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Use Expression Blend to change the Layout Type Efficiently © Kunal's Blog

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http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 678 days, 1 hour, 41 minutes ago

Many time we need to change the layout type of any panel present inside the page. This is mainly a designers job but sometime developers need to change them on their requirement. In that case, people need to find out the start and end tag of the panel and change them accordingly. This is little bit a tricky process. In this post, I am going to share you the easy process to switch between different layout types. If you are a designer or using Expression Blend, you are already familiar with it. But for a ... (more)

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tags: Silverlight, WP7, WPF, Blend, expressionblend, XAML

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How to Categorize Control Properties for XAML View inside Blend and Visual Studio? © Kunal's Blog

published 679 days, 11 hours, 55 minutes ago posted by

http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 684 days, 3 hours, 23 minutes ago

If you are a XAML designer and creating controls for Silverlight, Windows Phone 7 or WPF, you may come in some situation that the custom properties for the controls are not properly organized by the developers. If you come into such situation forward this link to the developers and they may find it useful. In this article, we will learn how to well organize the custom properties of your control so that, designers can easily search in appropriate location. Read to know more about it. (more)

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tags: Silverlight, WP7, WPF, Blend, expressionblend, XAML, VisualStudio

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A Complete Guide to Expression Blend 4 Shortcut Keys

published 778 days, 9 hours, 23 minutes ago posted by

http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 779 days, 11 hours, 41 minutes ago

In this post, I will share you some important Shortcut keys of Microsoft Expression Blend 4. If you are working with Expression Blend 4, this will definitely help you to improve your daily productivity work. Keep the list with you always to best use of the Shortcut keys in Blend 4 while designing your XAML page. If you have more shortcuts, please share those to me and I will include them here as the key resource. Thanks for your support. (more)

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tags: Blend 4, Blend

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Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone - 26 January 2011 - #11

published 845 days, 11 hours, 10 minutes ago posted by

http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 846 days, 11 hours, 21 minutes ago

Today, we have 22 news items on various topics in Silverlight-Zone by different authors. Subscribe to our news feed and email digest to deliver it to your inbox. Also, follow us on Twitter @SilverlightZone for regular news tweet delivered to your twitter account. Find all the Silverlight/WP7 related article links in this post. (more)

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tags: Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, WP7, wp7dev, Silverlight 4, Blend, XAML

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Customized Scrolling in Silverlight using Expression Blend

published 918 days, 16 hours, 50 minutes ago posted by

http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 920 days, 22 hours, 31 minutes ago

In some case, we need to customize the Scrolling functionality in Silverlight depending upon the requirement. The default look of ScrollViewer doesn’t give proper UI effect. In such case, you need to create the whole scroll behavior by modifying XAML and writing a bunch of C# code. In this article, I will demonstrate you how to create the above scrolling functionality simply without writing any lines of C# code. You have to use only Expression Blend to create the richness of the Scrolling. Read more t... (more)

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tags: Silverlight, Blend

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Blend Bits 15: The Data Store - Mike Taulty

published 939 days, 16 hours, 45 minutes ago posted by

iftekharahmedamit 940 days, 7 hours, 44 minutes ago

There’s lots of data features in Blend to provide food for future posts but this post is about the data store that showed up in Blend 4. This is a fairly simple idea and I suspect that I’d use it more in the realm of a SketchFlow application than I would in a real application as I tend to see it as a way for a designer to store something outside of the underlying object model that they’re data-bound to and I’m not sure I’d want that to happen in a real application. Say I’m sketching a simple login scre... (more)

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tags: SL, Silverlight, sketchflow, Blend, Expression Blend

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Blend Bits 13 Fluid Layout and the Popup Panel - Mike Taulty

published 965 days, 15 minutes ago posted by

jantu 965 days, 18 hours, 18 minutes ago

This comes directly from something that I was doing today with Blend. Let’s imagine that I have a UI like this one and I have it set such that when my mouse enters the scene, that little grid at the bottom animates in from the bottom and when my mouse leaves the scene it animates out;I put this together in the simplest way possible. My layout looks like this;and the sneaky thing is that I have 3 rows rather than 2. That bottom row is set to size 0.When the mouse leaves the control, I move t... (more)

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tags: .NET, Silverlight, BlendBits, Blend

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Blend Bits 10 Being More Resourceful - Mike Taulty

published 974 days, 16 hours, 38 minutes ago posted by

jantu 975 days, 13 hours, 35 minutes ago

Tim wrote a great blog post a while ago about the new JetPack theme for Silverlight that’s available for download along with its friends. You can try them all on the web by clicking on the images below;If I wanted to use these in Blend I can grab the download of the raw assets from the website;and then extract those out somewhere giving me;Then I can launch into Blend, begin a new Silverlight project and add items;and I choose ( from the JetPack theme );because I’m not planning to use... (more)

