We have just published refreshed bits of the Blend Add-In for Windows Phone and the Blend SDK for WIndows Phone. You can now use these bits with the Blend 4 RC build and the VS2010 RTM bits. Of course you also need the latest version of the phone development tools too.

Download links:

• Blend 4 RC (Note: we recently updated the Blend 4 RC bits. You must have the updated bits for the phone add-in to work. If you already have Blend 4 RC installed, you can check if you have the right bits by looking at the version number in Help -> About. The version must be 4.0.20421.0) 
• Add-in for Windows Phone
• Blend SDK for WIndows Phone
• Windows Phone developer tools

Happy designing and developing

Laura Foy was so kind to post the video on Channel 9.

See it here: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/LauraFoy/Sketchflow-in-90-seconds/

You are pressed for time, but you are dying to know what SketchFlow is? The thought of watching an hour of demo video, like presented here, makes you look frantically at your watch?

The solutions is here, exclusively at electricbeach.org: Jon Harris presents SketchFlow in just 90 seconds in this video, and does so with a friendly British accent to boot. It does not get any shorter (or better) than that.

Download the video here, in .wmv format:

http://electricbeach.org/files/sketchflow_overview.wmv

I just heard that the first book on SketchFlow is now available: “Dynamic Prototyping with SketchFlow in Expression Blend: Sketch Your Ideas…And Bring Them to Life!“, by Sara Summers and Chris Bernard. Yay. Check it out here at Amazon…

This morning one of my colleagues stepped in my office and handed me an elegant curved device from metal and glass. You of course guessed it, it was an iPad, for my curious eyes and hands to play with.

First thing I did was to fire up the Notes application. I looked at the header bar and blinked. But the header bar still appeared rendered as faux leather complete with seams.

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Sorry for the long delay. Here’s another installment of my series on path-based layout.

In our demo at Mix 2010, we showed that path layout can also provide a neat stand-in for some features that are missing from the Silverlight runtime: Motion path and text on a path.

Let me show you how these are done. Also, I’m going to give you a sneak preview on some other more advanced stuff you can do with path layout that my colleague Joanna Mason is going to blog about in detail soon…

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