Evan Hutnick - Designer and Developer Experience in Silverlight
Evan Hutnick, a Developer Evangelist for SL/WPF at Telerik, delves into the world of Silverlight development and design. Learn about the tools and workflow for Silverlight Designer/Developer collaboration, as well as insights on Visual Studio 2010, Expression Studio, and more.
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Evan Hutnick evan.hutnick@telerik.com THE DESIGNER/ THE DESIGNER/ DEVELOPER EXPERIENCE DEVELOPER EXPERIENCE IN SILVERLIGHT IN SILVERLIGHT
Session Roadmap Introductions Why this session? Silverlight Developer Silverlight Designer How the tools work Separately Together The Designer/Developer Workflow Wrap up
Introductions Who am I? Evan Hutnick Developer Evangelist for SL/WPF @ Telerik XAML Geek WP7 Geek {BasedOn XamlGeekStatus} @EvanHutnick http://blogs.telerik.com/evanhutnick
Introductions Telerik Started in 2002 with 1 control Began with UI, now a .Net Toolbox vendor Providing tools for end-to-end development of projects Developer Productivity Automated* Testing Web Content Management Team Productivity @Telerik http://www.facebook.com/Telerik
Why This Session? Microsoft created this story VS2010 vs. Expression Or is it VS2010 + Expression? Both are useful for devs Understanding the tools = Knowing the limitations of each Knowing the benefits of each VS Blend
Silverlight Developer Your toolset Visual Studio 2010 but what about VS2008? Your objective Coding next-generation LOB apps Or rich islands of functionality Or making components others will use Or writing test code
Visual Studio 2010 What it can do Regular day-to-day development Data Sources Window DataContext Window Testing Manually write paths, animations, storyboards What it can t do Easily generate storyboards/animations Provide quick visuals on resources Extract templates
Demo Visual Studio 2010 Visual Studio 2010
Silverlight Designer Your toolset Expression Studio Media for encoding Design* for vector art Blend for development, animation, storyboards, pulling templates Photoshop? Illustrator? Your objective Let someone else do the coding , you just make it look good
Expression Blend What it can do Regular day-to-day development Extract control templates Easily generate animations & storyboards Provide quick visuals on resources What it can t do Testing Collapse lines in code Correctly read all the valid Xaml VS2010 can
Demo Expression Blend Expression Blend
The Designer/Developer Workflow Working with a designer already? Not as much as you think might change They can import PSD (Photoshop) files directly into Blend Not working with a designer yet? If possible, make your views blend Ensure they can work with design time data
Demo Lets Build a Simple Application! Designer / Developer Workflow Designer / Developer Workflow
The End Result? Visual Studio and Blend work nicely together Blend is not just for designers! Animation & StoryBoards made easy Extracting control templates Visualizing resources But Blend cando neat designer things Easier visualization when customizing controls UI for handling visual state management
Wrap-up So what is the Developer/Designer story? Two tools, different capabilities, different audiences Developer/designer hybrids based on effectiveness of tooling Deeper understanding of the framework and application architecture lends to better design habits (and happier designers)
TechDays Canada Tech Days 2010 Microsoft Canada Conferences Awesome lineup of speakers I ll be in Edmonton, Ottawa, and Calgary Free TechNet Subscription Free Telerik RadControls for Silverlight Developer License Early-bird pricing still available for most cities! http://www.techdays.ca
Thank you! Any further questions? Drop me a line: evan.hutnick@telerik.com @evanhutnick (on Twitter)
