Blend Tutorials
During the month of October 2009 I am running a 22 post Basic Blend course marathon! These posts will be aimed at the beginner Expression Blend user and aim to get that user to a level where they are competent using the tool.
The 22 posts have already been planned out and will be released 1 per working week day over the entire month of October. The posts are listed below and will slowly be unlocked day by day starting on Thursday the 1st:
The 22 post ‘Learn Blend in a Month’ tutorials
- What is Silverlight and Expression Blend
- Setting up your work space in Blend
- Importing artwork from other tools into Blend
- Drawing tools in Blend
- Using gradients in Blend
- Using Images and Video in Blend
- Using Blurs and Shadows in Blend
- Animating with Storyboards in Blend
- Adding easing and inertia to your animations in Blend
- Using the 3D tools to animate in Blend
- Using the Canvas element in Blend
- Using the Grid element in Blend
- Using the Stack Panel in Blend
- The differences between Text Box and Text Block in Blend
- Creating buttons and using States in Blend
- Changing the Mouse Icon graphic in Blend
- Out-the-box controls in Blend
- Using Behaviors to get things moving in Blend
- Using Resources to share styling in Blend
- Using Data Binding to share data in Blend
- Making an object re-usable as a User Control in Blend
- Legally using non-standard fonts in Silverlight and Blend
I am looking forward to read your articles- Thank You
Very useful articles for those of us learning Silverlight from scratch. Did not get enough tuition on the “Using the 3D tools to animate in Blend ” though. You were too brief.
Hi, I am a new user of Silverlight and would like to ask …
I made a set of horoscopes ( totally 12 projects) and now I regreat and want to put all of them into a new project as a library and I wonder if there’s any way to do that….>_< I tried to copy all of them, but later find the animation in the storyboard will be disappeared if I do that….thank you so much!
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