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13 Nov 2010 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
Customized Scrolling in Silverlight using Expression Blend
31 Jul 2017 by Dirk Bahle
This article explains how to take advantage from look-less WPF controls through inheritance
31 May 2012 by rcarlson-cayen, Cayen Systems
This article details how to make a legacy code base more maintainable by utilizing a JSON architecture.
7 Oct 2012 by Briti Sundar
This app will help users to quickly add different type of effects on a picture like sketch, oldphoto, emboss, nightvision, cartoon, oilify, etc.
15 Oct 2012 by Talha Naqvi
Unconventional uses of Sensors!
13 Apr 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
How to use Gradient Color Picker in Expression Blend?
16 Feb 2011 by Nish Nishant
Something like this should work (you may have to tweak it a little to suite your needs): ...
29 Oct 2011 by Nish Nishant
Since no one's answered you in 5 days, I'd say that your question is too specialized for this forum. None of the regulars here who answer questions are WPF-3D experts. So I would recommend that you ask here:http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/wpf/threads[^]That forum is...
27 Jun 2012 by bearsomg
Hello. I am currently working on a rendering engine which is meant to render character animations. Right now I am working on vertex blending to make the body parts move with the bones.For each vertex declaration, I have a short that represents the first bone's weight, and 2 shorts...
12 Nov 2012 by Shanalal Kasim
Refer: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/wpf/thread/ec6781bb-a81d-4204-bc13-937683110b0d/[^]
27 Sep 2015 by OriginalGriff
1) No. Use Google - we aren't here to do that for you.2) Don't bother. "Interview questions" are a waste of time, effort, and electrons. Employers don;t use them, and there is no point in memorising them anyway, because unless you understand the material they "cover" you aren't going to be...
15 Feb 2011 by Abhinav S
You are using WPF so this is easy. What you could do is style a checkbox to look like a button and then use it.When the checkbox is checked show image 1 and when it is unchecked show image 2.
29 Mar 2011 by Not Active
The only way you will accomplish this is by using something like Silverlight or Flash.
26 Jul 2011 by alrosan
in my opinion to learn new technology reading good books is best way to master any technology.. i will suggest you very excellent books I've read :Apress Pro Silverlight 4 in C#Manning Silverlight 4 in ActionSams Silverlight 4 UnleashedApress Pro Expression Blend 4these very useful...
18 Sep 2011 by Prerak Patel
Use try catch to catch SqlException.TryCatch ex As SqlClient.SqlException ' check on ex.Number and display whatever you wantEnd Try
30 Oct 2011 by Espen Harlinn
Here is a couple of examples by Petzold:Let There Be Shadows[^]Let There Be Shadows (Part II)[^]You may find the WPF3D Team Blog[^] to be of some interest.The XAML Exporter for Blender[^] allows you to export to xaml from blender[^] - there are limitations on it's abilities to deal...
20 Jan 2012 by sarah.cs
ok i got the solution from the following link : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3410875/expression-blend-4-and-vs-2008-sp1[^]
2 Feb 2012 by Richard MacCutchan
Firstly, stop using silly txtspk characters in your messages; if you aspire to be a professional developer then use full words ("I am" not "m").Secondly, a simple search of the CodeProject articles[^] will show lots of information that will be useful in deciding what project to choose.
2 Feb 2012 by YvesDaoust
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_(game)[^]
30 Mar 2012 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
I have no idea which of your border, alignment and similar attributes create the loss in cross-browser compatibility. I can tell you why: I never use them. Using such attributes is really a bad thing. I don't even know who develop Web sites using them. Probably none of real Web...
12 Apr 2012 by Dhanamanikandan
Hi,You can get the Blend Expression 4 tutorial from below link http://www.microsoft.com/Expression/resources/blendtraining/Day.aspx?day=5[^]There are 6 tutorials available in this link.Thanks
12 Apr 2012 by Nelek
In addition to Dhanamanikandan's linkexpression.microsoft.com[^] (more than 20 videos)blend_wpf[^]Expression-Blend-tutorials/getting-started-with[^]another discussion about the same thema[^]
14 Apr 2012 by Richard MacCutchan
See here[^].
