Microsoft Blend for Visual Studio Training Class

Microsoft Blend for Visual Studio Training Class Course Topics

Blend for Visual Studio overview

• Introduction to the Blend for Visual Studio workspace
• Artboard, panels, integration with Visual Studio
• Introduction to XAML
• Understanding the Designer / Developer Workflow
• Starting a project in  Blend

Importing and building assets for your interactive application using Blend

• Integration with external files: image files and video
• Importing native Photoshop, Illustrator files into the Blend workspace
• Creating objects using the Expression Blend drawing tools

Organizing your Blend project

• Naming objects
• Understanding layout containers

Adding visual enhancements to your objects

• Fills and strokes
• Creating and applying gradients
• Applying effects, referencing effects for additional enhancements

Adding interactivity to objects using Blend

• Understanding how to use events and event handlers in Blend
• Creating animations using Blend
• Creating new storyboards
• Controlling timing and transitions
• Easing functions
• Hand-off animation
• Using behaviors in Blend
• Applying interactivity objects
• Applying events

Working with the Visual State Manager in Blend

• Defining states and transitions

Adding Video to your project in Blend

• Preparing video with Encoder
• Editing media player templates
• Importing Media in Blend
• Adding functionality to media in Blend

Creating reusable items using Blend

• Saving resources to re-use in Blend
• Creating user controls
• Using control templates
• Customizing and editing control templates
• Creating your own custom controls
• Creating custom user controls
• Building .xaml files that include reusable interactive objects

Creating a multipage applications using Blend

• Using the Navigation framework
• Creating new XAML pages in Blend
• Using the Hyperlink controls
• Adding the URIMapper code to your code in Blend

Integrating C# with Blend for Visual Studio

• Introducing to built-in Code Editor in Blend
• Adding code in Blend
• Snippet examples to cut and paste

Working with data in Blend

• Understanding data binding
• Using sample data in Blend
• Customizing the data template

Element to element binding

• Attaching properties from one object to another