Expression Blend for Programmers

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Expression Blend for Programmers. This is a thought-provoking title of a post from Jesse Liberty. How

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Maciek — Mon, 19 May 2008 12:24:14 GMT

Awesome ! I'll be emailing you soon then.

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BenHayat — Sun, 18 May 2008 15:43:07 GMT

Jesse, what do you mean by "Integrating ASP.Net"? Isn't that something that was more common in SL 1.0 than 2.0? Meaning using/overlapping ASP.Net controls (i.e. TextEdit, CheckBox, ComboBox) on the top of SL controls for users to be able to do data entry?

..Ben

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jesseliberty — Sun, 18 May 2008 14:02:20 GMT

Templating? YES! But I'll move it up.

Please feel free to send suggested topics (jliberty@microsoft.com).

So far, my plans for videos and tutorials on Blend/Silverlight Programmign includes (in no specific order):

Databinding

Styles

Templates

Integrating ASP.NET

Data Templates

Graphics

Animation

Custom Controls

Thanks.

-j

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Maciek — Sat, 17 May 2008 12:49:06 GMT

Hi Jesse, looking forward to see new videos as usual. I'd like to ask, are you planning to do any tutorials regarding templating ? I'm running into some difficulties trying to set up a button template.

Regards.

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BenHayat — Fri, 16 May 2008 22:37:44 GMT

Decided to improve on it a bit:

<Calendar.RenderTransform>

</TransformGroup>

</Calendar.RenderTransform>

<Calendar.OpacityMask>

</LinearGradientBrush>

</Calendar.OpacityMask>

</Calendar>

</Canvas>

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BenHayat — Fri, 16 May 2008 21:43:54 GMT

Here is a reflection for your video calender :-)

<Calendar.RenderTransform>

</TransformGroup>

</Calendar.RenderTransform>

</Calendar>

<Rectangle.Fill>

</LinearGradientBrush>

</Rectangle.Fill>

</Rectangle>

</Canvas>

</Grid>

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BenHayat — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:58:31 GMT

>>I'd be interested in your experiences as well.<<

Same thing Eric said. I'm doing a lot of work in Blend now. You begin to like each one for it's purpose. Coding in C# and Xaml, I use VS, all the fancy UI design, including animations, effects, I do in Blend.

I think by SL RTM and with the new .Net 3.5 SP1, both Blend and VS are going to be great products. But you need to know both!

..Ben

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Eric Willeke — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:15:46 GMT

I've been spending some time working through these issues as well. I love Blend as a tool, but there's enough pain points that I've tended to default to coding the XAML in Visual Studio as it seems you have.

I'm anxious to follow the videos.

[Twitter me at erwilleke for Silverlight chatter]

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