Qixing Zheng just posted a series of short video tutorials on Blend 3 and SketchFlow. See them at:

http://blogs.msdn.com/canux/archive/tags/Mini-tutorial/default.aspx

Stay tuned, more on SketchFlow very soon…

Right before the weekend, another post on Behaviors…

In my last post, I discussed a few of the building blocks of the Behaviors mechanism in Blend 3: Triggers, Actions and Behaviors. I also talked a little bit about the Source for Triggers and the Target for actions. Let’s jump right into a sample.

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This post is the second in a series of posts about the Behaviors model in Blend 3. In this post, we’ll talk about some of the important concepts of Behaviors in Blend 3. The next posts in the series will bring some samples.

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Blend 3 introduces a powerful design pattern for interactivity: Behaviors. Behaviors allow designers to create production-quality interactivity without writing code. They work in WPF and Silverlight.

For those of you who are missing triggers in Silverlight: Behaviors give you the same power as triggers and actions plus more, in a modular and extensible fashion, not just for WPF but also for Silverlight!

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Today at Mix, Doug Olson and I presented an overview of what the next version of Blend will bring. Blend 3 is going to be a huge and exciting release, and it offers a wide range of powerful tools for both production and design phases of software development.

Blend 3 will make it easier and more cost-effective than ever to create great user experiences for WPF and Silverlight, allowing designers to retain control over their designs throughout the design and development process.

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Shown for the first time publicly today at Mix 2009 in Las Vegas, SketchFlow is a fun, informal, flexible, quick and powerful way to sketch and prototype rich, dynamic interactivity with Expression Blend.

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In just a few short days, Mix 2009 will open in Las Vegas. This is very exciting for the Blend team, as we have lots of news to share. I want to type it all right now, but I’ll have to wait a little longer. So please stay tuned, there will be many interesting things to read about, from right after the keynote on…

Somebody asked the other day how one can cut a shape in Blend. Blend doesn’t currently have a scissor tool, but Blend has a set of geometric operations that can be used for this.

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See http://www.nibblestutorials.net/ for a bunch of great tutorials with Blend. In particular, Celso just posted a tutorial for VSM. See the Blend 2.5 & Silverlight 2 section…

Here an admittedly slightly contrived example for the use of visual state manager in a user control. Imagine a little web app to show Guitar chords:

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