I’m a Visual Studio guy. I feel at home coding XAML by hand and knowing that no one will mess with it. I’ve tried running Expression Blend several times but closed it everytime without doing something substantial. This time I decided that I need to do something simple (but real) and utilize as many Microsoft Expression Studio tools as possible. So, I did this…

… a simple Tic-Tac-Toe game (requires Silverlight 3).

Another reason and inspiration for doing  this was a dialog I recently had with my daughter Daniela:

Daniela: Daddy, are you a programmer?
Me: Well, yeah..
Daniela: Can you programm a game?
Me: Yes, a simple one
Daniela: Ok, so do one for me

Daddy said – daddy did.

I’ve posted sources of this project to the Downloads page of this blog under Ms-PL license. You wont find any programming gems in there, but if you want to see a couple of simple custom templated controls, a modified button template, some animation and other small stuff – give it a look.

I think I’ll make a resolution to do some simplistic non-work related project like this every boring weekend.