Xamlhouse > Microsoft Silverlight Exploration

Together we represent the future of interactive media. We are the next generation of new media designers, new media developers, animators, 3D modelers, conceptualists, and directors. We are nine seniors from Rochester Institute of Technology who are looking for the next best thing.

For twenty-weeks we will be researching and experimenting with the Microsoft Expression Studio and the Microsoft Silverlight plug-in. You are invited to follow us, guide us, and interact with us, as interactivity is what we have grown to love.

Our goals are:

1) To explore and showcase the power, advantages, and disadvantages of Microsoft Expression Studio and the Microsoft Silverlight plug-in. We have been bred to be Adobe enthusiasts, but we realize there is more to life than CS3.How does Silverlight interact with Adobe products? How does Expression Studio compare to Adobe products? What can Silverlight do? Where are the boundaries? What rocks? What stinks?

2) To create an interactive application that rocks so hard that Microsoft welcomes us with open arms to their online gallery at www.Silverlight.net.

3) To document every step of our exploration, challenges and failures, successes and innovations via our blog. To craft this blog in such a way that it becomes not only our story, but also a resource for developers and designers alike.

So how can you help us on our voyage? E-mail us ideas. Help us through our problems. Critique us. Make comments and suggestions. Tell us how your experience with Expression Studio and Silverlight has been or how you hope it will be. Send us a project sample and show us what you are doing. Recommend our blog to a co-worker or friend. Or just drop us an e-mail with a “Hello.” 

Welcome.

Regards,

Xamlhouse Team