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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 to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-15-2008
Do You Want to Help Implement Interesting Ideas? The Blend Team needs you!

A few months ago, we asked you for feedback on what are some of the things you would like to see improved in Expression Blend. You all had a lot of great suggestions...A LOT. If you are interested in helping us both implement some of the feedback but...( read more )

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-06-2008
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 to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-25-2008
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 to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-18-2008
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 to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-28-2008
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 to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-19-2008
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 to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-06-2008
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 to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-03-2008
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 to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-21-2008
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 to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-02-2008

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