Articles for Expression Blend

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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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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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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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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Expression Blend: Designing for usability

October 18th, 2011

Some design ideas are good ideas simply because they improve usability. Here are some common ways to improve usability with Expression Blend and the Microsoft .NET Framework.

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Create new Metro style apps with Expression Blend

September 13th, 2011

Designers and developers can now use HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript to create new Metro style apps for the next generation of Windows.

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Create your first Windows Phone app in Expression Blend (Part III)

September 12th, 2011

You can create Windows Phone applications quickly and easily by using Expression Blend for Windows Phone, the WYSIWYG visual editor for creating Windows Phone 7 OS projects.

This is part three of a three part series.

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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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Create your first Windows Phone app in Expression Blend (Part II)

August 9th, 2011

Continue creating Windows Phone applications using Expression Blend for Windows Phone

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