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A Small InkCanvas Sample (Expression Blend and Design Blog)

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One of my favorite controls in WPF is the InkCanvas control. As a child, I've always enjoyed simple line drawings, but I started to draw less and less as I got older because I now had to clean up all of the paper and pencils myself! Recently, I began to get back into line drawings, and unlike using physical mediums like pencils and paper, I began playing with the InkCanvas control in WPF instead. This control is very elegant. You have a working application once you simply place a InkCanvas control...(read more)

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Using the KeySpline Editor to Add Animation Easing (Expression Blend and Design Blog)

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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 editor in Blend 2 and walk through an example of how to visualize and edit your easing graphically. If you want to follow along, create a new project (WPF or Silverlight) and draw a red-filled circular Ellipse at the top of the page to serve as...(read more)

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Using Design-Time Attributes to Categorize Dependency Properties in User Controls (Expression Blend and Design Blog)

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In most cases, when you create user or custom controls, you will expose dependency properties to allow you to set values or make modifications to your control directly via XAML. Because XAML is the language of Blend, Blend will expose those dependency properties in the property grid itself. For example, let's say you have a user control that displays information in a colored box: This user control has two dependency properties. The first property is called QuickInfo that displays some text such as...(read more)

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Deep Zoom Composer Forum + Filtering Code/Example (Expression Blend and Design Blog)

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Hi everyone, For the past month, all of the feedback and questions about the Deep Zoom Composer (DZC) were posted here on the blog. To make it easier on everyone, we found a better place for you all to post questions, send us feedback, etc. That location is the Deep Zoom Composer forum . If there any questions that you had asked us earlier that we didn’t notice, please re-post that in our forum. Filtering This is something that many of you have asked us about. We’ve been busy working...(read more)

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Living Without App.xaml (…and still being able to use Blend!) (Expression Blend and Design Blog)

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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 control of your application. A good example of this scenario is the Expression Blend source code itself. We perform a number of tasks (for example, displaying a splash screen) before the main application Window is shown to you. For making this...(read more)

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Deep Zoom Composer User Guide (Expression Blend and Design Blog)

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As you saw our earlier post announcing the Deep Zoom Composer, we have created a user guide describing how to use this powertoy. Click below to download it: Download Deep Zoom Composer User Guide Thanks, Janete...(read more)

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Using Brush Strokes to Create a Design (Expression Blend and Design Blog)

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Design has an extensive library of brushes that can be used to create artwork. In the spirit of upcoming elections, I created this stars & stripes piece: Download Design File (33k) All of the elements you see can be found in Design’s default brush strokes: To create something similar as what you see above, simply draw strokes and increase the width until you get the desired effect. Then to manipulate further, select Object/Convert Stroke to Path. For example, I didn’t want as...(read more)

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Silverlight 2 RC Compatible Deep Zoom Project Templates (Expression Blend and Design Blog)

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Because the Silverlight 2 RC that was released is aimed primarily at developers wishing to update their projects to the final version of Silverlight 2 due out sometime this year, we didn’t provide an update to Deep Zoom Composer because most everyone who views Deep Zoom content will still be on Silverlight 2 Beta 2. Instead, we have provided you with the updated project templates that are compatible with Silverlight 2 RC: Download Updated Deep Zoom Composer Project Templates Once you have downloaded...(read more)

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Creating a WPF/Blend Project that Loads Resources in Code (Expression Blend and Design Blog)

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Mini Cube - Ready for Developers (Can you finish it?) (Expression Blend and Design Blog)

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I love 3D, so I'm always trying to incorporate it in my projects. And what better opportunity to work with 3D than a blog post! This week I want to share this Mini Cube project, which is a (2x2) simplified version of that famous game that gave me so many headaches in the past. This is a perfect candidate for a 3D sample, since you have to visualize the cube in three dimensions in order to play it properly. This project is not finished yet, I've prepared the 3D objects and some interaction, but the...(read more)

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Clip Path Editing and Animating in Blend 2! (Expression Blend and Design Blog)

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Due to popular demand we have added the clip path editing/animating feature to Blend 2. Clip path editing works for both WPF and Silverlight 1.0 projects. You can download the December Preview to test out the new features! In this post, I will go through some of the interesting things you can do with this feature! What is a Clipping Path? A clipping path is a path or shape that is applied to another object, hiding the portions of the masked object that fall outside of the clipping path. For example,...(read more)

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Slicing Images in Expression Design 2 (Expression Blend and Design Blog)

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You've just downloaded the new release of Expression Design 2 and you're anxious to try the new slicing feature. This article will guide you through the process of creating slices which will then be exported to an HTML document. To follow along with the steps outlined below, please download the frog.zip file. Let's get started. Positioning Expression Design uses absolute positioning in CSS to position objects in HTML documents. Where the objects are positioned in the artboard is where they will appear...(read more)

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Cutting Shapes in Expression Blend (electric beach)

