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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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How to open a WPF project with Blend in Visual Studio 2012?

I'm using Visual Studio 2012 Professional Edition and have a WPF project. I'd like to open my WPF project with Blend but the option doesn't exist in my visual studio. Should I install Blend separately? How can I make the option visible and enable…
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How do I change the text color of a button for different states in Expression Blend?

I'm still learning Blend, so please bear with me. I have a toggle button in a WPF project and I need to change the text color for different states such as mouseover and checked. However, when I'm editing the template and I select the…
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WPF Control Templating - How do I create a custom property?

I'm currently building a XAML UserControl library using Blend. I've created a template for my custom WPF slider type. What I'd like to be able to do now is add a custom brush property for the control which will allow easy customisation when…
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How to create an editable treelistview in WPF?

I need to create an editable TreeListView for my project. But as far as I can see, WPF does not provide any type of tree list view and the ones I found online were not very informative. I want to create something using blend and then apply that to…
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Can I use Blend for Visual Studio 2012 to make regular desktop applications?

Everything I see pertaining to Blend for Visual Studio 2012 talks about making Window's store apps. Am I correct in assuming it can be used for regular desktop applications too?
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How do I switch between page edit mode and template edit mode in the Visual Studio 2012 design view?

When using the design view in VS 2012, if you right click on an element and select one of the templates from Edit Template or Edit Additional Templates, it takes you to a new view within the designer. This may be a silly question, but how do I…
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Expression blend tutorials?

Hi Can anyone suggest the best video tutorials for learning expression blend? Thanks Judi
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Creating Windows 8-like window in C# with Visual Studio 2012/Blend

I'd like to create desktop application which has Windows 8 style window(like GitHub for windows). AFAIK Blend allows only to make Metro(Modern UI) apps' layouts(am I wrong?).
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I wonder why Blend for Windows 8 removed "make into user control" feature

I love custom user control, has been using it them since Blend 2, I wonder why now we can't select a grid and make into user control anymore in Windows 8? We have to add a new item then manually add all the grid into the newly created user control.…
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Silverlight Blend Behaviors do not get attached at design time

I have developed a behavior that changes the Clip property of the AssociatedObject. When I run the application, all is well. But when I view the page in Blend it appears like the behavior does not affect its associated object. I tried to "debug"…
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Animate TranslateTransform.Y to a control's height (purpose is to slide element off sight)

Given: Control (x:Name="border1") with a VisualStateManager. Control's RenderTransform is set to a TransformGroup that contains a TranslateTransform. In VisualState "NotShown", TranslateTransforms Y property should be animated to a Value that is (at…
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How do I clear Expression Blend 4 cached solution information?

I seem to be adept at making Expression Blend 4 crash at startup. The problem seems to be related to a deadlock initializing static managed and unmanaged variables as Blend first opens my solultion which has a mixture of unmanaged C++ and managed…
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Blend For Visual Studio 11 get an error

Installed Windows 8 Consumer Preview Installed Visual Studio 2010 Premium Installed Visual Studio 11 Ultimate Everything installed without any errors. I created a new Windows 8 Metro app using Visual Studio 11 and have no issues viewing xaml in VS…
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Creating a design datacontext in code behind

I'm trying to improve on my design time experience in Blend. I know I can do something like: d:DataContext="{d:DesignInstance local:vm_d, IsDesignTimeCreatable=True}" and blend/vs will show my bindings to vm_d at design time, however this seems…
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FluidMoveBehavior with ListBox

I'm trying to get FluidMoveBehavior to work, but nothing is animating no matter what I try. It just adds/removes items as normal without any fading/sliding in/out. Other examples I downloaded off the internet work just fine and it seems simple to…
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