expression-blend-2

Design-time rendering of Silverlight controls in Expression Blend 2

I'm working on some Silverlight controls and I would like to explicitly handle the way they appear in Blend. Specifically, these controls have dependencies that are initialized at runtime, and thus throw exceptions in the designer. But even in the absence of the exception, I would like to make them appear a certain way in Blend. I know ...

What is the best way to learn Expressions Blend 2?

What is the best way to quickly get up to speed on Microsoft Expressions Blend 2? Are there some good web sites that can get me started or does someone have a good book that they would recommend? ...