I'm trying to get the validation to not show through my custom modal dialog. I've tried setting the zindex of the dialog and and of the elements in this template. Any ideas? This is coming from a validation template: <ControlTemplate x:Key="ValidationTemplate"> <DockPanel> <TextBlock Foreground="Red" FontSize="20"...
When I add an object to my canvas in Expression Blend 3 and select it from the timeline, is there a way I can apply an easing in function to it without having to apply a transform? When I apply a transform and then select it from the timeline, the easing in option becomes available but not otherwise. Furthermore, I could add the easing...
In Expression Blend, you can view and edit the control template of objects in the "Objects and Timeline" panel. I'm wondering if there's an equivalent feature in Visual Studio or if there's something free (or very inexpensive) I can download that will allow me to do this. Here's a screen cap from Expression Blend that shows what I'm tal...
In WPF and Silverlight you can make a view model object and set it into the DataContext of a control when the control is constructed at runtime. You can then bind properties of the visual object to properties in your DataContext. One way to set the binding is to type the binding directly into the tag: <TextBox Text="{Binding Path=Desc...
Either I'm not as intelligent as I once believed or the UI in Blend is really this bad. Is there any way to 'refresh' changes I've made to an XAML file in the designer? Something simple like changing 'Fill="Red"' to 'Fill="Blue"' does not show up in the designer unless I close and re-open the file. Google and SO were sadly and surpri...
Is there a way or a tool i can use to make WPF animations and controls without using Expression Blend...maybe just using Visual Studio 2008 or something??? ...
Hi, i have made a prototype in SketchFlow which is found in Expression Blend 3. As my designer can not use the published .exe version (Due to being on a Mac) I have to export the application to Word. This works great apart from the order being somewhat odd. What determines the order in which objects get exported into the Word document ...
Hi I'm specificaally a photoshop web designer and have a limited knowledge of xaml. I'm trying to create a slideshow effect with images an text within it, similar to http://www.silverlightshow.net/items/Image-slider-control-in-Silverlight-1.1.aspx Does anyone know how I would create this by just using Expression Blend. I would prefer n...
Hi I'm a designer. My key tools are Photoshop, Illustrator and Expression Blend. As much as I love the user interaction of Blend I'm finding problems when I open a Visual Studio file in Blend created by the developer. The same goes for the developer as when he tried to open my files it comes up with an error message. I understand Blend ...
Hi, I am developing a WPF application, and I have created a user control called ViewIconUC. This control lives in an assembly (MyControlAssemblyUI). I can instantiate the control in a ZAML page within this control, and I get no errors (I even attached the dugger to Blend to check), and I can see the button background I set in the control...
I have created a UserControl, and added a couple of custom routed events. The problem is these events only show up in Properties->Events when I am manipulating an instance on the art board. If I am editing the UserControl itself, the my custom events do not show up in the Events panel. Is this a limitation of Blend, or a side effect o...
I'm working on my first WPF project and would like to use one of the themes that I see in the Silverlight Tool Kit. All the help I've found is for Expression 2 and they show a different version of the Asset Tab. Can someone advise me how to do this. It looks like it should be simple, but I'm not seeing it. ...
I have a large WPF application and am trying to use Blend 3 to speed up my UI design on some portions of it. The problem I run into is that I have different skins that the user can use, so I load the ResourceDictionaries and Converters at runtime at the Application level. Because of this, when I open a .xaml file in Blend, it can't f...
I had a msdn registered copy of Expression Studio installed on my machine and recently got a paid licensed copy. I uninstalled it and removed what I could find in the registry that looked related. However every time I try to install Expression to use my new license it doesn't prompt and just installs. It appears that somewhere the old...
I've been doing WPF programming the "old fashioned" way (See charles petzold's applications = code + markup for the age of my extensions), and was recently becoming used to Blend 3, only thing is, there is this whole world I'm missing out on, sketchflow, states, transitions, behaviors, the VSM, all this I seem to be totally missing out o...
Hi! I've just downloaded Expression Blend 3 from DreamSpark (for free because I'm a student :)) and read about states. I came across this and I was very impressed. And then I tried it on my own, I created a style, created a template, simply selected a button - but I cannot make those default styles like MouseOver, Pressed, etc. appear i...
I'm opening valid XAML within my VS2008 solution in Expression Blend 3 and it is only showing XAML when I try to open individual XAML files. My solution/projects all build and run correctly. When I go to View -> Active Document View the Design View, Split View and XAML View options are all grayed out... which doesn't make much sense. I...
In Expression Blend and WPF i've created a datasource at the application level ( in App.xaml called ViewModelDataSource ). So, doing my bindings is a snap, however if I create a user control and in that user control set any data contexts to the ViewModelDataSource I created in App.xaml the parent control that contains that user control n...
I am writing a program that has to access images from a legacy data file format. (To be specific: The program is loading it's UI images directly from the data files of an old game) Since the images are all stored as Targa (TGA) files, I have to preprocess them into PNG files. I do that in a local application data folder. My problem is w...
I have crated a Blend behavior for Button. How can I set that to all of my Buttons in the app. <Button ...> <i:Interaction.Behaviors> <local:MyBehavior /> </i:Interaction.Behaviors> </Button> ...