was released. This time, it's the September Preview.
Here's a list of what was added/changed:
- VS2008 beta 2 full support
- Creation of Controls from existing objects - reuse them all.
- Some enhancements with Split View - now you can see Design and Code both as well as you can do it in Visual Studio
- Storyboard picker - the old Storyboard panel has been thrown and replaced with brand new storyboard picker. Now you can duplicate, reverse or delete existing storyboard or easy modify its properties.
- Aside with new storyboard picker, now you have properties panel both for all sotryboard or single frame.
- New functionality - 3D Vertex animation
- Long awaited Breadcrumb bar
- Subsetting and embedding fonts within your application (EULA awarded)
- New build options - how you can create custom builds for better integration with Visual Studio
- New abilities of object manipulation - uniformly resize, scale, rotate multiple objects, resizing handlers at artboard. Easy object duplication by dragging with Ctrl-P pressed.
You can download a free copy here.