Jeetu's Blog https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/jeetenk/feed.xml news, views, and fun with expression blend, wpf, xaml and silverlight Wed, 17 Apr 2019 04:00:53 GMT en-US hourly 1 Hey WPF Button, where are your States? https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/jeetenk/hey-wpf-button-where-are-your-states Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:58:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jeetenk/2009/07/10/hey-wpf-button-where-are-your-states/ As you may know, when you create a template for a Silverlight control, the States pane in Blend populates with States ready for you to select-and-design. This is because Silverlight controls are designed to work with States, and each Silverlight control advertises the States it works with. But WPF shipped before States did and consequently WPF controls know nothing about States. It’s actually the magic in the WPF Toolkit that makes WPF controls work with States. When Blend 3 ships, its installer will also install the WPF Toolkit for you, but until then you can install it yourself from here: https://www.codeplex.com/wpf/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx.
This means that when you create a new template for a WPF control, the States pane is empty initially. But it only takes a few moments to add the correctly-named States and from there you’re on par with the Silverlight experience and you’re ready to select-and-design as usual.

So, here’s a list of the WPF controls that work with States along with the state groups and states you’ll need to add.

Button, GridViewColumnHeader, RepeatButton

CommonStates:

                Normal, MouseOver, Pressed, Disabled

FocusStates:

                Unfocused, Focused

 

CheckBox, RadioButton

CommonStates:

                Normal, MouseOver, Pressed, Disabled

CheckStates:

                Unchecked, Checked, Indeterminate

FocusStates:

                Unfocused, Focused

 

ListBoxItem

CommonStates:

                Normal, MouseOver

SelectionStates:

                Unselected, Selected

FocusStates:

                Unfocused, Focused

 

ProgressBar

CommonStates:

                Determinate, Indeterminate

FocusStates:

                Unfocused, Focused

 

TextBox, RichTextBox

CommonStates:

                Normal, MouseOver, Disabled, ReadOnly

FocusStates:

                Unfocused, Focused

]]> A Book on SketchFlow anyone? https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/jeetenk/a-book-on-sketchflow-anyone Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:57:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jeetenk/2009/07/10/a-book-on-sketchflow-anyone/ Chris Bernard is working on a book just on the SketchFlow feature of Blend 3. Here is more info about this!

Enjoy!

]]> Blend 3 Samples Explained! https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/jeetenk/blend-3-samples-explained Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:27:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jeetenk/2009/07/10/blend-3-samples-explained/ Celso Gomes has done a great job of walking through the new samples in Blend 3. Here is a link to his site.

Enjoy! 

 

]]> Cool Blend 3 Demo Video https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/jeetenk/cool-blend-3-demo-video Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:21:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jeetenk/2009/07/08/cool-blend-3-demo-video/ Here is a link to a cool Blend 3 demo video. It very nicely shows new powerful sample data support, better access to template properties, better artboard experience and the power of behaviors.

Enjoy!

]]> Useful Blend 3 and SketckFlow Tutorials https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/jeetenk/useful-blend-3-and-sketckflow-tutorials Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:00:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jeetenk/2009/07/02/useful-blend-3-and-sketckflow-tutorials/ Here is a link to some useful Blend 3 and SketchFlow tutorials.

Enjoy!

]]> Expression Blend 3.0 Preview Now Available! https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/jeetenk/expression-blend-3-0-preview-now-available Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:58:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jeetenk/2009/03/28/expression-blend-3-0-preview-now-available/ At Mix 2009 Microsoft released the Expression Blend 3.0 Preview. Here is where you can get it https://www.microsoft.com/expression/try-it/blendpreview.aspx

and here are new features in this release https://www.microsoft.com/expression/features/Default.aspx?key=blend3preview

Please post your feedback on the community forums for at https://social.expression.microsoft.com/forums/en-us/blend/threads/

Cheers!

]]> Creating Custom WPF/Silverlight Controls customizable in Blend https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/jeetenk/creating-custom-wpfsilverlight-controls-customizable-in-blend Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:27:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jeetenk/2008/11/06/creating-custom-wpfsilverlight-controls-customizable-in-blend/ Target Audience: Developers writing custom controls

When you create a new project and a place control like a Button on the scene, Blend allows you to customize the control by editing its Style and Template. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could write you own controls such that these commands are available for them as well?

First let’s talk about how you get a Custom Control with a default style. Visual Studio 2008 has a project template built-in for WPF.

1.       Invoke the Create New Project Dialog

2.       Select the language of your choice (C# or VB)  and then select Windows

3.       You will see the option of a WPF Custom Control Library

4.       Select it and hit Okay

 

I could not find similar project templates for Silverlight so I created them. You can get them at https://cid-eeb5461a76579756.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/SilverlightCustomControlTemplates.zip

To use the above templates:

1.       Unzip the above file

2.       It contains 2 folders C# and VB, each containing SilverlightCustomControl.zip

3.       Copy the zip files to

…\Visual Studio 2008\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C# and

…\Visual Studio 2008\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual Basic respectively in your documents folder

4.       In VS, invoke the Create New Project Dialog

5.       Select the language of your choice (C#  or VB)

6.       You will see the option of a SilverlightCustomControl in My Templates

7.       Select it and hit Okay

 

To use these controls in Blend:

 

1.       Build the project you created above

2.       Create a WPF/Silverlight Application (based on the custom control you want to use)

3.       Add a reference to the binary of the project you built

4.       Bring up the Asset dialog and select the Custom Controls Tab

5.       Drag CustomControl1 on to the scene

5.       To Edit Template, right click the element and select Edit Control Parts (Template) -> Edit a Copy

6.       To Edit Style, invoke Main Menu -> Object -> Edit Style -> Edit A Copy

The control you get with the project template I provided is very simple with a rectangle and a TextBlock but this could be your custom control J !

]]> Blend 2.5 March Preview Released https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/jeetenk/blend-2-5-march-preview-released Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:18:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jeetenk/2008/03/05/blend-2-5-march-preview-released/ At Mix 2008 Microsoft made available Silverlight 2 Beta 1 to the public. Silverlight 2 enables creating rich cross platform web experiences. Look here to learn more. Microsoft also released tools for developing these rich experiences in Microsoft Expression Blend 2.5 March Preview and Microsoft Silverlight Tools Beta 1 for Visual Studio 2008.

Here's a first look at how to create a Silverlight 2 application using Blend 2.5 March Preview

 

 

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