Presenting Expression Blend 2.5 June Preview
Expression Blend 2.5 June Preview is now available which can be downloaded here. Now it's possible to edit the ControlTemplates from Blend using Visual State Manager to change the look and feel of the controls. The Visual State Manger gives designers an easy and powerful way to design the interaction model of their Silverlight 2 applications. Tim Heuer has an excellent blog post on this. You can check his blog post here. Designers now have the ability to easily edit what the control looks like in each particular state, as well as setup transition rules to control how long it should take to animate when moving from one state to another. At runtime Silverlight will then dynamically run the appropriate animation Storyboards to smoothly move the control from one state to another. For details check about the features you can check here .
