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Where do You Go to Learn More About Expression Blend?

One of the things that we are planning on doing is providing easier access to learning content. Besides the influx of learning content (videos, articles, etc.) we will be generating ourselves, we also want to link to content around the web that many of Read More...
Posted Friday, July 25, 2008 12:13 AM by xprblog | 3 Comments
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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

Nibbles Tutorials: Snack Tutorials for Hungry Designers

A great site that covers designer-oriented Expression Blend topics is Celso Gomes’s Nibbles Tutorials site: This all-Silverlight site features some nice articles on how you can use Blend to create WPF, Silverlight 1, and Silverlight 2 applications. He Read More...
Posted Saturday, June 28, 2008 7:53 PM by xprblog | 2 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 | 4 Comments

Download Expression Blend 2.5 June 2008 Preview and Deep Zoom Composer

Like we mentioned earlier this week , new preview versions of Expression Blend 2.5 and Deep Zoom Composer have been released today. You can download them from the following locations: Download Expression Blend 2.5 June 2008 Preview Download Deep Zoom Read More...
Posted Friday, June 06, 2008 4:54 PM by xprblog | 24 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

Expression Blend 2 and Expression Design 2 Released!

In case you missed our announcements and 3rd party coverage , we shipped Expression Studio 2 yesterday! You can download trial versions of all our applications by visiting our Downloads Page ! This post will focus more on Expression Blend and Design, Read More...
Posted Friday, May 02, 2008 12:31 PM by xprblog | 7 Comments

Styling Silverlight 2 Controls

One of the nice things about both WPF and Silverlight is their ability to allow a designer to extensively alter the look and feel of a control without having to write code. A great blog to observe is Corrina Barber’s Ux Musings where she explains Read More...
Posted Monday, April 07, 2008 9:18 PM by xprblog | 4 Comments

MIX08 Session: XAML-Ready Agency with Expression Blend

Hello! We had such a blast at MIX08!  I hope you had a great time too. I had a session on Friday called XAML-Ready Design Agency with Expression Blend . I feel very happy for meeting all the folks that were able to join us during the session. I have Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 19, 2008 10:23 PM by xprblog | 3 Comments
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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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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 | 5 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

Silverlight 2.0, Sprawl, and a Dash of Snoop!

Last week, the plans for Silverlight 2.0 were announced with a number of features that can be expected including layout, databinding, controls and templating. On the Blend team we’re extremely excited about the features arriving in Silverlight 2.0 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 11, 2007 12:55 PM by xprblog | 6 Comments
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