Archive for September, 2009
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Tip 183: Start it up!
Sep 30 2009
The Expression Blend 3 startup document is specified in the app.xaml file for the project. If you are using source control, remember to check in the app.xaml file after you change your startup document.
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Tip 182: Publish a site to multiple destinations
Sep 25 2009
You can configure multiple publishing destinations in Expression Web to let you publish a single site to many locations more easily. You can publish a site to your staging web server for testing and then publish to a production server.
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Resource Dictionaries
Sep 25 2009
In this video we take a quick look at a simple but powerful feature of Expression Blend the Resource Dictionary. They allow you to organize and reuse the styles you create for your application. We also take another look at positioning a label in a button, a bit of an improvement from the custom button [...]
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Tip 181: Your path to success
Sep 23 2009
To view all the Expression Blend 3 path tools, right-click the tool that is visible in the Tools panel.
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Tip 180: Publish sites securely
Sep 21 2009
You can use secure FTP protocols: SFTP and FTPS to publish your sites securely in Expression Web.
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Tip 179: Align objects
Sep 20 2009
You can also access the Align commands in Expression Blend from the shortcut menu that appears when you right-click the selected objects on the artboard or under Objects and Timeline.
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Tip 178: Publish sites quickly
Sep 18 2009
The Publishing view in Expression Web displays the files in your working site and on the publishing destination and shows you at a glance which ones are up-to-date and which need to be published.
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Tip 177: Group hug
Sep 16 2009
You can also group or ungroup objects in Expression Blend by using Group Into or Ungroup options when you right-click the selected items in the Objects and Timeline panel.
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Tip 176: Slice it up!
Sep 11 2009
Use the Slice tool in Expression Design 3 to create and export "slices" of your document.
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Creating an accelerator
Sep 11 2009
A bit of a departure this week from our study of Expression Blend as I take a look at one of the interesting new features of Internet Explorer 8, accelerators. I explain what they are, if you are unfamiliar, and walk through the process of creating this accelerator Starfinder with IMDB. It was a lot [...]
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