Real World WPF Videos: Introduction to Blend
Well, it has been a little time since I last posted, and since, there has been a real flurry around WPF - at last, it is shipped! As is Windows Vista and Office 2007.
I have been busy on a number of projects, my learning from which I shall be sharing in the coming weeks. I have also been working with DPE (Developer and Platform Evangelism) to create a series of real world WPF Videos. The videos are focussed on real questions our customers are asking us about WPF and the tools they will need to get into to get the most from the platform.
The first video we shot was a 4 part introduction to using Microsoft Expression Blend (formerly Interactive Designer / Sparkle). Richard Godfrey and I walk through the new look tool and show you how to build a simple, but pretty, data driven application. I have posted the four links for the four parts below, as well as attached the data we used in the sample in case you want to have a crack yourself. It is a pretty simple scenario, so you may want to put your own twist and ideas in the mix.
Enjoy!
Introduction to Blend Part 1: Introduction
Introduction to Blend Part 2: Interface Overview
Introduction to Blend Part 3: 2D Build
Introduction to Blend Part 4: 3D & Effects
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Anonymous
February 14, 2007
Martin Grayson , a UX guru in the Microsoft Services part of our business has worked with a colleagueAnonymous
February 15, 2007
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February 15, 2007
This page is your one resource for following up from the sessions that were delivered at this year'sAnonymous
February 15, 2007
Great resource, can't wait for the next series of videos! ;)Anonymous
February 26, 2007
Para facilitar o desenvolvimento de aplicações utilizando WPF e XAML com animações, uma boa opção, éAnonymous
February 28, 2007
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March 10, 2007
Below is my latest list on resources that I have so far found invaluable in getting to grips with WPF...Anonymous
March 11, 2007
I noticed with the current Beta 2 release of Blend, when you were demoing the BitmapEffect and OuterGlowEffect, that these options were not currently available. Is there a programmatic way to implement these features?Anonymous
March 11, 2007
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April 16, 2007
This is great video and it did push me to use Blend and understand WPF/E ( SelverLight ). I wondering if you can post the code of this video and also the project it self so we can test it. Thanks...Anonymous
May 01, 2007
This is a gr8 tutorial.. But i would also like to know how to do the 3D effect of a video clip.. and how to give a motion for that clip along a 3D path . ThankzAnonymous
May 11, 2007
Thanks for these! Do you suggest any other links for video tutorial on Exp. Blend and XAML?Anonymous
May 29, 2007
Thanks Martin, I have been working with web development in general, ASP.NET and AJAX for the last couple of years, and your introductory videos was all I needed to get going with Blend and WPF. Fantastic... One thing though; how did you manage to get the blur effect working with the Visual Brush? I am on XP SP2 and I this will not work for me. I have tried many (MANY) different ways. Cheers PeterAnonymous
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October 29, 2007
Hi there, Thank you very much for this excellent tutorial. I have decided to give it a go myself and when following the videos I have got stuck on the bit where I edit the listbox settings. When I select the border the padding and CornerRadius do not appear. I can't even set the border thickness - these properties are simply not there. Do you have any idea why this might be? Thank you in advance KamilAnonymous
December 04, 2007
Hi I am new to this but this is amazing. I can't believe I just struck gold. This is exactly the software I needed as a designer and my wife is a programmer. Oh brother - are we going to have fun with expression blender! Great tutorial. Looking forward to more. Thanks!Anonymous
December 04, 2007
I tried the tutorial, but when I dragged the game array file onto the screen, then itemsource, everything was fine to go into the big window. But, when I later changed the BOXimage in Create Data window, it does not preview the image at all. And when I said ok, I just saw the data text file. I followed it all the way through and still couldn't understand it. Is there something I have missed because I went through video, time and time again. ThanksAnonymous
January 04, 2008
Thank You very very much for these videos tutorial. I been very thirsty for it. This kind of things really help. Reagrds Syed Wahab AliAnonymous
January 06, 2008
Really helpful tutorial for silverlight learner. I start learing and start seaching for video tutorial and found it. Helpful. Thanks a lot.Anonymous
February 26, 2008
Hey, Awesome stuff here. I need a little help though. I'm trying to follow along with the tutorial, and I successfully imported my .xml file, but when he resizes the margins to 'auto' in part 3, his automatically fits the screen with all his images displayed. I follow his steps exactly and nothing happens. The margins don't go to the ends of the project like his does. It only shows about 2.5 of the 5 pictures, and when I resize the window by dragging it, it shows whitespace where the rest of the pictures should be. I also noticed that when I imported the .xml file, mine didn't have the 'chained down' icons on its sides like his does. Does that have anything to do with it? Anyone else run into this issue? Thanks in advance for your help guys!Anonymous
June 05, 2008
Well, it has been a little time since I last posted, and since, there has been a real flurry around WPF - at last, it is shipped! As is Windows Vista and Office 2007 . I have been busy on a number of projects, my learning from which I shall be sharinAnonymous
January 23, 2009
Could you post the xml file for the game data? Thanks,Anonymous
February 26, 2009
Hi Karen, sorry for the delay. This stuff is attached. If you look at the bottom of the post, you will see a GameData.zip link. Thats it! MartinAnonymous
April 12, 2009
How do you create reflection effect for ListBox in Silverlight 2.0/3.0 as VisualBrush as well as 3D effect not available? I tried to use VideoBrush/ImageBrush as alternative but no luckAnonymous
April 20, 2009
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March 30, 2010
Hi Martin, would there be an updated version using Expression Blend 3?Anonymous
May 12, 2010
How can we disable the Canvas (displaying the Game Title) from being displayed in the rectangle where VisualBrush was applied. As the game is selected (and the title displayed) the reflection also shows the title. It has been a while ago... Thanks, AlexAnonymous
May 25, 2010
(Many years later..) I'm enjoying the videos, brilliantly done, but am lost when I try and drag'n'drop the .xml file from the Data tab into the Grid. Nothing happens. I can manually create a ListBox, right-click on it, ask it to bind the ItemSource to use this data source, but am confused by the "Create Data Binding" dialog that pops up, and can't get it to automatically generate the list of games, or Items to go into that ListBox. It looks like the most recent version (Blend 3) is quite different to the version you recorded, back in 2007.Anonymous
August 20, 2010
thank's, I think your video is more valuable than most costly training videos on blendAnonymous
January 07, 2011
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