expression-blend

In Expression Blend 4, while compiling I get an error saying The specified solution configuration “Debug|BNB” is invalid. Please specify a valid solution configuration using the Configuration and Platform properties (e.g. MSBuild.exe Solution.sln /p:Configuration=Debug /p:Platform=”Any CPU”) or leave those properties blank to use the default solution configuration. Done building project “myproject.sln” — FAILED. Build failed. Background : At build-time the compiler (no matter if started from Expression Blend or Visual Studio) has to know what the target platform of your code, i.e. the system

I am not sure if the WPF controls that make up Expression Blend's UI is packaged in the application in a usable way, like separate assemblies, etc. But if they aren't, is there a way to "extract" these controls so you can have the same controls in your app with the same look and functionality? You can look in your install folder for blend under Program Files or Program Files (x86) and there will be style directories with the appropriate resources, I believe. Otherwise you can use Snoop to look at WPF application structure and get what you need http://snoopwpf.codeplex.com/ Or a tool like

I have tried for about half an hour myself through both Expression Blend 5 Beta and Visual Studio 11 Beta but cannot figure out what should be a fairly trivial task on how to apply a different background colour when you click on a ListView item over the standard navy green with the tick which appears to ship standard on WinRT apps with Windows 8 Consumer Preview. I believe I would need a <VisualStateManager/> declaration inside my XAML inside the <DataTemplate/> of my ListView (the same as what I did on a Button control), but cannot work out a way to get the "States" tab functioning in Blend

Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Learn more . Want to improve this question? Update the question so it's on-topic for Stack Overflow. Closed 11 months ago . What are some recommendations for finding Expression Blend/WPF Designers to perform contract work? I think a (local) freelance designer might be the most reasonably priced, but I don't even know where to start. As additional background, I am located in the Midwest region of the US, where designers are not as prevalent. cplotts I think you might discover it is extremely difficult to find these

The Elysium project on CodePlex looks interesting. One problem. I can't figure out how to use it. I can only assume that there is an assumption that the user knows what he or she is doing. I don't apparently. I download the Debug Binary from here . It has a batch file for loading the files, and it looks to have run without error. But I can't figure out where to go from here. When I open Blend, I see no templates or themes. Can someone please help? Thanks Download the binaries either from Codeplex or Nuget. Add references to the binaries: Elysium.Theme.dll , Microsoft.Expression.Interactions

Does anyone know of any way to convert a simple gif to xaml? E.G. A tool that would look at an image and create elipses, rectangles and paths based upon a gif / jpg / bitmap? Illustrator has a trace tool which will do this a cheaper option might be http://vectormagic.com it will export a svg that you should be able to convert to xaml Inkscape can trace bitmaps, and can save directly to XAML. And, it happens to be free. I've used it to trace a lot of bitmaps and it's worked really well for me. A combination of Vector Magic followed by ViewerSVG produces the best quality results for me. With

I have some Listboxes in my app bound to ObservableCollections, and i would like to animate an item if it's being removed. I already found a question about animating added items by using the FrameworkElement.Loaded event, but of course that doesn't work the same way with the Unloaded event. Is there any way to do this in a way that can be used in a datatemplate? EDIT: I've hooked up to the CollectionChanged event in my ItemsSource and tried to apply an animation manually. Currently it looks like this: ListBoxItem item = stack.ItemContainerGenerator.ContainerFromIndex(0) as ListBoxItem; item