Part 1: In this episode, Jaime interviews the trifecta from Identity Mine - Jonathan Russ (developer), Nathan Dunlap (integrator) and Jared Potter (designer).   Part 2: Jaime Rodriguez meets up with Unni Ravindranathan from the Expression Blend team discuss guidelines. They open the source code...

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Just a quick note: Renee Yong, the USA Expression Studio Product Manager has mentioned a phenomenal last-minute holiday deal on Expression Studio Products .. Expression Web Upgrades: Expression Web 2 Upgrade Design tool Download Please select a media type: Download or DVD $49.95   Expression Studio...

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As many of you know, months ago the "internal" add-in architecture of Expression Blend was exposed on blogs and a number of third party add-ins started to surface that improved the functionality of Blend, including a number of color matching add-ins and one intellisense add-in. This has caused a number...

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I get to speak to a lot of Designers on a regular basis, here are some comments from the field and how I address them.. Blend and design are a little too new to jump into from adobe products I have seen many very good "Adobe" designers make a successful transition in not too much time.. Expression Design...

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Some folks who have attended PDC 2008 are really confused about Visual Studio 2010 which is not built using Silverlight, but will be using WPF. Silverlight is supported when you create a Silverlight project. At that time the Design Surface opens in "Silverlight" while the rest of the IDE is still in...

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NetBooks are very popular today, most of them have a screen resolution of 1024x600, where as most web and design folks today believe your minimum resolution you should write for is 1024x768. Even my favorite blogging tool from Microsoft's Live.com arsenal doesn't appropriately support it. Look below...

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From the CodePlex Download Page and Jonas' Blog .. Colorful Expression is an add-in for Expression Blend and Expression Design that brings you the Adobe Kuler community directly into your toolbox. It adds a new palette to your design environment, making it easy to leverage the community to find the perfect...

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by Don Burnett I have been very lax lately about keeping up with happening related to encoding video for Silverlight. With Silverlight 2.0 beta 2, there were some new additions like adaptive streaming. But I think the more exciting thing to be looking at is the industry happenings and third party products...

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I had no idea that this was on video somewhere, but this was my first ever exposure to XAML, Expression Studio with WPF and Silverlight (here known as WPF/E).. It's still a very convincing argument for the goodness of the tools and XAML. Check it out.....

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Over at Christian's Blog "Electric Beach" there is a great introduction to using the new Visual State Manager in Expression Blend June Preview with Silverlight (and later WPF) and skinning custom controls in Blend using the VSM. The tutorial is not only a great video, but there is a great write-up with...

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