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	<title>design-time writer's block</title>
	<link>http://www.dragonshed.org/blog</link>
	<description>deadly sharp lines, waves of sine, intersecting shapes with tweens and keysplines</description>
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		<title>stability tip for visual studio 2010 beta2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you happen to be stuck using VS 2010 Beta2 for Silverlight 4 Beta development, and are experiencing crashes while editing or debugging C#, this quick tip is for you.  
Disable the new Highlight References feature inOptions->Text Editor->C#->Advanced.

Although handy, it was apparently one of the buggier features in Beta2.  Thanks @pilchie.
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		<link>http://www.dragonshed.org/blog/2010/02/09/stability-tip-for-visual-studio-2010-beta2/</link>
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		<title>drafting behaviors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finally had a chance to explore Expression Blend’s Interactivity SDK a bit and put together a simple HelloWorld app using it with Blend 3.

At the center is a rough custom Behavior that is able to share the visual state of controls that are bound to the same data object.  Once the behavior was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dragonshed.org/blog/2009/07/27/drafting-behaviors/</link>
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		<title>silverlight released &#8211; bookmark roundup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lots of releases this month; Silverlight 3, Blend 3 with Sketchflow, and an updated Deep Zoom composer all shipped.  Windows 7 is around the corner and Wpf4 is in the pipe.  It’s a great time to be working in UX.
Downloads
Silverlight 3 Dev Tools &#8211; Web Installer
Expression Blend 3
Deep Zoom Composer
Silverlight Toolkit
Expression Blend Samples
Noteworthy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dragonshed.org/blog/2009/07/26/silverlight-released-bookmarks/</link>
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		<title>silverlight 3 beta available</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As of this morning, downloads are published for the Silverlight 3 Runtime, SDK, Tools and Blend.
Blend
Silverlight 3 Runtime
Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1
SDK
Looking forward to exploring the new features and changes.
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		<link>http://www.dragonshed.org/blog/2009/03/18/silverlight-3-beta-available/</link>
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		<title>radiobuttons in a datatemplate in silverlight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was recently asked by a customer, “Why doesn’t RadioButton.GroupName work when a single RadioButton is put in a DataTemplate within an ItemsControl?”  I had no answer.  When I tried it out myself, lo and behold, two checked RadioButtons were staring back at me.  A quick search told me that others have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dragonshed.org/blog/2009/03/08/radiobuttons-in-a-datatemplate-in-silverlight/</link>
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		<title>mix09 10k entry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve authored an entry for the Mix09 10k Smart Coding Challenge called Verdant.  It&#8217;s an experimental game idea where the player influences the growth of plant vines to collect as many rain droplets as possible.

Contest entrants are limited to 10kilobytes of source code and resource files, so like many others, I was constantly budgeting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dragonshed.org/blog/2009/02/03/mix09-10k-entry/</link>
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		<title>attachedbindings for silverlight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I released a small pet project of mine on Codeplex, called AttachedBindings.  It&#8217;s a library for Silverlight which attempts to bridge the feature gap of Bindings between Silverlight and WPF. It contains an attached behavior that implements a form of ElementName Binding between two FrameworkElements.
Here is a simple example, which shows a Calendar [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dragonshed.org/blog/2008/09/22/attachedbindings-for-silverlight/</link>
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		<title>blendables has shipped!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After much sweat and toil, we&#8217;ve launched not one, but three products aimed at the discerning development shop that need to build non-trivial WPF applications quickly and reliably.  Indeed many of the apps we&#8217;ve built ourselves, for our customers, leverage these controls, panels and tools.  Check out the announcement for the details.
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		<link>http://www.dragonshed.org/blog/2008/09/18/blendables-has-shipped/</link>
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		<title>live visualization</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Nine Inch Nails, currently touring their Lights in the Sky tour, has raised the bar for live performance visuals.  According to Reznor, it all started with a relatively simple idea.
&#8220;I wanted to see how I could use video as an instrument,&#8221; he says, &#8220;and try to really make the stage feel like it&#8217;s organic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dragonshed.org/blog/2008/09/15/live-visualization/</link>
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		<title>identitymine showcase</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been privileged to work at IdentityMine at a time when some truly amazing interaction design and end-user experience work has been happening, but it’s always been difficult to showcase that work to others.  This is usually because of contractual obligations, but it’s also a logistics problem.  Silverlight work is much easier to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dragonshed.org/blog/2008/08/21/identitymine-showcase/</link>
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