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December 2006 - Posts

Keyframe easing and key splines

An animation authored in Blend contains keyframes. The animation defines which element/property to affect and each keyframe defines a key time at which a value should be in effect. The process of animating the property values between successive key times Read More...
Posted Saturday, December 30, 2006 7:41 PM by xprblog | 4 Comments

Two new websites from X-Coders

The company X-Coders has launched two new websites - ExpressionBlend.com and ResourceDictionary.com - each carrying information, blogs, videos, forums and downloads related to Expression Blend. The videos are great - we recommend you go and check them Read More...
Posted Sunday, December 10, 2006 6:47 PM by xprblog | 1 Comments

Blend: making the HyperBar sample data-bound

People have been wondering how to do this so I thought I’d write up an explanation. The HyperBar sample which ships with Blend Beta 1 has a fixed set of eleven images in it. But what if you want to combine the HyperBar effects with the flexibility of Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 05, 2006 8:01 PM by xprblog | 2 Comments

Expression Design -- New name, new UI

Expression Design is a vector based graphics design tool that is part of Expression Studio. It is targeted at graphic designers who need to build visual assets for new WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) applications. The goal of Exrpession Design is Read More...
Posted Monday, December 04, 2006 7:40 PM by xprblog | 1 Comments
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Expression Blend -- What Is That?

Expression Blend is an authoring system for professional designers to build user experiences that target the .NET 3.0 platform, and more specifically, WPF, or Windows Presentation Foundation. WPF provides the platform to bring rich, animated, skin-able, Read More...
Posted Monday, December 04, 2006 9:29 AM by xprblog | 1 Comments

Announcing the Microsoft Expression Blend Beta 1

Thanks for being patient! The previous CTP of Expression Interactive Designer was back in September. Since then the team has been focused on some major changes to the product ready for today’s announcement of our first beta. A list of all the new features Read More...
Posted Monday, December 04, 2006 9:00 AM by xprblog | 6 Comments

Expression Blend goes Beta, Big Changes to Expression Design CTP

Today we are going public with beta 1 of Expression Blend, and a new CTP for Expression Design. Before you ask – these are the new product names for what previously was known as Expression Interactive Designer and Expression Graphic Designer. Much more Read More...
Posted Monday, December 04, 2006 8:56 AM by xprblog | 2 Comments
 
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