Microsoft® Expression Blend™ Unleashed

Chapter 2. Welcome to the New World

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• Your First Look at Expression Blend 2

• Viewing XAML Elements

• The Best of Both Worlds or Not?

• Blend Versus Visual Studio Project Types

• Your First REAL Blend Application: Twitter Reader

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The secret to working with Blend lies in understanding the relationship between XAML, CLR code, and object-orientated architecture. Unless you can integrate all three of these elements, your applications won’t perform as you or, more importantly, your end user would expect. This chapter is about understanding that relationship and that everything you can do in XAML, you can do in code—and a whole lot more.

Your First Look at Expression Blend 2

I know that you must have seen a demonstration ...