Come hear how creating great user experiences for business applications can result in both improved productivity and significant support cost savings. Learn how to use proven user experience patterns in cost effective ways with Silverlight 3, including rich data display, data input and advanced data validation, and application navigation.
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Corrina BlackCorrina Black is the lead designer for the Silverlight platform and has recently been focused on understanding the unique value Silverlight enables for business applications.
12 Comments
Phil Cockfield said
March 21, 2009
Does the switching out of styles that you showed in the App.xaml start to lean on the ImplicitStyleManager work of the toolkit?
It was interesting how you were so radically shifting the structure of the UI around just from within styles. I'd love to see the source of the App.xaml alternatives to see what you're doing there.
Are they available anywhere? Thanks Corrina - great preso.
Phil Cockfield said
March 21, 2009
Also, I don't suppose you have a reference to the University of British Columbia research on psychological reactions to "red" in UX design?
Thanks Corrina!
Corrina Black said
March 23, 2009
Hi Phil,
The swapping out of styles that I showed doesn't require the implicitStyleManager, but it could certainly utilize it. I'll post my sample project and the two different styles I showed to my blog tomorrow - http://blogs.msdn.com/corrinab. It's fun stuff what you can do.
You can find information on the UBC research here, http://www.npr.org/ templates/story/story.php?storyId=100301582 (I'll try to find more indepth details if I can)
Phil Cockfield said
March 23, 2009
Hey, thanks Corrina!
So even though the ImplicitStyleManager is not in the stable band, would you suggest forging ahead with it? Is this the way of the future, or just some experimental thinking?
I really want to get my chops down on skinning - and don't want to waste time with the wrong approaches.
Thanks for any insights you may have Corinna!
M said
March 24, 2009
Nice job. From watching many of these MIX09 videos (which I have very much enjoyed seeing), it seems that quite a few people demonstrated similar new features/functions/tools in VS2010, SL3, and Blend3. I hope that you folks will continue to do that, because each of you have different jobs and each person demonstrates and explains things differently. And all of them combined really provides a good understanding of things.
Corrina Black said
March 25, 2009
Hi Phil,
I just posted the application styles I presented at Mix as well as my sample application project to my blog, http://blogs.msdn.com/corrinab/. I'll get back to you on your implicit style manager question shortly :)
Phil Cockfield said
March 26, 2009
Awesome - thanks Corrina!
Corrina Black said
March 27, 2009
To the implicit style manager question, implicit style manager is an intermediate solution that allows users to be able to do application skinning until Silverlight supports implicit styling (which isn't in SL3, but is coming). It's designed to work as similar to the WPF styling model as possible, as that's likely to be the way it works in Silverlight, so you should be fine using ISM now and will have an easy upgrade path to platform-supported implicit styling and skinning in the future :)
Phil Cockfield said
March 27, 2009
Beautiful! Thanks for your insights Corrina.
santhosh said
August 08, 2009
Hi Corrina,
please can you help me with answers on
1) How to dynamically switch to different styles based on user context. [Rather changing styles in App.xaml]
2) Where can i get best details on localization in Silverlight ? Does SL3 supports it now
Thanks very much
john79 said
November 16, 2009
Hi corrina ,
if i keep watching this session longer i can fall in love with you!
:D
greate job!!!
john79
تصميم مواقع said
December 30, 2009
Does the switching out of styles that you showed in the App.xaml start to lean on the ImplicitStyleManager work of the toolkit?
It was interesting how you were so radically shifting the structure of the UI around just from within styles. I'd love to see the source of the App.xaml alternatives to see what you're doing there.
Are they available anywhere? Thanks Corrina - great preso.