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 [...]
[Blend Tutorial Expression Geometry ]
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See http://www.nibblestutorials.net/ for a bunch of great tutorials with Blend. In particular, Celso just posted a tutorial for VSM. See the Blend 2.5 & Silverlight 2 section…
[Blend Silverlight Tutorial WPF Expression ]
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Here an admittedly slightly contrived example for the use of visual state manager in a user control. Imagine a little web app to show Guitar chords: When you enter a chord symbol in the chord box at the bottom, the corresponding finger settings are displayed on the fret board above. How does it work? For every fret and [...]
[Blend Silverlight WPF Expression VSM ]
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Our goal for Silverlight 2 was to provide a control skinning model that is imminently usable for visual designers, providing an easy entry ramp, yet with sufficient power for sophisticated application skins. Our design goals did include: Make sure that skin design can be a task for a visual designer. Avoid requiring skills visual designers are [...]
[Blend Silverlight WPF Expression Skinning UX VSM ]
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Styling dynamic visuals, or “skinning”, is an important task for visual designers working on interactive applications for web and desktops. With Beta 2 of Silverlight, and the associated June preview of Expression Blend, we are making this work much easier and faster - and we are adding more creative options at the same time. Very importantly, [...]
[Blend Silverlight Expression Skinning UX VSM WPF ]
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