Archive for July, 2008
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.
Useful links for the show:
Corrina’s blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/corrinab/
Scott Guthrie’s blog - http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/
Silverlight.net site’s Getting Started - http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/
Music for the show:
Lido In The Morning by General Fuzz from the album Messy’s Place
I Believe In You by YACHT from the album Instrumentals 2007
Sidetrack by Lisa DeBenedictis from the album Fruitless
Podcast: Download
July 29th, 2008
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.
Useful links for the show:
Corrina’s blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/corrinab/
Music for the show:
Lido In The Morning by General Fuzz from the album Messy’s Place
I Believe In You by YACHT from the album Instrumentals 2007
Sidetrack by Lisa DeBenedictis from the album Fruitless
Podcast: Download
July 16th, 2008
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?
Useful links for the show:
Ian Griffiths blog - http://www.interact-sw.co.uk/iangblog/
Ian’s article on visual state in Silverlight control templates - http://www.interact-sw.co.uk/iangblog/2008/06/10/visual-state
Karen Corby 1of 4: Parts and States at a conceptual level - http://scorbs.com/2008/06/11/parts-states-model-with-visualstatemanager-part-1-of/
Karen Corby 2 of 4: Basics of skinning a control - http://scorbs.com/2008/06/18/parts-states-model-with-visualstatemanager-part-2-of-4/
Karen Corby 3 of 4: Parts and States with custom controls and more sophisticated transitions - http://scorbs.com/2008/06/23/parts-states-model-with-visualstatemanager-part-3-of-4/
Music for the show:
Lido In The Morning by General Fuzz from the album Messy’s Place
I Believe In You by YACHT from the album Instrumentals 2007
Sidetrack by Lisa DeBenedictis from the album Fruitless
Podcast: Download
July 9th, 2008
