http://electricbeach.org Christian Schormann Wed, 09 Jun 2010 06:23:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://electricbeach.org/?p=730 http://electricbeach.org/?p=730#comments Wed, 09 Jun 2010 06:23:09 +0000 cs http://electricbeach.org/?p=730 Several customers asked on Twitter today how to navigate to another screen when a storyboard is finished playing. The answer is: There is a StoryboardCompleted trigger that you can use together with any action, including the Navigate actions. This post describes how to use it. Remember that most behaviors in Blend follow the “When <trigger> happens, do [...]]]> http://electricbeach.org/?feed=rss2&p=730 2 http://electricbeach.org/?p=711 http://electricbeach.org/?p=711#comments Mon, 07 Jun 2010 07:53:55 +0000 cs http://electricbeach.org/?p=711 If you have been using the path list box introduced with the preview versions of Expression Blend 4, here is something fun for you…  With Blend 4, there is a new way of creating interesting, geometrically complex, animate-able layouts of elements and data. It works by simply drawing one or more paths and then making these paths the guidelines [...]]]> http://electricbeach.org/?feed=rss2&p=711 1 http://electricbeach.org/?p=706 http://electricbeach.org/?p=706#comments Mon, 07 Jun 2010 07:52:27 +0000 cs http://electricbeach.org/?p=706 When we introduced Blend 4 at Mix 2010, we showed most of the new features, but not all. Now that Blend 4 has launched officially, it is time for some introductions. In this post, I want to tell you about a few new features in SketchFlow that make distributing and collaboratively reviewing prototypes a lot easier. The [...]]]> http://electricbeach.org/?feed=rss2&p=706 4 http://electricbeach.org/?p=682 http://electricbeach.org/?p=682#comments Mon, 07 Jun 2010 07:50:18 +0000 cs http://electricbeach.org/?p=682 We have demonstrated Expression 4 at Mix 2010. And today, Expression Studio 4, including Expression Blend, Web, Encoder and Design has officially been launched at Internet Week in New York, and will be available shortly. There is a new SKU line-up and, very importantly, free upgrades for Expression 3 users. Please see www.microsoft.com/expression for more information. For more on Expression [...]]]> http://electricbeach.org/?feed=rss2&p=682 1 http://electricbeach.org/?p=678 http://electricbeach.org/?p=678#comments Tue, 11 May 2010 01:44:29 +0000 cs http://electricbeach.org/?p=678 Jon Harris just published a 90-second introduction video on Expression Blend, this time featuring the new tools for creating Windows Phone applications. So, if you always wanted to know about Windows Phone application design with Expression Blend but you never could spare the time, here’s your one-in-a-lifetime opportunity http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/us/details/61ed7e86-0b1c-432e-a1fb-a882f95ec250 Jon’s first 90 second video, an [...]]]> http://electricbeach.org/?feed=rss2&p=678 2 http://electricbeach.org/?p=671 http://electricbeach.org/?p=671#comments Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:44:53 +0000 cs http://electricbeach.org/?p=671 We have just published refreshed bits of the Blend Add-In for Windows Phone and the Blend SDK for WIndows Phone. You can now use these bits with the Blend 4 RC build and the VS2010 RTM bits. Of course you also need the latest version of the phone development tools too. Download links: Blend 4 RC (Note: we [...]]]> http://electricbeach.org/?feed=rss2&p=671 6 http://electricbeach.org/?p=667 http://electricbeach.org/?p=667#comments Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:34:33 +0000 cs http://electricbeach.org/?p=667 Laura Foy was so kind to post the video on Channel 9. See it here: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/LauraFoy/Sketchflow-in-90-seconds/ ]]> http://electricbeach.org/?feed=rss2&p=667 0 http://electricbeach.org/?p=664 http://electricbeach.org/?p=664#comments Thu, 15 Apr 2010 06:25:34 +0000 cs http://electricbeach.org/?p=664 You are pressed for time, but you are dying to know what SketchFlow is? The thought of watching an hour of demo video, like presented here, makes you look frantically at your watch? The solutions is here, exclusively at electricbeach.org: Jon Harris presents SketchFlow in just 90 seconds in this video, and does so with a [...]]]> http://electricbeach.org/?feed=rss2&p=664 11 http://electricbeach.org/?p=658 http://electricbeach.org/?p=658#comments Wed, 07 Apr 2010 01:57:12 +0000 cs http://electricbeach.org/?p=658 I just heard that the first book on SketchFlow is now available: “Dynamic Prototyping with SketchFlow in Expression Blend: Sketch Your Ideas…And Bring Them to Life!“, by Sara Summers and Chris Bernard. Yay. Check it out here at Amazon… ]]> http://electricbeach.org/?feed=rss2&p=658 1 http://electricbeach.org/?p=655 http://electricbeach.org/?p=655#comments Tue, 06 Apr 2010 03:15:38 +0000 cs http://electricbeach.org/?p=655 This morning one of my colleagues stepped in my office and handed me an elegant curved device from metal and glass. You of course guessed it, it was an iPad, for my curious eyes and hands to play with. First thing I did was to fire up the Notes application. I looked at the header bar and blinked. [...]]]> http://electricbeach.org/?feed=rss2&p=655 2