Symon, a leading Digital Signage Solution provider, is seeking a UX Architect  / Designer.  This role will be creating instinctive, practical and scalable, visually appealing, user-centric RIAs, while working with internal and external clients to develop meaningful interactive experiences. This role requires ...

Microsoft just published two specifications today, they can be  downloaded from  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3356AF19-A36E-4D6D-9D13-C37DB81EE607&displaylang=en [MS-XAML] Xaml Object Mapping Specification 2006 - this describes Xaml's rules. [MS-WPFXV] WPF Xaml Vocabulary Specification 2006 - ...

Expression Encoder 2 offers some significant advantages over the first version. The new functionality of the ''Overlay'' feature is pretty spectacular.. You can import many different video formats, and some new ones for overlay that were not expected..     The exciting thing is you can now import .xaml files into your media which ...

Over at Saveen Reddy's blog, the announcement has went out of his new Visio to XAML export tool. This means you can now take Visio diagrams and export directly to XAML. This is a big step forward for folks who use Visio and want to move their technical diagrams into Expression Blend. The project has been published on codeplex: ...

Silverlight contains a great control for mapping video onto just about any shape or object out there..  Note: This example of XAML is specific to Silverlight, WPF has a similar facility with it's visual brush, but this example is specific to Silverlight.. First start off your Page.xaml file: <Canvas ...

Over at WindowsClient.NET Karsten Januszewski and Jaime Rodriguez have published a technical white paper on Developer/Designer Interaction. It explores the convergence of Microsoft's new Designer tools (Expression Studio), and integration with Developer tools (Visual Studio 2008). It's a very good technical read, with real world examples of teams ...

By Don Burnett As Silverlight  and WPF adoption widens the interest  by many development houses in having design deliverables made available to them in XAML is seeing greater demand. Designers are scurrying to find answers to creating XAML. Many traditional design firms over the years have not been very big on their artists and design ...

Over at Design with Silverlight, the guys have been very busy creating some great design tutorials. What's really exciting about this site is they really do believe in Silverlight, right down to the website itself designed totally in Silverlight. There are not only great samples here but great code as well.   They have included a great ...

RadControls for Microsoft Silverlight are a new generation of UI controls for building Rich Interactive Applications based on the Microsoft Silverlight 1.0 framework. The product introduces the notion of control-based development, which is originally missing in the framework, and requires no JavaScript and XAML coding.