Some of you may also be having a grumble right now, because you were sold on this concept of “rapid prototyping†with Expression Blend from Microsoft, which is fantastic and exactly the process you would rather be taking to really speed up this entire design phase, except for one little problem: if your designers are not comfortable with Blend, then you are not going to get a heavily designed prototype.
For the most part, .Net developers are continuing to use Visual Studio the same way they always have, even when it comes to creating new WPF solutions, but interesting enough quite a few developers that I have spoken to recently also now find themselves working with Expression Blend.
Taking aside the technical aspects of learning how to use Microsoft Expression Blend, there are many areas that are often disregarded within discussions about how Blend is -- and should be -- used in a real-world project sense. Knowing why a tool should be used in a certain way sometimes makes it easier to apply the options provided. This chapter talks about areas within project teams, their roles, and their perspective.
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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