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tags: .NET, Silverlight, BlendBits, Blend

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Blend Bits 8 Trigger Fires Action - Mike Taulty

published 978 days, 13 hours, 50 minutes ago posted by

jantu 980 days, 11 hours, 40 minutes ago

Blend 3 introduced the idea of Triggers, Actions and Behaviors as a way in which a developer can package up functionality for re-use by a designer in a drag-drop manner.The way I think of them in my head;Action – piece of code that does some single thing.Trigger – piece of code that causes some Actions to run at “some point”.Behavior – piece of code that attaches itself to some other object and does something with it. Anything.One of the things that my slightly-too-detailed-obsessed brain struggles t... (more)

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tags: .NET, Silverlight, BlendBits, Blend

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Step-by-Step Guide to Silverlight Shape Controls

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http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 982 days, 1 hour, 18 minutes ago

In my previous post “Introduction to Shapes in Silverlight 4” I introduced you with various types of Shapes available in Silverlight 4 and informed you that, I will post an article describing each one of them and here it is. In this article, I am going to describe you about each shapes and the process to add them in our application (whenever you need). This article is for the Beginners, who don’t know much about the shape controls. If you have any suggestions/concerns please use the feedback section ... (more)

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tags: Silverlight, Control, Silverlight 4, Blend, Expression Blend, Silverlight4

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Blend Bits 2 Learn a Few Keyboard Shortcuts - Mike Taulty

published 986 days, 17 hours, 35 minutes ago posted by

jantu 987 days, 17 hours, 59 minutes ago

My second tip on Blend is to learn a few keyboard shortcuts. It’s not that hard. Honest. I don’t mean that you have to sit down and religiously learn them all. There’s quite a lot and they’re well documented in the help ( Blend Help is good by the way ) and there’s even a menu option to jump straight to them; which drops you out here; Now I’m naturally lazy and so I wasn’t going to sit down and learn all of these but I learnt a few and the ones that I learnt are mostly from the Artboard, Pen tool ... (more)

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tags: Silverlight, Keyboard Shortcuts, Blend

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Blend Bits 3 Watch Your Margins - Mike Taulty

published 986 days, 17 hours, 35 minutes ago posted by

jantu 987 days, 18 hours, 5 minutes ago

I add a Button to that top left (0,0) grid cell by selecting the button control over on my “Tools” window and then drawing a Button within the grid cell or by just double-clicking in the grid cell then I get a Button; but I also get something that I hadn’t bargained for. Margins.I’m not sure whether there’s a super-smart way around this but I often find in Blend that I’m checking the Layout area of the Properties panel to see whether I’ve end... (more)

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tags: Silverlight, Blend, Tools

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Applying Animations and States to your Silverlight Application - John Papa

published 988 days, 3 hours, 45 minutes ago posted by

jantu 990 days, 12 hours, 15 minutes ago

I just learning Silverlight, or at least trying to, but I am having the hardest time trying to watch your videos. We 1.5 Mbits here at the office, but 40 people use it... so I am lucky to get 64Kbits for myself. Anyway, I do not know if it is a SilverLight streaming issue or not, but I cannot watch your videos because they will buffer for about 2 to 3 minutes, then play about 5 to 10 seconds of video, then buffer again, then rinse and repeat. I do not have this problem when watch Flash videos o... (more)

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tags: Silverlight, silverlight-tv, Blend, Animation

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Teaching An Old Control New Tricks With Templates - Jesse Liberty

published 1037 days, 18 hours, 45 minutes ago posted by

jantu 1038 days, 16 hours, 45 minutes ago

You will remember that in the previous post in this small series, we created a new button template with a new appearance and new behavior for the “standard” view states.This button will be used with our form, and the form in turn will (eventually) be prepopulated from a database. It would be very convenient if the button reflected the need for the data to be saved when the user updates any of the fields. The design calls for the button’s border to turn red when the user makes any changes, and to return ... (more)

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tags: Mini-Tutorial, Visual State Manager, Blend

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Customize a ListBox Template with Silverlight - John Papa

published 1040 days, 16 hours, 34 minutes ago posted by

jantu 1041 days, 10 hours, 40 minutes ago

In this episode of Silverlight TV, Adam Kinney discusses how you can completely customize how a control looks and behaves. Adam explains how all Silverlight controls are lookless and that they can be customized using various templates depending on what you want to achieve. Instead of starting with a simple control like a TextBox, he demonstrates the power of templating using a ListBox and its various templates, including the ItemsPanel, ListBoxItem, Data Template, and more (we joke about the multiple nam... (more)

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tags: Silverlight, silverlight-tv, Blend, ListBox

