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Expression Blend is a visual design tool used to create WPF, Silverlight, and Windows Phone 7 application user interfaces.

What is Expression Blend?

Expression Blend is a visual design tool used to create WPF, Silverlight, and Windows Phone 7 application user interfaces. Blend transforms the visual design on the Artboard into the required XAML code. Together with Visual Studio it provides a seamless design and development workflow.

Key features of Expression Blend:

  • Animation
  • Behaviors
  • Visual State Manager
  • Transition effects
  • SketchFlow
  • Data Binding
  • Styles
  • Templates
  • Graphics and drawing
  • Resource management

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Is there a way to check if WPF is currently executing in design mode or not?

Does anyone know of some global state variable that is available so that I can check if the code is currently executing in design mode (e.g. in Blend or Visual Studio) or not? It would look something like this: //pseudo code: if…
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How to add a Blend Behavior in a Style Setter

I have crated a Blend behavior for Button. How can I set that to all of my Buttons in the app. However, when I try: