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February 2008 - Posts

The Big Jasinski!

I figured you could all use a break from the tips and tricks my colleagues have been posting for the past few days! At one time, the Expression team was fortunate to have incredibly talented artist (illustrator, musician) Aaron Jasinski on board as a Read More...
Posted Friday, February 29, 2008 10:44 PM by xprblog | 5 Comments
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Creating your Own Vista "Chrome" Style Button

In this blog post I’d like to show a way to create your own “chrome” like button template that can be easily modified and used over and over again using Expression Design.  This post is targeted for the absolute beginner, so if Read More...
Posted Saturday, February 16, 2008 9:21 PM by xprblog | 12 Comments

Using Brush Strokes to Create a Design

Design has an extensive library of  brushes that can be used to create artwork. In the spirit of upcoming elections, I created this stars & stripes piece: Download Design File (33k) All of the elements you see can be found in Design’s default Read More...
Posted Saturday, February 09, 2008 11:43 AM by xprblog | 7 Comments

A Small InkCanvas Sample

One of my favorite controls in WPF is the InkCanvas control. As a child, I've always enjoyed simple line drawings, but I started to draw less and less as I got older because I now had to clean up all of the paper and pencils myself! Recently, I began Read More...
Posted Saturday, February 02, 2008 7:09 PM by xprblog | 4 Comments
 
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