Get started with Expression Blend
Get started with Expression Blend in one, four-hour online session. The class will take you from a standing start, building basic Silverlight applications in Blend to building responsive user interfaces using animation, behaviors, customized templates and element binding. You’ll learn how to bind sample data for quick prototyping and collaboration with developers.
Class runs from 9:00 am PST to 1:00 pm PST for 1 day.
Who should take this class:
Web designers and developers.
What you will learn:
- Getting Started with Expression Blend
- Blend Application Types
- Knowing your way around the Blend user interface
- Understanding XAML
- Resources and styles
- Creating Controls
- Creating User Controls
- Customizing and creating new templates
- Animation
- Using state changes to trigger animation
- Element binding
- Binding sample data
- Actions, triggers and behaviors
- Writing custom actions and behaviors
- Importing Photoshop files
- Using Sketchflow for prototyping