Tutorials
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Clipping Paths
Mar 11 2010
I received some emails about my last video with some questions about clipping paths so I put together a video on creating a clipping path in Blend. I am headed to SXSW in the morning. If you are there you should drop by the Microsoft booth and say hi. As always feedback is appreciated, more [...]
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States, Storyboards, and Behaviors
Mar 1 2010
Hello all and wow it’s good to be back with a video for the site here. Taking some time off at the end of last year and then the setback of transition to Azure hosting of the videos it felt like I blinked and I was three months behind. Well it is time to kick [...]
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Storyboard Interactions
Oct 20 2009
It’s been a crazy couple of weeks and it has left me with some catching up to do on the videos. Hopefully this look at Storyboard Interactions in Blend will help get the ball rolling. This is really more method than anything else and really it’s for scenarios that could be limitless regarding animation in [...]
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The Border Control
Oct 4 2009
This week I am beginning a look at the controls in Blend with a glance at the Border Control. I wasn’t quite sure why there might be a reason for the border control but after examining it a bit I see that there is a good deal of potential for this control in UI design. [...]
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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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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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Intro to Photoshop Import
Sep 5 2009
In this video I show you the process in importing a Photoshop file into Blend. I go over the supported and non-supported features and I demonstrate how easy it is to bind data directly to a text box that you created in Photoshop. This is a really great addition to Blend and I hope you [...]
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Intro to Sample Data
Aug 21 2009
This week we take a quick intro look at sample data and data binding. We quickly create an application for looking at our data with zero code. Sample data in Blend 3 allows you to start working on a data driven application quickly even if you database is not built or your data not populated. [...]
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Intro to animation easing
Aug 14 2009
For this video I wanted to take a look a quick intro look at the easing functions in states within Blend. The icon view of the multiple presets in the in, out, and in&out may not be at first glance intuitive, hopefully after this video you might be able to anticipate the results from you [...]
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Creating a Custom Button
Aug 7 2009
For this video I wanted to take a look at creating a custom button control for your application and share with you a tip that I picked up talking with Victor Gaudioso. I recently picked up Victor’s Foundation Expression Blend 3 book and was working through it and ran into this issue which he was [...]
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