![]() ![]() First, click on the projects pane in Blend. Now, let’s create the main page of our RSS reader. So, we’ll select Loaded as the EventName (the Loaded event gets raised when the Page is loaded, and since the current page will be the first page of the app => when the app is Loaded), leave Play as the ControlStoryboardOption and select WelcomeStoryboard (the Storyboard we just created) as the Storyboard to be played upon application loading. We want the animation to play when the app starts. Select the ControlStoryboardAction behavior that you added under the LayoutRoot (just click it!), and go to the Properties pane. Go to the Behaviors pane, and drag-drop a ControlStoryboardAction on the LayoutRoot, at Objects and Timeline pane. We are going to use a Behavior for that (yeah, we could do this in code but using behaviors can save you much time). Let’s create some movement! Enlarge the TextBlock and select a color for it.Īnimation is ready :) But there is an important step we need to make in order to have it running when the app starts. Move the marker to 1.5 seconds and click again the “Record Keyframe” button. This will record the properties of the textBlock control at the given time (0 seconds). Select the TextBlock and click the “ Record Keyframe” button (looks like an egg, check screenshot). So, after we press the OK button to give our Storyboard a name, we proceed to create the animation. This animation will start as soon as the application starts, and after it finishes, the user will be transferred to the main RSS reader page. We will create an animation that will last 1.5 seconds, will rotate and change the color of the TextBlock. We give the newly created Storyboard the name of “WelcomeStoryboard”. We press + (check below) to create a new Storyboard object, which will contain our animation. We’ll then press F6 (or select Window-Workspaces-Animation from the top menu) to go to the Animation workspace. Start by dragging and dropping a TextBlock onto the designer surface. We’re going to create a simple animation to serve as a “welcome screen”. Furthermore, the application will start by showing a simple animation.įirst of all, we start by creating a new Windows Phone application project in Expression Blend. The RSS reader we will create will fetch the RSS feed using a direct URL (although this can be easily modified) and display them on our device (or emulator). In this post, we are going to show how to create a very very very simple RSS reader for Windows Phone 7 using Expression Blend and Visual Studio in 5 minutes, using minimal code. Thanks, Jeremy and Anna, for the tips and Theefman for the response.(Please visit the site to view this video) Users in the meantime can try out the Pulse-alternative Fuse here in the Windows Phone Store. We’ve reached out to Pulse and will pass along any info they give us on the matter. Though we think Fuse is better than Pulse in many ways, the disappearance of the latter from the platform is not something we’re not too thrilled about as it just looks bad for the OS. That app is not free but offers many more features and smoother performance in addition to numerous other ‘skins’ to change the app’s appearance. Luckily for Windows Phone users we have the somewhat superior Fuse app made by Rudy Huyn. On the other hand, seeing as there is no mention of Windows Phone at all on the site for mobile (or with this new service) is leaving us with trepidations on the future of Pulse on our platform. This could be a case of Pulse re-working their app for better syncing with the new service, resulting in a gap between releases (we all know the shenanigans that happen with app approvals) meaning this could be just another fluke. ![]()
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