Foundation Expression Blend 4 with Silverlight

Chapter 6. Using VSM and Blend 4's State Panel to Create a Silverlight Media Player

• Understanding the Visual State Manager

• Understanding Blend 4's States panel

• Creating a Silverlight test project to show how to use VSM

• Creating a new Silverlight project

• Styling up a Media Player

• Adding Play, Pause, and Stop buttons

• Adding a MediaElement to the project

• Adding a Source and Clip region to the MediaElement

• Creating VSM States to hide and show the Play, Pause, and Stop buttons

• Wiring up the States and the Play, Pause, and Stop buttons using Behaviors

Silverlight 2 saw the addition of something called the Visual State Manager (VSM) that allows you to easily add ...