May 2010
Intermediate to advanced
1752 pages
41h 17m
English
Although Visual Studio 2010 does give you a few IDE tools that let you work with shapes, Expression Blend provides many more features, including a graphical transformation editor. If you'd like to try things out first hand, launch Expression Blend and create a new WPF application. (We are not going to do much beyond trying out a few features of the IDE, so you can name this project whatever you wish.)
Look at your tool palette and you'll see an area that lets you select an Ellipse, Rectangle, or Line (recall, you click-and-hold on buttons that have a small triangle on the lower-right to pop-up any available choices; see Figure 29-12). ...