Microsoft® Expression Blend™ Unleashed

Chapter 17. Working with Windows

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• Window Elements

• Setting a Window to Show as Transparent

• Creating Multiple Windows

• Switching Between Windows in Code

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Window is an element type, just as a Button or ListBox, and has properties and methods that you can call on to control how the user interacts with it. In this chapter, you will learn what the common properties of the Window element do, as well as how to customize the Window to suit your own requirements. Another area that is always requested is how to create more than one Window and have both communicate with each other, so you will also look at an eventing scenario that can help you manage this.

Window Elements

A Scene was the original terminology used ...