XAML, it sounds like "camel"

Robby Ingebretsen from Identity Mine presented at the Microsoft Designer Utopia event today in London and showed off an application they had created - Roxio Studio 9.5 - that shows off the WPF framework and significantly improves the user experience over the previous version of the Roxio app.

I like the way Robby painted the picture of the project team where he had baseball cards depicting each member; The Designer, The Integrator and The Developer.  The cool thing with the Expression tools, Visual Studio and WPF is that all the team members are talking the language of XAML (which Robby pointed out sounds like camel), which makes a seamless workflow for project from Designer through integrator through Developer is much more achievable.

For this particular project Robby had a team of just 4 people and completed the work in 2 months for Roxio. Their designer had Adobe Illustrator experience but is now more comfortable using Expression Design after four projects completed using the technology.

One of the cool things I saw him do was copy a XAML based vector object out of Expression Designer into Blend and the XAML came across in the background even though he copied the image from designer rather than the XAML markup.

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