10 Expression Blend 3 Tutorials for Silverlight available for download
The 10 tutorials from the Eyes of Blend series on Project Rosetta site are now available for download in both Word and PDF format. The .zip files also contain source code for the starter projects and resource files if appropriate. One thing that’s been useful in developing these web tutorials is that I’ve been able to reuse them as demos for talks and now downloadable labs to run offline. The next format I’m planning will be screencasts, most likely for the more visual demos.
As for using them as demos, they are a good start but need a little extra oomph to work well during a talk. Adding in the sample behaviors from the Expression Blend Sample Pack is a great way to demonstrate Behaviors as an extensible platform and Blend as an extensible tool. Very cool stuff going on in the Expression world and I’m looking forward to sharing the next set of tutorials and samples.
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1. Drawing an emoticon in Expression Blend First steps in getting to know the tools and workspace in Blend |
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2. Element Transformations Learn to use Scale, Rotate, Skew and 2.5D Transformations |
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3. Get Started with Animation A Quick Overview on Creating Time-Based Animations |
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4. Playing Video with the MediaElement Using the flexible MediaElement control as a reusable Surface |
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5. Arranging Pictures to Learn Layout Use the Grid, StackPanel, ScrollableViewer and Border to position Images |
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6. A Look at Text in Silverlight Learn about Displaying Text, Font Properties and Embedding Fonts |
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7. Import an Adobe Photoshop File into Blend Convert the assets from a Photoshop file into Interactive Controls |
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8. Styling and Skinning Controls Customize the Look by Setting Properties and Building Templates |
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9. Styling and working with Design-Time Data Explore how Templates and Bindings are used to display dynamic data |
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10. Giving Behaviors a Test Drive A brief overview and walkthrough of the Behaviors included with Blend |
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Hi Adam Kinney! I’m a (very) novice programmer of C# and currently using WPF in Blend and VS, I have some experience of Blend 3 but I want a great (in-depth) tutorial of Data-Binding through Blend 3, (this topic is very hard to me for understanding).
I hope I will find this tutor here, when I (next-time) open this site ….
With Great Wishes…..
Muaz Khan
3rd pdf (Get Started with Animation) missing: 404 – File or directory not found.
Thanks for the heads up. There was a typo in the link, which I’ve now updated.
Thank you for sharing.