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We’ll cover navigation, layout, and sample data—all without writing a line of code! Pay attention because there’s a quiz at the end to test what you’ve learned!

This example is the result on making heavy experimental use of effects on a Textblock element. It has a visual appearance that reminds me of Jugendstil (Art Nouveau). Therefore I called it "Digital Jugendstil".

I published a new demo video on how to create a light glossy 3D effect for a Silverlight 3 Textblock control with Expression Blend 3. Watch the step-by-step video at LawBot on Silverlight, my video channel on vimeo.com.

Matthias Shapiro explains how to build a Gradient strip for Silverlight or WPF in Blend.

This is just a little trick to get a nice flexible striped gradient in Silverlight or WPF.

Silverlight is a formidable option for delivering rich web content. There are some obvious flaws still, but for a program in its earlier stages, It has some pretty muscular legs. I would love to see some more exploration into making this a more powerful design tool with options for transparent video and blending modes, a much stronger typography engine, and options for guides and guide layers.

Do you know the fantastic Wordle by Jonathan Feinberg?
It inspired me to make Silverlight Wordle and I can tell you that it looks much easier than it is…

The result is a bit slow and there are still some collision detection bugs but it looks pretty cool, don’t you think!?

In this post Steve from the Expression Blend and Design team explains about the runtime piece called Visual State Manager that Silverlight and WPF have.

As I’ll describe in this post, VSM and the Expression Blend tooling support for VSM lend a nice clean mental model to the business of visual states and visual state changes for both custom controls and UserControls.

Although chronologically the story begins with the control author, I’ll talk about that aspect later in this post simply because there are more people in the world concerned with the visual stuff than with the logical stuff. The visual aspect begins in Blend, with a set of already-defined visual states organized into groups in the States panel.

What makes Declarative UI's so seductive is that fact that putting non-UI code (or business logic) in the markup is not only difficult but tends to feel wrong. That sort of code sticks out like a thumb. In my opinion, it encourages the behavior of keeping the View as purely user interface code. Let's use Silverlight as an example of building using a Declarative UI.

Jesse Liberty has posted the first cut at the design of the VideoWiki.

The initial approach to designing the VideoWiki is to layout all the obvious pieces of the design, understanding that this will evolve over time.