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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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Blend 3 Survey: Enter to win a FREE ZUNE HD!!!

Hi everyone!
We just announced the Blend 3 Survey on our Expression Blend team blog where you can enter to win the newly released FREE Zune HD!!! We hope to use the survey results as part of our planning for the next release of Expression Blend. This is your opportunity to give us tons of feedback/suggestions [...]

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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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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 [...]

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Blend 3: Introduction to Importing Photoshop Files

One of the main goals of Expression Blend 3 is to improve the overall workflow for visual designers. To achieve this we added support to import files created in Adobe’s Photoshop and Illustrator applications. Our goal is to allow designers to be able to incorporate previously created assets into Expression Blend 3 projects and transform [...]

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Download the Expression Blend 3 Preview!!!

We announced the release of the Expression Blend 3 Preview at yesterday’s MIX09 keynote. In case you haven’t already installed the Expression Blend 3 Preview, now is your chance!

Download the Blend 3 Preview installer NOW!!! 
Download the Silverlight 3 beta and tools
Visit the Microsoft Expression home page for updates
Check out the Expression Community site
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