This is
the first of a multipart series on the Visual State Manager in which Jesse Liberty will cover styles, resources, templates, custom controls and customizing data validation.
Let’s start with the form that is used in my Getting Started With Silverlight video: Adding Controls To An Application. That video uses the design surface in Visual Studio 2010, and a subsequent video creates the grid in Xaml. To round things out I’ll create this version in Expression Blend.
I’ll begin by opening Blend and creating a new project. I’ll click in the grid margins to create 5 rows and 2 columns.