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Microsoft Expression Blend 2 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide
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Microsoft Expression Blend 2 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide

by Corey Schuman, Robert Reinhardt
December 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
208 pages
4h 17m
English
Peachpit Press
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Chapter 8. Styling and Templates

Previous chapters covered fundamental controls such as Rectangle, Ellipse, Image, and MediaElement. Blend offers many more complex controls, such as Button, RadioButton, Slider, ProgressBar, and ComboBox, to name a few. Traditionally, it has been laboriously difficult to create consistent custom styles for controls within Windows programming. Silverlight 2 and WPF eliminate this barrier by providing ways to easily create and update styles. In this chapter, you will create and edit control styles.

Understanding Styles and Templates

In previous chapters, items on the Artboard were referred to as objects. This chapter focuses on a specific type of object, the control. A control goes beyond shapes and text, by extending ...

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