Articles by Alex

Working with Behaviors

Monday, March 5th, 2012

A behavior is simply an encapsulation of logic. It is something you attach to an element, and this “attachment” in turn causes the element to behavior differently, for instance, becomes interactive.
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Working with animation in Expression Blend

January 12th, 2012

This is a short refresher tutorial that I have wanted to put out there for some time now regarding how easy it is to create animations in Expression Blend. The System.Windows.Media.Animation namespace provides quite a number of animation classes that can be confusing to a novice user.

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Visual State Manager (VSM) – part II

November 13th, 2011

In this article I will continue where we left off in part 1 (Visual State Manger (VSM) part 1), and continue with our discussion on how to create States in Expression Blend using the States panel.  In part 1, we created three different states or “look and feel” for our button:

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Visual State Manager (VSM) (part 1)

August 22nd, 2011

Using control templates to customize buttons in Expression Blend.

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Drawing objects in Expression Blend

July 26th, 2011

Using Expression Blend to draw and style objects

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Transformation with Expression Blend

June 20th, 2011

Digging deeper into the workings of the Transform pane in the Properties panel..

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Expression Blend: Introduction to the Layout System

May 17th, 2011

Digging deeper into the workings of this layout system in order to make future design work much easier.

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Adding more Interactive features to our Video Player

April 18th, 2011

Adding Play, Stop, and Pause buttons to the video player we created in a previous article.

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Creating “Cool” Buttons with Expression Blend

March 21st, 2011

In this article we will look at some of the ways to create “cool” or gel buttons in Expression Blend.

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Windows Phone 7: Working With the Application Bar and Accent Colors

February 18th, 2011

In Windows Phone 7 (and most smartphones), the accent color defines the color your various controls and other parts of your User Interface (UI) such as the home screen will display in.

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