Microsoft® Expression Blend® 4 Unleashed

Chapter 4. Common Properties and Functionality

In This Chapter

• Border and Rectangle elements

• The Checkbox control

• The RadioButton control

• TextBlock and Label elements

• The TextBox control

• The ProgressBar control

• The Slider control

• The ComboBox control

• The ListBox control

In this chapter, you learn some of the most common properties and functionality of primary control types that you most likely will use often.

Getting a good understanding of these controls, and perhaps a few of the tricks of working with them, will make your transition into more complex control usage (and eventually custom control creation) much easier.

It must be pointed out that the collection of controls available to you are predominantly based on the ...