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Introducing sample data for Developers

Blend 3 brings to the table really sophisticated support for sample data, enabiling better designability of your applications. In my previous post , I demonstrated how designers could leverage this feature to prototype data connected applications inside Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 12, 2009 12:37 PM by unnir | 7 Comments

Blend 3 Databinding

Here is a collection of a few of the blog posts I came across around the new databinding features in Blend 3. Hope you find them useful! Sample data http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde/archive/2009/06/17/blend-3-great-feature-1-sample-data.aspx http://silverzine.com/tutorials/how-to-create-sample-data-in-blend-3/ Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 18, 2009 10:43 PM by unnir | 1 Comments

TabletPC and the Blend menus

If you do run into a situation where the Blend flyout menus appear on the left instead of the right as shown below, the Tablet PC Settings panel is a good place to check. Read More...
Posted Sunday, June 07, 2009 11:24 PM by unnir | 1 Comments
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Connect and Blend 3

While Blend 3 has a number of stellar features that I am sure everyone reading this blog has heard about (buzz words include SketchFlow, behaviors, sample data support, Illustrator and Photoshop import, TFS support, and many more), we really devoted a Read More...
Posted Monday, May 25, 2009 8:22 PM by unnir | 4 Comments

The Blend 3 Asset Library

For Blend 3, we have completely re-designed the Asset Library. Here are some of the highlights: a) Categorization for various assets makes discoverability easier. b) Searchability allows for quick location of an asset across categories like Controls, Read More...
Posted Friday, May 22, 2009 7:30 PM by unnir | 6 Comments
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Marching towards the Blend 3 Beta

The last few weeks (or months) have been really hectic! We finally finished all the features that we wanted to add to Blend 3, and are now actively fixing all the feedback (read bugs and crashes :)) that you have been reporting to us, as well as making Read More...
Posted Friday, May 22, 2009 5:21 PM by unnir | 5 Comments
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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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