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• Using Prisms (CompositeWPF) EventAggregator

  Event Aggregator - What is it? The event aggregator in Prism is an implementation of the Event Aggregator pattern . Fowler explains the Event Aggregator pattern as follows: Channel events from multiple objects into a single object to simplify registration Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 06, 2009 9:10 AM from this.Reflect() | 0 Comments Filed under: Silverlight, WPF, Design Patterns

• Adding Custom Themes Support to your WPF Application

  The greatest thing about Windows Presentation Foundation is that when compared to Windows Forms, it finally gives us the freedom of easily designing rich UI, that differs from same old Winforms we have been seeing from Win 95 with slight re-styling. We Read More... Posted Monday, November 17, 2008 10:41 AM from Nermin's .Net | 0 Comments Filed under: WPF, C#

• Collaboration

  I have been working with Anthony Handley on a WPF project for the last couple of weeks part time. We are actually one of the first people I know that are trying to follow Microsoft idea on designer/developer collaboration for developing WPF applications. Read More... Posted Friday, October 24, 2008 8:04 PM from Sergey Barskiy | 0 Comments Filed under: WPF

• Expression Blend 2.5 June 2008 Preview Now Available

  Along with the release of the Silverlight 2 Beta 2 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Betas, comes the June preview of Expression Blend 2.5. I am eager to install and test these new bits as Control Skinning has made its... Read More... Posted Monday, June 09, 2008 9:47 AM from UX Confidential | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, Expression, Silverlight, WPF, RIA

• Exporting XAML from Photoshop & Illustrator

  From the mailbag… John B. of Chicago asks: I am a UI designer that is interested in exploring XAML, WPF and Silverlight. Is there a way I can leverage my current set of tools (Photoshop, Illustrator and Fireworks) when working... Read More... Posted Thursday, June 05, 2008 3:30 PM from UX Confidential | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, Expression, Silverlight, WPF, Design, RIA, Flash, Adobe

• WPF Boot Camp '08 Sessions Online

  Microsoft has posted the WPF Boot Camp '08 sessions online and they are available for download. This is a great place to get started learning WPF: http://www.visitmix.com/University/wpf/bc08/ Read More... Posted Sunday, April 27, 2008 11:18 PM from UX Confidential | 0 Comments Filed under: WPF

• 2 Flavors of Expression Blend

  I had the chance to chat briefly with Pete Blois from the Microsoft Expression team about this week's announcements regarding Blend. He pointed out that there are 2 new versions of Blend now available: Blend 2 Beta and Blend 2.5... Read More... Posted Friday, March 07, 2008 12:21 AM from UX Confidential | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, MIX, Expression, Web/Tech, Silverlight, WPF, Design, RIA