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Styles - Jesse Liberty

published 1043 days, 18 hours, 55 minutes ago posted by

jantu 1045 days, 17 hours, 42 minutes ago

did not include source, and left fleshing out the styles as an exercise… this quick follow-up will provide a link to the full code and a quick walkthrough of the styles I ended up creating. The tricky part is that there is not a single base class for the various controls we’re using (e.g., TextBlock, TextBox etc.) and the based on property requires that the target be either the base style class or a class derived from the base style class. A quick check of the Silverlight .chm file reveals the inheritanc... (more)

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tags: Silverlight, Visual State Manager, styles, Blend, Visual Studio

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Visual State Manager A-Z - Jesse Liberty

published 1043 days, 18 hours, 55 minutes ago posted by

jantu 1046 days, 13 hours, 27 minutes ago

This is the first of a multipart series on the Visual State Manager which will cover * Styles * Resources * Templates * Custom Controls * Customizing data validation Let’s start with the form that is used in my Getting Started With Silverlight video: Adding Controls To An Application. That video uses the design surface in Visual Studio 2010, and a subsequent video creates the grid in Xaml. To round things out I’ll create this version in Expression Blend. (more)

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tags: Silverlight, Visual State Manager, styles, Blend, Visual Studio

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Blend, PathListBox, OOB Samples and More from Silverlight Night at Tampa SLUG - John Papa

published 1049 days, 19 hours, 55 minutes ago posted by

jantu 1051 days, 15 hours, 45 minutes ago

This past Tuesday I had dinner with several of the Tampa area Silverlight crew at Champps and then headed over to the Microsoft offices and presented at the Tampa Silverlight User Group (Tampa SLUG). It was a nice evening where I got to see many familiar faces and show off several demos on Silverlight. I am always amazed at how many awesome developers there are in the Tampa Bay area … and many of them are very active in the community. As promised, I wrapped up the demos and the slide deck and included ... (more)

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tags: seesmic, Silverlight, MEF, Tampa, Blend, OOB, INETA, MVVM, sticky

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Silverlight 4 vs Flex 4: Templating / Skinning controls by Alex van Beek - blog community

published 1050 days, 14 hours, 30 minutes ago posted by

alexb 1051 days, 22 hours, 43 minutes ago

With both Silverlight 4 and Flex 4 you have the ability to completely change the look of a control, without subclassing it, while leaving it's functionality intact. This process is called “Templating” in Silverlight and is called “Skinning” in Flex. With this article I’ll show you how similar both technologies have become, but we’ll also see in which technology templating / skinning is easier. (more)

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tags: Silverlight, templating, Skinning, Flex, Catalyst, Blend

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Creative Developer » Expression Studio 4 Launch keynote videos are available - Adam Kinney

published 1068 days, 15 hours, 35 minutes ago posted by

jantu 1069 days, 12 hours, 55 minutes ago

For those of you who were not able to make it to Internet Week last week, the Expression Studio 4 keynote video is now available!(And my condolences to you, since that means you likely also missed the best Microsoft party ever, props to the Expression team!)What’s in the keynote? Elevate Design animation Elevate Design, a short “buddy” movie about two friends who learn to collaborate.Bill Buxton on transmedia Bill Buxton on the idea of building consistently good experiences across multiple devices, each ... (more)

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tags: Silverlight, encoder, WindowsPhone, Web, WPF, Blend, Expression

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Use Expression Blend to change the Layout Type Efficiently © Kunal's Blog

How to Categorize Control Properties for XAML View inside Blend and Visual Studio? © Kunal's Blog

A Complete Guide to Expression Blend 4 Shortcut Keys

Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone - 26 January 2011 - #11

Customized Scrolling in Silverlight using Expression Blend

Blend Bits 15: The Data Store - Mike Taulty

Blend Bits 13 Fluid Layout and the Popup Panel - Mike Taulty

Blend Bits 10 Being More Resourceful - Mike Taulty

Blend Bits 8 Trigger Fires Action - Mike Taulty

Step-by-Step Guide to Silverlight Shape Controls

Blend Bits 2 Learn a Few Keyboard Shortcuts - Mike Taulty

Blend Bits 3 Watch Your Margins - Mike Taulty

Applying Animations and States to your Silverlight Application - John Papa

Teaching An Old Control New Tricks With Templates - Jesse Liberty

Customize a ListBox Template with Silverlight - John Papa

Styles - Jesse Liberty

Visual State Manager A-Z - Jesse Liberty

Blend, PathListBox, OOB Samples and More from Silverlight Night at Tampa SLUG - John Papa

Silverlight 4 vs Flex 4: Templating / Skinning controls by Alex van Beek - blog community

Creative Developer » Expression Studio 4 Launch keynote videos are available - Adam Kinney

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