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Microsoft Expression Blend Training: Building Applications with Microsoft Expression Blend 2
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Course Number: EXP-102
GSA/Previous Course Number: 162
Duration: 3 days
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Expression Blend Training Overview
Accelebrate's Microsoft Expression Blend training teaches attendees how to develop web-connected, rich applications using Microsoft Expression Blend.
Location and Pricing
Most Accelebrate courses are taught on-site at our clients' locations worldwide for groups of 3 or more attendees and are customized to their specific needs. Please visit our client list to see organizations for whom we have recently delivered training. These courses can also be delivered as live, private online classes for groups that are geographically dispersed or wish to save on the instructor's or students' travel expenses. To receive a customized proposal and price quote private training at your site or online, please contact us.
In addition, some courses are available as live, online classes for individuals. To see a schedule of online courses, please visit http://www.accelebrate.com/online_training/?action=category&page=expression.
Expression Blend Training Prerequisites
No prior Microsoft Expression Blend experience is presumed.
Hands-on/Lecture Ratio
This Microsoft Expression Blend training class is 70% hands-on, 30% lecture, with the longest lecture segments lasting for 20 minutes.
Expression Blend Training Materials
All attendees receive courseware and a copy of Sams' Microsoft Expression Blend Unleashed.
Software Needed on Each Student PC
- Windows XP, Vista, or 7 with at least 1GB RAM
- Microsoft Expression Blend with the latest service packs installed
- Internet Explorer 6 or later
Expression Blend Training Objectives
All attendees will learn how to use Microsoft Expression Blend to:
- Design rich user interfaces using Expression Blend
- Create and transform vector graphics
- Design with type
- Create cinematic user interfaces with audio, video, animation, and 3D
- Construct controls and layouts
- Use database data in the user interface
- Utilize XAML within Expression Blend
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Expression Blend Training Outline
- Exploring New User Interface Techniques
- Building Rich Interactivity with Vector Graphics, Animation, 3D, Video, and Audio
- Designing your application with vector graphics
- Designing with type
- Incorporating animation into your design
- Including 3D models and animation
- Playing video
- Using audio
- Adding images
- Creating Innovative and Elegant User Interfaces
- Choosing and customizing controls
- Choosing layout panels
- Nesting panels and controls for a hierarchical design
- Adding bitmap effects
- Using styles and templates
- Linking to data
- Increasing Productivity by Increasing Collaboration
- Exploring Examples of Innovative User Interfaces
- Big windows
- Rooms
- Minimized interfaces
- Drag-and-drop desktop tools
- Visibility on demand
- Mouse-overs
- Memory dots
- Transparencies and shadows
- Metawindows, drawers, and scrapbooks
- Even more ideas
- Working with the Workspace
- Creating and Testing a Project
- Viewing the code files
- Resizing your window or page
- Building and testing your application
- Customizing the Blend Workspace
- Using the Artboard
- Adding vector objects
- Drawing simple paths
- Adding controls
- Adding layout panels to the artboard
- Using object handles
- Selecting objects with the Selection tool
- Selecting objects with the Direct Selection tool
- Positioning your object in the artboard
- Adding text
- Formatting text using the Text palette
- Zooming the artboard
- Snapping objects to snap lines and grid lines
- Using layers
- Adding 3D objects
- Auto sizing
- Your Panels and Palettes at a Glance
- Using the Properties panel
- The Results panel
- The Interaction panel
- The Project panel
- The Resources panel
- Working with the Toolbox
- Designing a Next-Generation Interface
- Conceptualizing the User Experience
- Using Metaphors
- Moving from Thumbnail Sketches to Mockups
- Starting with thumbnail sketches
- Creating the user interface
- Inserting controls
- Adding Animation and Video
- Data binding controls
- Planning your navigation system
