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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 | 0 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 | 6 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 | 6 Comments

A UserControl base class for Visual State Manager

As you know, Visual State Manager is a Silverlight 2 (and WPF Toolkit) platform feature that makes it easy to define a control’s visual states and to perform the transitions between states. In the case of a templated control (such as Button, CheckBox, Read More...
Posted Monday, January 05, 2009 4:02 PM by xprblog | 4 Comments

Deep Zoom Composer has been Updated: Documentation and Bug Fixes!

Yesterday, we released another update to Deep Zoom Composer, and you can download it from the following location: Download Deep Zoom Composer NOTE : Please uninstall any older versions of Deep Zoom Composer prior to installing this new version. This release Read More...
Posted Sunday, December 21, 2008 10:05 PM by xprblog | 11 Comments

Hello DeepZoomTools.DLL : Deep Zoom Image Tile Generation Made Easy

In our most recent release of Deep Zoom Composer, one of the major changes we made was to change how we generated the image tiles both for designing as well as exporting your Deep Zoom Content. In the past, ever since our first release at MIX, our image Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 26, 2008 1:17 PM by xprblog | 41 Comments

2.5D UserControl for Silverlight 2

2.5D (two-and-a-half D) is a way of using 2D objects to give a very convincing illusion of 3D. I’ve provided an implementation that has no lighting, materials, lines or polygons. But it does enable you to locate 2D (that is, flat) objects at x,y,z coordinates Read More...
Posted Monday, November 17, 2008 5:19 PM by xprblog | 9 Comments

Simulating Sample Data in Blend 2 SP1

Using sample data can make designing your Silverlight 2 applications more predictable. Given some data, you have a lot of flexibility in designing around this data in Expression Blend. The challenge is that there are are many cases where you simply won’t Read More...
Posted Monday, October 27, 2008 12:06 PM by xprblog | 7 Comments

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 | 4 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 | 10 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

Deep Zoom Composer : (Possible) Collection Layout FIX

If you’ve browsed through the Deep Zoom Composer forums lately, you will have seen a few cases where Deep Zoom Composer was having difficulties maintaining layout when exporting collections. More specifically, the arrangement and position of images seen Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 09, 2008 11:35 PM by xprblog | 3 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 | 7 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 | 3 Comments
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