Expression Blend Tips & Tricks
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Expression Blend Tips & Tricks
Getting Things Done
Importing Graphics
Directly from Expression Design
Directly from Adobe Illustrator
Directly from Adobe Photoshop
Expression Design
Closer to what Blend needs
Build layouts logically
Copy XAML directly from Design
Skinning Controls
Skin once, use everywhere
When you need to make changes, only need to do so in one place
Skinned controls can be reused in other projects
Content Presenters
By default, not stylable
Add in text block
Bind it to the content present
Collapse the content present
Style the text block
Visual State manager
State are divided into logical groups
One group does not know about another groups state
Duplicate visual pieces that need to be animate across states
Event Handlers
Easy to implement in Blend
Allows you to make basic interaction
Developers can flush them out later
Data vs style
Style templates are for the visual parts of a control
Data templates should only be for present the data, leave the visual look to the style template
sample data
Blend supplies a few types of default Sample Data
These can be modified to serve your purposes
After modifying them, you cannot regenerate them from Blend
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