expression-blend

It always says "The solution "foo.sln" is of an unsupported Format and may not open correctly. Do you want to open the solution anyway?" If I click yes, it Shows the solution tree, but when I open a xaml file, it only Displays its xaml text, not the Rendering of the UI. According to this http://blendinsider.com/technical/available-now-blend-for-visual-studio-2012-2012-08-15/ Blend 4 is the way it's meant to work. So something is wrong I guess. I have older Projects created with vs2010 and Blend 4. I can still open and work in them in Blend 4 while working on them in vs2012. Only new Projects

I am using several Blend behaviors and triggers on a silverlight control. I am wondering if there is any mechanism for automatically detaching or ensuring that OnDetaching() is called for a behavior or trigger when the control is no longer being used (i.e. removed from the visual tree). My problem is that there is a managed memory leak with the control because of one of the behaviors. The behavior subscribes to an event on some long-lived object in the OnAttached() override and should be unsubscribing from that event in the OnDetaching() override so that it can become a candidate for garbage

I'm trying to create a poker chip like the one here: http://www.casinowholesalers.com/shop/product_info.php?cPath=57&products_id=379 using Expression Blend 4 for a WP7.1 Silverlight 4 app. I'm trying to create the six white "boxes" on the edge of the chip (ignoring for now the dice images and inner dashed line). The way I did it was two create two ellipses, one with no stroke, the other is the exact same size but with a stroke of 24, a color of White, and the StrokeDashArray to 1.8 (that's not "1 8", it's actually 1.8 with no second value). It looks pretty close to evenly sized and spaced (but

I'm starting a WPF project in a "free tools" environment. I'm currently working with the designer in Visual C# Express 2008, and directly with the XAML, both of which are very limited in design capabilities. My understanding is that Microsoft Expression Blend is not available for free (except for limited time trial). Is Expression Blend expected to come out in a free Express version anytime soon? If not - are there any alternatives? Thanks No, there is no free version of expression blend (apart from the time limited trial), and there hasn't been any announcement of anything planned. Several

I've created a WPF Storyboard animation on an image in Expression Blend 4. On hover, the image gradually blurs. Is there any way I can have the Storyboard be undone or reversed when the mouse leaves the image? I could make it trigger Storyboard.Remove() but that wouldn't actually play through the Storyboard backwards. Is there any way I can accomplish that within Expression Blend 4? Since you are using Blend, you should take advantage of Blend's support for the VisualStateManager . All you have to do is describe what the object looks like in its various states, like MouseOver and Normal and

I am having a frustrating time with Blend reporting "Window is not supported in a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) project." due to unbuildable configurations but can't quite work out how to mangle my way out of it. I've worked out it is probably due to my trying to have a single solution with x86 and x64 configurations. There is no way to tell Blend 2 which is the active Solution Configuration and active Solution Platform . I think it's a bit of a weakness in the configuration system, or maybe the way I've set things up, but I have Debug64 and Debug solution configurations one of each is

I have created a kind of custom TextBox in Expression Blend. I have changed the fill of the background and border to a gradient, and added in a Shadow Effect. I've noticed that when I mouseover or focus my TextBox , some default behavior/(style?) of WPF takes over and my border is changed. I was wondering if there was anyway to prevent or stop WPF from changing my TextBox es style when I focus or mouseover it. Is this possible? Grant Thomas Does you custom style set the OverridesDefaultStyle property to true ? I believe this should prevent default values being drawn from the default style. If