http://electricbeach.org Christian Schormann Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:55:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://electricbeach.org/?p=107 http://electricbeach.org/?p=107#comments Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:34:46 +0000 cs http://electricbeach.org/?p=107 Here an admittedly slightly contrived example for the use of visual state manager in a user control. Imagine a little web app to show Guitar chords: When you enter a chord symbol in the chord box at the bottom, the corresponding finger settings are displayed on the fret board above. How does it work? For every fret and [...]]]> http://electricbeach.org/?feed=rss2&p=107 5 http://electricbeach.org/?p=100 http://electricbeach.org/?p=100#comments Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:41:59 +0000 cs http://electricbeach.org/?p=100 Our goal for Silverlight 2 was to provide a control skinning model that is imminently usable for visual designers, providing an easy entry ramp, yet with sufficient power for sophisticated application skins. Our design goals did include: Make sure that skin design can be a task for a visual designer. Avoid requiring skills visual designers are [...]]]> http://electricbeach.org/?feed=rss2&p=100 9 http://electricbeach.org/?p=98 http://electricbeach.org/?p=98#comments Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:00:09 +0000 cs http://electricbeach.org/?p=98 Styling dynamic visuals, or “skinning”, is an important task for visual designers working on interactive applications for web and desktops. With Beta 2 of Silverlight, and the associated June preview of Expression Blend, we are making this work much easier and faster – and we are adding more creative options at the same time. Very importantly, [...]]]> http://electricbeach.org/?feed=rss2&p=98 28