The APIs in WPF4 plus the Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch make building common touch scenarios easy. However, implementing many of the same touch scenarios using WPF3.5SP1 or Silverlight 3/4 involves writing a fair bit more code. Furthermore, the touch APIs across WPF4, WPF3.5SP1, and Silverlight are different. 

The goal of this project is to simplify building common touch scenarios when using WPF 3.5 SP1 or Silverlight 3/4 by using Expression Blend Behaviors to provide a consistent way to implement these scenarios across WPF & Silverlight. Expression Blend Behaviors can be used within Visual Studio without a dependency on Expression Blend by downloading the Expression Blend 3 SDK. You can also find more Expression Blend Behaviors athttp://expressionblend.codeplex.com/ and http://tinyurl.com/ExpressionGalleryBehaviors. 

Go to http://touch.codeplex.com/ to learn more about this project.  Go to http://tanagrampartners.com/ to learn more about Tanagram Partners.

You are pressed for time, but you are dying to know what SketchFlow is? The thought of watching an hour of demo video, like presented here, makes you look frantically at your watch?

The solutions is here: Jon Harris presents SketchFlow in just 90 seconds in this video, and does so with a friendly British accent to boot. It does not get any shorter (or better) than that.

• sketching with SketchFlow
• importing images
• path conversion to elements
• sample data
• editing item templates
• data binding
• behaviors
• effects
• visual states
• easing

This is a great and very practical demonstration of Blend 3 from the Expression Evangelist himself.

Links for this episode:

• http://adamkinney.com/ – Adam’s blog covering Silverlight and Expression Blend
• http://projectrosetta.com/ – includes tutorials covering a lot of the exact material we went through in the video
• http://expressionblend.codeplex.com/ – the Behaviors sample pack we talked a lot about

Episode 5 has killer content on Deep Zoom, Expression Web 3, a codeplex project on a Snippet Editor for Visual Studio, LINQ Tool Samples, LINQ Pad, Link To Twitter, Expression Blend 3 Importing Adobe assets, and an incredible codeplex project must see on a solid Silverlight website starter kit using best practices!  This is Russ’s Tool Shed’s best effort yet! Grab a beer and hope you enjoy this most educational, enlightening and entertaining instant classic video! 

Producer: Russ Fustino
Audio and Video Editing: Russ Fustino
Many thanks to the many volunteers, live studio audience and presenters. This was an all volunteer effort!

One note on the default player.. I tested this out at a very slow speed, and it may buffer a few times in the first minute of play during the theme song with lots of video action but settles right down for smooth play after that, just in case you experience this:
1) either ride it out, or
2) view the highdef wmv by clicking here to play in your media player, or
3) right mouse click on this link and choose save target as to download… or
4) using the pull down menu under  the player, or
5) slip ahead a minute on the time line hovering over the bottom of the video.

Size=400meg. Hopes that helps because it is well worth it to view this in its entirety, with great content and 4 MVP speakers who are awesome!

My Email: Russ Fustino
My Web Site: http://www.russtoolshed.net
Please feel free to contact me.
Russell Fustino

Developer Challenges this episode solves…

How can you quickly display  and navigate a large, detailed image or a panorama of images on the web, and not be extremely slow to view?

What can you use to build a website that supports ASP.NET, Deep Zoom Composer images, AJAX, and Silverlight videos? … and do it quickly?

Do you wish you could find that perfect piece of code that you know you’ve written before?

You know how to write a query in SQL but how do you do it in LINQ? What tools are there to help you understand LINQ and what it is doing behind the scenes?

You have the source art from your design group, but how do you convert that into WPF or Silverlight?

You need to create a website for your group, and you would like to have a solid codebase as a starting point and get your feet wet in a real world Silverlight application.

Timeline:
00:00 – Theme Song, Intro of speakers and content
08:02 – Deep Zoom Composer by Russ Fustino
15:40 – Expression Web 3 by Russ Fustino
32:11 – Snippet Editor for VS by MVP Stan Schultes
44:35 – LINQ Tools by MVP Christopher Bennage
01:16:33 – Silverlight Web Starter Kit by MVP David Silverlight
01:31:27 – Community Update by Russ Fustino and David Silverlight
01:39:32 – Credits and Photos

Episode 5 has killer content on Deep Zoom, Expression Web 3, a codeplex project on a Snippet Editor for Visual Studio, LINQ Tool Samples, LINQ Pad, Link To Twitter, and a more comprehensive list at www.thinqlinq.com/Post.aspx/Title/linq-tools. Expression Blend 3 Importing Adobe assets, and an incredible codeplex project must see on a solid Silverlight website starter kit using best practices!  This is Russ’s Tool Shed’s best effort yet! Grab a beer and hope you enjoy this most educational, enlightening and entertaining instant classic video! 

Producer: Russ Fustino
Audio and Video Editing: Russ Fustino
Many thanks to the many volunteers, live studio audience and presenters. This was an all volunteer effort!

It is well worth it to view this in its entirety, with great content and 4 MVP speakers who are awesome!

My Email: Russ Fustino
My Web Site: http://www.russtoolshed.net
Please feel free to contact me.
Russell Fustino

Developer Challenges this episode solves…

How can you quickly display  and navigate a large, detailed image or a panorama of images on the web, and not be extremely slow to view?

What can you use to build a website that supports ASP.NET, Deep Zoom Composer images, AJAX, and Silverlight videos? … and do it quickly?

Do you wish you could find that perfect piece of code that you know you’ve written before?

You know how to write a query in SQL but how do you do it in LINQ? What tools are there to help you understand LINQ and what it is doing behind the scenes?

You have the source art from your design group, but how do you convert that into WPF or Silverlight?

You need to create a website for your group, and you would like to have a solid codebase as a starting point and get your feet wet in a real world Silverlight application.

Timeline:
00:00 – Theme Song, Intro of speakers and content
08:02 – Deep Zoom Composer by Russ Fustino
15:40 – Expression Web 3 by Russ Fustino
32:11 – Snippet Editor for VS by MVP Stan Schultes
44:35 – LINQ Tools by MVP Christopher Bennage
01:16:33 – Silverlight Web Starter Kit by MVP David Silverlight
01:31:27 – Community Update by Russ Fustino and David Silverlight
01:39:32 – Credits and Photos (please view for special dedication to the Developer Community and song)

Thank you Channel9.
Russ Fustino  rfustino@hotmail.com

 
What is it? Behaviors allow you to attach functionality to visual elements to make them behave a certain way, such as drag and drop or physics.
 
Download Site: http://www.microsoft.com/expression/try-it/

Example Problem(s) it solves
adds extra  functionality to xaml elements
easily attach behaviors to elements with no code
Installation Notes: Behaviors  require free Blend 3 SDK for Silverlight and WPF, installed with Blend 3, is  available separately.

Usage Notes: Expression Community Home: http://expression.microsoft.com

This is the sixth and final of Tool Shed Tooltips clips released from Episode 4 of the TV Show Russ Tool Shed presents… “It’s All About The Tools” hosted by Russ Fustino and Co-Host Stan Schultes. Download code, ppt and demo script from http://code.msdn.com/toolshed for all episodes. Also, use the links on http://channel9.msdn.com/toolshed to download tools. Finally, check out some more great videos on the Developer Evangelist East site: http://channel9.msdn.com/dpeeast