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• Quick Tip: Expression Blend - Constraining the BrushTransform Tool

  Once you have a brush painted into a region you can use the Brush Transform tool (B) to visually alter the angle and other transform settings.  Simply grab the head, tail or body of the brush transform arrow and move to see the gradient change. ... Posted Feb 05 2008, 06:21 AM by WPF Wonderland Filed under: Blend

• Quick Tip: Expression Blend - Hide all toolbars

  For as quick way to hide all toolbars; press Tab or F4.  Use the same key to show the toolbars again. Read More... Posted Feb 02 2008, 06:59 PM by WPF Wonderland Filed under: Blend

• Quick Tip: Expression Blend - Scroll the Artboard

  You probably know that you can scroll the Blend Artboard (work area) vertically by rolling the mouse wheel up and down.   In fact that shortcut works for most Windows applications. Did you know that you scroll horizontally by holding down the... Posted Feb 01 2008, 09:55 PM by WPF Wonderland Filed under: Blend

• Quick Tip: Expression Blend - Zoom the Artboard

  To quickly zoom in or out of the Expression Blend artboard (work window). Hold the Ctrl-Key and scroll the mouse wheel. Read More... Posted Feb 01 2008, 01:50 AM by WPF Wonderland Filed under: Blend

• Expression Blend truncated fly-out menu fixed

  I taught a WPF class at Microsoft in September.  During the Expression Blend demo I ran into this odd bug. I thought it was my video driver or my DPI settings so last week I spent a couple fruitless hours trying to fix the problem.  No luck... Posted Oct 09 2007, 09:58 PM by WPF Wonderland Filed under: WPF, Blend, tools

• My New Expression Blend Title is Live!

  In Getting Started with Expression Blend , Lee Brimelow covers all the basics that every designer and developer of WPF and Silverlight content needs to know. He starts with an overview of how Expression Blend fits into WPF and Silverlight workflows, then... Posted May 07 2007, 02:35 PM by theWPFblog Filed under: Tutorials, Blend

• Custom Styles Across all Blend Projects

  I finally took the time to figure out how to make Blend display my custom styles so that I can use them across all of my projects. When you open the asset library, you will notice that there is a Simple Styles tab which contains simplified versions of... Posted Apr 07 2007, 09:59 PM by theWPFblog Filed under: Blend