This presentation focuses on real world examples of how Expression Blend eliminates the need for time-consuming integration work between the design and development teams, and empowers the developer and designer. You will start by learning how Expression Blend bridges the gap between the designer and the developer, eliminating the time-consuming task of preparing the design deliverables for the development team. You will find out how to use the features of Expression Blend that help segregate control of visual elements (layout, animations, storyboards and state transitions) and code, and specifically re-usable behaviors and controls. Through live demos you will see how designers create visual elements, then after putting on your developer hat, write the code for user controls (in Blend and Visual Studio 2010) that trigger the graphical elements. Finally, you will learn how the designer is still in complete control of the visual representation without interfering with the code. You will also see how blend lets you build controls that are multi-platform, such as deploying to WPF or Silverlight in the browser.

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