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

published 964 days, 12 hours, 1 minute ago posted by jantujantu 965 days, 6 hours, 4 minutes ago
Thursday, September 30, 2010 4:54:55 AM GMT Wednesday, September 29, 2010 10:51:57 AM GMT
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)
category: UX | clicked: 2 | comment | | source: mtaulty.com
tags: .NET, Silverlight, BlendBits, Blend
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Blend Bits 10 Being More Resourceful - Mike Taulty

published 974 days, 4 hours, 25 minutes ago posted by jantujantu 975 days, 1 hour, 22 minutes ago
Monday, September 20, 2010 12:31:05 PM GMT Sunday, September 19, 2010 3:34:11 PM GMT
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)
category: Metro | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: mtaulty.com
tags: .NET, Silverlight, BlendBits, Blend
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Blend Bits 8 Trigger Fires Action - Mike Taulty

published 978 days, 1 hour, 36 minutes ago posted by jantujantu 979 days, 23 hours, 27 minutes ago
Thursday, September 16, 2010 3:19:55 PM GMT Tuesday, September 14, 2010 5:29:16 PM GMT
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)
category: Metro | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: mtaulty.com
tags: .NET, Silverlight, BlendBits, Blend