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March 2009 - Posts

Blend, WPF and resource references

A number of people have sought more clarity around how Blend and resources references work inside WPF projects. Hope the following FAQs would help with some of your questions. a) Should I use Static or Dynamic resource lookup? Blend def. plays better Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 31, 2009 11:55 PM by unnir | 3 Comments
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AlternateContentProperty attribute

A new extension point we have added to Blend 3 (based on very popular demand) can be seen put to good use with the Silverlight Chart control - we call it the AlternateContentProperty attribute. Annotating the properties of a control with this attribute Read More...
Posted Saturday, March 28, 2009 1:42 PM by unnir | 2 Comments
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A sample that shows the new Blend design surface extensibility

Based on popular demand, here is a quick sample (WPF only though it would be very easy to port this as-is to Silverlight - currently busy with Blend 3 work and all the cool newer features we are adding to Blend 3) that will allow you to get started on Read More...
Posted Friday, March 27, 2009 1:39 PM by unnir | 8 Comments
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Writing a design time experience for a Silverlight control

Writing a design time experience for a Silverlight control can be a bit intimidating (the experience for WPF controls remains unchanged from Blend 2 - just that you now have a ton more extensibility points - unless you wanted to re-use the same design-time Read More...
Posted Sunday, March 22, 2009 3:31 PM by unnir | 5 Comments
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DataGrid support in Blend 3

Blend 3 adds really cool support for the DataGrid control (for both Silverlight 3 and WPF Toolkit ). Here is a quick demo to help you get started. Enjoy! Create a new Silverlight 3 application Search and instantiate the DataGrid control from the asset Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 19, 2009 12:43 PM by unnir | 1 Comments
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Introducing sample data support in Blend 3

To help you walk thru some of support we have added for sample data inside Blend 3, I wrote a hands-on-lab that takes you thru the basic experience of building a simple master/detail visualization. While there are a lot more scenarios that are possible Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 18, 2009 6:04 PM by unnir | 3 Comments
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Expression Blend 3 Preview is available!

I am sure you must have heard - Expression Blend 3 Preview is here ! And I am back after a 2 year break from writing on this blog - if you were to use the product, you will realize what kept us busy :). If I were to list the new features in Blend 3, it Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 17, 2009 5:50 PM by unnir | 0 Comments
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Blend 3 Extensibility

Based on popular customer feedback, we have added a number of new extensibility points in Blend 3 (sorry, no support for plugins, yet, but who needs an officially supported extensibility model anyway ? :) ) Over the next few weeks, I will provide more Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 17, 2009 5:27 PM by unnir | 3 Comments
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Team Foundation Server support in Blend 3

Expression Blend 3 Preview adds support for integration with Team Foundation Server, one of our top feature requests. Some examples of the various integration points: a) Saving a file automatically checks it out b) Adding a new UserControl or assets to Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 17, 2009 2:47 PM by unnir | 2 Comments
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