Questions tagged [blend]

Microsoft Blend for Visual Studio (formerly Microsoft Expression Blend) is a user interface design tool developed and sold by Microsoft for creating graphical interfaces for web and desktop applications that blend the features of these two types of applications.

Microsoft Blend for Visual Studio (formerly Microsoft Expression Blend) is a user interface design tool developed and sold by Microsoft for creating graphical interfaces for web and desktop applications that blend the features of these two types of applications. It is an interactive, WYSIWYG front-end for designing XAML-based interfaces for Windows Presentation Foundation and Silverlight applications. It was one of the applications in the Microsoft Expression Studio suite before that suite was discontinued.

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Fatal Runtime Error in WPF when switching between visual states

I keep having this error sometimes in a particular case. It happens precisely when I am switching from a visual state to another. I assume it comes from a bad property animation but I wonder what are the conditions in which this exception…
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Cannot create user control via "Create as a UserControl..." menu in the "Blend for Visual Studio 2022"

I created new solution and project in the "Blend for Visual Studio 2022". There is a "MainWindow.xaml" file and I can place some controls such as Button, Checkbox, etc. I select all controls and click the mouse right button. And then menu is…
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Using Blend generated xaml

We are starting a WPF project that will use Prism 4. We have a designer who will design the screens using Blend / Sketchflow. We had originally thought of using the xaml that Blend generated directly. However, we have been advised that this is not a…
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How to use the blend / tblend filter with the t variable and between statement in FFMPEG

I want to use the blend or tblend filters in conjunction with the t variable's between statement. I'm open to other solutions that will achieve the same effect. I know an image can be transposed over a video, e.g. between 00:00:01.000 to…
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Blend 4 DLL not found on TFS Build

i am trying to Build a project on our TFS server. The project uses the System.Windows.Interactivity DLL from Blend 4. But i cannot get the TFS server to find the DLL during…
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How to Blend overlapping SVG in QML

I have two SVG files that I am animating, one is a fixed figure that is centered in the screen, while the other is a second shape coming from the bottom of the screen and ending up overlapping a bit on the first shape: Image { id:…
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WPF Blend tools vs hand-coded XAML for interface controls

Hi this might seem like a dumb question, but I was looking for a little feedback. I am designer working with a development team on a WPF application. We installed Expression Blend 4. I new to WPF/Silverlight, but I have jumped right in and I…
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Silverlight / Blend - How to create FontSize dependency property with dropdown list

In my custom behavior I have created the following dependency property: public double FontSize { get { return (double)GetValue(FontSizeProperty); } set { SetValue(FontSizeProperty, value); } } public static readonly DependencyProperty…
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Resouces tab missing in Blend For Visual Studio 2019

On past versions of Blend For Visual Studio, I used to edit Styles and Templates from Resource Dictionaries under the "Resource" tab, usually on right side of the screen. On last updates off Visual Studio 2019, this tab disappeared. Had it been…
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How to change border of iframe so that it blends in with the background, instead of default?

I have an iframe, but I dont like the default, "dented" into the page look. How can I change this so that it appears at the same level as the surrounding page and blends right in?
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General information about WPF and its XAML

What choice is the best one, coding or drop and click to generate xaml code? If you are gonna work with visualization before doing coding or maybe doing both, should the process be taken in VS 2010 or Blend? Is there any similiar code of WPF's C#…
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p5.js image histogram equalization

It's easy to blend() two images using p5.js, which is great, but I would like to be able to equalize the histogram of the resulting blended image. Something like -equalize in ImageMagick. Does anyone know how to do this in p5.js?
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EventTrigger fails to trigger on IsEnabledChanged

I have a custom control inherited from UserControl that I am enabling/disabling via a binding and trying to use an EventTrigger for IsEnabledChanged to cause a ChangePropertyAction behavior to execute.
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Is it possible to create a VSIX Extension that works in Visual Studio AND Blend?

In Blend I can open the extension Gallery and see almost the same extensions as in Visual Studio. I installed the "Color Theme Editor" in Blend. It installed new Themes, like "Solarized", but the editor itself doesn't work. I tried another approach,…
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A basic WPF performance question

I'm a designer and I need to understand why does the application I created in Expression Blend run so slow. Experiments show that the background with lots of elements contributes the most to the issue. I know there is a lot of discussions and…