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Before starting out  on my tweening adventures I have to admit too being complete tweening newbie. On previous WPF and Silverlight projects animations were rolled from scratch to provide the desired responses to changes in the applications state. With regards to Designer and Developer workflow this  stage of the process is usually where ...

Conchango are pleased to announce the date for the next Silverlight User Group as Thursday 14th August. The venue is currently the Conchango offices in London Bridge, although another venue will be arranged if we are oversubscribed. Full details to follow. If you are interested in attending please email me on ...

If like me you are following the Silverlight trail, you are more than likely to be reading Silverlight Cream and the Silverlight Show and their daily posts which provide a great way to stay on top of the daily Silverlight news. Not only do I subscribe to this sites via RSS but also their twitter feeds which I take advantage of as my RSS reader ...

Click here to view the Silverlight Skin demo You will need the Beta 2 plugin from here. Since Silverlight 2 Beta 2 came out and trashed my Beta 1 skin that I'd lovingly hand-crafted in code view, and with the new June preview version of Expression Blend with the super-helpful Visual State Manager (VSM) I decided to have another crack at the ...

With the new release of Silverlight 2 Beta 2 came a new drop of controls that allow the designer and developer to build tabbed content that we have become used to, the TabControl, TabPanel and TabItem don't reside in the standard Silverlight Controls assembly but live in the System.Windows.Controls.Extended assembly. After reading Tim Heuer's post ...

Silverlight developer Tim Hustler and Expressions Blend designer Simon Sturgess plan to do a 2-hour how-to on creating Silverlight apps using Blend and Visual Studio 2008. They'll incorporate LINQ-to-SQL via a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service as well as add animations and events to some custom control created specifically for the ...

With the new release of Beta 2 and Blend skinning of Silverlight controls has improved dramatically. Rather than hand cranking these due to no support at all in the previous version of Blend, you can now change templates and styles from within Blend rather than cranking the Xaml yourself. Not that I don't like cranking Xaml by hand but better tool ...

Tricky (Director of Tricky Business) is hosting an event on the 10th July in association with screenedit.com and encourage you to register here before we announce the event to the general public. Spaces are extremely limited.   'Screenedit Sessions' is an exciting new evening event for designers; speakers include Brendan Dawes ...

Felix and I have been presenting around Europe at the Remix Essentials events giving away a white labelled Silverlight mashup. Being on the Silverlight TAP I have been trying to keep the project up to date with the latest drops but fell behind. So while in Mexico on the Friday evening I thought that I would try and do a simple upgrade to Beta ...