Blend for Visual Studio 2012 By Example Beginner's Guide

Leverage the power of Blend to create, modify, and reuse applications and components for Windows using a practical, hands-on guide

About This Book

• Discover how to add storyboard and animation to the applications
• Find your way across the Blend IDE
• A practical approach to using SketchFlow to create, package, and communicate designs before actual implementation

Who This Book Is For

This book is aimed at developers and designers who are new to Blend and looking to learn Blend, not just practically, but also conceptually. This book does not assume any knowledge about Blend on the part of developers; however, some experience in design or development might be useful in understanding the concepts faster, but this book explains everything very simply so that you are able to understand everything with little or no effort.

What You Will Learn

• Learn about layouts and controls offered by Blend and how to use them
• Understand the need for and purpose of XAML and how to use it in Blend applications
• Create applications for Windows 8
• Add behaviors and states to our applications
• Explore vector graphics
• Create user and custom controls and reuse them across applications
• Understand data binding and use it in our applications

In Detail

Creating applications with compelling graphics has been one of the main goals of client applications, and with the arrival of WPF, Silverlight, and HTML5 it is much easier than ever before to create interactive and rich user interfaces.

Blend for Visual Studio 2012 by Example Beginner's Guide will give you a good grounding in creating Windows, Web, and Windows Phone applications. You will also look at the various layouts and controls available in Blend and how we can create animations and behaviors in Blend.

Towards the end, you will be aware of the various capabilities that are available in Blend out of the box.

利用Blend的強大功能，使用實用的實例指南來創建、修改和重複使用Windows應用程序和組件。

關於本書：
- 發現如何在應用程序中添加故事板和動畫
- 熟悉Blend集成開發環境
- 使用SketchFlow創建、打包和溝通設計，以便在實際實施之前進行評估

本書適合開發人員和設計師，他們對Blend尚不熟悉，並希望從實際和概念上學習Blend。本書不假設開發人員對Blend有任何了解，但在理解概念方面，具有一些設計或開發經驗可能會有所幫助。本書以簡單易懂的方式解釋所有內容，讓您能夠輕鬆理解。

您將學到的內容包括：
- 了解Blend提供的佈局和控件，以及如何使用它們
- 理解XAML的需求和用途，以及如何在Blend應用程序中使用它
- 創建Windows 8應用程序
- 為應用程序添加行為和狀態
- 探索矢量圖形
- 創建用戶和自定義控件，並在應用程序之間重複使用它們
- 理解數據綁定並在應用程序中使用它

使用引人入勝的圖形創建應用程序一直是客戶端應用程序的主要目標之一，而隨著WPF、Silverlight和HTML5的出現，創建交互式和豐富的用戶界面比以往任何時候都更加容易。

《Blend for Visual Studio 2012 by Example Beginner's Guide》將為您提供在創建Windows、Web和Windows Phone應用程序方面的良好基礎。您還將研究Blend中提供的各種佈局和控件，以及如何在Blend中創建動畫和行為。

最後，您將了解Blend開箱即用的各種功能。