Category Archives: Blend
Yet Another Podcast #13–Corey Schuman
Talking with Corey Schuman about Windows Phone, Blend and more. Listen | Return to Yet Another Podcast Call in comments: 1-347-YAP-CAST
Posted in Blend, Patterns & Skills, Podcast, WindowsPhone
Tagged Blend, WindowsPhone, YapCast
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Windows Phone Tutorial: Why Windows Phone Developers Should Must and Are Learning and Using Expression Blend
Back in June, I wrote this to Silverlight developers: Okay, tough love: if you are serious about Silverlight development, the days of using one Integrated Development Environment for all your work are…. over. The benefits of adding Expression Blend to … Continue reading
Posted in Blend, Data, iPhoneToWP7, Styles and Templates, WindowsPhone
Tagged Blend, i2WTutorial, WindowsPhone, wp7Tutorial
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Great SL Competency Test Part 2 (Answer)
The task: Create a custom button that has non-standard visual behavior when you hover over it, and when you click it but which otherwise acts exactly like a button. The idea was to be able to do this in under … Continue reading
Posted in Blend, Community, Patterns & Skills, Styles and Templates
Tagged BestPractices, Competency
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10 Programming Books You Absolutely Want Within Easy Reach
To make this list, a book must be on my “close” shelf, and must Be useful today Be incredibly well written
Posted in Blend, Data, Essentials, Languages, News, Opinion
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Teaching An Old Control New Tricks With Templates
This is the fourth in a short series on Templates and DataValidation. [ First In Series Previous In Series ] You will remember that in the previous post in this small series, we created a new button template with a … Continue reading
Templates, Visual State and Fun With Controls
This is the third (if you count Sunday’s update!) in my short series on Templates and Data Validation. [ First In Series. Previous In Series ] Today we’re going to create a templated Button that changes the appearance and visual … Continue reading
Styles (followup)
Yesterday’s post 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.
Posted in Blend, Mini-Tutorial, Tools and Utilities, z Silverlight Archives
Tagged Blend, VSM
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Visual State Manager A-Z
This is the first of a multipart series on the Visual State Manager which will cover Styles Resources Templates Custom Controls Customizing data validation
Posted in Blend, Mini-Tutorial, Tools and Utilities, z Silverlight Archives
Tagged Blend, VSM
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Why Developers Should, Must, Do Care About The New Expression Blend
Okay, tough love: if you are serious about Silverlight development, the days of using one Integrated Development Environment for all you work are…. over. The benefits of adding Expression Blend to your toolkit, and getting serious about learning how to … Continue reading
Green Eggs and Blend
I’m pleased to say that the accident of not recording my first (new series) Webcast led to the opportunity to reformulate it as a video, which is now available for viewing or download. This is a brief, somewhat tongue in … Continue reading
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Cider vs. Blend
I think there are a lot of developers who work alone or in very small teams who do not have access to professional designers and who might, at least for a while, be a bit intimidated by Blend. We can … Continue reading
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