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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
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
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 to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-09-2008
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
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
Creating a WPF/Blend Project that Loads Resources in Code

p { margin: 1em 0; } .style1 { background-color: #ecf4fd; } While default WPF (and Silverlight) projects make it very easy for you to get up and running with your application for a majority of scenarios, often, there are scenarios where you want better...( read more )

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-09-2008
Tip/Trick: Creating and Using Silverlight and WPF User Controls

One of the fundamental design goals of Silverlight and WPF is to enable developers to be able to easily encapsulate UI functionality into re-usable controls. You can implement new custom controls by deriving a class from one of the existing Control classes (either a Control base class or from a control...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-04-2008
MIX08 Session: Applications = Designers + Developers

Hi everyone, Thanks to all of you who attended the session Celso and I gave at MIX08. If you didn't get a chance to see us, you can view the session here . Besides describing how our Deep Zoom Composer was developed and styled, we spent the first half...( read more )

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-11-2008
Deep Zoom Sample with MouseWheel / Pan / Click-Zoom

Hi everyone, One of the most frequent requests you all have made has been for samples that showcase taking the output from a Deep Zoom Composer project and integrating it with the MultiScaleImage control to have a cool example. We provided an example...( read more )

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-09-2008

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