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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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Context Menus and NavigateTo in Blend / SketchFlow

Hoping this will be a simple one, in Sketchflow i'm trying to wire up a context menu to navigate to another page. I've created the context menu, added a menu item, right clicked the mneu item in the Objects and Timeline panel and selected…
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Exclude columns from a databound datagrid in WPF

I have an ObservableCollection where SolarSystemViewModel derives from the ViewModelBase. The ViewModelBase exposes IsInDesignMode and IsInDesignModeStatic that are showing up in the datagrid when I bind to my…
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Make Blend Modes in SVG actually work?

I've many times done the following: But when I, inside a shape, write "filter="url(#screen)", my shape disappears. I've tried it in every browser (Safari,…
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Blend for visual studio 2012 connect to team foundation server 2012 server everytime blend gain focus

I'm working with visual studio 2012 and blend for visual studio 2012 simultaneously. The problem i have is that every time I switch to blend, it tries to connect to team foundation server causing about 10 seconds delays. This gets annoying real fast…
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Blend 3 in design time can't find my converters/Resources .(WPF)

I'm having troubles using Blend with my visual studio solution. In Runtime, and compile time everything is just fine. As you can see in the picture, Blend urges me to Build the project, but it does not change the situation, even after a successful…
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providing designtime ViewModel data for Blend and VS

In a MVVM based application, what options do I have to provide ViewModel data at design time, so our designers can actually see something in Blend3 (and VS 2008). How are you doing this? Can I utilize mc:ignorable for this somehow?
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Design view disabled in Blend + Sketchflow 2012

I have a project that was created in Blend + Sketchflow preview for Visual Studio 2012. It is a simple project as I am learning C# and WPF for the first time. I have two windows. A simple start screen with a button that shows the other screen. The…
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LibGDX FrameBuffer blending

Some quick background here, I just started using the LibGDX framework for my first attempts at Android game development. I am trying to build a texture using their FrameBuffer class by placing in sprites, and I want to use this texture as a sort of…
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Why does WPF not render my colors properly?

I apologize in advance if this question has been answered already, but I wasn't able to get anything with a few googles. I have a photoshop image with an 8-bit color profile. I'm converting it into a WPF app using Blend. When I run the application,…
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Theming using resources without Blend vomitting

WPF is great in that I should be able to use {StaticResource MyBackground} instead of "White" throughout my app, and then by changing resource definitions redefine the look of my entire application. Problem is Expression Blend just won't work if you…
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Blend preview for silverlight 5 throws error when using System.Windows.Interactivity

When viewing a Silverlight 5 project in blend if you are using System.Windows.Interactivity you get an error when loading the designer. Here is an example of the exception: Unable to cast object of type…
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Cannot create an instance of "ViewModelLocator"

I have been working fine with MVVM Light on a silverlight 4 Windows Phone 7 project in Visual Studio 2010 and Blend 4 for sometime. Then suddenly I start getting the "Cannot create an instance of "ViewModelLocator"" error in both VS 2010 and Blend.…
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DesignInstance working in VS2010, but not in Blend5

I cannot get Blend(v5) to work correctly with my DesignInstance. I have a simple project with.. MainPage.xaml
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Error: The name XXX does not exist in the namespace 'clr-namespace:YYY'

I've just installed Blend 4 and are trying to use it with a rather big VS2010 project that includes a couple of C++/CLI assemblies with some native code. For a lot of controls I get a Blend error like 'The name XXX does not exist in the namespace…
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Blinking TextBlock.Text in Silverlight 4 Button

I am currently working on a Kiosk application in Silverlight 4. A user can add items to a cart and check out all using the Kiosk. When going from page to page I want to incorporate a button that has a blinking "outer glow", if you will, on the…
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