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Try to Define Visuals in XAML

Ok, pop-quiz time. Below, you will find two screenshots I took from two different applications: [ Screenshot 1 ] [ Screenshot 2 ] Can you tell what is different between those two images? If you said that the button in the second image seems a few pixels Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 24, 2009 6:17 PM by xprblog | 3 Comments

Download Expression Blend Preview for .NET 4

Today at PDC, we made a few announcements that would be of interest to you! First, Scott Guthrie announced the availability of the Silverlight 4 Beta . This version of Silverlight contains some cool new features that many of you have asked for, so read Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 11:30 AM by xprblog | 5 Comments
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Working with Layout when DataContexts are Involved

Hi everyone, When using Expression Blend, a common task you probably engage in is working with layout. Tasks I commonly associate with “working with layout” involve moving things around, rearranging the order of elements, ensuring everything flows when Read More...
Posted Monday, November 16, 2009 10:28 AM by xprblog | 1 Comments

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

Silverlight Control Styling Tips Articles

We’ve published eleven new articles on the blog and they all contain information and tips that you’ll find useful when styling common Silverlight 3 controls. First there’s an article with some general tips: it discusses template binding, different ways Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 09, 2009 4:58 PM by xprblog | 7 Comments

Keyframe Marquee Selection, and other Timeline Tips

With Blend 3 it’s now possible to draw a marquee (or lasso) around keyframes to select all the keyframes that fall within it. Hold down the CTRL key then drag out a marquee with the mouse pointer as shown below. You can even begin your drag operation Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 02, 2009 1:35 PM by xprblog | 3 Comments

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

All Expression Blend Samples Posted to the Expression Gallery!

Hi everyone, As many of you probably already know, the Expression Community site is where you go to learn more about how to use Expression Blend. One of the big components of the Community site is the Expression Gallery where you can download and share Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 18, 2009 4:03 PM by xprblog | 0 Comments
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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

Expression Studio 3 LAUNCHED TODAY!

Today we announced the official launch of Expression® Studio 3 , a suite of professional design tools for creating Rich Internet Applications. This announcement comes shortly after the July 10th Silverlight 3 launch and the availability of the release Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 22, 2009 11:35 AM 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
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