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Expression Blend and Design

The team blog of the Expression Blend and Design products.

Deep Zoom Composer Updated – July 2009 / Release Candidate

Last week, to coincide with the release of Expression Blend + SketchFlow RC and Silverlight 3, we...

Author: kirupa Date: 07/13/2009

Overview of New Features in Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow: Part III

Hi everyone, Continuing the overview of all the new features we introduced in Expression Blend 3,...

Author: kirupa Date: 07/12/2009

Overview of New Features in Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow: Part II

In the previous post, we starting glancing at the new features in Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow....

Author: kirupa Date: 07/11/2009

Overview of New Features in Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow: Part 1

As you all have probably seen by now, we released the release candidate of Expression Blend 3 +...

Author: kirupa Date: 07/10/2009

Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow RC Released

Many of you have been waiting, but wait no more! The RC (Release Candidate) version of Expression...

Author: kirupa Date: 07/10/2009

Resurrecting a Beloved Deep Zoom Composer Feature

In our latest release of Deep Zoom Composer, we removed a feature that all of you liked a lot. While...

Author: kirupa Date: 07/10/2009

Hi everyone, As many of you may have noticed, our new release of Deep Zoom Composer contains a lot...

Author: kirupa Date: 07/08/2009

Hatching Effect Shader for both Siverlight and WPF

Hi everyone, As you all may know, both Silverlight 3 and WPF 3.5 SP1 introduced support for effects...

Author: kirupa Date: 07/06/2009

Deep Zoom Composer - June 2009 Preview!

We know you’ve been waiting, and we know you just can’t wait any longer, so here it is: Download...

Author: kirupa Date: 06/19/2009

Instead of Telling What We are Working On…Here is a Screenshot Instead!

It’s been a while since we released a preview of Expression Blend 3 at MIX. We’ve been working...

Author: kirupa Date: 05/28/2009

Three Posts on Blend 3’s Photoshop Import Functionality

Hi everyone, There are three really good posts on Janete Perez’s blog that covers the PhotoShop...

Author: kirupa Date: 05/27/2009

Check out Rooler – A free Screen Measurement Utility!

Fellow Blender, Pete Blois, has written a small application called Rooler that allows you to make...

Author: kirupa Date: 05/26/2009

Opening Blend 3 Projects without Actually Having Blend Installed

Since we released our preview at MIX, there have been a fair number of questions revolving around...

Author: kirupa Date: 05/22/2009

In the past couple of weeks, there have been a great number of great blog posts on Behaviors, and...

Author: kirupa Date: 05/19/2009

Thinking Outside the XAP – Blend 3 and Support for Web Sites!

One of the features that we added in Expression Blend 3 is the ability for you to create Silverlight...

Author: kirupa Date: 05/05/2009

Deep Zoom Composer Updated to Support Publishing to DeepZoomPix!

Hi everyone, We have just released another preview of Deep Zoom Composer, and you can download it...

Author: kirupa Date: 04/16/2009

Creating and Editing Gradients in Expression Blend 3 Preview

One of our goals for Expression Blend 3 is to provide better tools and user experience for visual...

Author: kirupa Date: 04/08/2009

Behaviors Under the Hood – API Details and Constraining the Type

Jeff Kelly is back with Part II of his behaviors triple-feature. This time, he focuses on more...

Author: kirupa Date: 03/30/2009

Round-Up of Blog Posts (and other Activities) by the Expression Blend Team!

It’s been a week since MIX09 started, and since then, many of us Blenders have been busy writing...

Author: kirupa Date: 03/25/2009

An Introduction to Behaviors, Triggers, and Actions

The following post is written by Jeff Kelly, one of the developers who worked extensively on both...

Author: kirupa Date: 03/23/2009

A Look at SketchFlow

Christian Schormann has written a nice article on SketchFlow, so be sure to check it out at the...

Author: kirupa Date: 03/18/2009

Download Expression Blend 3 Preview!

Hi everyone, To follow up on our announcements made today at MIX 09, we are excited to provide a...

Author: kirupa Date: 03/18/2009

Meet Members of the Expression Blend, Design, and DZC Teams at Mix 09!

Mix 09 this year is going to be pretty interesting – especially if you are an Expression Blend...

Author: kirupa Date: 03/17/2009

"Page Cannot Be Found" Issue when Previewing via Expression Blend

When you preview a Silverlight application in Expression Blend, we run the ASP.NET Web Development...

Author: kirupa Date: 03/16/2009

Deep Zoom Composer – February 2009 Preview Released

Hi everyone, We have just released another update to Deep Zoom Composer, and you can download it...

Author: kirupa Date: 02/18/2009

What Would you Like to See in Future Releases of Deep Zoom Composer?

