Silverlight Cream for March 23, 2009 - 2 -- #547

In this Styles, PixelShaders, Easing, and Blend issue: Emil Stoychev(2), Paulio, Mike Taulty(2), Pete Brown(2), Rui Marinho, Alex Golesh, Shawn Wildermuth, Christian Schormann(2), and Expression Blend and Design Blog.


From SilverlightCream.com:
Tip: Cascading Styles in Silverlight 3
Emil Stoychev demonstrates something we were wanting a while back ... cascading styles ... woo hoo!
Merged Resource Dictionaries in Silverlight 3
Emil Stoychev demonstrates freely splitting style definitions and other resources into manageable pieces.
Styling the Listbox Control with Blend
Paulio submitted this nice article that I missed back in January for Styling the Listbox in Blend. This is Silverlight 2, and Blend 2, but hey... what's good is good!
A quick look at Silverlight 3: Derived Styles
Mike Taulty has a second example of the style cascading... so there's two :)
Silverlight 3 – BasedOn Styles
Pete Brown gives us another great example of the cascading styles ... so now there's three!
Pixel Shaders Animation in Silverlight 3.0 beta
Rui Marinho has a video up on PixelShaders animation... I can't get to it from here, so I'm not sure if it's in English or Portuguese... the text is in both :)
Silverlight 3 – Drop Shadows and Glows with Pixel Shaders
Pete Brown discusses PixelShaders and particularly discusses drop-shadows and glows ... if you want to be convinced, check out the final graphic from his Synthesiser project!
A quick look at Silverlight 3: Easing Animations
Mike Taulty demonstrates using the built-in easing functions with animations... cool stuff.
Silverlight 3 Quick Tip #3: Creating custom easing for Silverlight animations
Alex Golesh has already created a custom easing and show us how easy (sorry -- just too easy) it was to do :)
Blend 3 Improvements
Shawn Wildermuth takes a quick swipe at the new Blend 3 features with links out to other resources.
SketchFlow – Sketching and Prototyping in Expression Blend
Christian Schormann teases us with all the goodness of SketchFlow ... boy I for one can hardly wait for all that! ... if you haven't watched the MIX videos on that... go do so.
Blend 3 – An Overview
Christian Schormann lays out the 6 'pillars' of additional functionality in Blend 3. One of which is Sketchflow, and not available, but the others are.
An Introduction to Behaviors, Triggers, and Actions
Expression Blend and Design Blog has a good post up describing the new Behaviors, Triggers, and Actions available in the new version of Expression Blend... this is an overview, a more detailed approach is forthcoming.

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posted @ Monday, March 23, 2009 4:59 PM

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