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.

764 questions
3
votes
3 answers

Silverlight 4 Tiled backgrounds

So I've been looking around and I can't find a Tilebrush or similar feature in Silverlight 4. Chatter on the internet seems to indicate that there is nothing built in. I am hoping that someone is going to show me the hidden camera, or let me know…
A.R.
  • 15,405
  • 19
  • 77
  • 123
3
votes
1 answer

How do you move attributes to a style in Expression Blend

Say I have this UserControl and want to move the attributes to a style without having to manually doing it?
null_pointer
  • 1,779
  • 4
  • 19
  • 38
3
votes
0 answers

Blend two views in Android

Is it possible to blend two different views in different modes like Multiply, Add etc. I have two views one is a RelativeLayout matching parent shape with a background image. Another one is ImageView (solid colored custom shape) inside the parent…
Asif Arman
  • 85
  • 8
3
votes
2 answers

How to blend multiple UIView in iOS?

I want to blend multiple UIView in such a way that it can move, rotate and resize smoothly. I already achieved this with the code below but it's not as smooth as other application like PicsArt & SnapSeed. - (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect { //…
3
votes
1 answer

Is there some way I can make blend reload a project which has been modified in Visual Studio?

I have a Visual Studio solution which is open in both blend 2 SP1 and VS2008 SP1 simultaneously. If I make changes in VS, then switch over to blend, it notices that the project has changed and reloads things, however this is really unreliable.…
Orion Edwards
  • 121,657
  • 64
  • 239
  • 328
3
votes
2 answers

ItemsControl - Grid child elements auto resize

I'm using Rachel Lim's GridHelper to get dynamic number of rows. What I wanted to achieve is to have each row displayed one below another (done), to be able to resize them (done - using GridSplitter) and to have content resized proportionally to the…
Ivan Milosavljevic
  • 839
  • 1
  • 7
  • 19
3
votes
1 answer

How can I remove a thin border line on my custom button?

I made a custom checkbox button with BorderThickness=2. I want to change the color of border to blue when it is checked. Problem is there is very thin black line between border and the icon that annoys me. Is there any way that I can remove…
tk.hfes
  • 57
  • 8
3
votes
2 answers

Android Opengl ES dark pixels on edge of objects

I would like to draw you attention to the following pictures First the original image then how it is rendered on the screen as you can see on the original everything is nice and yellow, the edges have a slight transparency to look smooth. but…
Jason Rogers
  • 19,194
  • 27
  • 79
  • 112
3
votes
0 answers

Adaptive layout animation windows phone 10

Hello I am working on windows UWP application. I want to make a swapping animation but when I run it on different screens the animation tends to fall out of place. I know the reason, its because the animations take margin movements from the initial…
iam.Carrot
  • 4,976
  • 2
  • 24
  • 71
3
votes
1 answer

prevent blend from adding a startupURI to application?

Is there some trick that is known to tell blend to stop trying to set a startupURI in my app.xaml? I googled but didn't see anything so I figured I would ask here. I use a startup routine and instantiate mainwindow myself. Every once and a while…
TWood
  • 2,563
  • 8
  • 36
  • 58
3
votes
2 answers

How to overlay two videos with blend filter in ffmpeg

I need to do a lot of videos with the next specifications: A background video (bg.mp4) Overlay a sequence of png images img1.png to img300.png (img%d.png) with a rate of 30 fps Overlay a video with dust effects using a blend-lighten filter…
Carlos Angulo
  • 301
  • 1
  • 3
  • 10
3
votes
0 answers

How do you create a crossfade transition between multiple videos in FFMPEG?

I am currently looping MP4 videos with audio through FFMPEG. Here is the code del intermediate1.ts del f.txt echo file intermediate1.ts>f.txt echo file intermediate1.ts>>f.txt echo file intermediate1.ts>>f.txt echo file intermediate1.ts>>f.txt echo…
3
votes
1 answer

Working with Blend 2015 and Windows Universal Apps

I was working successfully on Windows Phone 8.1 projects in Blend for Visual Studio 2013 and 2015 as well. I'm using Blend just for getting default style definitions and adjusting them. In the Windows Phone 8.1 project, there is a Objects and…
o..o
  • 1,789
  • 5
  • 31
  • 59
3
votes
1 answer

How to add a UserControl to a Window in BlendDesigner?

I am a beginner in using Blend and WPF in general. I created three user controls. I also created a Window which should house the user controls. Is there any designer way, like drag dropping the user control into the Window which will make it appear…
SKG
  • 1,432
  • 2
  • 13
  • 23
3
votes
1 answer

Skip normal button state in VSM between mouseover and pressed state

When a button is pressed the state transitions are as follows: Normal -> MouseOver -> Normal -> Pressed -> Normal -> MouseOver The problem I have is that the MouseOver and the Pressed state have a lot in common visually and the transition to normal…
Wouter
  • 2,170
  • 1
  • 28
  • 58