Archive for November, 2009

Silverlight Health Dashboard

As the healthcare industry begins to adopt electronic tools, the tracking of health and wellness information is still largely fragmented and often paper-based. Microsoft wanted to change this paradigm by empowering consumers to store, track and manage their own health information in a single, easily accessible, online location. The talented team at iQ Interactive answered [...]

Photography 09 Roundup

I had the pleasure of having lunch today with a few of the fine people at W. Scott Chester Photography. Among other things, we discussed cool photography portfolio websites and thought I’d share some of my favorites here. Natasja Fourie http://www.natasjamariafourie.com/ Seo Hiroshi http://www.seohiroshi.com/ Jeremy Cowart http://jeremycowart.com/ Ciril Jazbec http://www.ciriljazbec.com/ Andrew G Hobbs http://www.andrewghobbs.com/ Joshua [...]

Creating a Custom Accordion Menu in Blend

In this brief tutorial I will show how you can create your own custom accordion menu from scratch.  We will be using Behaviors so that you won’t need to program a single line of code.  Please be aware that there are many ways to create custom controls depending your desired end result, and this particular [...]

How to convert Photoshop designs to Blend for Silverlight?

This a good question with many different answers. First, always remember the basic rule of “garbage in, garbage out“. With that said, the first place to start is with a clean and organized PSD. That means naming layers appropriately, deleting unnecessary and hidden layers, flattening complex layers, and most importantly, good design. For beginners, the [...]