beginning with blend

Beginning with BlendTimmy Kokke

Beginning with BlendGetting started using Blend for Visual Studio when building WPF, Windows Phone or Windows Store applications and increase productivity.

Timmy Kokke

ICT Consultant – Centric

Expression Blend MVP

www.timmykokke.com

@sorskoot

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Tools, tools, toolsWhy Blend?

“blend is for designers”

Why Blend? Resource management

Storyboards / Animations

Visual States

Editing Templates

Property editor

Behaviors

Path editing

+ a lot of small things

Why not? Writing code, XAML or markup

Testing

Debugging

Code Analysis

Profiling

+ many, many other developer-centric tasks

first steps

DemoQuick tour

welcome screen new project

open project

recent projects

welcome screen Windows Store HTML XAML

Windows Phone

WPF + SketchFlow

Silverlight + SketchFlow

artboard WYSIWYG

Design / XAML / Both

Zoom

Snap

project panel File management

Team foundation server

objects and timeline Elements

Arrange

Show / Hide / Lock

device device specific

device orientation

default theme

deploy target

layout

DemoLayout

grid Deviders

Sizing

Arranging

layout properties Alignment

Size

Margin

other Canvas

Border

StackPanel

+ many more

building

DemoWorking with objects and properties

toolbar Common tools Selecting

Navigating

Manipulating

Drawing

resources Management

Dictionary

assets Controls

Styles

Media

Behaviors

sample data Fully customizable

By hand / from class / from XML

binding easy

advanced settings

animation

DemoAnimation

animation Recording

Timeline

Easing

visual states Recording

Easing

behaviors Reusable

View targeted code

conclude

How to get Blend for Visual Studio? It comes with Visual Studio now

Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Phone

Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Store apps

Visual Studio 2012 Professional

Visual Studio 2012 Premium

Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate

Where to learn more? MSDN http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/expression/cc197141.aspx

.toolbox http://www.microsoft.com/design/toolbox/

Project Rosetta http://visitmix.com/labs/rosetta/EyesOfBlend/

ExpressionBlend.com http://expressionblend.com/

Questions

Thank you!

www.timmykokke.com

@sorskoot

info@timmykokke.com