Tag Archives: Expression Blend

Enabling Design-Time Data in Expression Blend When Using Web Services

Posted on April 5, 2010 by Peter Loebel

With the help of Mark Boulter, and Unni Ravindranathan at Microsoft, Michael Washington figured out how to show design-time data in Blend when the data is using web services (without writing a line of code). from Michael Washington     … Continue reading →

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Building your first Silverlight for Windows Phone Application

Posted on March 16, 2010 by Peter Loebel

Silverlight for Windows Phone is one of the most exciting things to come along since the original release of Silverlight. Now I can take my same Silverlight/WPF skills and use them not only on the web, and on the desktop, … Continue reading →

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Introducing Expression Blend for Windows Phone

Posted on March 16, 2010 by Peter Loebel

Windows Phone is an amazing platform to use and to design applications for. We are very proud to make a preview version of authoring for Windows Phone available with Expression Blend 4. Downloads will be available around 10:45am today at … Continue reading →

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Extract styles in Expression Blend

Posted on January 21, 2010 by Peter Loebel

You may have found yourself in a situation when you want to convert an implicit style in XAML into a resource. Until today, I did it with creating the new style, and adding the setters manually. But I thought “There … Continue reading →

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Silverlight tutorial: HOW TO build CommandLink Control in Silverlight with Expression Blend 3 and Behaviors

Posted on January 1, 2010 by Peter Loebel

Introduction Command links have found their way around in Windows Vista and they are one of the key parts of the Windows 7 user interface as well. As such, they are also finding their way around even on the web. … Continue reading →

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State, Element, and Storyboard Pickers

Posted on December 7, 2009 by Peter Loebel

The Expression Blend Properties Inspector is something you become introduced to very quickly. It is the giant panel usually on the right-hand side of the Blend interface that you use to view and set values on properties: [ I, for … Continue reading →

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Inserting a Silverlight Navigation and Slideshow into Your Web Page

Posted on October 28, 2009 by Peter Loebel

from team.silverlight.ne Expression Web makes it faster and easier to create standards-based Web sites with rich Silverlight content. With Expression Web 3, you can easily add Silverlight content, in this case from Expression Blend, to your Web sites. In this … Continue reading →

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Using Resources to share styling in Blend

Posted on October 28, 2009 by Peter Loebel

From Gavin Wignall This post is part of a string of posts found here: Learn Blend in a Month. When styling up a control, Expression Blend allows you to apply that style to other controls. This firstly allows file sizes … Continue reading →

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