7 May 2012 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
No. Instead, you should design the window layouts the size-tolerant way.Avoid any manual positioning. Actually, if your window is resizeable, never position a single control manually, and avoid it even if a window is supposed to have a fixed size. The layout should be based on the Grids,...
22 Oct 2012 by Shweta Lodha
Changes in Visual Studio 2012.
19 Apr 2015 by Sascha Lefèvre
Right-click the project in the solution-explorer and select "Edit ApplicationApp.vbproj". Alternatively, open the file in any plain-text-editor (like Notepad). It's an XML-file. See if you can identify what's corrupt in there and maybe manually fix it. Maybe (hopefully) you have a backup of your...
13 Oct 2010 by #realJSOP
All you have to do is google it (I would try "Expression Blend 4 trial" first). I mean seriously, are you so inept that you can't google that yourself? That's what we would have to do.Also, considering VS2010 was released well after Windows 7, wouldn't logic dictate that it would actually...
16 Feb 2011 by anat 2010
Here we go, I know the subject has been chewed on and I've seen many tutorials, posts, etc, but none seems to be providing what I need, so here it goes -a. I have a WPF application (heavy on graphics), where one of the buttons (customized) need to do the following -1. Initialize with image...
29 Mar 2011 by Strider87
Hey all,I'm just developing a web site for a news paper and i need to make my page transition as a newspaper.. that means when it transit from one page to another it should turn web page.. Actually I do not have any idea on how to do that... if anybody can help me it would be grateful......
6 May 2011 by Kemo72000
Hello everyone...I am having some trouble implementing a behavior, that has a property of a type Storyboard. The problem is that I would like to be able to select a storyboard from Blend interface in properties window from StaticResources of a control, with a simple combo box (like a...
23 Jul 2011 by Terry Stone
I have a PieChart (PieSeries) that I want to customize.Unfortunatly when I use Blend to edit the DataPointStyle, Blend does put enough XAML in the style to draw the pie slices. The pie chart becomes a blank window. Where can I get a default DataPointStyle from so that I can start tweeking...
23 Jul 2011 by Abhinav S
The WPF toolkit is open source, so you should find it somewhere in there.Downloading the source might help you.
26 Jul 2011 by Abhinav S
Nothing like reading a good book to learn a new language.
25 Aug 2011 by sasolanki007
Hi Vishal,Its good that you are learning new technology. I would prefer you to go through the followings :Expression Blend Training[^]you will get basic !dea of using Blend with SL-Sagar Solanki
1 Sep 2011 by Member 8205487
I’m new to the expression blend and im very much interested in learning it. I have implement a scenario using expression blend which allows user to click on button 1 then the storyboard 1 will be executed.Afterthat when the user clicks on the button2, storyboard2 will be executed. But in the...
1 Sep 2011 by #realJSOP
Handle the storyboard begin/end events. When you get one end event, start the next storyboard.
14 Sep 2011 by Hooolagon
I am attempting to recreate the minimize, maximize/restore and close button.I have successfully created the minimize and close button; however I want the style to change for the maximize restore button IF the application is maximised.I was thinking something along the lines of a...
27 Sep 2011 by shEiD
Hi,I've been googling this for hours and hours and can't find anything that explains it. Seems kinda silly. I have a perfectly tile-able image, which I want to tile on my window background - but I'm not able to. I choose Tile brush , set ImageSource to my image "bakcground.png", select...
27 Sep 2011 by Marc A. Brown
Does any of this[^] help? I googled "wpf background image tile" and got that as the first result. It points in a couple of different directions for getting what you want.
27 Sep 2011 by shEiD
Thank You.I was working in Blend, so I was looking for blend tile this, blend tile that, etc. As I said, I'm not a programmer, just learning as a hobby. So obviously Blend's graphical approach to making GUIs is very appealing, compared to writing xaml. Just goes to show you, I guess. :)For...
9 Oct 2011 by ewics
Well thanks a lot for attending to solve my issue but it is not what I really wanted. But recently I found the real solution. You can simply use the PictureBox control you have in Windows.Forms.Controls in the WPF application. It is simple as that. To know how to do that just read the Code...
