Jose Fajardo
Silverlight and WPF
Thursday August 06, 2009
The power of "States" in Blend 3
States have be vastly improved in Blend 3, the problem is not many people know about these enhancements. I want to make people aware of these great changes, I want to show people that a "State First" approach to designing your UI's is now possible! Read more...
Wednesday July 01, 2009
Blend 3 + Silverlight 3 = Luv (video demo)
I knocked up a demo video of why i think Silverlight 3 and Blend 3 are gonna change the way we build apps. See why I luv the next version of blend. Read more...
Wednesday May 13, 2009
CoverFlow – built using Silverlight 3's 'Projection' feature
Let me show you how I would go abouts creating a coverflow like experience using the new Silverlight 3 projection feature and designer friendly techniques (like storyboards exposed to the designer) Read more...
Friday April 24, 2009
"Follow the Cursor" Animation - lets do it with behaviors :)
I found a cool effect that I wanted to reproduce as a behavior. Let me show you how I did it! Read more...
Monday April 20, 2009
It took me under 5 minutes to realize the power of behaviors!
Let me show you how powerful behaviors are... Read more...
Silverlight 3 Out of Browser - Quick Rant
My personal observations of Silverlight Out of browser features in the upcomming SL3 version. Read more...
Monday December 15, 2008
What a beautiful, though distracting, flash website! Let's do it in Silverlight!
There are a couple of things that make or break the user experience for a RIA. One of those is the "background". To me a background is one of the most important parts of a RIA to get right, let me show you one such background that I believe really gets the experience right! Read more...
Tuesday October 28, 2008
Windows Azure - the OS for the cloud
Microsoft's new platform for the cloud. Read more...
Friday September 19, 2008
Expression Design needs loving !
Let me show you how I use Expression Design. A neglected younger sister in the Expression Family! Read more...
Thursday April 17, 2008
My "Digg Mashup" part 2 - laying your project out
Here are some reasons for how I structured my project Read more...
Monday April 14, 2008
My "Digg Mashup" that taught me so much about Silverlight 2.0 beta - part 1
Let me take you on a journey that taugh me so much about Silverlight 2.0 Read more...
Friday March 28, 2008
Live Messenger - Login Screen UI
On my adventures of learning Silverlight 2 I've recreated the UI for the login screen of Live Messenger. Alot of lessons learnt and great experience in first hand at building a realworld RIA, a video of my adventures will soon follow this post. Read more...
Tuesday March 25, 2008
How to create a spiral xAML asset
So many times I needed to create a spiral like shape in blend, I new that it could be done with mini-path language BUT the process to actually create it eluded me TILL NOW! With the help of some guru's over at the expression forums and the design tool I was able to create my spiral and cut-paste it in raw xAML form to blend :) Read more...
Tuesday March 18, 2008
Showing off the power of Silverlight 2.0 - Windows Media Player redone
I am going to walk through a sample I created that shows just how powerful the new layout controls and control skinning framework is within Silverlight 2.0. In a previous post I showed different skinning techniques and I will use that knowledge in this exercise. Read more...
Sunday March 16, 2008
Silverlight control contract diagram - useful for skinning
This is a diagram of all the Silverlight controls and there exposed contracts. This is useful when skinning controls, otherwise you would need to interrogate the MS source code all the time. Read more...
