Paul Yanez

Creating custom Silverlight buttons with Images Gradients and Transitions

In the following tutorial I will show how to create your own custom button with images, gradients and transitions.

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Gradient capabilities in Silverlight fonts

In the following tutorial I will show how extensive the font capabilities in Silverlight are. Being able to display beautiful fonts within xaml allows the ability to programmatically alter a designed font with gradients and drop shadows applied.

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Reversing Gradient stops in Silverlight

In this tutorial I will show how to reverse the gradient stops in Microsoft Blend.

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Exploring the Gradient tool in Microsoft Expression Blend 3

The following video shows how to work with the gradient tool in MIcrosoft Expression Blend 3. The video goes in depth of gradient stops, reversing gradients, and the xaml output.

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Creating a Silverlight button with Microsoft Blend 3

This video tutorial will show how to create a custom button, modify its normal, mouse over and pressed states. Also add animation effects between those states.

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