Questions tagged [expression-blend-5]
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Can I use Blend for Visual Studio 2012 to make regular desktop applications?
Everything I see pertaining to Blend for Visual Studio 2012 talks about making Window's store apps. Am I correct in assuming it can be used for regular desktop applications too?
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How do I set a different background colour on item click of ListView for metro/WinRT app?
I have tried for about half an hour myself through both Expression Blend 5 Beta and Visual Studio 11 Beta but cannot figure out what should be a fairly trivial task on how to apply a different background colour when you click on a ListView item over…
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blend 2012 - Don't run entire app in background
I am using Blend 2012 to design an HTML5 Windows 8 metro app, but I am running into problems because Blend runs all JavaScript in the webpage in the background, live updating my app while it is running. This slows down blend horribly, as I am still…
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Expression Blend + Sketchflow - Addin?
Has anyone been able to get an extension up and running Expression Blend + Sketchflow preview? I'm looking for an example project.
I was following this article, but it is a bit outdated.
So far I:
Created a .Net 4.5 class library project
Added a…
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Cannot open xaml pages in Blend after installing Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 (CTP)
I am experiencing something weird at the moment. After I installed Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 (CTP), I can no longer open xaml pages properly in Blend designer view.
Looks like everything from other namespaces just cannot be found (see screenshot…
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Solution .sln is of an unsupported format and may not open correctly
Using Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate and Expression Blend 5 for SL 5.
When attempting to open my project on Blend for SL 5 I came up with the warning of
Solution .sln is of an unsupported format and may not open correctly.
How can this be…
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SketchFlow Template for Windows Phone doesn't work with Blend for Visual Studio
I am trying to use the SketchFlow Template for Windows Phone (http://wp7sketchflow.codeplex.com) with Blend for Visual Studio 2013 and when I try to create a project with the template I get this error:
New Project failed. Could not find file…
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Blend 5 Visual State Manager
This question relates to VS2012 and Blend 5.
What are the rules governing whether or not the visual state manager is available in Blend? I've always been able to access the visual state manager in blend when developing Windows Store Apps in…
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Expression Blend - Copy Object and Keyframes?
Is there a way to copy-paste an control and keep all of its keyframes?
Everything I've tried will copy the control and have a completely blank animation for the copied control. This seems like it would be easily done by manually editing Xaml, but is…
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No arc in expression blend 5?
Is it just me or are there no arc shapes in expression blend 5? Why would they remove this shape, I found it super useful in a lot of projects. Do i maybe have to download a library?
thanks
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