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Tying up Silverlight, Expression Blend and XAML- Part 3

From the previous blog which gave an overview on setting a movie or a sound file to the Silverlight media element, let’s take the application to the next level by adding some more functionality using Visual State Manager, State Groups and States. The relationship between VSM and States is that the states are executed by the former. Here again I am emphasizing on building minor features without much effort in terms of XAML or C#.

Tying up Silverlight, Expression Blend and XAML- Part 2

Expression Blend does not yet support using live XML data (RSS feeds) and you need to write some C# and XAML to achieve the same. As I looked at using and exploiting the Silverlight Media Element control, I was tempted to write this blog and in probably 6-8 steps how one could create major functionality with a few lines of code. The goal for me is to keep things simple for easier maintainability as well as providing a good primer using which the user can explore further. I have recently downloaded Expression Blend 4 Release Candidate and the following steps use the same.

Tying up Silverlight, Expression Blend and XAML- Part 1

In this series of blog I will jump into the usage of Expression Blend for building Rich Internet Applications that are fun and easy to use based on Silverlight. Additional features are covered in a sequel to this blog (Part 2 and Part 3).