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I’m an interaction designer with Veracity Solutions who has been working with WPF since November 2006. I started this blog because I noticed that everytime I went to Microsoft for some WPF thing-a-ma-thinger and I mentioned that I was a designer working in WPF, all heads turned and I was bombarded with questions.

I think that WPF is a fantastic technology for designers and I wish more of them would give it a shot. Yes, it is a Microsoft technology, but it is also wonderfully powerful and remarkably designer friendly if you can find some decent training for it (hence this blog). And if you have ever met the team that makes Blend, you would know that they are a terrific team who are working extremely hard to make the best product they can to aid designers in getting exactly what they want in their applications.

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  1. Adriaan Wormgoor:

    HOORAY TO YOU :) I’m in the same position as you and it’s quite true that the tone of voice surrounding WPF development is quite software-developer-centered (SDC… gosh did I just coin something? :)
    Anyway, instantly added to my rss reader, looking forward to your posts Matthias!

    cheers,
    Adriaan

    20 December 2007, 7:30 am

  2. Scott Tiedemann:

    Matthias,

    I’ve benefitted a lot already from reading just a few things you’ve written. So, in the spirit of good karma, I thought I’d leave this little tidbit, in the very unlikely event that you didn’t know it already. It just took me forever to figure it out. :)

    I couldn’t figure out how to use Blend’s UI to create a style property trigger that would change the z-order of an object (other than a canvas) when you mouse over it. It seems like Blend’s UI lets you do just about everything else except that. When I wrote the xaml directly (below), it works, but I can’t see anything in the UI that would indicate to me “aha! that’s where you assign the value!”.

    If this is of any use, then I’m glad to be able to submit something in exchange for the benefit I’ve realized from the information on your site.

    Sincerely,

    Scott Tiedemann

    19 March 2008, 7:16 am

  3. XAMl Templates:

    at www.xamltemplates.net you can see a lot of styles for WPF, let me know what you think.

    16 April 2008, 10:10 pm

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