Design & Build A Complete WPF Application in Expression

Greetings … long time no read, I have been rather inactive for a long time now. Apologies for that, but I have been extremely busy with holding presentations and trainings around Expression and Silverlight.
And this is the reason for this post: this post is about a complete WPF Training Hands On Lab. It contains instructions [...]

Expression Web Beginner’s Tutorial

Here is a nice tutorial for Expression Web that shows how to build a complete web site with ASP.net and Expression Web. This was designed as part of a curriculum for High Schools that want to teach their students web design skills:
Your Learning Guide to Expression Web provides a convenient method to learn valuable Web [...]

New year, new resolutions

A long time has passed since my last post – but anyway, the time before christmas is always very busy @ Microsoft. Right now, we are reviewing the first half of the year and looking at the results as well as planning the second half. Designer business looks actually pretty good, we are seeing quite [...]

Free Expression Web eBook

UPDATE – thanks for the comment, I have changed the post accordingly – actually, it came to me too late that deep-linking directly to content  on other sites is not very good form … so apologies for that & please get the book on the web site.
If you are building your web site with Expression Web, [...]

Build a streaming media Vista sidebar gadget with Silverlight

Wow, I have been searching for a tutorial on how to build a Vista sidebar gadget in Silverlight for quite some time now (I think that the small screen real estate you have at your disposal when designing a sidebar gadget is the ultimate test of a designer’s creativity) - and just now I found this great webinar that not only [...]

WPF & Expression video tutorials

Head over to http://www.contentpresenter.com/ and check out their range of video tutorials. They can be downloaded for offline viewing and run approx. 15 minutes per video. Topics covered include:

Building an Interactive 3D Video Player
Learn how to use the 3DTools library to place 2D controls onto 3D meshes while keeping their interactivity intact.
Reflections in Visual Studio and [...]

Another Expression Design Tutorial – Shiny Vista buttons

Looking at my blog stats, the most popular articles seem to be those with links to Expression Design tutorials. So, here is another one for your pleasure: how to create shiny Vista styled buttons – step by step. This one comes from the great Expression team blog @ Microsoft: http://blogs.msdn.com/expression/pages/creating-a-vista-style-button-template.aspx. Enjoy!
Quick update: I liked the [...]

Free eBook – Build a Web Site That Sells

A colleague of mine (thanks, Leon) brought this to our team’s attention: a free downloadable eBook from Microsoft on web design. Here is the abstract:
Get your free downloadable ebook “Build a Web site That Sells” from Microsoft Office Live. This ebook includes tips, techniques, and tools to help you design an effective and engaging Web [...]

Recreating iTunes in Silverlight

I think the greatest way to learn a new technology is through tutorials. Following my other post about a working replica of the Outlook UI (here), I recently found another great hands-on lab: recreating the iTunes UI in Silverlight. The author has a development diary (with videos!) on his blog where he walks through the [...]

More WPF hands-on labs

Some more WPF hands-on labs here: http://wpf.netfx3.com/files/default.aspx. Check them out, they run up to 1 hour per lab and should be well worth a visit. Be sure to check out the left-hand navigation also for even more examples and sample applications!