11 Oct 2011 by hzawary
Hi everybody,Is supported particle systems in WPF 3D mode?For example smoke, steam, waterworks, sea wave, firecracker and etc.Thanks in advance.HZ
11 Oct 2011 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
No, because WPF is a general-purpose Presentation Foundation library, but you can develop such systems of top of WPF 3D graphics.You can easily check out what's...
15 Oct 2011 by hzawary
Hi everybody,How can create shadow, half-shadow and reflection in GeometryModel3D into other, using expression blend?For example, make shadow and half-shadow of a cone on wall object.Thanks in advance,HZ
15 Oct 2011 by Abhinav S
These articles might help you -Creating Inner Shadow Effects for WPF and Silverlight[^]http://www.silverlightbuzz.com/2009/10/09/using-blurs-and-shadows-in-blend/[^]http://asimsajjad.blogspot.com/2010/09/drop-shadow-effects-for-beginners.html[^][Update] Link for 3D shadows added -...
22 Oct 2011 by hzawary
Hi everybodyI have a window project and use within a "ViewPort3D". It is include a UserControl using "ViewPort2DVisual3D" object and a "ModelVisual3D" object.But I can't set animate "Opacity" with "EasingFunction" (in each KeyFrame) to "ViewPort2DVisual3D" + "ModelVisual3D".In other...
22 Oct 2011 by Shmuel Zang
Since the material of the Viewport2DVisual3D is the Visual that in it, you can put an UIElement as the Visual of the Viewport2DVisual3D and, animate the Opacity property of it.For example, try the following Grid:
29 Oct 2011 by hzawary
Hi all,a) How to cast a shadow of an object on another object? And similarly, How to reflect a light from one object to another object?b) How to manage lights and its powers in scene simply? (I know "ZAM 3D" is useful for this job, but where can I download its...
10 Nov 2011 by ozshimon
hi, i was asked to animate controls like listbox and others controlsi searched some tutorials and i didn't find something that help me.video exemples of what i mean i looking...
19 Dec 2011 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
Please see my comment to the question. I hope you know all that, but just in case: this article provides sufficient explanation on how MVC should work: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-view-controller[^].See also http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ModelViewController[^].From the first attempt of...
26 Dec 2011 by Anuj394
Hello,I want to know whether we can make dynamic websites using Microsoft Expression Blend. It gives really cool features for WPF and Silverlight, but i am afraid about dynamic websites.Plus, i also wanted to know whether we can use the Adobe Creative Suite to make ASP.NET websites, it...
3 Jan 2012 by Kevin Schaefer
What do you mean by dynamic? You might need Visual Studio in order to write more of the code (vb or c#) behind the scenes to provide the "dynamic" part--loading data from a database or something like that. I would also recommend a Content Management System (like Drupal, Wordpress, etc..). I'm...
5 Jan 2012 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
It does not look like a question. You want to do this and that, so what? Do it. What did you read the article for?Do you have a real question? Think about it, and if you do, consider asking the author of the article you referenced. Load the page WPF Step by Step: Getting Started with WPF and...
17 Jan 2012 by SteveAdey
Try following my series at http://tap-source.com/?p=160[^]. I'm trying to start off with simple MVVM principals and build up over time.
2 Feb 2012 by 210032278
m asking for a help, m doing 3rd year project so m planing of doing a windows phone 7 application but m running out of ideas (please helP)... Again i also want to do a project using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 to make any application that gona be a touch screen app... Any Ideas!!!!
2 Feb 2012 by youssef_123
i am like you 4th year computer science student and i want to start e-commerce website (search/add/edit/delete/buy.... all these operations according to the user cridentials) i think it is nice on think about on-line delivery or can shopping center also think about e-learning.....all these...
3 Feb 2012 by Nuha IT
Hi,My question is : How can I add/host a control - tools from toolBox - that I made in Silverlight to be used inside the my website(.aspx) in .NETWhere those controls be part of my website, not the the whole page.Regards, Nuha
3 Feb 2012 by thatraja
I never worked in Silverlight but recently I found this Tip/Trick, check itAdd Silverlight to a Web Page Using JavaScript[^]
11 Apr 2012 by Member 8699156
how to fix vs2010 and blend preview for .net4 integration
13 Apr 2012 by Luiey Ichigo
Hi all,Now I'm starting using Ms Expression Blend 4 + Sketchflow. Here the situation. I make a button and add effects to button eg: blur on certain timeline. The problem is how can I apply this effects when I click the button? I already search in Internet but quite hard to understand and...
