It is finally Spring in Seattle, and it’s Mix in Las Vegas. Many of you, our faithful Expression Blend customers, have become accustomed to also see a new version of Expression Blend blossom with the flora of the land.

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In the previous installment of this series on path layout, I explained how to add a rotation offset to an element in the list box while keeping well-fitting highlights. I also promised that I’d explain in greater depth what is going on.

As a side benefit, you will also learn how to change these pesky blue selection highlights of a list box.

The next post in this series will be back to focusing on path layout itself.

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Ok, I’m back for part II of my short series of posts on path layout (see here for part I). Let’s continue where we ended last time:

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See it here…

At Mix, in Las Vegas, we just introduced Blend 4. One of the new features that got great excitement is path-based layout. Let me tell you a bit more about it

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Here are two great blog posts on Expression Blend 4:

• The first is by Kenny Young, Wizard of Layout on the Expression Blend team. Kenny describes dynamic layout, transitions and layout morphing in Expression Blend in great detail. A detailed sample project comes with the post.
• The second post is by Pete Blois, Lead Program Manager on the Blend team. Pete shows you an example for how to create physics-based games for Windows Phone and Silverlight. Pete shows how Blend can be used as a great level editor for 2D game design.

Enjoy!

It feels like it was only yesterday when we boarded the plane to fly to Las Vegas to Mix 2009, where we announced Blend 3 and SketchFlow. Thank you all so much for the wonderful reception you gave to Blend 3, by the way.

I can hardly believe it is time for Mix 2010 already – and that it’s time to introduce the next release of Blend…

If you happen to be in Las Vegas, please come and see our sessions on Blend and SketchFlow here at Mix!

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Michael Smuga, Albert Shum and Chad Roberts have a talk at Mix about Windows Phone UI and Design Language. The talk is in Mandalay Ballroom A from 3:30pm to 4:30pm.

Like all mix videos, it will also be made available as online video at http://live.visitmix.com.

At this year’s Mix, next week in Las Vegas, there will be several sessions by members of the Blend team:

• Authoring for Silverlight 4 with Expression Blend
  Monday, March 15th, 2pm to 3 pm, Mandalay Ballroom D
  Christian Schormann and Pete Blois
  If you want an overview of what is new in the Blend world, this is the session for you… SketchFlow users, please don’t miss the following one:
• Prototyping Rich Silverlight 4 Applications with Microsoft Expression SketchFlow
  Wednesday, March 17, 12pm to 1pm, Breakers H
  Chris Bernard
  This session is going to show a lot about practical use of SketchFlow. Chris is also the co-author of a forthcoming book on SketchFlow.
• Dynamic Layout and Transitions for Microsoft Silverlight with Microsoft Expression Blend
  Wednesday, March 17, 11am to 11:30am, Lagoon B
  Kenny Young
  Kenny is an architect on the Blend team and master of all things layout. He’s going to show some very cool things that fans of dynamic layout should not miss…

Looking forward to seeing you there! Also follow Mix online at http://live.visitmix.com

Michael Klucher just posted about XNA Game Studio 4.0 for Windows Phone. It has its first outing at GDC in San Francisco this week.

For more on Windows Phone 7, here are a number of people from the Windows Phone 7 Series Dev Team on Twitter:

(@ckindel) (@shawnhargreaves) (@ozymandias) (@ai) (@lokeuei) (@mklucher) and  (@cschormann)

Looking forward to seeing you at Mix next week or online here, or at http://live.visitmix.com with lots of more info…