I'm trying to open a silverlight 4 application solution in Expression Blend 3. However, Blend says that the solution is not supported. Is there something I'm missing? I'm following an example in the book Microsoft Silverlight 4 Business Application Development. ...
Hi, I'm using Sketchflow in Expression Blend 4 RC (although this is relevant to Blend 3 too). I have a screen with a datagrid on it (MainScreen) and there's a "New" button. I have a component screen that has a generic form (GenericForm) and a "Save and close" button. I have two states on MainScreen: State1 (and default): GenericForm...
I am trying to open a MVC 1.0 project compiled with the .net 4.0 framework in Expression 4. The solution opens fine, but there is no intellisense and when I run it, it shows an html browse page with the files listed. Any ideas on how to get Expression 4 to play nice with MVC? Thanks ...
Through work I have an Visual Studio Premium with MSDN subscription that I love. However, my biggest disappointment of the last 12 months was discovering that our 2nd from the top level subscription was not enough to get me Sketchflow! This is, most decidedly, NOT SHINY, and I am borderline distraught! What are my options? Upgrading ...
Hi, I had VS2010 running fine with Silverlight development. Then I installed Expression Blend 4. Now when I run VS2010 and try to debug a silverlight app I get an error saying "Unable to start debugging. The silverlight developer runtime is not installed. Please install a matching version." I've tried uninstalling silverlight tools, and...
I am using Expression Blend 4 and Visual Studio 2010 to create a Sketchflow prototype. I have a Sample Data collection and a ListBox that is bound to it. This displays as I would expect both at design time and at run time. However, the ListBoxItem template it just complex enough that I wanted to pull it out into its own XAML file. Ev...
I'm running the absolute latest versions of Silverlight and Visual Studio 2010 Professional and built a solution that contained a WPF project. From there, I added a SketchFlow project (based on Blend 4 RC) and I can run each project within the solution just fine by setting whenever I switch between them as startup projects. From there,...
When I try to create new sample data based on an existing type, I get the following error message: GetType cannot be called with null or empty typeName I tried restarting Expression Blend 4, but without any success. The type I am trying to use was generated by WCF RIA services, but suspect that shouldn't matter. I've used this feature...
I have a UserControl that is a base class for other user controls, that are shown in "modal view". I want to have all user controls fading in, when shown and fading out when closed. I also want a behavior, so that the user can move the controls around.My contructor looks like this: var tg = new TransformGroup(); tg.Children.Add(new Scal...
Hi all, I'm developing a microsoft surface application using expression blend+vs 2008. I have a RichTextBox that loads formatted text from an .rtf file. The text is formatted with uppecases, color, and specific font (helvetica-neue). When i load the text, it is displayed in the control with matching format (color and uppecase) but NOT...
Hey, I'm developing a Silverlight application for the first time. I've gone through some tutorials, but I can't seem to find anything that helps me with this particular problem. I would like a set of buttons to be present on all of my pages (like a template). When a button is pressed, I would like the ContentGrid to slide out and a new...
Hello, I've created a storyboard for a button in blend that I want it to apply everytime the button is pressed, So I tried to create a style,I've been stucked for a long time now. here is the code of my Storyboard: <Storyboard> <DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames Storyboard.TargetProperty="(UIElement.RenderTransform).(CompositeTransform.S...
Here is the problem, in Blend 3 i have 12 storyboards, i can manipulate them with using xaml, but when i try to manipulate them with c#, blend seems cannot see them. Where could be the problem? The exact error is : The name 'name of the stroyboard which exists' does not exists in the current context ...
Hello, i want DataGridCollumnHeader to look like this: http://yfrog.com/f/j3howgg/ (so i want to divide title to two(or more) subtitles) any ideas? thanks ...
There seems to be a problem with support for the Interactivity namespace of Blend 3 in the VS2010 xaml editor. I have the following installed: VS2010 Blend 3 + Blend 3 SDK I am trying to compile a demo project that is targeted at .Net 4 Client Profile and has a reference to System.Windows.Interactivity (in the Blend 3 folder). In th...
I don't know what exactly this feature is, but I would like to simulate this in my Silverlight project. I am a C# developer and am moving to Silverlight and Expression Studio (Blend) for richer UX. Let's say I have some user controls and would like them to come into the screen (slide-in and out) as shown in the following site I found: ...
I am running VS2010 and have Expression Blend 3 installed. I select a file, MainPage.xaml and select the option "Open in Expression Blend." Expression Blend 3 is opened and my associated web application "SilverApplication1.Web" is displayed in the project explorer with the error "Unsupported project." Any idea why? ...
I just wanna make sure I ain't downloading a RC. ...
Hi, I got a serious problem with MS Expression Blend 4 (MSEXB4): I made a prototype for an application. When I start the project by hitting F5 MSEXB4 crashes. When I remove the sketchflow-map it works, but no screen is loaded. But I want to have a sketchflowmap to show some screens -.- I started debugging in VS2010: The error: {"Una...
I have some buttons in a SketchFlow Screen created by: cloudButton buttonPin = new cloudButton(); MapCanvas.Children.add(buttonPin); the XAML code for cloudButton is: <Button Content="Button" Style="{DynamicResource PinCloudButton}"> <i:Interaction.Triggers> <i:EventTrigger EventName="Click"> <pi:NavigateToScreenAction TargetSc...