Articles

Building Better Buttons in Expression Blend & Silverlight

A beginner's guide to building robust, scalable, and easily editable buttons. As well as covering Template Binding to the Style, Layout, Animation, Opacity Masks, Scalability & Reuse.

Arcade Button in Expression Blend & Silverlight

Discover the power of the Grid object, & how it controls the Layout of your UserControl. As well as discussing Center Point.

Picture Frame Control in Expression Blend & Silverlight

How to build your first re-useable Control from scratch in Expression Blend.

10 Cool Buttons for Download in Expression Blend & Silverlight

The WC Door button, covering all the missing skills needed to create the buttons shown in my 1st tutorial. As well as all 10 buttons for download!

ListBox Styling (Part1-ScrollBars) in Expression Blend & Silverlight

How to Style a more complicated Control, than just a simple button, starting with the ScrollBars!

ListBox Styling (Part2-ControlTemplate) in Expression Blend & Silverlight

How to Style the Control Template of a ListBox in a small MVVM application. Discussing multiple Styles, nested Controls, Resource Dictionaries, Similar Control Templates (TreeView), Control Reuse & a few other tips...

ListBox Styling (Part3-Additional Templates) in Expression Blend & Silverlight

Explanation & examples of the Additional Templates & Generated Content of a ListBox. Covering Layout, Transitions & Animation.

Busy Dizzy Bee-sley Spirographic Animation in Expression Blend & Silverlight

Simulating a random motion animation without code, using Spirographic Shapes, PathListBoxes, Storyboards & Behaviours