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Somebody asked the other day how one can cut a shape in Blend. Blend doesn’t currently have a scissor tool, but Blend has a set of geometric operations that can be used for this. Suppose we have a shape like this: And now suppose you want to cut this shape into two fitting halves. Let’s try this [...]
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Download the New Deep Zoom Composer Preview! (Expression Blend and Design Blog)

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A few hours ago, we released another update to Deep Zoom Composer. Click on the link below to download it: Download Deep Zoom Composer Some of the major new features outside of the usual bug, performance, and stability changes include Panoramic Stitching and PhotoZoom Upload. PhotoZoom Upload To help make uploading and sharing your creations with others easy, Deep Zoom Composer nicely integrates with the Live Labs PhotoZoom service: http://photozoom.mslivelabs.com . When you choose to Export, the...(read more)

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Collection of Expression Blend Learning Resources (Expression Blend and Design Blog)

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This post will try to showcase an updated list of useful (and free!) training material available for Expression Blend: Training Resources from Microsoft Expression Blend and Design Blog: Tips & Tricks Expression Community Expression Blend (Online) User Guide Expression Blend Tutorials MIX 07/08 Video Sessions Building Rich Client Experiences with Blend and WPF (by Celso Gomes and Christian Schormann) Building Rich Web Experiences (by Celso Gomes) Applications = Designers + Developers (by Celso...(read more)

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Animating control Content between States (Expression Blend and Design Blog)

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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 an Image, or a Panel containing yet more elements, or anything else. In the Template, the uncertainty of what the Content might be is taken care of by the ContentPresenter element which is analogous to a TV screen showing whatever Content happens to...(read more)

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What Would You Like to See in the Next Versions of Blend and Design? (Expression Blend and Design Blog)

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Even though we just shipped Expression Blend and Design 2 , we are already busy planning what to do for future releases. To better help us with our planning, we'd like to hear from you. What are some things that you would like to see in Blend and Design? What are some of the things that you wish were done differently? Also, what are some of the things in our products that you like? Let us know by posting in the comments below! We take your feedback very seriously, and your input goes a long way in...(read more)

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An Update to Deep Zoom Composer (Expression Blend and Design Blog)

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Ever since we released Deep Zoom Composer during MIX, there has been a ton of great feedback you have all sent us on what you liked and what you would like to see improved in future versions. To give you a sneak peek at where we are currently, we're releasing an updated version of Deep Zoom Composer for you all to play with: Download the Deep Zoom Composer Before installing this version, please uninstall earlier versions of Deep Zoom Composer. All of your older projects should still work, so don't...(read more)

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Expression Blend 2 and Expression Design 2 Released! (Expression Blend and Design Blog)

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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, and since Expression Blend ships in its own box as well, check out our cool box design: Our version 2 release comes around just a year after we shipped version 1, and there have been a slew of new features that we’ve added. Many of you have already played...(read more)

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MIX08 Session: Applications = Designers + Developers (Expression Blend and Design Blog)

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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 of the session working on a sample application called the FurnitureShowroom: We've received numerous requests to provide the source files for FurnitureShowroom, so...here you go: Download Sample When you extract the above source files, there will be...(read more)

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Deep Zoom Sample with MouseWheel / Pan / Click-Zoom (Expression Blend and Design Blog)

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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 of that in the previous post . That example only included mouse wheel support but nothing else. In this post we not only incorporate mousewheel support for zooming but we also incorporate using the mouse to pan and clicking/Shift+clicking to zoom in...(read more)

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Deep Zoom Composer Example (Updated) (Expression Blend and Design Blog)

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Hi everyone, I have posted a quick ZIP file containing a sample project that shows you how to use the output from the Deep Zoom Composer with Silverlight's MultiScaleImage control. Download Sample (Zip) Beyond giving you a working example, this implementation also includes a C# approach to getting mousewheel support in IE, Firefox, and Safari (Mac). You can read more about my mouse wheel support on my blog here . For another example using the keyboard, please read Mike Taulty's post on this topic....(read more)

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Deep Zoom Composer Example (Expression Blend and Design Blog)

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Download the Preview of the Deep Zoom Composer (Expression Blend and Design Blog)

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One of the slew of new things that is being released at MIX today is the Deep Zoom Composer powertoy: If you have followed the Silverlight 2 Beta 1 announcements, Silverlight 2 includes support for the Deep Zoom technology to allow you to quickly and smoothly zoom in on really large images. If you want to see an amazing implementation of the Deep Zoom technology, check out the Hard Rock Memorabilia site: http://memorabilia.hardrock.com/ What is the Deep Zoom Composer? Deep Zoom Composer allows you...(read more)

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The Big Jasinski! (Expression Blend and Design Blog)

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I figured you could all use a break from the tips and tricks my colleagues have been posting for the past few days! At one time, the Expression team was fortunate to have incredibly talented artist (illustrator, musician) Aaron Jasinski on board as a product designer. Among his contributions were the style guides which define the visual specifications of each part of the products' UI, the design of the Welcome Screen, teaming up with feature Program Managers on UI and user experience design, looking...(read more)

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