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How do I create font kerning, tracking or spacing?

myrakelly — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:28:30 GMT

I've just started using blend and I can't seem to find any options for kerning, tracking or letter spacing. How do you do this?

Fotoeditor de Expression para evitar software Adobe

everojas — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:40:44 GMT

Necesito encontrar una versión de Microsoft que haga lo mismo que PhotoShop para evitar el licenciamento de Adobe que esta por la nubes.

Exportar timeline a Video .WMV?

everojas — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:39:25 GMT

Necesito exportar .WMV desde la timeline de Blend.

Blend for Designer using Flash

NunoLuz — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:17:42 GMT

Hi everyone,

I am a designer that has been working with Flash for the past years.

I wanted to start using Silverlight, and what I need to do is pretty straight forward to do in Flash, but Blend is giving me a hard time :)

What I want to do is have two scenes with different animations a a button on each scene that will allow me to navigate between scenes.

Now I am triyng to do this in Blend 3 using Behaviours and Storyboards.

I successfully add a Behavior that will Play my Storyboard as soon as the Silverlight Control is loaded.

Then I added a button with another beahviour that will Play another Storyboard.

Problem is when I click this button the second storyboard wont play.

How can I solve this?

Thanks

Nuno

Bring image to front on mouse over

chanakya — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:23:31 GMT

I have added some images and coverted them to controls.

Now in the state tab i have added a mouse over state for one of the image.

I need to bring the image to front on mouse over.

How I can do this??

Clipping Paths

stett — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:10:06 GMT

I've been trying to figure out how to use clipping paths as a masking technique, but there seems to be one consistent problem. When moving the object which is masked by the clipping path, the clipping path moves with it. I found a help video which demonstrates what I'd like to do : [url=http://www.microsoft.com/video/en/us/details/beea5324-3ec8-4c30-bf4a-2c5771d61a23]microsoft tutorial video[/url] (skip to about 8:20), but even when I follow the directions exactly I can't get it to behave the same way. Any tips would be helpful :)

VB.Net & Blend 2 December

foozball3000 — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:31:09 GMT

I've been trying to redesign a form from a VB.Net (I'm using Visual studio 2005) project in Blend. But I just can't seem to get the Form loaded into Blend. If i add it as an object, i can't visually edit it, when i double click on the form object, it opens it in code in VS...
Can someone please help me out?

Sql database binding

ladyzay — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:36:37 GMT

Hi

how do i got about binding sql database in Expression Blend using a listbox

Thanks

Blank page returned when testing ASP.Net Web Application

poinsy — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:50:38 GMT

I have created a Silverlight ASP.Net solution in VS2008 with a button and a TextBlock. If I test it in VS2008 the page is fine (in both IE and Firefox). If I open it in Blend 2 (Service Pack 1), it looks fine in design, yet when I test the solution (F5), I always get a blank page. The controls just do not appear.

However, if I create a stand-alone Silverlight solution (selecting not to 'Add a new ASP.Net Web project...'), the same controls appear fine in both VS2008 and Blend.

Any ideas?

Expression blend does not open

rockon — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:15:26 GMT

i have installed visual studio 2008 & Expression blend 2 .but when i open expression blend 2 it will prompt the message box that "the pre released version of expression is expired please install the new released".
plz tell me about that

Carousel Control

ctrlnick — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:18:50 GMT

HI ,

I would like to make the exact Carousel Control as in
http://www.emc.com/?fromGlobalSiteSelect

Please help

Training Videos for Expression Blend

PianoMan64 — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:04:26 GMT

Hey Guys,

Has anyone tried building a animated pulldown menu in Expression Blend and ported that over to a VS 2008 Project or Website?

Can you build Animated Components that can be used in a website project?

I have so many questions of how to use expression blend, it sounds like the tool I've been searching for all my life.

