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• Blend Tip: Redundant Naming

  I’ve had a lot of people disagree with me on this one but I just ran into another case where this was incredibly annoying and proved it’s importance once again deeming it blog worthy. Naming every object in your XAML is just good practice... Posted Oct 16 2007, 10:16 AM by designerslove.net Filed under: Design, blendables, Blend

• blendables essentials mix v1.0 is shipping!

  http://blendables.com/ Posted Oct 03 2007, 03:39 PM by designerslove.net Filed under: blendables, nathan dunlap

• ChatBlender for Silverlight 1.1

  Ive been so busy that I havent been able to comment on this but one of our resident Silverlight dudes, Devin Brown, has updated Chatblender to work with silverlight 1.1. (Not 1.0 compat at the moment, given time I will try to get the 1.0 version running... Posted Oct 03 2007, 11:45 AM by designerslove.net Filed under: blendables, Silverlight, Devin Brown, nathan dunlap

• Value="{blendables:EvalBinding \’Tastes Great… \’ + \’Less Filling…’}"

  Jonathan Russ has posted an awesome whitepaper for EvalBinding and SimpleBinding on the blendables website. My head is dizzy with all the possibilities. This doc covers scenarios like using SimpleBindings for  more compact syntax and typecasting as... Posted Jul 11 2007, 03:54 PM by designerslove.net Filed under: blendables

• chatBlender is back!

  Updated to support Silverlight 1.0 and 1.1 Check it out at the Windows Live Gallery  Haven’t figured out how to install it permanently but if you click the add button on this page you can start an activity…. or hmmm I think this works…... Posted Jun 22 2007, 06:12 PM by designerslove.net Filed under: blendables

• Kurt Brockett interviewed at Mix 07

  Havent watched it yet but if its anything like Kurt’s shoes made out of baseball’s then its gotta be fun and interesting… http://visitmix.com/Blogs/Joshua/identitymine/ Posted May 17 2007, 06:35 PM by designerslove.net Filed under: blendables, Mix 07

• TemplateSwitching with NumericRangeToObjectConverter

  Here is the source code for a sample that I was going to demo at Mix but we ran out of time. http://blendables.com/files/folders/essentials_documentation/entry48.aspx I will follow up with more tutorial info but in the meantime its a very simple sample…... Posted May 07 2007, 10:43 AM by designerslove.net Filed under: blendables, Mix 07, Reading

• Its Free Comic Book Day!

  Since we were on stage showing off our comic reader experiment we did last week I think its only appropriate to call out that today, May 5th, is Free Comic Book Day… http://www.freecomicbookday.com/sponsors.asp Im gonna rustle up some neighbor kids... Posted May 05 2007, 10:01 AM by designerslove.net Filed under: blendables, Comics, Mix 07

• Time to Mix it up with blendables

  Wow this years presentations look hot… I wish I had three of me going so I could hit more sessions at the same time. There is some really great stuff. I pointed to www.blendables.com earlier and its now been udpated with info about our “tools... Posted Apr 29 2007, 09:07 AM by designerslove.net Filed under: blendables

• http://www.blendables.com/

  Something I’m really excited about. Notice the tag line “Tools and Components for Designers and Developers” More info coming soon… Like around Mix 07 timeframe… (which isnt very far away…. ) Yeah yeah I know…... Posted Apr 18 2007, 10:54 AM by designerslove.net Filed under: blendables