Hi everyone, After a bit of a break, we are currently getting the next preview of Deep Zoom Composer...

Author: kirupa Date: 02/13/2009

Meet Members of the Blend and Design Teams at MIX

As many of you know, MIX is Microsoft’s design-focused conference held in Las Vegas near the...

Author: kirupa Date: 01/31/2009

A UserControl base class for Visual State Manager

As you know, Visual State Manager is a Silverlight 2 (and WPF Toolkit) platform feature that makes...

Author: kirupa Date: 01/05/2009

Creating Falling Snow in Silverlight!

Exactly a year ago (plus one day…but who’s counting?!), I posted a sample WPF application that...

Author: kirupa Date: 12/27/2008

Holiday Savings – Add Expression Blend 2 to Your Design Tool Set

Hi everyone. The following post is written by Renee Yong, Marketing Manager for Expression. I hope...

Author: kirupa Date: 12/23/2008

Deep Zoom Composer has been Updated: Documentation and Bug Fixes!

Yesterday, we released another update to Deep Zoom Composer, and you can download it from the...

Author: kirupa Date: 12/22/2008

Hello DeepZoomTools.DLL : Deep Zoom Image Tile Generation Made Easy

In our most recent release of Deep Zoom Composer, one of the major changes we made was to change how...

Author: kirupa Date: 11/26/2008

Deep Zoom Composer Updated: Seadragon Ajax Support, New API, and more!

Today, we released another update to Deep Zoom Composer, and you can download it from the following...

Author: kirupa Date: 11/24/2008

2.5D UserControl for Silverlight 2

2.5D (two-and-a-half D) is a way of using 2D objects to give a very convincing illusion of 3D. I’ve...

Author: kirupa Date: 11/17/2008

PDC 2008 Session – Microsoft Expression Blend: Tips and Tricks

If you were unable to attend the PDC this year, don’t worry! Because all of the sessions have been...

Author: kirupa Date: 11/13/2008

Blend 2 SP1 + WPF Toolkit = Visual State Manager for WPF

The Blend 2 Service Pack 1 contains a secret ingredient that can be activated by installing the WPF...

Author: kirupa Date: 10/30/2008

Simulating Sample Data in Blend 2 SP1

Using sample data can make designing your Silverlight 2 applications more predictable. Given some...

Author: kirupa Date: 10/27/2008

Deep Zoom Composer Updated for Silverlight 2 (And More!)

Yesterday was a busy day, for we released an updated version of Deep Zoom Composer as well! You can...

Author: kirupa Date: 10/14/2008

Download Expression Blend 2 SP1

Yesterday night, to coincide with the release of Silverlight 2, we released Expression Blend 2 SP1....

Author: kirupa Date: 10/14/2008

Silverlight 2 RC Compatible Deep Zoom Project Templates

Because the Silverlight 2 RC that was released is aimed primarily at developers wishing to update...

Author: kirupa Date: 09/27/2008

Expression Blend 2 SP1 Preview Released

Today, we have released a preview of Expression Blend 2 Service Pack 1 that allows you to create...

Author: kirupa Date: 09/25/2008

Editing in Visual Studio 2008 Instead of Visual Studio 2005

In Expression Blend 2, when you choose to edit a code file or insert an event handler for an event,...

Author: kirupa Date: 09/23/2008

Deep Zoom Developer Resources

Since we released Deep Zoom Composer a while ago at MIX, we relied extensively on all of you to both...

Author: kirupa Date: 09/08/2008

Cutting Shapes in Expression Blend

Currently, Expression Blend does not have a scissor tool which allows you to cut shapes like you can...

Author: kirupa Date: 08/26/2008

How to Animate a Drawing Line

In Blend you use the Pen tool to draw lines and they appear in the XAML as <Path> elements....

Author: kirupa Date: 08/15/2008

Do You Want to Help Implement Interesting Ideas? The Blend Team needs you!

A few months ago, we asked you for feedback on what are some of the things you would like to see...

Author: kirupa Date: 08/06/2008

Deep Zoom Composer Updated (Again!)

To address many of the issues you all had with the PhotoZoom functionality, we have released an...

Author: kirupa Date: 08/04/2008

Download the New Deep Zoom Composer Preview!

A few hours ago, we released another update to Deep Zoom Composer. Click on the link below to...

Author: kirupa Date: 08/02/2008

Collection of Expression Blend Learning Resources

This post will try to showcase an updated list of useful (and free!) training material available for...

Author: kirupa Date: 07/27/2008

Where do You Go to Learn More About Expression Blend?

One of the things that we are planning on doing is providing easier access to learning content....

Author: kirupa Date: 07/25/2008

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