On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Fredrik Matheson < [email protected]> wrote:
> So, has anyone tried EP3 with Sketchflow? What's your experience so far? > I'm sort of living in Blend 3 these days, styling a major WPF application. Haven't had a chance to use the Sketchflow portion yet since I'm working on production deliverables and am a bit behind schedule. The Blend 3 RC is considerably more stable than the preview release, which crashed frequently when I'd open a code-behind file, or sometimes even just selecting something from the Object menu. The Adobe Illustrator imports are 95% great in Blend 3, only missing on some color accuracy and alpha values. Can't round-trip vector graphics, but support for Illustrator imports has really helped me out for this project. Blend 3 continues to be alternately handy and frustrating as a vehicle for designers to spruce up WPF and Silverlight applications. The XAML editor is much improved by the addition of Intellisense, but there are still moments when the parser thinks your code is busted but it really isn't. Blend also seems to do strange stuff to solution and project files sometimes, to the point that I only create new resource dictionaries and make other project-level changes using Visual Studio now. At some point I'll write up my experience styling WPF components in a serious production application, but I'm too busy today. Let me just mention that it feels more like hacking than like design. Plus it's given me one of the low points of my technology career when I realized that to style an 80-line screen took more than 800 lines of nearly unreadable and probably dangerous XAML template code. Ok off now to dive into 3rd-party UI components with a debugger, see how they put them together, hook up their default styles, hack them until they look right, and try not to break something. Life as a designer in the 21st century... Michael Micheletti -- Michael Micheletti [email protected] ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
