http://www.granthinkson.com flash, avalon, wpf, xaml, silverlight, fireworks, .net, graphic design, web programming and more! Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:29:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Infragistics Silverlight June CTP is now available for demo and download, compiled against Silverlight 2 Beta 2 released last Friday. The CTP includes a Silverlight Chart and Silverlight Gauge both of which you can see in the online demo. So download the bits, take them for a test drive, then ... http://www.granthinkson.com/2008/06/09/infragistics-silverlight-ctp-posted/ The public beta of Fireworks CS4 is now available for download at labs.adobe.com. In addition to a very noticeable (and polished) cosmetic makeover, there are a lot of great new features. Check out Nick's list of top new features. Alan has also posted a Breeze session archive demoing the ... http://www.granthinkson.com/2008/05/27/fireworks-cs4-beta-on-adobe-labs/ Over the past several months I've been working on a new "BrushManager" panel for Fireworks. I've been creating all of the individual pieces as AS3 components, both for ease of development and maintenance reasons. The BrushManager (I'll eventually come up with a better name) lets you quickly toggle between Solid ... http://www.granthinkson.com/2008/05/15/new-fireworks-panel-gradient-direction-editor/ Calling all WPF Designers/Developers -- Josh just announced the Podder Skinning Competition. For those of you who've been thinking about creating your own custom skin, now you finally have some incentive to do it! Josh and I put in a lot of late nights to release Podder v2 in time for ... http://www.granthinkson.com/2008/04/27/podder-skinning-competition/ Josh just posted an update to his WPF-based podcasting app Podder. I have been working with him in my spare time over the past month  (or more) to provide a shiny new skin and test out his "structural skinning" concept. Just like my experience styling custom controls or other WPF ... http://www.granthinkson.com/2008/03/05/podder-v2-released/ A couple of months ago I posted a preview video of the "Fireworks Brush Manager". Since that post I've had pretty much no free time to work on the project. I've update the layout a bit, added new icons, etc., but haven't really focused on finished up the functionality. Last ... http://www.granthinkson.com/2008/03/01/new-fireworks-panel-preview-resourcedictionarypanel/ I've posted a couple of videos that highlight new features included in NetAdvantage for WPF 2007.2 that we released about a month ago. The first video demonstrates how you can use the samples included in the xamFeatureBrowser to quickly create a xamRibbon. The second video demonstrates a feature that I'm really ... http://www.granthinkson.com/2008/03/01/new-videos-posted-xamribbon-quickstart-and-resourcewashing/ A couple of years ago Robby introduced me to the term "McGuffin", via this post. In his explanation, he admits that he is probably stretching the original intention of the word, and since I'm now interpreting his interpretation, it may be safe to say that my usage of the term ... http://www.granthinkson.com/2008/02/22/mcguffin-enabling-image-converter/ With the release of NetAdvantage for .NET 2008.1, we've also rolled out an update to the infragistics.com home page. Front and center on the home page you will see our updated product icons. These icons served as a starting point for artwork updates throughout the site and product, from updated ... http://www.granthinkson.com/2008/02/19/infragistics-artwork-updates/ I'm in the process of building a Brush Manager panel for Fireworks and I've posted a video of its current (really rough) state. In addition to including the gradient editing features of my Fireworks Gradient Panel, the Brush Manager will support opening and saving XAML-based ... http://www.granthinkson.com/2008/01/07/sneak-peak-fireworks-brush-manager/