I took the term “eye candy” and gave it the “blend” spin 
I know, i know… corny! Anyway this section will contain all my blend xAML’s.
i ) “Dobby the Penguin” - (0000000001.zip) (screen cast)
ii ) “8 Ball” - (0000000002.zip)
iii ) “Boxy” - (0000000003.zip) (screen cast)
iv ) “Television - Black” - (0000000004.zip)
v ) “Flashing Light” - (0000000005.zip) (Play Sample Animation)
vi) “Orange Box” - (0000000006.zip) - i placed an asterix on the second box
vii) “Popcorn” - (popcorn.zip) (Tutorial)
viii) “Directors Chair” - (Sourcecode) (tutorial to come)
ix) “Clapper Board” - (sourcecode) (tutorial to come)
x) “Round reflective button” - (source code) (tutorial)
xi) “Stars” - (source code) (tutorial)
xi) “Speedometer twins” - (source code) (tutorial)
xii) “Battery Recharging” - (source code) (tutorial) (play animation)
xiii) “Billboard Sign” (Source code) (Posting) (Sample Animation)
xiv) “Drinks” (Source code) (Posting)
xv) Glowing Glass Buttons (Source Code) (Tutorial)
xvi) Windows Media Player (Source code) (blog posting) (demo)
xvii) “Gold & Sparkly Title + Rotating Marquee” (source code) (blog post) (demonstration)
More to come
11 responses so far ↓
Justin-Josef Angel [MVP] // August 3, 2007 at 7:30 pm
Seriouesly, You’ve got to do a screen-cast on how you made these from scratch.
This is amazingly good by my design standerds and allthough I’m not a designer I believe every developer using silverlight has to understand this stuff. Otherwise making pretty XAML is just black mojo.
fabiopedrosa // August 3, 2007 at 8:50 pm
Some screen-casts would be great
Simon // August 3, 2007 at 9:57 pm
Thats the point of blend so that xaml for developers is done in studio and looks grey and boxy and the all the cool mojo is done by the designers.
Us developers are born to suck at design.
advertboy // August 3, 2007 at 10:03 pm
you guys are too kind.. im honestly just an ordinary developer that has an ordinary eye for graphics. Anyone can do these types of designs..
I’ll do a screen cast to show people how easy it is to do these designs from scratch. Give me a day or two and they’ll be up !
CanSpellButCantCodeTooMuch // August 24, 2007 at 11:36 am
Spectacular! I love the orange box! Reminds me of a real object I had as a kid. I used to stare at it for hours, it was made of the strangest plastic material. I’ve never found anything like it since.
johnj // September 16, 2007 at 7:53 pm
Can you talk about how to resize the Speedometer twins? Blend 2 September preview is supposed to support scaling multiple elements but I can’t get either speedodometer to resize all of its elements together. Great objects!
RMASTERSON // October 11, 2007 at 5:50 pm
When I open the Banner.sln within BLEND2
I keep getting the following error
The Name Canvas does not exist in the namespace
Can you help me as i’m trying to create a menu bar for my own project
Justin Profaizer // October 29, 2007 at 8:18 pm
You are awesome! Please do some tutorials.
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Valerie // April 16, 2008 at 3:34 pm
I’m unable to view the animations for the battery/billboard, I keep getting an alert that says there was a Silverlight parsing error…
Nancyeb // April 21, 2008 at 5:17 pm
hi, i keep getting the alert parsing error too… running IE7 on Windows xp…
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