- Assigning Hyperlinks
- Adding frames into windows to navigate between pages
- Converting to Full Functionality
- Adding and Editing XAML Code
- Adding code to the code-behind files
- Deploying Your Application Securely
- Considering Deployment Options
- Quick and Easy Deployment of Your Standalone Applications
- Deploying with ClickOnce
- Deploying with XBAPs or Other Methods
- Using ClickOnce
- Striving for a true ClickOnce experience
- Trusted publishers
- Publishing your project using ClickOnce
- Opening your project in Visual Studio
- Using the Security tab
- Signing your application manifest and deployment manifest
- Choosing the options for updates
- Using the Publish Wizard
- Creating an XBAP
- Creating the XBAP in Visual Studio
- Working with an XBAP in Blend
- Transforming a Standalone Application into an XBAP
- Adding an XBAP or Loose XAML to Your Web Site
- Calling a XAML Browser Application from a Web page
- Using Iframes
- Creating and deploying loose XAML files
- Drawing Shapes and Manipulating Paths
- Drawing and Combining Shapes
- Drawing circles, squares, and rounding corners of rectangles
- Combining shapes with other shapes or paths
- Drawing Paths
- Creating and adjusting curves using the Alt key
- Creating and adjusting curves using control handles
- Adding nodes, deleting nodes, or closing a path using the Pen tool
- Converting shapes into paths
- Editing Nodes with the Direct Selection Tool
- Transforming Objects Using Render Transform and Layout Transform
- Auto Sizing
- Embellishing Strokes
- Assigning Stroke End Caps
- Assigning Stroke Line Joins
- Creating Complex Line Drawings
- Creating vector art by tracing your photos and line drawings
- Drawing vector art from real life
- Manipulating Color, Fills, Gradients, and Transparency
- Using Color Spaces
- Creating and Using Color Resources and Brush Resources
- Applying system color resources
- Creating and using local color resources
- Applying a system brush resource
- Creating and applying a local brush resource
- Editing color or brush resources
- Creating and Applying Gradients
- Adjusting gradients with the Brush Transform tool
- Repeating and reflecting the gradient
- Transferring Colors, Gradients and More
- Using the Eyedropper
- Using the Paint Bucket
- Using Images
- Adding and linking images
- Assigning the Stretch Property
- Adjusting the initial size and resizing using the Layout palette
- Deleting or removing images from your project
- Using Image, Drawing, and Visual Brushes
- Creating and using an image brush
- Creating and using a drawing brush
- Creating and using a visual brush
- Editing your Drawing, Image or Visual brush resource
- Using the Tile Brush
- Working with Bitmap Effects
- Creating bitmap effects
- Using BevelBitmapEffect
- Using BlurBitmapEffect
- Using DropShadowBitmapEffect
- Using EmbossBitmapEffect
- Using OuterGlowBitmapEffect
- Combining Bitmap Effects
- Changing Transparency
- Working with opacity masks
- Setting the Opacity of an object
- Creating beams of light
- Creating spotlights
- Making your vector art glow
- Making shadows
- Creating Styles and Using Resources
- Creating, Applying, and Editing a Style
- Creating a new style
- Applying a style as a resource
- Editing a style
- Deleting a style
- Using Resources
- Advantages of using resources
- Importing and using an external resource dictionary
- Copying and pasting resources
- Linking to resource dictionaries
- Importing vector objects from Expression Design a resources
- Using Expression Design
- Getting started with Expression Design
- Using the tools
- Applying colors and gradients
- Choosing the stroke
- Combining objects
- Using blend modes
- Applying filters and effects
- Using Expression Media to Enhance your Images
- Improving your images with Expression Media filters
- Exporting images from Expression Media
- Using Principles of Graphic Design to Create Next-Generation Interfaces
- Increasing Usability Through the Aesthetic Usability Effect
- Applying Universal Principles of Design
- Making form follow function, and more
- Optimizing figure/ground relationships
- Taking advantage of the picture superiority effect
- Evoking archetypes
- Using the rule of thirds
- Deploying color
- Creating meaning by grouping
- Conclusion
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