Expression Blend 2.5 June PreviewThe Blend 2.5 June Preview has added support for flexible authoring of Silverlight 2 Beta 2 projects. Building on previous releases, the June Preview provides designers with even more control over the visual and interaction design for rich interactive web applications. What's New- Silverlight 2 Beta content authoring is supported in this simultaneously released Blend 2.5 June Preview.
- Control Skinning offers designers the ability to edit templates for customizing controls, or to create new templates from scratch for complete expressive freedom and component reusability.
- Visual State Manager gives designers the power to precisely specify how each element of a control looks and behaves in each state of the interaction model, including transitions.
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How do I: Create Custom Buttons for Silverlight 2?Steve White, June 2008 Steve demonstrates how to replace the standard look of a Silverlight 2 Button control using the Expression Blend 2.5 Preview. Steve shows you how to navigate in a template using the breadcrumb, and how to define states and transitions in the States pane. He also illustrates what state groups are for and how to turn a picture of a control into a custom skin for a control. 6 minutes 51 seconds
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How do I: Customize The Check Mark In a Silverlight 2 CheckBox?Steve White, June 2008 Steve White demonstrates how to edit the default template of a CheckBox control and use text instead of graphics to represent the Unchecked/Checked/Indeterminate states. This demonstration uses the Expression Blend 2.5 Preview. 6 minutes 52 seconds | .jpg)
How do I: Add States to a UserControl for Silverlight 2?Steve White, June 2008 Steve demonstrates how to add states to a Silverlight 2 UserControl, how to define the look of the states and the transitions between them, and how to add the code to trigger state changes. 5 minutes 59 seconds
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How do I: Use an In-State Animation To Make a Silverlight 2 Button Pulse While Focused?Steve White, June 2008 Steve White uses the Expression Blend 2.5 Preview to demonstrate how you can make an animation run while a control is in a given state. Steve starts off by summarizing how the visual state manager (VSM) mechanism works then walks through building and testing the in-state animation for a Silverlight 2 Button’s Focused state. 4 minutes 51 seconds |
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