Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Silverlight Christmas Cards for 2008

by Adam Kinney via Adam Kinney on 12/24/2008 12:00:00 AM

Following Tim's lead for 2007, I've created a list of all the Silverlight-based Christmas cards I could find.  Deep Zoom was the big winner this year as the implementation feature for card creation.

Please let me know if I missed any.

• ObjectSharp - Deep Zoom
• ContentMaster - Deep Zoom
• Jobi Joy - parallax fun, with source code!
• Karen Corby - home sick
• Shine Draw - 3D Image Flipping Effect sample
• SilverlightShow - create your own tree and gather ornaments
• Jim Lynn - "just because it's fun"
• John Bruin - Snow Effect, with source code
• Microsoft Portugal - Deep Zoom, with text effects
• Expression Holiday Deal - Not a card, but a nice present.  Great deals on upgrades and what I found really interesting was how you qualify for an upgrade:

Chances are good that you qualify for the Upgrade pricing if you have any existing web design or creative software, or Microsoft Office software, including any ONE of the following:

• A licensed copy of an earlier version of Expression Web
• Adobe Creative Suite (any version)
• Adobe/Macromedia Flash or Director (any version)
• Adobe/Macromedia Dreamweaver (any version)
• Adobe GoLive (any version)
• Microsoft Office (any version)
• Microsoft FrontPage (any version)
• Quark QuarkXPress (any version)

Happy Holidays!  I'm taking votes on a rocking 2009.  Who wants one?