Real-world WPF: Introduction to Blend (Part4)

Posted By: Nichop | Feb 28th, 2007 @ 1:33 AM | 24,580 Views | 12 Comments
The UK MCS User Experience Team and a number of UK partners have been working on WPF for over 12 months and this Real World WPF series is intended to show some of their work and capture/share some of their learnings.

Martin Grayson (Ux team) walks Richard Godfrey through the process of building a simple application in Expression Blend.

Part 1 introduced the application and the key features to be built.
Part 2 looked at the Expression Blend interface.
Part 3 built the 2D effects used in the application.
Part 4 (this part) builds the 3D effects used.

The video was captured at 1024x768 so we recommend running it full screen if possible. It is also available for download here :-http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/2/5/225283de-cda7-4a66-b4c6-bd34077b890e/Part4_3DBuild.wmv.
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#Aug 17th, 2007 @ 3:27 AM
SimplyGed
SimplyGed
An interesting series, giving some good info on using Blend and getting some desired effects....but the screencast itself is awful at times.

The screen gets zoomed in the see the timeline, or window, more closely, but then we cannot see what you are doing to the properties...especially when you are changing the 3d viewport properties. Sad

I know we can probably work out what was being done, but it's always more useful to actually see what is happening ;-D
#Feb 15th @ 4:12 PM
mfmanca
mfmanca
Great Tutorial!
I've seen a strange behaviour though for which I cannot find a reason...
I'm using another set of images and I'm resizing the Image element in the ItemTemplate of the Listbox.
When I create the VisualBrush, it looks rescaled to some weird values.
I have the same strange behaviour if I leave the Image size in the ItemTemplate of the listbox to Auto and then resize the ListBox itself.
If I leave both the Image in the ItemTemplate and the ListBox sizes to Auto, then everything works as in your video...

Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong?
#Aug 31st @ 6:16 AM
Amey RAUt
Amey RAUt

Thanx Martin,

For really wonderful video tutorials for begginers

 

AMEY RAUT

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