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Alex Knight has a tutorial on how to make some cool animations using a PathListBox.

Source: SilverZine

This is the second post on Silverzine about PLB (PathListBox). If you missed the first one check it out here: PathListBox Getting Started.

Ok lets check out how to make some animations using a PLB. There is so many possibilities on what you could do with this control when animating, I am just going to cover a few of the main ones, but experiment with everything because there is a lot more to be discovered.

This is the first, introductory post of Alex Knight's series of PathListBox tutorials.

Source: SilverZine

The PathListBox is a great addition to Silverlight 4 and one which a lot of us designer folk were waiting for. It opens up a whole new world for creating interfaces and animation. The ability to align objects along a path and then manipulate their positions and rotation along that path has a million and one uses. This post will teach you how to use the PathListBox control.

Source: SilverZine

There is a lot to consider when moving into design for Windows Phone 7. If you have ever worked on mobile platforms you probably have some idea what you are in for, but for those who have stuck to the desktop, here is a few tips to get you started on WP7 design.

Alex Knight has a great Expression Design tutorial about shadow breaker effect in XAML.

I have always liked using half shadows to break up sections of websites but in order to bring it into my Silverlight designs I have had to create PNG’s and import them into my Silverlight projects. This way has been fine but if you could create the same effect using simple XAML you would be able to create a smaller (file size) and a lot more flexible!!!

Alex Knight has a great tutorial up on simple Parent/Child navigation in Silverlight. 

The best part about Silverlight is it provides heaps of great tools to use, so people like me who are completely graphically minded and a little bit developer stupid are still able to create sweet menus and the like.

This blog will show a simple way to create a menu that has all the main categories visible and when clicked will show your child links for that category, and when clicked again will make them disappear.

Alex Knight has a great Expression Design tutorial concentrated on vectors.

I just want to throw together a really quick post on how to create complex shapes in expression design.

There are heaps of sweet tools at your disposal to create the look you want and here’s how to use them.