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Using Custom Value Editors for Behaviors

Ok, Jeff Kelly is back with Part IV of his coverage on behaviors-related topics. This one talks about some of the built-in value editors we provide to make it easier for your users to use behaviors that you create - Kirupa In Expression Blend 3, we’ve Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 26, 2009 3:05 PM by xprblog | 1 Comments

Blend 3 Samples Deconstructed

In my previous post, I mentioned that most of the samples from previous versions of Expression Blend have been uploaded to our gallery. One thing that is common with all of the samples is that Celso Gomes had a hand in making them. Recently, Celso started Read More...
Posted Monday, August 24, 2009 12:16 PM by xprblog | 1 Comments

The States Pane and WPF Controls

Last October I described how to use the States pane in a WPF project with Blend 2 Service Pack 1 . Things are even simpler with Expression Blend 3 so in this post I’ll remind you how to use the States pane with WPF controls. As you may know, when you Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 26, 2009 12:51 PM by xprblog | 1 Comments

Expression Blend 3 – Secrets of Working With Data

Evgeny is back with a great blog post describing some cool features related to the new Sample Data feature we introduced in Expression Blend 3. Visit his blog post to go read it: http://etvorun.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!6054141F335D00D3!130.entry Cheers! Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 23, 2009 3:48 PM by xprblog | 0 Comments

Overview of New Features in Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow: Part III

Hi everyone, Continuing the overview of all the new features we introduced in Expression Blend 3, this post wraps up our trilogy by looking at more features that fall under Workflow, Code Editing, and Extensibility. Of course, if you missed the earlier Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 12, 2009 4:35 PM by xprblog | 5 Comments

Overview of New Features in Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow: Part 1

As you all have probably seen by now, we released the release candidate of Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow to coincide with the release of Silverlight 3 today. The previous post was just a short one letting you know about the release and where to download Read More...
Posted Friday, July 10, 2009 2:01 PM by xprblog | 1 Comments

Instead of Telling What We are Working On…Here is a Screenshot Instead!

It’s been a while since we released a preview of Expression Blend 3 at MIX . We’ve been working pretty hard on continuing our work on Blend 3, but we haven’t really shared what exactly we are working on. Instead of detailing what we are doing, I figure Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 27, 2009 9:52 PM by xprblog | 11 Comments

Three Posts on Blend 3’s Photoshop Import Functionality

Hi everyone, There are three really good posts on Janete Perez’s blog that covers the PhotoShop Import functionality found in the Blend 3 preview. Go check them out: Introduction to Importing Photoshop Files , Photoshop Import- Supported Features , and Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 27, 2009 4:14 PM by xprblog | 14 Comments

Opening Blend 3 Projects without Actually Having Blend Installed

Since we released our preview at MIX, there have been a fair number of questions revolving around how a WPF or Silverlight project that uses Blend-specific features will work when opened on a machine that does not have Blend installed. For example, one Read More...
Posted Friday, May 22, 2009 2:44 PM by xprblog | 6 Comments

Link Round-Up: Behaviors-Related Posts

In the past couple of weeks, there have been a great number of great blog posts on Behaviors, and since Behaviors are one of those things where writing them is not as straightforward as using them, I figure I will take this opportunity to point you all Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 19, 2009 10:49 AM by xprblog | 1 Comments

Creating and Editing Gradients in Expression Blend 3 Preview

One of our goals for Expression Blend 3 is to provide better tools and user experience for visual designers. At a high level, we prioritized features that allow the designer to keep their focus on the artboard more often. This translated into an improved Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 08, 2009 6:04 PM by xprblog | 5 Comments

Behaviors Under the Hood – API Details and Constraining the Type

Jeff Kelly is back with Part II of his behaviors triple-feature. This time, he focuses on more details and provides some examples of a simple behavior, trigger, and action  - Kirupa Behaviors and triggers are set on objects in XAML via an attached Read More...
Posted Monday, March 30, 2009 3:22 PM by xprblog | 7 Comments

Round-Up of Blog Posts (and other Activities) by the Expression Blend Team!

It’s been a week since MIX09 started, and since then, many of us Blenders have been busy writing blog posts describing the various new features from Expression Blend 3 in greater detail. This post will point you to those posts: Blend 3 Overview: Blend Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 25, 2009 1:34 PM by xprblog | 3 Comments

An Introduction to Behaviors, Triggers, and Actions

The following post is written by Jeff Kelly, one of the developers who worked extensively on both the behaviors runtime as well as the UI inside Blend that makes behaviors easier to use! In this post, he will provide an overview of the three components Read More...
Posted Monday, March 23, 2009 12:22 PM by xprblog | 8 Comments
 
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