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Storyboards, Visual States and SketchFlow Animations

What are these things – are they different ways of doing the same task? When would I use one in preference to another? Do they all work in all project types? This post will try to answer those questions by describing the animation and control customization Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 13, 2009 10:41 AM 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

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

Deep Zoom Composer Updated – July 2009 / Release Candidate

Last week, to coincide with the release of Expression Blend + SketchFlow RC and Silverlight 3, we updated Deep Zoom Composer as well. You can download it from the link below: Download Deep Zoom Composer As always, please uninstall all existing versions Read More...
Posted Monday, July 13, 2009 3:39 PM by xprblog | 5 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

Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow RC Released

Many of you have been waiting, but wait no more! The RC (Release Candidate) version of Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow is now available for you to download. Click on the below link to download it: Download Expression Blend 3 Preview This release builds Read More...
Posted Friday, July 10, 2009 11:10 AM by xprblog | 2 Comments

Resurrecting a Beloved Deep Zoom Composer Feature

In our latest release of Deep Zoom Composer, we removed a feature that all of you liked a lot. While I will detail this in the near future, I figure the following screenshots from a version of Deep Zoom Composer on my machine should give you an idea of Read More...
Posted Friday, July 10, 2009 12:19 AM by xprblog | 2 Comments

Hatching Effect Shader for both Siverlight and WPF

Hi everyone, As you all may know, both Silverlight 3 and WPF 3.5 SP1 introduced support for effects and shaders. One of the features that I work on in Expression Blend is to make sure that you can use these custom effects easily. Beyond just writing the Read More...
Posted Monday, July 06, 2009 5:06 PM by xprblog | 1 Comments

Deep Zoom Composer - June 2009 Preview!

We know you’ve been waiting, and we know you just can’t wait any longer, so here it is: Download Deep Zoom Composer As always, please uninstall all existing versions of Deep Zoom Composer before installing the new version. A few months ago, we asked you Read More...
Posted Friday, June 19, 2009 11:50 AM by xprblog | 28 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

Check out Rooler – A free Screen Measurement Utility!

Fellow Blender, Pete Blois, has written a small application called Rooler that allows you to make measurements of everything visible on your screen. You can download it by clicking here . Rooler helps solve a common problem you have when designing UIs. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 26, 2009 5:54 PM by xprblog | 8 Comments
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Thinking Outside the XAP – Blend 3 and Support for Web Sites!

One of the features that we added in Expression Blend 3 is the ability for you to create Silverlight projects that come associated with a Web site. In this brief post I will jump between describing why this is useful and how Blend provides access to it. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 05, 2009 4:07 PM by xprblog | 6 Comments
 
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