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Brennon Williams

Microsoft ® Expression

Blend ® 4

UNLEASHED

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Editor-in-Chief

Greg Wiegand

Microsoft ® Expression Blend ® 4 Unleashed

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ISBN-13: 978-0-672-33107-7

ISBN-10: 0-672-33107-1

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Printed in the United States of America

First Printing, April 2011

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Composition

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Contents at a Glance

Introduction ................................................................................................................................................ 1

Expression Blend 4 Overview ................................................................................................... 5

Discovering the Expression Blend Interface .

Using Expression Blend for the First Time .

Common Properties and Functionality .

The Art of Layout .

103

Element Styles and Templates .

125

Working with Parts .

145

Working with States .

157

Working with SketchFlow .

175

Expression Blend Data Support .

217

Animations and Transitions .

247

Shapes, Paths, and Effects .

273

Skins, Themes, and Resource Dictionaries .

293

Advanced Controls .

313

Windows Phone 7 .

325

Resources for Going Further .

351

Index . ........................................................................................................................................................... 357