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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Blend for Visual Studio SDK for .NET in VS2019

I need Blend for Visual Studio SDK for .NET in Visual Studio 2019 to use Interaction Triggers. In VS2017 it was in Blend for Visual Studio SDK for .NET as you can see here: Visual Studio 2017 - What happened to Expression interactions? Where is this…
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Animate button from one point to another

I have an expander containing some elements along with a button. When the expander is collapsed, I would like to display the button in the expander's header for easy access. When the expander is expanded, I want the button to be part of the…
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Why are XAML resources unlike CSS styles?

In Expression Blend you can create a font-size of say 18 and then create a "font-size resource". Coming at this from HTML/CSS, I cannot think of when I would want to make a style for a "font-size" and one for a "font-style" and one for a…
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Draw diagonal Text/TextBlock/Label/Control in WPF relative to its container

I have a Grid with a dynamic size. Inside I want to draw a diagonal TextBlock . I have already a diagonal Path where you can set LineGeometry for dynamic adjustment. But I can't find the pendant in the TextBlock. Do I miss something?
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Animate Margin values between states in WPF

I'm trying to familiarize myself with WPF for an upcoming project. I'm having problem animating margins between states. Using Blend I've obtained the following sample XAML. If I trigger the state "Large" from codebehind, the rectangle suddenly…
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WPF trigger animation from code

I was reading many similar q&a but I didn't get answer I'm searching for. So, I'm making "homework" in Microsoft Bled, I really like storyboards and I know how to trigger them with button click, but does anyone know how to start an animation in c#…
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How to change the Brush color from a Pen in a DrawingGroup.Children tag

I'm trying to change the property Brush from the next piece of code from another control, but don't know how to reach to this property. This drawing brush is defined as an Application.Resource en App.XAML
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What is d:IsOptimized in Expressions Blend?

Just out of curiously, what is d:IsOptimized in Expressions Blend? While I know that d: is a namespace for design-time attributes, does anyone know what d:IsOptimized actually does? Is there anywhere that these Blend-specific attributes are…
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glsl shader - color blend, normal mode (like in Photoshop)

Im trying to create effect of blending 2 colors (actually image and color as overlay over image), like in photoshop "Color Overlay" with "Normal Blending" mode Im using libgdx This is what i have so far attribute vec4 a_position; attribute vec4…
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Design-Time Population of ListBox with Sample Data in WPF

I have a view (usercontrol) that contains a listbox. At runtime the listbox will be populated with instances of another view (also a usercontrol). How can I populate the listbox in design-time (in Blend and Cider) with sample views that are…
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Customizing Play/Pause buttons in player framework element WP8.1

I am having a small customizing issue on my player framework (XAML WINRT, Windows Phone 8.1 App), I am trying to remove the circle that are around the Play/Pause and the Full Screen buttons: I would like for them to look more like this: I have…
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Design view shows `System.Object` in TextBlock when applying a converter to a Number in Blend

In Microsoft Blend for Visual Studio (Express 2013 and Community 2015 RC), I have created some sample data with a collection of items consisting of a number and a string. The number amount is bound to a TextBlock:
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WebGL: Text rendering and blend issue

Hy I have a rendering issue with text in WebGL. Here the pb: The first rendering is crappy the second is OK. The difference is my DOM (nothing related to the HTML DOM): The difference between the view V2 and V3 is: V2 is just a green rectangle…
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Calling two different animations from the same click event

I'm currently working on a Surface application where I need to call two different animations when a button is tapped. How exactly should I be doing this? I'd like to do it declaratively if it's possible. Should I be using MultiTriggers for this,…
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How to combined multiple PATH objects into a vector image that can be used as a style in WPF/XAML

I have a complex logo developed in Illustrator that I want to use as an image in WPF. I can seem to combine the Path's when importing into Blend to get a single Path without loosing all the fill colours. What is the best way to convert the…
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