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Silverlight Resize Drag Behavior for targeted UIElements
Wed, Apr 21 2010 1:19 AM

I have been searching for a Silverlight behavior where you have the ability to resize a column. Normally you can do such a thing with a GridSplitter onto a grid with several columns. Unfortunately this doesn’t work when you also wants to implement something like a hide and show menu column. Therefore I created this behavior myself and released it on CodePlex... Read More...

by Andries van der Meulen | 2 comment(s)

Filed under: Practical UX, Blend, Design, Personal Experience, Behavior, CodePlex, Silverlight, ResizeDragBehavior

Expression Blend not for Designers, but for Integrators
Wed, Jul 1 2009 10:26 AM

Last Friday I was at the SDN Event in Houten , where I followed several UX tracks, and spoke with the speakers afterwards. I was trying to find out how they worked with Designers and Developers and the technique’s Silverlight and WPF. And almost everybody agreed (except Kevin McNeish for some reason) on how to let these two groups cooperate. You will need someone... Read More...

by Andries van der Meulen | 6 comment(s)

Filed under: Development, Microsoft, Blend, SDN, Design

Designers & Developers within the ALM / TFS vision.
Tue, Jun 2 2009 12:17 PM

What Wikipedia says about ALM: Application lifecycle management (ALM) is the marriage of business management to software engineering made possible by tools that facilitate and integrate requirements management , architecture , coding , testing , tracking , and release management . Like most people know, Microsoft supports this with their Team Foundation system... Read More...

by Andries van der Meulen | 1 comment(s)

Filed under: Development, User Experience Design, Application Lifecycle Management, Microsoft, Blend, Team System

Blend 3
Tue, Mar 24 2009 11:17 AM

Most people probably already know that Microsoft's MIX09 event took place last week. Because I am specialized in Microsoft development, this event has introduced a lot of interesting new stuff. But because there are so many people already blogging about the new releases and new developments, that I think it is really not necessary for me to start writing... Read More...

by Andries van der Meulen | with no comments

Filed under: Microsoft, Prototyping, MIX, Blend, Sketch Flow