A number of people have sought more clarity around how Blend and resources references work inside WPF projects. Hope the following FAQs would help with some of your questions. a) Should I use Static or Dynamic resource lookup? Blend def. plays better...

A new extension point we have added to Blend 3 (based on very popular demand) can be seen put to good use with the Silverlight Chart control - we call it the AlternateContentProperty attribute. Annotating the properties of a control with this attribute...

Based on popular demand, here is a quick sample (WPF only though it would be very easy to port this as-is to Silverlight - currently busy with Blend 3 work and all the cool newer features we are adding to Blend 3) that will allow you to get started on...

Writing a design time experience for a Silverlight control can be a bit intimidating (the experience for WPF controls remains unchanged from Blend 2 - just that you now have a ton more extensibility points - unless you wanted to re-use the same design...

Blend 3 adds really cool support for the DataGrid control (for both Silverlight 3 and WPF Toolkit ). Here is a quick demo to help you get started. Enjoy! Create a new Silverlight 3 application Search and instantiate the DataGrid control from...

To help you walk thru some of support we have added for sample data inside Blend 3, I wrote a hands-on-lab that takes you thru the basic experience of building a simple master/detail visualization. While there are a lot more scenarios that are possible...

I am sure you must have heard - Expression Blend 3 Preview is here ! And I am back after a 2 year break from writing on this blog - if you were to use the product, you will realize what kept us busy :). If I were to list the new features in Blend 3...

Based on popular customer feedback, we have added a number of new extensibility points in Blend 3 (sorry, no support for plugins, yet, but who needs an officially supported extensibility model anyway ? :) ) Over the next few weeks, I will provide more...

Expression Blend 3 Preview adds support for integration with Team Foundation Server, one of our top feature requests. Some examples of the various integration points: a) Saving a file automatically checks it out b) Adding a new UserControl or assets to...