I am moving my blog to http://blogs.nukeation.com/parvez.

Feed for the new Blog is http://feeds.feedburner.com/parvezansari.

As mentioned by Dax a team has been created at Nukeation which is in charge of nukeationFingertip - an initiative to create groundbreaking new user experiences for many common problems that lack a decent solution.

I am really excited to work on this. As mentioned by Dax the intital offering consists of Project code named "Nukium", "Black Folder", and "Griffon". Stay tuned for more.

If you have been following Dax's Blog you must be aware that, we are offering a "lite" version of Reuxables Theme: Paper. Just wanted to inform you that this limited time offer for the free Reuxables Theme "Paper Lite" will end at 23:59 (IST) February 17.

Download now!

Dax has just posted on something we heard the other day about Adobe, Silverlight and Microsoft.

Check out his post here.

Nukeation is proud to announce the full release of our Reuxables themes for WPF (and soon - Silverlight!).



From the Official Press Release:

Nukeation Studios, a leader in Windows Presentation Foundation™ (WPF) and User Experience (UX) solutions has released reuxables, a range of designer themes for Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2008 and Microsoft Expression Blend™.

Reuxables themes are aimed at the fresh new market of WPF applications, and allow software developers to easily implement a new look for their applications with lots of features:

• The reuxables library consists of 6 fully customizable themes, each with their own unique variations that result in a total of 48 different styles.
  
• The themes are designed by some of the top artists in the UX design industry.
  
• Reuxables themes provide a consistent look regardless of the operating system, and therefore provide the same look on both Windows Vista™ and Windows® XP.
  
• Reuxables are completely compatible with both .NET Framework 3.0 and 3.5.
  
• All reuxables themes are provided in both Static and Animated versions, both made from native XAML vector objects.
  
• Implementing reuxables is effortless as they automatically theme the entire application as soon as the theme file is added to the project.
  
• Reuxables themes are fully compatible with both Microsoft Expression Blend™ 1.0/1.1 and Visual Studio® 2008.

System requirements include Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 or 3.5 for runtime, and Microsoft Expression Blend 1.0/1.1 or Visual Studio 2008 for development. Individual reuxables themes are available between $19 to $99, with an additional complete collection pack for $299.

A complete demonstration of all themes is available at: http://www.reuxables.com

We at Nukeation have been working on a Visual Studio tool Codename Nukeball which is a Dynamic Rapid UI Development Tool. It helps you create parts (or whole) of UI in Windows Forms with a single click. We have been working on this for more than a year. Nukeball seamlessly converts UI code from one .NET language to another.

Dax has posted a live demo of what Codename: Nukeball can do. Have a look at it. More information is also available on this blog post.

Keep visiting Dax's Blog for more info on Nukeball.

I was just reading the blog post WPF, AIR and all that by Dax Pandhi. I fully agree with what Dax says.

Dax rightly says:

"Many Flash/Flex/AIR people have been talking about the merging of the desktop and the web, but IMHO I think that some things are better left on the desktop or the web where they belong. The net is not really all that stable as it needs to be for such heavy things. In the future, sure, it could happen, but not yet. Moving things to the web for the sake of moving things to the web is just wrong."

Dax is a great artist. His work gives you the depth of the subject he focuses on, All his works are masterpiece. I am a very big admirer of Dax's art and you can also explore his wonderful art work on Deviant Art at http://nukeation.deviantart.com.


Sunrise at Frozen Lake by =nukeation on deviantART

Image Courtesy: Dax Pandhi (http://nukeation.deviantart.com)

We are proud to release 0.9 Beta of WPF Transition Framework or WTF.

WTF is a set of simple controls which help you in providing cool animation transitions to your WPF applications and all this can be done without having to write complex code to create timelines.

As mentioned in Dax's blog using WTF is as simple as:

<WTFX:WTF Duration="250" Transition="BlurOut" Quality="Better">
        <!-- Put your stuff here -->
</WTFX:WTF>

This code will add "BlurOut" Transition with Quality set to "Better". It you like to change the animation to be more faster you can simply change the Quality to "Faster", its that simple.

The 0.9 Beta version of WTF can be downloaded at wtf.nukeation.com. A sample application is also provided in the download showing the use of WTF. Microsoft Expression Blend 1.0 or later, and Visual Studio 2008 Beta 1 or later will be required to use WTF.


You can checkout the wishlist of features which we intend to add before the final release. For queries please feel free to contact us.

We have been exclusively working on WPF and I am loving it.