Foundation Expression Blend 3 with Silverlight (Foundations) 1st ed. Edition

by Victor Gaudioso (Author)

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The only real tool for developing cross-platform rich Internet applications (RIAs) for that last 11 years has been Flash; until now! Silverlight 3 allows you to develop cross-platform rich Internet applications in a fraction of the time because of the extensive and very powerful .NET 3.5 libraries, the powerful, design friendly Blend 3 IDE, and an enhanced workflow that allows designers and developers to work on the same set of files at the same time.

Develop stunning RIAs in a short time.
Learn some basic object-oriented programming principles.
Get familiar with the Blend 3 development environment.

About the Author

Victor Gaudioso is a senior application engineer at IdentityMine, a top-tier software company specializing in designing and developing cutting edge software applications, creating customized WPF/Blend and Silverlight training programs and creating tools for designers and developers. Victor has worked with Fortune 500 companies such as Microsoft, Harrah's, Mattel, NBC/Universal, Disney, Best Buy, GameStop, Vivendi Universal Games, and New Line Cinema, among others. Victor, a former Flash/ActionScript engineer, still stays active in the Flash community by writing articles and tutorials on ActionScript.org, where he is also a moderator.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Apress; 1st ed. edition (June 23, 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 392 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1430219505
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1430219507
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.53 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.52 x 0.83 x 9.02 inches

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Victor Gaudioso is an independent Windows Presentation Foundation and Silverlight developer. Victor has worked on some of the most cutting-edge WPF and Silverlight applications that have been developed to date, including the Surface Winebar CES demo and Surface Air Hockey with simulated physics, which debuted at PDC in 2008. Victor was also part of the team that launched the Silverlight Entertainment Tonight Emmy minisite, one of the very first Silverlight applications to market, which made live streaming video directly from the red carpet available to the site's visitors. In his spare time, Victor continues to write books under the friends of ED flagship Foundation series in hopes of presenting the powerful new Microsoft technologies of WPF and Silverlight to developers around the globe. It would appear that he is succeeding, as his first book is required reading in most courses on interactive web media development, and is available in university libraries around the world--from Germany to the Philippines to the United States. Along with development and writing books, Victor reaches out to the community, for which he teaches a course on WPF and Silverlight at Almer/Blank's Rich Media Institute in Venice, CA. Victor is also active in the Flash community and often makes appearances at Flash events such as Flash in the Can (FiTC) and Flashapalooza.

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Perfect for getting use to Expression Blend

Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2012

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I was having a hard time learning how to animate and create storyboards in Expression Blend 4. I got this book to help learn what features are available in Expression Blend (to make full use of what is available to me), and to learn how to animate and create storyboards. This book is a great reference and is easy to follow and learn the different tools available in Expression Blend. I am using Expression Blend 4, and this book is for Expression Blend 3, however there is not that much different, and Microsoft really pushed each edition of Expression out quickly when they released Expression 2 (I have the Studio edition for each). This book is all about using Expression Blend and does not cover too much on coding, which is fine, since I am very familiar with using Visual Studio, and I only needed a book on how to use Expression, not learn the technology behind it. So this book was exactly what I wanted and was super easy to understand and learn the different topics.

If you are familiar with Silverlight and a visual language (I like C#) then this book will help you make the best of the Blend window and learn how to animate and create a beautiful XAML layout for your project and create storyboard items and animate your designs. I highly recommend for anyone trying to get uses to the features and layout of Expression Blend!

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Not Just an Author

Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2010

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I am an avid reader of books pertaining to physics and computer languages. I have purchased an abundance of books online and not just from Amazon.com. I have run out of room at home for all the books I have purchased. The reason I am making this seemingly pointless point is so I can make clear that with an abundance of books and a variety of topics comes a variety of authors; and, as many of you can probably relate, the more books read, and the more variety in the topics, the more likely questions arise of which answers directly from the author, not a web page, would be ideal.

Victor Gaudioso is an author that goes beyond merely being the pen that left the ink on the page. Not only did I find the book to be extremely well written and informative, I found the author himself standing firmly behind his work. Having a question or two, as many times I do when I delve into material new to me, I took the author up on his book's offer to contact him with any questions pertaining to the book. Victor responded immediately to my emails and his responses exhibited a desire to make my experience with his book complete.

I highly recommend not only this book, but the author himself. It has been my experience when I find a well-written book, that other books written by the same author tend to be just as well written and supported. So, I not only recommend this book, but I recommend checking out any other books already written by Victor Gaudioso or that may be written by him in the future.

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From Stick Men to Color Gradients

Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2010

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As a developer, I have always been intimidated by anything related to graphics. I was forced to learn WPF and Blend because of a new project being developed with these tools. I was amazed at the lack of books on the subject, but pleasantly surprised with this book. While I have developed for several years, many of the books I use do a very bad job of really giving you the subject matter in an easily digested format. This book does an excellent job of giving you the design side of blend and also the technical side of applying it. We are having a large firm develop the initial project and in a recent presentation to show the screens, I realized that the buttons in the demo had the identical colors and design taken directly from this book.
As a rule, I do not write reviews of books, but this one has been too good at giving me a solid understanding of the subject matter and really living up to the actual premise of the book: bridging my very meager understanding of Blend and the concept of graphical design. I highly recommend this book to anyone thinking of designing in Blend and look forward to more books on the subject.
Cons: My only gripe is the lack of color diagrams on a subject that focuses on COLOR: need to have the diagrams of the book posted online somewhere to make this a perfect 5 star experience.

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This is a great book

Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2009

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I'm an experienced asp.net c# developer and I started this book after completing a ramp-up on Silverlight development over the past couple months. I expected a book aimed at how to make good use of Expression Blend 3. The book accomplished that goal and also taught me quite a bit more about programming in Silverlight using c#. This book is very useful for several reasons:

1.The author answered my email when I had questions and was eager to help me. He pointed me toward the website that I couldn't get to because there was some case problem in the URL.

2.There is a detailed list of errors and typos in the book with corrections that every reader should download.

3.There are example projects available for download that all work.

4.While some reviewers complained that they were shown "what" to do but not "why." I did not see this as a problem as it is easy to Bing the Docs and read up on Dependency Properties or whatever it is you don't understand.

5.The book steps you through the projects clearly and accurately and it was fun building the projects.

6.The fact that the book uses a pre-release version of Expression 3 was not a problem for me. Where differences occur I had to just back up and think about what was being accomplished and figure out how to accomplish that in the final version.

7.The reader is taught just enough about how to create cool visual effects to be able to go further on their own.

I would recommend this book to any c# developer who wants to learn to take advantage of Blend. I also imagine it would be good for designers who aren't afraid to write a little c#.

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