13 Apr 2012 by Luiey Ichigo
Hi all,What is the difference between Expression Blend Design 4 and Expression Blend 4??
5 May 2012 by Snikoggs
Hello, guys. I am working on a project using WPF. I stumbled upon a problem which would seem simple; there are no scrollbars. I only need to have them added either in the Xaml or anywhere else.. Help? Thanks. :)
5 May 2012 by Uday P.Singh
Try this:enabling-scrollbar-in-wpf[^]hope it helps :)
5 May 2012 by Fennie Lau
Hi, I am a newbie in develop mobile application and I would like to develop a B2B window mobile application using Microsoft Tag. May I know how to snap the generated tag and the product image will be shown? how I save the generated image to the window mobile emulator since there is no photo...
6 May 2012 by Snikoggs
Hello. I am trying to add scrollbars into my WPF application but it doesn't seem to work. Only he two ends of the scrollbars show but the actual bar isn't visible. Does anyone know the solution to this problem pleaseThanks
6 May 2012 by Sandeep Mewara
Only he two ends of the scrollbars show but the actual bar isn't visibleThis might be because there is nothing in it to scroll. By default, ScrollViewer.HorizontalScrollBarVisibility Property [^] & ScrollViewer.VerticalScrollBarVisibility Property[^] are 'Auto' and thus they appear when it...
7 May 2012 by Dhanamanikandan
Hi,find the answer...
7 May 2012 by Snikoggs
When I press the Maximize button on my WPF app, all the controls therein expand and disrupt the positions I already had for them. Should I be setting a property somewhere on each control? Thank you for your help.
29 Jun 2012 by mojtaba pirveisi
HiI have created a button template that contain a grid . inside that grid , There is a rectangle and ContentPresenter . I have already created my desire Effects like mouse over and press . The problem is here that I want to assign an image to this button outside of template , How can I do...
13 Jul 2012 by fracalifa
Hi all,I am planning to work with WPF and with an additional grahicstool like (Exp.Bl.) or Zam3D. But I am not clear in the question how to combine/work the graphicstools witch are exporting XAML and external controls supplied by Telerik or Infragistics. Or is a Zam3D-Designer (Expr.Bl.) be...
13 Jul 2012 by Clifford Nelson
I do WPF, and never use Expresison Blend. You do not need to. I would say just use Visual Studio, and edit the XAML.
22 Aug 2012 by Debdatta Basu
There could be a host of different reasons for this. First of all, two bone weights is too low. 4 is respectable. But this is most probably not the problem.The problem could be bad math in your vertex shader. In any case, you would need to provide more info for us ti diagnose the problem....
9 Oct 2012 by Tokisan
Hi everyone,I am newbie with blend(using blend 4), so that i have some issue with it.my issue is: having 3 grids (grid0-grid1-grid2), and main screen displays grid1 with full-screen mode. I want when user drag main screen, main screen would be replace by grid0 and grid1 replace grid2 ,then...
24 Oct 2012 by Ramanujam Shankar
Show data in grid view control of Windows Stores App using web service or WCF
12 Nov 2012 by yaoyedemofashi
How to add images into TreeView?For every items in treeview...Can someone Recommend a good book for how to use Microsoft Expression Blend 4 Or WPF?(I'm writing styles into resources,change the style about button,radiobutton,viewtree,combobox,etc)...Thanks a lot!
13 Nov 2012 by yaoyedemofashi
Thank you!!It's helpful for me
30 Nov 2012 by yaoyedemofashi
I wondering to make a ComboBoxTreeView,I've done it in main xaml:using the ControlTemplate,and change Content="{TemplateBinding SelectionBoxItem}"into Content="{Binding SelectedItem.Header,ElementName=TreeView1}". However,when I write it into ResourceDictionary, it not work. And,I don't know...
14 Mar 2013 by Kelvin33
OMG, after some tinkering... it seems I have found a solution to my own problem. Here is but one possible solution; still please provide comments if possible. Thanks internal void ChangeCurrentState(State state) { BrushAnimation ba = new BrushAnimation(); ...
