Dax and I just posted the next revolUXions, "New Controls in WPF, Part 1."  In this episode we look at the new controls available in WPF and .NET 3.

 

 

 

 

Dax and I are recording a few more revolUXions, but we are thinking about having a Q&A show.  Do you have any questions about XAML, WPF, WPF/E, Blend, or VisualStudio integration?  Give a shout to revolUXions [at] nukeation.com before April 7, 2007.

Dax and I recorded episode #5 of revolUXions and just posted it.  I wanted to really understand the integration and workflow issues which XAML and MS-Blend is going to help us solve.  I've worked with so many designers in the past where the work product has been a Photoshop-file.  On past projects, a few weeks before ship, I get a photoshop file containing the look and feel of the product.  Not anymore -- as we show in this episode, the designer (working in MS Blend) hands off a DLL file which encapsulates the look and feel of the app, while the developer (working in VisualStudio) just 'add a reference' to the new DLL, and all the interface components change  to the new look.

 

 

Running time: 12:04

 

The revolUXions is under the weather this week!

While Dax and I are each recovering, feel free to listen to our extensive backcatalog of shows….

We’ll return next week with a show about adding WPF/XAML animations (upcoming schedule)…

Dax, I was working on the example from our last video, and “the developer” in me came out.  (You know, the developer who can’t draw a straight line with a ruler and whose every dialog box had the gun-metal-grey look and feel?)

I was wondering if XAML somehow has ‘inheritance or something similar to CSS.  The buttons in the screencast looked great when you did them, but when I tried to draw them, well, it didn’t look so nice. 

 

Is there a mechanism to externalize that design?  Can you (the designer) make a button and then package the look and feel into an external file that I (a developer) can just include in my project?

Update: Dax explains how it’s done!

 

In this episode of the RevolUXion, Dax and I take a look at how easy it is to customize existing controls by customizing templates and using triggers. All this is done without writing a single line of code.

Running time: 12:46

 

 

 

Jasmine and Libby got a "Sing along with Elmo" doll. I didn't think Jasmine would like it, but I knew Libby would (she is ALWAYS singing) The current favorite is doing the hokey-pokey, but they also like the 'wheels on the bus'....

Jasmine's birthday! She is 3 years old! Ever since Libby's birthday she get's up everyday and says "Today is my birthday Daddy, I open presents." The only thing she wanted for her birthday was a dora cake, and the baby (that she already had)

Susan gave Libby and Jasmine princess dresses. For the last month Jasmine has been telling me every day that "today is my birthday and I open present." She was so excited to open this present she started to dance! I wonder where she learned to dance like this?