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Microsoft Expression Blend Unleashed

Autor Brennon Williams
en Limba Engleză Paperback – iun 2008
Microsoft Expression Blend (formerly code-named Interactive Designer) is a brand new technology from Microsoft. It is a design tool for creating rich user interfaces in both Windows and Web based applications. It will bring a whole new dimension to the application development process. This will be one of the first books on Expression Blend, and will be essential reading for any developer who wants to get up to speed quickly on this new tool. The author assumes that the reader is already familiar with the basics of .NET development, and shows how Blend fits into the whole .NET 3.0 universe of tools, especially with Windows Presentation Foundation and XAML. (Blend is essentially a WYSIWYG front-end for WPF and XAML.) The author also shows developers how to understand and appreciate the work a designer can do with this new UI design tool. This will help designers better understand their working lifecycle, and help them to integrate UI design as a seamless part of the application development lifecycle. In short, developers who have never touched any other design tools (such as Flash) will be lost when they need to write a new application using .NET 3.0. They will need this book to learn this new approach.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780672329319
ISBN-10: 067232931X
Pagini: 583
Dimensiuni: 179 x 229 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.92 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Sams
Locul publicării:Indianapolis, United States

Descriere

Microsoft Expression Blend Unleashed is about learning a new tool for designers, but also learning a new mindset for developers. Expression Blend enables the delivery of rich interactive applications, for the web as well as the desktop, allowing you to take graphical assets and blend them with functional .NET code through the power of XAML and the WPF platform. Microsoft Expression Blend Unleashed also features a C# Primer, introducing designers to the .NET Framework. .NET allows the reader to extend the functionality of many of the WPF elements used in Expression Blend. The most important concept for the reader to grasp is that Blend and Visual Studio together are about facilitating the kind of user experience everyone wants from the applications they use. This book will give you the skill set whether you are a designer or developer; from there, you just need to use a little imagination.
 
Detailed information on how to…
  • Design and develop WPF applications
  • Use Blend’s animation workflows
  • Design and implement WPF template types
  • Create and manage Resource Dictionaries
  • Master WPF Style templates
  • Handle control events
  • Understand advanced control properties in XAML/Blend/C#
  • Create customized controls through inheritance
  • Understand the fundamentals of XAML-based design and development
  • Implement effective XML, CLR Data binding, and XAML template binding
  • Extend XAML functionality with C# code
  • Implement video and audio in your applications
  • Use Blend as part of your designer/developer workflow

Cuprins

Part I Overview
1 Introduction to Expression Blend . . . 3
2 Welcome to the New World . . . 31
3 Expression Blend Panels . . . 63
4 XAML for Beginners . . . 91
Part II Going with the Flow
5 UIElement: Control Embedding . . . 105
6 Panel-Based Containers . . . 131
Part III Using All the New Stuff
7 Using the Blend Toolbox: Tools and Common Controls. . . 147
8 An Example Control Using Just the Tools Palette . . . 175
9 Using the Blend Asset Library . . . 209
10 Visual Studio: C# Primer. . . 269
Part IV Extended Graphic Tools
11 Graphic Items. . . 323
Part V Templates and Data
12 Templates. . . 359
13 Data Binding . . . 391
Part VI Controlling Controls
14 Animations with Storyboards . . . 415
15 Commands . . . 437
16 Using Resources for Skins. . . 459
17 Working with Windows. . . 475
Part VII Advanced Topics
18 Creating a Custom Control . . . 489
19 Using 3D in Blend . . . 511
20 Controlling Media (Music or Video) . . . 523
Index . . . 555

Notă biografică

Brennon Williams is among the top .NET developers in the UK, consistently contracted by leading consultancies for cutting edge development projects. He has an extremely wide skill set as a hybrid designer/developer, with experience in Flash, 3D Object Modeling, and DirectX based development. Brennon’s UK company X-Coders Limited is the preferred Blend/WPF training and development provider for some of the World’s largest companies.
 
For almost 15 years, Brennon has worked in several countries as a consultant software developer. He is currently employed as XAML Architect for SmithBayes in the UK and Dev Lead/XAML Architect for Motorola’s WPF project in the United States and Sri Lanka. He is also creating his ExpressTrain video tutorial network online at ww.learnexpressionstudio.com. When he schedules an hour or two of free time, he enjoys nothing more than having a BBQ with his wife and kids in the backyard.

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"Microsoft Expression Blend Unleashed" is about learning a new tool for designers, but also learning a new mindset for developers. Expression Blend enables the delivery of rich interactive applications, for the web as well as the desktop, allowing you to take graphical assets and blend them with functional .NET code through the power of XAML and the WPF platform. "Microsoft Expression Blend Unleashed" also features a C# Primer, introducing designers to the .NET Framework. .NET allows the reader to extend the functionality of many of the WPF elements used in Expression Blend. The most important concept for the reader to grasp is that Blend and Visual Studio together are about facilitating the kind of user experience everyone wants from the applications they use. This book will give you the skill set whether you are a designer or developer; from there, you just need to use a little imagination. Detailed information on how to...
  • Design and develop WPF applications
  • Use Blend's animation workflows
  • Design and implement WPF template types
  • Create and manage Resource Dictionaries
  • Master WPF Style templates
  • Handle control events
  • Understand advanced control properties in XAML/Blend/C#
  • Create customized controls through inheritance
  • Understand the fundamentals of XAML-based design and development
  • Implement effective XML, CLR Data binding, and XAML template binding
  • Extend XAML functionality with C# code
  • Implement video and audio in your applications
  • Use Blend as part of your designer/developer workflow