Hi, I have just created a simple animation. Lets say that in one frame I have an image of the world. I would like to create an event when a certain country is chosen. How can I allow for the event to be triggered by clicking on one particular country in an image? e.g. just displaying the name of the country, etc Thank you Extra info: ...
I have some Listboxes in my app bound to ObservableCollections, and i would like to animate an item if it's being removed. I already found a question about animating added items by using the FrameworkElement.Loaded event, but of course that doesn't work the same way with the Unloaded event. Is there any way to do this in a way that ca...
Hi, I am working with expression blend and c# to create a silverlight site. I would like to create a map of the world which has many regions. on clicking on the region the colour changes. I have already created the regions. Does anyone know how to do that? Thanks ...
Hi, I'm trying to create a sound volume control and for that I've created a storyboard which is animating the volume visually. And I've put this inside an common slider control. And I want to databind the value of the slider directly to the storyboards timeline position. If the slider is value 0, then the storyboard should be at 00:00 et...
I'm using Expression Blend 3 I click on "add live datasource", "add new xml datasource" copy in a URL but the OK button remains blank adding a local XML datasource file works fine How can I add a URL datasource in expression blend 3? does this work for anyone else? The problem is on every Expression Blend 3 I install on any comput...
Does anyone know where they put the "plus brush" in Blend 3 so that you can copy a brush into the resources? Answer: Stumbled onto it an hour later: ...
I've created a test Silverlight 2 app in Visual Studio, just copying the Tim Heuer video, but when I go to open it in Blend I get this error UserControl is not supported in a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) project This is the XAML code <UserControl x:Class="MyFirstApp.Page" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006...
I want to create an XBAP application with blend, but when click on File New Project it asks me if I want to create: Silverlight 3 Application + Website --or-- WPF Application Is there a way to create XBAPs from Expression Blend 3 or does this require Visual Studio? ...
I have been able to create little animations with the storyline in Blend. And I have been able to copy in the isolated storylines and triggers into existing projects in visual studio to spruce them up on the edges a little bit. But after adding too many animations, they start to conflict or cancel each other out, etc., or I can make a ...
I've been doing WPF applications with the MVVM pattern using Visual Studio, coding C# and XAML mostly by hand. Now I've gotten up to speed with Expression Blend so that I can click together WPF applications quickly just using the GUI, which is very nice, much more control of the layout than fiddling around with all the XAML elements 80%...
For those of you using Expression Blend as well as Visual Studio in your real projects, please help me understand how you use Blend and Visual Studio in your everyday development/design tasks, here is a real scenario: I created the following simple WPF application in Visual Studio. It shows a list of customer objects with a DataTemplate...
It seems that blend 2 only support CRUD key-frame animations via its UI. From/to/by animations must be done via editing Xaml, is my assumption correct? ...
I'm currently experimenting with Expression Blend 3 MIX09 version with the idea to use it primarily for an MVVM structured site with databinding, being able to view live data as I design. So far I've been very impressed and have to say that Blend 3's generated XAML is not as bad as people say it is. I got the following two examples worki...
Does anyone know of some global state variable that is available so that I can check if the code is currently executing in design mode (e.g. in Blend or Visual Studio) or not? It would look something like this: //pseudo code: if (Application.Current.ExecutingStatus == ExecutingStatus.DesignMode) { ... } The reason I need this i...
Is there a way to apply bitmapeffects within a silverlight web project. ...
There seem to be two main ways to define DataContext in WPF: either in code like this: App.xaml.cs (taken from the WPF MVVM Toolkit template): public partial class App : Application { private void OnStartup(object sender, StartupEventArgs e) { // Create the ViewModel and expose it using the View's DataContext ...
Hi! I use WPF UserControls to design some part of my application. I'm using blend 2.5 for the graphical part. But when I have a user control into any content, it won't show up in blend and a, exception will be raised, saying that the resource couldn't be located. My application is localized, I moved my localized DLL into Blend folder. ...
I'd like to have a label with a blur effect and a drop shadow effect. ...
When defining a color resource in a Silverlight app using the syntax A="" R="" G="" B="" (any order of parameters) an exception is caused, even though the application will compile fine and display properly in Blend. Example: <UserControl.Resources> <Color x:Key="BlackBG" A="255" R="35" G="35" B="35"/> </UserControl.Resources> Th...
I'm attempting to do some type resolution inside of a WPF Markup Extension using the same namespace:StaticType.Property syntax that StaticExtension uses. The extension works fine at runtime and also in the Visual Studio designer, but it fails in Expression Blend. After some debugging I figured out that the failure occurs in a call to IXa...