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Silverlight Firestarter Event- Today Sept 17th

Be sure to check out the remainder of today’s Silverlight Firestarter event!

Live Telecast: www.msdnevents.com/firestarter/online
Twitter tag: #slfs: http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23slfs
Questions: please send them to mithund@microsoft.com
Online presentations: http://blogs.msdn.com/mithund/archive/2009/09/17/silverlight-3-firestarter-slides.aspx
Video recordings: All content will be made available within a week from today. Follow updates on Mithun’s blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/mithund/default.aspx

Here’s my slidedeck about Expression Blend 3- SketchFlow: (The [...]

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Importing Adobe Illustrator files in Expression Blend 3

I previously wrote a few blog posts about importing Adobe Photoshop files into Expression Blend 3. This post focuses on the ability to import an Adobe Illustrator .ai file and converting the content to Silverlight 3 or WPF objects. You can also use this import feature to bring in wireframes or comps created in Illustrator [...]

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Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow RC Overview

Last Friday we announced the public release of the Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow Release Candidate and Silverlight 3 RTW. If you haven’t already installed it here’s your chance to get the latest build of Blend with all of the functionality including the first ever public release of SketchFlow!

Download the Blend 3 + SketchFlow [...]

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Navigation Features in Deep Zoom Composer

One of the side project that I work on at Microsoft is Deep Zoom Composer, an app that allows you to easily create Deep Zoom content for Silverlight. Recently we posted an updated release of Deep Zoom Composer on our Expression team blog. The three big new features are support for navigation, updated collection exporting, [...]

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Adding Links in Deep Zoom Composer (June 2009 Preview)

One of the new navigation features that we are supporting in the updated release of Deep Zoom Composer  is the ability to add links. This post is a follow up to my previous posts about the other navigation features: slideshow and menu support in the June 2009 Preview.
Navigation Using Links
With links support you will be [...]

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Creating Menus in Deep Zoom Composer (June 2009 Preview)

This post is a follow up to my previous post about slideshow support in Deep Zoom Composer. In this post I will cover one of the other new navigation features: menu support. Recently we posted an updated release of Deep Zoom Composer on our Expression team blog. You can download the June 2009 Preview here. [...]

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Slideshow Support in Deep Zoom Composer (June 2009 Preview)

Recently we posted an updated release of Deep Zoom Composer on our Expression team blog. You can download the June 2009 Preview here. In this post I will cover one of the new navigation features: slideshow support. In subsequent posts I will cover more Deep Zoom Composer features :)
Navigation Using Slideshows
Slideshow support is part of [...]

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Photoshop Import in Expression Blend 3

I wrote a few blog posts on one of the new Expression Blend 3 features I’ve worked on in this release: Importing Adobe Photoshop Files. Check out the following posts for more details :)

Blend 3: Introduction to Importing Photoshop Files This post provides an overview of the feature [...]

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Blend 3: Photoshop Import – Merging Layers

In the Expression Blend 3 preview the dialog for importing Adobe Photoshop files displays helpful info-tips on each layer to identify the properties that are not supported and instructions on how to resolve the problem when possible. In many cases you will need to merge related layers to successfully rasterize and import features like adjustment [...]

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Blend 3: Photoshop Import- Supported Features

There are a variety of features in Adobe Photoshop that are supported when importing .psd files in Expression Blend 3. This post is a continuation of my previous post “Blend 3: Introduction to Importing Photoshop Files”. The goal is to provide further information about the supported Photoshop features in Blend 3. I’ll cover the features [...]