Idea to Silverlight Skin
Corrina Barber gives us the inside scoop on how she designs skins.
Blend–
What are the steps that she uses to create a skin? What comes first and why?
Tips and Tricks-
Corrina makes her skins so that she can change the color of an entire control suite with the change of a single line of XAML. Find out how she does this.
Getting Started For Silverlight Designers–
Corrina recommends resources and “next steps” for designers who are interested in Silverlight.
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User Experience
Corrina Barber is one of the premier user experience experts in Silverlight. She joins us to talk about what it means to be a designer.
How designers learn their trade–
Every designer is different, but Corrina talks to us about how she became a designer. What worked for her? What’s helped the most in her career?
Inspiration-
Corrina finds design inspiration in interesting places – from the top of her desk to her bank. She tells us what she sees in the world and how she puts it into Silverlight.
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In Silverlight, controls (checkboxes, buttons, and most everything else) have a complete separation between appearance and behavior. This allows developers and designers to strip out the visual elements of a control and completely replace them. Without affecting behavior! This show is dedicated to showing you how to completely re-skin controls.
Parts, States, Groups–
There’s a lot of terminology specific to skinning. We explain, in a simple way, what these words are and how they’re used.
Visual State Manager-
The Visual State Manager (VSM) is a critical part of the skinning process. It helps simplify skinning in a way that’s unexpected.
Transitions-
How controls change their appearance is critical. Should you customize how this is done?
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