Archive for 2011

Create a Windows Phone web browser app in Expression Blend

Thursday, 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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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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Expression Design September 2011 Preview now available

September 30th, 2011

Download the Expression Design September 2011 Preview and try out the new features. Read on for more.

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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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