Thanks,

PianoMan64

How to change the standard windows frame

Bee Dee — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:16:42 GMT

Hi out there,
I'm pretty new to the Expression Suite and i hope that all my questions
find a good answer in this forum ;-)

Here is the first: How can i change the standard windows frame to my desires.
I want my own frame which can be moved, my own minimize, maximize and
close buttons. But i didn't find a way to change it. Can someone help?

Best regards from germany

.

Null Reference error when updating TextBlock

rablinz — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:53:58 GMT

I'm working on an interface to a piece of equipment that communicates through a serial port. I have a slider on the interface and want to display the changed values of the slider in a TextBlock using the value_changed event. The TextBlock is recognized by intellisense but when I run the app I get an XMLParserError / null reference error that points to the TextBlock. If I assign a value to the Text property of the TextBlock anywhere else in the code-behind file, - no problem, but putting it in the value_changed event throws the error.
Any help?

Customising TreeViews

elementalgrace — Thu, 22 May 2008 10:22:17 GMT

Can anyone point me towards a tutorial for customising the treeview in XAML? I want to put in my own expander icons instead of the default plus and minus signs.

Thanks

ResizeMode

elementalgrace — Thu, 15 May 2008 09:31:56 GMT

Hey there (if there's anyone out there)

Just wondering if anyone knows of a way to force a window to resize using the same proportions? I have seen it done before on an app but I have no idea how to do it myself (I can barely read the word .NET let alone use it). I have an issue with an interface that goes a bit pear shaped if you don't keep the proportions when you resize.

I was thinking that this might be possible by applying a custom expression to the height of the element that tells it to always be 3/4 of the width (if that makes sense?) but I don't know wnough XAML code to be able to write this myself off the bat.

If anyone has any suggestions on how to achieve this or any other ideas, please let me know as it's officially driving me round the bend.:w00t:

How about the TreeNode in XAML ?

Joeri P — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 03:36:08 GMT

I'm taking my first steps into xaml.

If you making a windows application and you make a program with the treeview, you have the TreeNode object, to make a node in the treeview. Just like the Windows Explorer.

1. With a WPF application, you don't have the TreeNode. Can someone explain me a solution to show a node in the TreeViewItem ?

2. Also design I a TreeViewItem in Blend. How can I use this designed TreeViewItem in my C# program enviroment ? It's impossible to do something like this : TreeViewItem tvItem = new TreeViewItem(); I suppose ?

Controlling UserControl's Timeline

Roggy D — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:09:32 GMT

First, one big Hello for everyone here on the forum!

I am new to Expression Blend and Microsoft WPF but I'm putting a lot of effort in discovering them. I have a question.

I'm building a project with one main Window and a few custom made usercontrols in it. One of them has an animation on Timeline1, which I would like to start by pressing on a button located in main window.
So far I understand I must do that through code behind file, in my case window1.xaml.cs. I used event handlers a few times but just for changing properties. If someone can show me a code example I would be very pleased.

Microsoft Surface Development

hugov — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:16:56 GMT

Have you all seen this? http://www.microsoft.com/surface

Awsome technology, does anyone know if you develop for Surface using Blend?

I would really like to develop stuff like that.

Cheers.

Blend - Apollo ?

alagami — Wed, 09 May 2007 09:02:20 GMT

Trying to get an overview of what is what and what is best ;)

Is MS BLEND the same as Adobe's Apollo ?
As i read it Blend is exactly the same as Apollo. They are both trying to blend desktop apps with web apps.

Can anyone confirm if they are about the same thing ?

Also if you want to use Blend or Expression in General to do the same as Apollo, What do you actually need from the MS Expression packages ?
We have Web, Blend, Media and so on. Can i use Blend and nothing else to compete with Apollo, or do i need more than Blend ?

;)Lars

Blend Tutorials

RJ — Sun, 06 May 2007 09:19:27 GMT

I hope you are planning on doing walk throughs of designing with Blend. If it's anything like Expression Web....I'll be up and running in no time.

Cheers