Lecture 4th: VSM and Behavior

2010.11.4 su Peng

Content

-Basic concepts of VSM

-VSM implementation

-Behavior Development

 

Prerequisites

-Install Visual Studio 2010

-Install Expression Blend4

-Install Silverlight tools for Visual Studio 2010

-Animation in Blend4

 

What is VSM?

-Visual status Manager

-Why?

-What conveniences are provided?

VSM is actually the object Layer of Silverlight, that is, the object manager provided by the UIElement layer. It can be used to customize all the attributes of the style, position, and appearance of all UI elements. It can use several VSM objects to record object statuses.

 

Simple VSM Application

-A special button

 

Blend4 complete VSM example

-Demo VSM instance

 

What is Behaviors?

Behaviors is mainly used to encapsulate some existing operations.

 

Behavior usage

-Encapsulate repeated actions for Reuse

-Demo

Associate two images

Use GoToStateAction to trigger an animation event

Create a new ListBox display template

Drag and Drop supported

 

Summary

-Basic concepts of VSM

-VSM implementation

-Behavior Development

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