Expression Blend and Design

Storyboards, Visual States and SketchFlow Animations

xprblog — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:41:56 GMT

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)

Visual State Manager tips for design and authoring

xprblog — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 05:34:00 GMT

As you probably know, Silverlight and WPF have a runtime piece called the Visual State Manager (or VSM for short). As I’ll describe in this post, VSM and the Expression Blend tooling support for VSM lend a nice clean mental model to the business of visual...(read more)

Expression Blend 3 Survey- Win a free zune HD!!!

xprblog — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:34:41 GMT

Hello! The Expression Blend team is currently planning features for future versions of Expression Blend. We encourage everyone to take our Blend 3 Survey and send us your feedback. All eligible participants will be able to enter a drawing to win a FREE...(read more)

Silverlight Control Styling Tips Articles

xprblog — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:58:00 GMT

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)

Keyframe Marquee Selection, and other Timeline Tips

xprblog — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:35:10 GMT

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)

Using Custom Value Editors for Behaviors

xprblog — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:05:45 GMT

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)

Blend 3 Samples Deconstructed

xprblog — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:16:47 GMT

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)

All Expression Blend Samples Posted to the Expression Gallery!

xprblog — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:03:19 GMT

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)

Deep Zoom Composer Updated to Fix an Export Related Bug

xprblog — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:29:11 GMT

Hi everyone, We have released an update to last week’s Deep Zoom Composer release to address a fairly serious bug related to the image paths we generate during export. You can download the latest version from the following location: Download Deep Zoom...(read more)

The States Pane and WPF Controls

xprblog — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:51:05 GMT

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)

Expression Blend 3 – Secrets of Working With Data

xprblog — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:48:31 GMT

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)

Caching and Deep Zoom Composer Downloads

xprblog — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:54:53 GMT

Hi everyone, Some of you have let us know that the version of Deep Zoom Composer you downloaded yesterday is actually the version from a few weeks ago. The reason for this has to do with the delays in propagating the downloads across the various servers,...(read more)

Deep Zoom Composer Released!

xprblog — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:12:41 GMT

Hi everyone, To coincide with the official launch of Expression Studio 3 , we have released the first final version of Deep Zoom Composer as well. You can download it from the below location: Download Deep Zoom Composer As always, please uninstall all...(read more)

Expression Studio 3 LAUNCHED TODAY!

xprblog — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:35:06 GMT

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)

A Look at Some Advanced Behaviors Features

xprblog — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:14:28 GMT

Jeff Kelly is back with Part III of his behaviors coverage. This time, he focuses on the more advanced uses of Behaviors - Kirupa In previous posts, I’ve touched on the basic pieces of the Behaviors API and some basic usages of them. In this post,...(read more)