Chapter 3. Using Expression Blend for the First Time
In This Chapter
• Setting up a Silverlight application
• The Objects and Timeline panel
• Properties in detail
• Simple Transformations
It doesn’t matter what type of application you are attempting to build—Windows Phone 7, WPF, Surface, SketchFlow, or Silverlight. Being able to work with the basics is applicable for all of them.
In this chapter, you begin to work around the Blend UI, understanding the core components by applying property changes and some simple animation to basic application components or UIElements (used interchangeably with element and control) to use their correct name.
Keeping Things Simple to Start With
Walk Before You Try to Run
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