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  New Jersery User Interface User Group

  Chip is wondering if the New Jersey developer community would be interested in a user group focused on building User Interfaces using the various Microsoft tools/technologies. Chip has been looking to start up a user group, but like a lot of us, his interests Read More... Posted Saturday, December 09, 2006 4:03 PM by donxml | 0 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), Adobe Illustrator, New Jersey Developer Community Events
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  Expression Interactive Design (aka Sparkle) CTP Review

  Microsoft recently release the first public beta of their Expression Interactive Design tool (aka Sparkle), and I finally can get a chance to play with it and publicly talk about it. The most important thing to remember with this tool is that it is not Read More... Posted Thursday, January 26, 2006 11:48 AM by donxml | 0 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, SVG, XML, Adobe Illustrator
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  CSS Tutorial – Designing Without Tables and Not Lose Resizable, Custom Borders

  One of my first blog posts (way back in April 2003 and on the old DotNet Weblogs site, now Weblogs @ ASP.Net) was called Pet Peeve – Using HTML Tables to Control Web Page Layout . Since that early post I really haven’t seen much headway made Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 28, 2005 8:47 PM by donxml | 7 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), XML, Adobe Illustrator, CSS
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  Microsoft Codename Acrylic Does Not Do It For Me

  First off, I really, really wanted to love Microsoft’s latest graphics tool, codename Acrylic . I down loaded and install the first public beta, and wasn’t impressed, but hey, it’s an early view into what they are doing, so I decided Read More... Posted Monday, August 22, 2005 8:39 PM by donxml | 1 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), Windows Vista (aka Longhorn), SVG, PDC, Adobe Illustrator
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  Adobe To Acquire Macromedia

  Hmm, just heard about this news . Does this show how scared Adobe (and maybe Macromedia) is of Avalon and XAML? Over the last couple years there has been 2 major camps within Adobe, the PDF camp and the SVG camp, and both didn’t seem to like each Read More... Posted Monday, April 18, 2005 8:37 AM by donxml | 4 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), SVG, XML, Adobe Illustrator
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  Adobe XML/PDF Form Designer Beta

  I haven’t seen this posted anywhere else, and I found out about it via a email sent to one of my old accounts that I’ve never used for my other Adobe stuff, so I guess I can talk about it. It looks like Adobe is looking for folks to beta test Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 24, 2004 4:29 PM by donxml | 1 Comments

  Filed under: XML, Adobe Illustrator
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  Cool Raster to Vector Conversion Tool

  With all the XAML-GUI development going on I forgot to mention a cool tool that I use to convert rastered images to vector called VectorEye . It can convert bmp, jpeg, png, and tiff files to SVG, PS or EPS. Converting raster to vector is more of an art Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 03, 2003 12:00 PM by donxml | 1 Comments

  Filed under: WPF (aka Avalon), SVG, Adobe Illustrator
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  Creating XAML-GUI Via Adobe Illustrator

  Taking Pablo’s suggestion of using Illustrator to create XAML-GUI, I was able to get it to work with a few caveats. Yes, Illustrator can create XAML-GUI thru Illustrator’s printing functions and the WCPD , but it is hard to control the generated output. Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2003 6:47 AM by donxml | 3 Comments

  Filed under: WPF (aka Avalon), Windows Vista (aka Longhorn), SVG, Adobe Illustrator
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  Documenting the Conversion from SVG to XAML

  One of the things I want to do with blog is to help the SVG developer learn XAML , and get the XAML developer to understand SVG. Hopefully by crossing training both groups we can help make both technologies much better. I believe that both groups can Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 04, 2003 8:22 AM by donxml | 3 Comments

  Filed under: WPF (aka Avalon), SVG, Adobe Illustrator