11 Apr 2013 by devoidofsilence
Can anybody please suggest me links where I can find tutorials for windows phone 8 development from beginner level to the end?? Please suggest.
2 Jul 2013 by hoyice
Hi! I'm Bem from an Asian country, we are tasked to create a tourist information and map touch screen application for our project, it will include a search query for the town establishments and will point the establishment through a customized map. I researched for the useful tool to create...
2 Jul 2013 by hoyice
Hi. How to open another WPF form from an existing WPF form by pressing a button? I can't find any solutions... Thanks.
6 Jul 2013 by hoyice
How to full screen WPF forms without affecting layouts? I want my layout (buttons, images included) to be flexible to any screen size. I'm using vb.net. Using expression blend. Thank you in advance.
7 Jul 2013 by Ankush Bansal
Hi,In WPF there is concept of relative width ('auto' and *) apart form fixed pixel width.To make sure that your app reacts to the available screen space and adjust the inner control accordingly then first thing you must do is do not use fixed widths. Before designing your app (in...
7 Jul 2013 by Raman Midha
The only solution for this ..... use Auto instead of fixed width for layout
8 Jul 2013 by hoyice
Hi. I would like to ask, how you add an image to a button when designing. I want my button to have an image of an icon, will i be using contentpresenter for this? Thanks.
8 Jul 2013 by Naz_Firdouse
you can replace content presenter with an image and style accordingly so that the image appears in a proper way...In the sense, its alignment, height and width...
9 Jul 2013 by hoyice
How to embed image to a button? I've already created a button but i want to add an image to it so it will become an icon button. I don't know how to use contentpresenter.
9 Jul 2013 by Naz_Firdouse
Its very simpleRemove the contentpresenter and place an image within a border(the parent of content presenter) and set source for the image....
22 Jul 2013 by taha bahraminezhad Jooneghani
hi , i'm trying to add my storyboard in XAML to an event.I'm working with Blend.I do this for click event on a control but I want that when my page loaded , my whole page do a beautiful sliding using easing effect!now I build my storyboard , but when I bind that too my page loaded event or...
27 Jul 2013 by hoyice
Hello! I am creating a simple map application. There is a list of establishments in a datagrid and a balloon pointer objects(gif image) on a map. whenever an establishment is selected, all balloon pointers will be invisible or disabled except to the selected establishment. My question...
20 Nov 2013 by saurabhd13
Hi,I am creating a custom blend behavior to act on ListboxItem i.e.public class DragtestBehaviour : Behavior{ public DragtestBehaviour() { // Insert code required on object creation below this point. } protected override void OnAttached() { ...
2 Feb 2014 by Member 4558783
http://wpfbugs.blogspot.in/2014/02/wpf-layout-controls-scrollviewer.html[^]
20 Mar 2014 by FarhanShariff
Quote:I want to remove a column from datatable the column is a part of expression I want to remove it once the expression is calculated. μ LSL USL are columns already presentLower.Expression =...
20 Mar 2014 by Anudeep Jaiswal - MCA
Instead Of Remove, Why Not Visible = false
28 Mar 2014 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
Sorry, the problem is not clearly formulated. The post is about to automatically removed, due to some members' abuse reports.—SA
31 Mar 2014 by Kannan Subramaniam
Update your VS2012 with service pack 4.
29 May 2014 by Keno995
I have several animations that work just fine because I set it in blend so they play when something is done (like when I click the button) but how to play any animation using code so I'll be able to use 'if' statements? Is there something special about it or needed for this to work? Thanks.
29 May 2014 by Naz_Firdouse
use myStoryboard.Begin(); inside your button click event handlersto start an animation
12 Aug 2014 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
Is it so difficult to provide all the information it text form, HTML or not? showing images is not nice.Sorry, but without showing some code sample, this post makes little sense. Next time, please provide comprehensive information, but without those images; they are hard to read.—SA
30 Sep 2014 by p.satheeshkrishna
here i got a error "The type of one of the expressions in the join clause is incorrect. Type inference failed in the call to 'join'"please solve this viewModel = (from r in ReleaseDB.releases join p in ReleaseDB.projects on r.ProjectID equals p.ProjectId join...