Shine Draw

I was very busy for preparing a magic performance last week. Finally, the show was good and I am back for contributing shinedraw again.

Last time, I have implemented a application namely “Color Fill Toy“. Since I am not so familiar with Expression Blend, the Silverlight version is far yet to be completed

However, one of my reader Rob from web-snippets has implemented the Silverlight version using his professional skills in Blend.

Silverlight

You may also find out how to build up this application in his step by step tutorial!

• Building the Color Fill Toy Part 1: Drawing the outlines
• Building the Color Fill Toy Part 2: Programming the logics

Source codes are provided inside his articles as well.

What do you think about Flash and Blend?

Since Rob is such a professional in Blend, I haven’t missed the chance of asking him to evaluate Flash and Blend. Below is his point of view:

In my opinion, for a .NET developer like myself the learning curve for Blend is lower than it is for Flash.

Blend is more limited, I think when it comes to animating and creating vectors. I do think Blend is more “open”. It’s easier to find animations, etc in Blend than it is in Flash.
For a designer or a Flash developer it would be a higher learning curve because they are used to tools that work different.

However, we’re only at version 2 with Blend where Flash is already at version 10.

Shares and Enjoy~

Did you like this post?

Subscribe here: