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Cutting Shapes in Expression Blend

Currently, Expression Blend does not have a scissor tool which allows you to cut shapes like you can in Expression Design. Instead, what you do have are geometric operations that allow you to not only achieve a similar result as “cutting a shape” but Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 26, 2008 12:21 PM by xprblog | 3 Comments

How to Animate a Drawing Line

In Blend you use the Pen tool to draw lines and they appear in the XAML as <Path> elements. But after you’ve drawn your lines and you test your application, the Paths appear immediately: they don’t replay the gestures you used to create Read More...
Posted Friday, August 15, 2008 11:26 AM by xprblog | 7 Comments

Animating control Content between States

You’re probably very familiar with Content in WPF and Silverlight. For example, two Buttons can use the same Template but can look different by virtue of having different Content in them. And the Content property is of type object so it can be Text, or Read More...
Posted Friday, July 18, 2008 2:38 PM by xprblog | 4 Comments

Debugging Design-Time Exceptions

It’s not entirely uncommon for projects that run fine to not work when loaded into Blend for editing: There are a variety of issues that can cause this- some are bugs that we’re working to address, others are things that need to be fixed by the application Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 19, 2008 3:53 PM by xprblog | 5 Comments

Upcoming Expression Blend 2.5 Feature – Visual State Manager

As many of you may have heard, Bill Gates announced during his TechEd keynote today that Silverlight 2 Beta 2 will be released later this week . To coincide with Silverlight 2 Beta 2, we will be releasing updated versions of Expression Blend 2.5 and Deep Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 03, 2008 2:59 PM by xprblog | 5 Comments

Using the KeySpline Editor to Add Animation Easing

Previously on the blog I’ve explained how a KeySpline can be used to do animation easing . I also demonstrated a tool for converting an animation curve (in this case a Path drawn in Blend) into an actual animation . This time let’s look at the new KeySpline Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 21, 2008 1:57 PM by xprblog | 2 Comments

Clip Path Editing and Animating in Blend 2!

Due to popular demand we have added the clip path editing/animating feature to Blend 2. Clip path editing works for both WPF and Silverlight 1.0 projects. You can download the December Preview to test out the new features! In this post, I will go through Read More...
Posted Monday, January 21, 2008 11:23 AM by xprblog | 7 Comments

Using Design-Time Attributes to Categorize Dependency Properties in User Controls

In most cases, when you create user or custom controls, you will expose dependency properties to allow you to set values or make modifications to your control directly via XAML. Because XAML is the language of Blend, Blend will expose those dependency Read More...
Posted Sunday, January 13, 2008 11:49 AM by xprblog | 5 Comments

Creating Falling Snow Using Code

With WPF, you have several ways of creating animations. A common way is by using Storyboards/keyframes, and you can do that easily using Blend itself. If you are willing to take a trip through the dark side and use code to create your animations, you Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 26, 2007 4:47 PM by xprblog | 8 Comments
 
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