Paul Yanez

Creating custom Silverlight buttons with Images Gradients and Transitions

In the following tutorial I will show how to create your own custom button with images, gradients and transitions.

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Expression Blend Tip #2 in Rendering Effects

In a previous tip I showed how Expression Blend does not render effects if you are zoomed in above 400%. More times than not I am zoomed in well above 400% when I am designing UI components.

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Building a Windows Phone 7 Twitter Application using Silverlight in Blend 4

First I would like to say that the code is from Scott Gu’s article Building a Windows Phone 7 Twitter Application using Silverlight. I am very excited that Silverlight will soon be capable of working on Windows Phones.

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Creating thumbnails of video frames with WriteableBitmap in Microsoft Expression Blend 3

Click on video to create thumbnails The following example shows how to create thumbnails by using the WriteableBitmap class.

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SilverLight will be the Adobe Flash killer

Prediction I am making a very big prediction, it is the beginning of the end of Adobe Flash. When I first saw Flash 12 years ago I knew immediately that this was it, it was light years ahead of anything on the web. It is rare that you see something and know immediately that this is [...]

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Introduction to Animation in Microsoft Expression Blend 3

In this video I discuss a few keys topics of animation in Microsoft Expression Blend 3. Topics include storyboards, creating keyframes, setting transforms on objects and previewing within the Blend IDE.

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