Microsoft Expression Blend

Expression Blend 3 revolutionizes the speed and efficiency with which you can take your ideas from concept to completion on the Silverlight and .NET platforms. Concepts and ideas can live through the project end-to-end, reducing redundancy, enhancing creativity and delivering compelling desktop and/or rich internet applications that exceed your client’s expectations for design, interactivity and usability.

Using Expression Blend and industry standard .NET technologies such as Silverlight, WPF, XAML, C#, VB, developers can deliver desktop and/or rich internet applications that are stable, scalable, accessible, reliable and secure.

The rapid end-to-end workflow available through Expression Blend, Visual Studio and the Microsoft platform enables the delivery of compelling results to your customers time after time, while still maximizing the investments you’ve already made in other tools and technologies you employ today.

Who should attend?

• Designers and developers can continue using the efficient workflows that you’ve built around Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator, once imported your assets retain their full fidelity and editability. Rapidly turn static Photoshop graphics or visual elements drawn in Expression Blend into rich data bound controls such as a custom sliders, scrollbars and listboxes.

1. Drawing with Expression Blend

• Learn how to use the different tools in Blend to create simple drawings.
• Learn how to transform elements in Blend. Scaling, rotating, skew and some dimensions transformations

2. Animation with Blend

• Learn how you can animate your creations in Blend. Use different techniques such as easing and other transformations.

3. Layout

• One of the key strengths of Blend is the different ways to layout objects. Learn the different ways of laying out objects with grids, stackpanels, canvas and more.

4. Displaying Text in Silverlight

• Learn how to display text with Blend, the different styles and ways you can make your text beautiful.

5. Design-Time Data

• Templates and bindings are key components on working with data on Blend and Silverlight. Learn how this is used to display dynamic data.

6. Add Interactivity with Behaviors

• Behaviors is an easy way to add interactivity within your applications. Check out how you can make your own behaviors and make your applications light up.

7. SketchFlow

• A key feature of Expression Blend is being able to prototype your applications using SketchFlow. Learn how to use this powerful tool to create rapid prototypes, get feedback and use the prototype for your project.

Duration

1 day from 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM or
2 evening sessions from 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

Price

$350 per person

Corporate discounts are available, email us for more info.

*The course will be conducted with a minimum of 3 students.