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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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Why is there a leading "#FF" in hexadecimal color values?

I'm using Expression Blend 3 and am writing some of the XAML by hand, specifically the color values of controls. I have a list of RGB colors already converted to hexadecimal. I just need to insert the hex value into my XAML. Initially, I pasted the…
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Blend-created HTML/CSS running in browser?

Has anyone had any luck using Blend for Visual Studio 2011 Beta to create webpages? I'm a designer coming from using Blend to create XAML-based UIs and freaking out that there might not be some brilliant WYSIWYG editor like Blend for web out there…
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Is it possible to make the blend Xaml editor horizontal?

I use blend a lot but sometimes I find its easier to make a slight tweak in xaml directly and would like to know if anyone has figured out how to make the editor sit horizontal to the designer.
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Expression Blend VSM vs Event Driven

I recently used Expression Blend and I found that it has something called Visual State Manager, what is the difference between it and the regular event driven model, and which is better?
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Why does Blend/Visual Studio always generate ResourceDictionary "Source" Incorrectly?

Brief I'm starting to go crazy. I've been chasing this issue for about a day now and I can't figure out how to easily resolve it. So I figured I'd drive you all crazy with this too (hopefully you have better luck than me). Note: A link to a zipped…
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UWP , What skill Do I need to make the 2 animation?

Here is my next project for 2 sensor monitor. I designed a simple UI to display sensor values. I need advice about direction of development. Especially Animation. Here is my designed UI. Left is normal status. Both Sensor value is good. Right is…
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Convert a geometry to a path in wpf (with blend ?)

my question is simple. how can I convert this code: into something like (please note that the second…
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Is it possible to use ReSharper with Blend?

I'd like to use ReSharper with Blend, as I do with Visual Studio. For some reason I can't seem to find any information online that explains how to do this. Any ideas?
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OpenGL blend problem

I want to draw aquarium (container) standing on table. Walls of aquarium need to be blended. But, if I draw table first and then aquarium I get: - looking from the up of the table: ok - looking from the bottom of the table: wrong, I still see…
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Strange WPF error

I have some code that works intermittently and I can't understand why (worked perfectly until today morning when windows automatically installed some updates, but none related to .NET 4 - version used in my project). My password box ...
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How to remove Blend for Visual Studio 2012?

After uninstalling VS2012, Blend for Visual Studio 2012 is still there (both in Start Menu and in Program Files (x86)\Visual Studio 11\Blend), even after I ran the installer with /uninstall /force (which removes all optional components). How can I…
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Microsoft Expression Blend Preview for Silverlight 5 has expired. What next?

Our version of Microsoft Expression Blend Preview for Silverlight 5 has expired on 30th June and there are NO online license purchase options available. The following link states that Blend is now an integral part of Visual Studio 2012, but with our…
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How to use functions with parameters as event handlers?

I am using Blend (and I'm very new to it) to create XAML. I have a line of code which calls the function writeC below:
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cocos2d. Correct blending?

I modified standard example "Hello World": CCSprite *sprite = [CCSprite spriteWithFile:@"Untitled-1.png"]; CGSize winSize = [CCDirector sharedDirector].winSize; sprite.position = ccp(winSize.width / 2, winSize.height / 2); …
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Blend 4 - Regenerate 'Create Sample Data from Class' when class changes

Using Blend 4 I know how to generate sample data using the 'Create Sample Data from Class...' option in the Data tab. This creates a .xaml file in a SampleData folder that I can use to populate my UI in design time. My question is how do I…
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