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.toolbox – Free online Silverlight and Expression Blend training
March 12, 2010
Woohoo, the site is live! .toolbox is a free online training program where designers and developers can learn to create Silverlight applications using Expression Studio and to apply basic UX concepts to their solutions.
I was lucky enough to get involved with the project while it was coming together and I’m very excited to see it out there in the wild. I hope you really enjoy the training content. This site will be the answer to two questions I am asked often:
- I’m a designer, how do I get started with Silverlight & Blend? .toolbox Design Scenarios
- I’m a developer, can you teach me how to design? .toolbox Design Principles
To Get Started
- Go to .toolbox and sign up using your Windows Live ID
- Visit the School section and explore the curriculum.
- Select a module, watch the videos, and follow along using the provided guide & assets.
- Take the evaluation for a completed level to achieve a badge.
- Broadcast your achievements by posting to Twitter and Facebook.
Useful Links
Adam Kinney's blog has moved 
Thank you. This promises to be a great source of content to learn how to design with Blend!
There is a broken link on the page “design III | level 1” (http://www.microsoft.com/design/toolbox/school/modules.aspx?lid=6&mid=18), it is impossible to download the guide + assets + video zip file, the guide + assets link works correctly though.
Here is the faulty link: http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/9/7/3973BEAA-D9EF-4CBB-B1C9-9E5640587F06/03_Design_Fundamentals_PartIII_AssetsGuideVideos.zip
Can you ask the people in charge of making the content available to fix this link please?
Thank you.
Temporary replacement link taken from MIX09 website: http://mschannel9.vo.msecnd.net/o9/mix/09/wmv-hq/precon/02w-3.wmv