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Introducing BlendInsider

Thursday, April 5th, 2012

Thank you for supporting Expression IQ over the last three years. From now on, the Expression IQ team will publish all new articles on BlendInsider.
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Working with Behaviors

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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Developing a Windows Phone application in Expression Blend from start to finish: Part 1

February 22nd, 2012

This is the first of a series of articles that shows you how to build a fuel tracking application using Microsoft Expression Blend for Windows Phone.

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Progressive Enhancement – A Better Web Design Philosophy

January 23rd, 2012

Progressive enhancement is to make your content available to a wider range of browsers.

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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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Create a Windows Phone web browser app in Expression Blend

December 15th, 2011

You can easily create a simple web browser for Windows Phone that opens a web site when you enter a URL by using Expression Blend.

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Crop video in a Live Broadcasting project

December 5th, 2011

One of the main requests for the next version of Expression Encoder was the ability to crop your sources in a Live Broadcasting Project. We heard, and now, that option is available in Service Pack 2, which is the newly-released version of Expression Encoder 4.

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Updates to the Expression Blend User Guide

November 15th, 2011

Updates to the Expression Blend User Guide are available online and when you install the Windows Phone Developer Tools.

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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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CSS3 Advanced Selectors

October 24th, 2011

More fun with CSS3.

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