Tech Insights 2009

It’s only a few more days to Tech Insights 2009, I will be there giving a tag team presentation with my pal Yee Jie on What’s new in Silverlight 3 and Expression Blend 3. We’ll be showcasing the possibilities of Silverlight 3 and the new features in Expression Blend 3, and then we’ll team up and design and develop a Silverlight application on the spot, showing the process and workflow from the prototyping to production stage.

This is definitely the IT event of the year! Looking forward to see you guys there!

Cool Silverlight 3 Samples by Joe Stegman

Joe Stegman has been nice enough to compile a list of samples he presented in Mix 2009 which are all pretty awesome, I especially love his sample with the bouncing balls to show the Local Messaging feature of Silverlight. Here are some preview of what samples you can find.

Chess Wars

Perspective 3D

I believe these samples here must have whet your appetite, here’s the link to his blog post with the full list of downloadable samples.

Blend 3, marquee keyframe selection!

It’s finally here guys and girls, marquee keyframe selection for Expression Blend, I have been waiting so long for this feature and my will this be a time saver (life saver when dealing with tight deadlines) when dealing with complex animations

Found out about it from this post, Keyframe marquee selection from the Expression Blend and Design blog, excerpt below:

“With Blend 3 it’s now possible to draw a marquee (or lasso) around keyframes to select all the keyframes that fall within it. Hold down the CTRL key then drag out a marquee with the mouse pointer as shown below. You can even begin your drag operation when the mouse pointer is over a keyframe or an animation bar; so long as CTRL is pressed, this will not result in selecting and/or moving any keyframe or animation.”