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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. Expression Blend 4 is the fourth version of Expression Blend released in May 2010, it adds support for Silverlight 4 and WPF 4 while also remaining compatible with Silverlight 3 and WPF 3.5 SP1 applications.

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. Expression Blend 4 is the fourth version of Expression Blend released in May 2010, it adds support for Silverlight 4 and WPF 4 while also remaining compatible with Silverlight 3 and WPF 3.5 SP1 applications.

It also has many improvements over the previous versions such as shapes library, improved Photoshop file support, added pixel shader effects, path layout, transition effects, ListBox item transitions, Model-View-ViewModel pattern support, additional Behaviors, conditional Behaviors, sample data from CLR classes, design time resource resolution, easing functions for WPF 4, cleaner XAML, and .ZIP support for projects and templates.

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WP7 - Positioning AdControl

Is there an easy way to position an AdControl inside of a Panorama? Right now, I can only get my AdControl to show if I set up my object tree like so: Layout Root > Panorama > ... > AdControl1 That is, with both my Panorama and my…
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Expression Blend 4 Assets Behaviors not listed

I have blend 4 installed and whenever I create a WPF 4 project and go to the Assets / Behaviors, I have only one behavior listed which is InvokeCommandAction. Where are the others like GoToStateAction... This was working like a week ago. I tried to…
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How to edit Expression Blend selected control part?

I am trying to edit a specific control part within a custom TabItem Template. In this case, it's the TemplateBottomSelected control part. I'm having an issue where I cannot seem to view or edit any control parts within the template editor except…
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No "Edit sample values" icon in Blend 4

I have a random problem that I can't seem to fix. I don't see the "Edit sample values" icon in my sample data in Blend. It's normally there, but for this project it's not. I'm just wondering if anyone else has had this problem and if there's a…
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curve movement animation in wp7

I use Blend 4 (storyboard) to create animation movement for a wisp. But now I was required to have the wisp move in curve path. I have found some solution in code (from programming windows phone 7 book) Part III chapter 2 XNA. However I just wonder…
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Expression Blend crashes when accessing Asset library

i developped a silverlight 3 application in Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend 3. Some weeks ago I ported the app to silverlight 4 and upgraded my tools to Expression Blend 4 and Visual Studio 2010. All works fine in Visual Studio. I can select…
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WPF Behavior MouseDown Doesn't Fire

I'm learning Microsoft.Expression.Interactions.WPF. I'm attempting to attach a behavior to a grid's MouseDown event. The OnAttached method gets called, but my behavior never receives the MouseDown event. XAML
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Maintain Control.Opacity with animation according to it's "Disabled" visual state?

I have a custom button. I want that when it goes to "Disabled" state, it's Opacity property should swap to 65% or so, over a time frame of a around a second, when it leaves the "Disabled" state, it should turn the Opacity back to 100%…
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Pen tool Scaling (Silverlight, Expression Blend)

I have a custom shape which is drawn out by the pen tool. For example, lets pretend I drew a trapezoid. When you scale the object, the whole thing gets resized appropriately. My question is: When I scale it width-wise, I only want the top and…
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Expression Blend Error with design time data (no error in visual studio)

I created some design time data from my windows phone 7 application and when I look at designer in Visual Studio (Express), the design time data shows up perfectly fine. However when I try to load the same project in Expression blend 4 I get an…
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Blend doesn't generate sample data for VM

In Blend 4, i am trying to generate sample data source from my VM class. The class has a property that returns observablecollection of an interface and another property with observablecollection of a class. When generating sample data source, Blend…
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How to create sample data collection from my own class in expression blend 4?

Can anyone help me? it seems no way to do this in blend 4
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Silverlight Pixel Shader resource "not found"; what should the URI be?

So I've written and compiled an HLSL pixel shader with Shazzam, placed the resulting .ps file in my project, and am trying to instantiate it. No matter what URI I put, Blend tells me that the resource can't be found whenever I try to view any xaml…
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Replace WPF Default UI Elements with Photoshop UI Elements

I am new to Creating WPF GUI Applications. I am a Mid Level Programmer. I dont have any idea or knowledge about the Graphics Development. I would like to know how do I use the UI Elements designed in Photoshop in my WPF Application. Eg: I would…
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Custom border for UserControl

I know too little about design to pull this off. I am trying to make a UserControl with a special border. The border should look like this: The header is a label (or textblock if is a must) with the content set at init time. The border must stop…
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