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Low level introduction to Blend for Visual Studio 2012.
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Beginning with BlendTimmy Kokke
Beginning with BlendGetting started using Blend for Visual Studio when building WPF, Windows Phone or Windows Store applications and increase productivity.
Timmy Kokke
ICT Consultant – Centric
Expression Blend MVP
www.timmykokke.com
@sorskoot
Tools, tools, toolsWhy Blend?
“blend is for designers”
Why Blend? Resource management
Storyboards / Animations
Visual States
Editing Templates
Property editor
Behaviors
Path editing
+ a lot of small things
Why not? Writing code, XAML or markup
Testing
Debugging
Code Analysis
Profiling
+ many, many other developer-centric tasks
first steps
DemoQuick tour
welcome screen new project
open project
recent projects
welcome screen Windows Store HTML XAML
Windows Phone
WPF + SketchFlow
Silverlight + SketchFlow
artboard WYSIWYG
Design / XAML / Both
Zoom
Snap
project panel File management
Team foundation server
objects and timeline Elements
Arrange
Show / Hide / Lock
device device specific
device orientation
default theme
deploy target
layout
DemoLayout
grid Deviders
Sizing
Arranging
layout properties Alignment
Size
Margin
other Canvas
Border
StackPanel
+ many more
building
DemoWorking with objects and properties
toolbar Common tools Selecting
Navigating
Manipulating
Drawing
resources Management
Dictionary
assets Controls
Styles
Media
Behaviors
sample data Fully customizable
By hand / from class / from XML
binding easy
advanced settings
animation
DemoAnimation
animation Recording
Timeline
Easing
visual states Recording
Easing
behaviors Reusable
View targeted code
conclude
How to get Blend for Visual Studio? It comes with Visual Studio now
Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Phone
Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Store apps
Visual Studio 2012 Professional
Visual Studio 2012 Premium
Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate
Where to learn more? MSDN http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/expression/cc197141.aspx
.toolbox http://www.microsoft.com/design/toolbox/
Project Rosetta http://visitmix.com/labs/rosetta/EyesOfBlend/
ExpressionBlend.com http://expressionblend.com/
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