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Beauty with Silverlight
24 May 08 03:16 PM | Synergist | 0 Comments   

I created something cool that I'd like to share with you.  Imagine if your company had a beautiful luxury product that had intricate workings and you wanted to show how it worked as well as have a way for the product's owners and fans to show it...( Read More...

Filed under: Silverlight, Expression Blend, Expression Design

Encoding Formats for Silverlight Video
21 November 07 09:31 AM | Synergist | 0 Comments   

As you can see, I have been experimenting with posting video on my blog now that I have a HD Video Camera ( JVC GZ-HD7U ). I have been trying various encoding formats in Expression Encoder to get a good balance of bit-rate and quality. Here is my workflow:...(read more)

Filed under: Video, Sony Vegas, Silverlight, silverlight.live.com, Expression Blend, Expression Design, UVNTV.com, SynergisTV, Expression Encoder, Charette

Fixes for Expression Design to Silverlight Workflow
10 September 07 11:55 AM | Synergist | 0 Comments   

I have run into two small glitches when creating Silverlight designs in Expression Design and I got the fixes from the Product Team.  When you export a design to Silverlight XAML you may run into these problems:

1. Viewport attributes are added to ImageBrushes elements.  Since Viewports are not supported in Silverlight, you should remove Viewport attributes from ImageBrush elements.
2. Images filenames have \ slashes in the paths.  Replace the \ with / slashes (you can do a simple search and replace for \ characters.

I also got word from the product team that this will be fixed soon.  Yippee!

Filed under: Silverlight, Expression Design