Today Celso Gomes and Peter Blois posted a cool 10 minute video tutorial that shows off using Expression Blend to stylize a Silverlight 2 Twitter Messenger application. This tutorial was aimed primarily at developers, and focused on introducing the fundamental programming concepts involved when building a Silverlight 2 application. Last month I posted an in-depth blog tutorial on how to build a Silverlight 2 Digg application which you can read here. The WPF UI framework shipped in Silverlight further enables a great designer/developer workflow by supporting concepts like layout management, controls, styles, templates, and resources - which help avoid scenarios where designers and developers end up tripping over each other when integrating functionality, behavior and expressive design. NET development environment, and designers can use Expression Blend 2 SP1 to open and edit the exact same project and use a creative tool to sculpt and create optimal user experience designs. Developers can use Visual Studio to open and edit Silverlight 2 projects and get a powerful code-focused. One of the things that makes Silverlight so powerful is the ease with which developers and designers can collaborate together on projects. Silverlight 2 provides a rich platform for building cross-browser/cross-platform RIA applications.
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