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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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Users need Silverlight 4.0 for Expression Blend?

I have Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 installed and Expression Blend Preview for .NET 4. When I began to debug it, it asked me to install Silverlight 4.0 beta. So now I am wondering if people who are going to view my application need to install…
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Render WPF application to get output in .jpg / .png

I need to render a .obj imported from AutoDesk 3DS max to get an output in jpg or png file. How do I do it? I am using Expression blend 4 and WPF Visual Studio.
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Draw Cylinder Path in Expression Blend 4

I am trying to "draw" a simple cylinder path in Expression Blend 4, and I can't seem to get it quite right. (1) I started out by adding two Ellipses and one Rectangle:
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Styling thumb using Blend

How can I style thumb using blend. I need to apply a cylinder like style to my thumb. with a gradient color effect. The gradient effect is to be applied vertically with a color combination of gray and white color. I have 0 knowledge in Blend Please…
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Need to download Expression Blend Sample Beehive Project and other sample Projects

I am learning Expression Blend on Version 4. Every and every code in its user guide are based on Beehive Sample and that sample is not available in Expression Blend. So I was wondering if there is a link from where I can download it?
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putting artboard XAML on separate window / screen

Simple question, but is there any way of putting the artboard designer on one screen, and the XAML on another in Blend 4? It's a real pain constantly flicking between the two when I've got three monitors to play with!
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How to Highlight Text in Text Box using blend 4

I'm studying blend my self and I'm stuck with a silly problem and I don't know how to solve this I'm creating a log in page in blend and I want to do two things on the text box first I want to change the text color in the textbox and second I want…
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Is there a way to add your own controls to Blend's "Group Into" and "Change Layout Type" options?

In Expression Blend 4, we can right click on an object in the Objects and Timeline panel to access the handy functions "Group Into" and "Change Layout Type": However, what I really want often times is to be able to "group into" or "change layout…
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Expression Blend - Copy Object and Keyframes?

Is there a way to copy-paste an control and keep all of its keyframes? Everything I've tried will copy the control and have a completely blank animation for the copied control. This seems like it would be easily done by manually editing Xaml, but is…
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Add a custom property to a UserControl

i need help with adding a custom property to a UserControl. I created a Video Player UserControl and i want to implement it in another application. I have a mediaElement control in my UserControl and i want to access mediaElement.Source from the app…
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Blend 4 not liking 64 bit dlls?

I set my project to x64 inside visual studio, when I switch to Blend and try to add an object datasource, my assembly does not appear unless I switch it back to x86. Does Blend not support 64bit dlls? Edit: Yes I did check the "show all assemblies"…
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How to show UserControl in ExpressionBlend 4

I could not understand how to Open MainPage.xaml in ExpressionBlend 4.0 to add some Controls. Nothing is enabled in ExpressionBlend. The reason is just now I started my First application. Is there any trick? Screenshot is attached for…
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Cannot see XAML in design view Blend 4

I have installed the full Expression Blend 4 Ultimate package and I am trying to load a Silverlight 5 solution Although the solution does load I am unable to see anything in design view This occurs even for a straight forward "out of the box"…
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Moving object using code behind and using xaml

im using blend 4 to make a wpf application i have a wrapPanel defined in xaml: when i enter a certain visual state, the code-behind the wrapPanel to a new location: WrapPanel_ShowMe.RenderTransform = new…
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Special characters not displaying in wpf blend application

im writing a wpf application in blend 4 and im having trouble with special characters appearing as diamond question marks. the text is coming from a resource dictionary at runtime. Is there such a way that i can make the special characters such as…
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