Professional Expression Blend

Expression Interactive Designer (EID) provides an easy interface for programming desktop applications that are both visually attractive and use advanced design features such as 3D in a functional way. Offering an approach for and from a programmer's perspective, this book begins with the general concepts involved with EID and the advancements in design and development that it seeks to achieve. With the intent to add useful skills to a developer's repertoire of knowledge, the material goes on to cover designs and file systems for using EID, XAML documents, creating building blocks (shapes, objects, graphics, textual elements, user interface controls), creating and combining scenes (layers, keyframes, storyboard), animating objects, and advanced design and animation (3D, topography, video integration, data-aware animations).