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I am not a designer by profession and don't really want to become one [not my cup of tea, I guess]. I want to gain some knowledge on graphics designing [mostly with XAML] so that I can at least work with Expression Design and Blend. Any book or video that can teach me some effects would be good.
What are you favorite resources to learn Expression Design and Expression Blend?
How can you learn to create effects like, shine on the button, etc?
Have a look at these courses and tutorials.
.Toolbox
They'll walk you thru various design scenarios and principles.
Just don't be afraid to try things out. Add lots of different layers on top of eachother with different gradients, a small line or curve here and there.
Designing is good when you combine your skills on word,symbols and images to create representation of ideas that creates visual comminucation and representation.
As I know Expression series has the ability to import other design tools like Photoshop and Illustrator.At least you dont need to draw in blend if you're already used them.
Check Microsoft's own Training videos here.
That's all I can find
Hope that makes you a designer :)
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I want to develop a mobile game app. Is there any tool that i should use so that i don't have to remake it again and again for different platforms available?
Also performance is a issue and should be easy to learn.
If you are considering using an engine, with the benefit of writing your code once and then publish it to all platforms, have a look V-Play.
The engine core is written in native C++, combined with the custom renderer, the games reach a solid performance of 60fps across all devices.
V-Play also comes with ready-to-use game templates for the most successful game genres like tower defense, platform games or puzzle games, several tutorials and demos. (V-Play examples & demos)
(API reference)
(Disclaimer: I'm one of the guys behind V-Play)
You can learn OpenGL it graphics library for all platform
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL
its having good performance but learning curve is more. Hope this will help
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I would like my Windows Forms .NET application to be a bit nicer, having fancy rounded windows corners, non-standard color set, pretty controls.
Though all this is possible to implement with custom ownerdraw, I'd like not to spend much time and take existing free implementation (if any).
Please recommend the choice of yours.
I don't know of any complete free library, but to improve the look or functionality of common .Net controls I'd look at the CodeProject site. There's lots of articles about customizing controls. For example, here's one about making round buttons.
You might need to do owner drawing, but assuming that the license for the code in that or other articles are suitable for your needs you might be able to re-use code without having to write much yourself and some of the articles contain class libraries that you might just be able to reference in your code.
If you want to give your app a Windows 7 look there's also the Windows API Code Pack for .Net
As far as I know, there is no way to do "themes" or "skinning" easily in WinForms. You will have to find/purchase custom controls (or control libraries) that do all of the rendering that you require or do as you mentioned and render your own controls.
If you migrate your application to WPF, you'll find a lot more support for themes and "skinning".
Cheers.
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I have seen a lot of Carousels to show off WPF. I have never really need one before now though.
Is there a decent free one?
I have access to the Dev Express one, but I am making an open source project and would rather not put code in it that others cannot easily compile.
After some searching, I (re)found the free and fabulous FluidKit (http://fluidkit.codeplex.com/)
It has many controls that are great. One of them is the ElementFlow. This control has many great views methods. One of them is the Carousel view.
(Just as a side note, after looking at them all I think I like the VForm and CoverFlow views best. They are kind of a carousel like view, but can handle a lot of items with out needing resizing.)
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The majority of resources that I have for UI design all deal with the web world. There are a number of advantages there because of the dynamic nature of the presentation layer.
However, I would like to design better windows form programs. I want a professional flow to my applications. Right now they look pretty by using WPF, but events seem disjointed (i.e. almost unnatural progression) and I don't really know how to design a good (usability wise) interface. Does anyone blog about that sort of thing?
Try considering WPF as the technology to develop Windows application then you can use lot of vector graphics(XAML) and so lot more than what you can do with windows forms.
There is a great blog comparing both http://joshsmithonwpf.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/wpf-vs-windows-forms/
You may also want to take a look at the "Windows User Experience Interaction Guidelines" or UX Guide available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511258.aspx or in PDF. Here's the goals as listed on the website:
Establish a high quality and consistency baseline for all Windows-based applications.
Answer your specific user experience questions.
Make your job easier!
http://windowsclient.net/ is a Microsoft site for windows forms.
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What free or open source WPF diagramming libraries have you used before? I'm working on my thesis and have no money to pay for the commercial alternatives.
Valid answers should support undo/redo, exporting to XML and hopefully good documentation.
I'm building an open source UML / database diagramming tool.
sukram has a excellent series on CodeProject... it's a MUST READ!
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
This is a nifty diagramming control for WPF:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/SpiderControl.aspx
What kind of Diagram drawing you are looking for?
WPF has great set of basic control library which supports most mathematical drawing models like Spline Curve, Line, PolyLine, arc etc etc