Creating a XAML Project with Expression Blend

Expression Blend is a development tool dedicated to WPF and XAML and that allow to build Web applications too. You can get the download link from the resource page.

Creating a new project

1. In the File menu, clic on New Project...
   A dialog box appears, it is shown below.
2. In the dialog box, select the WPF Application icon for building an executable program (.exe) or W¨F Control Library for building a library to link to other programs.
3. Below, in the Name field, type the name of your new project.
4. You have also a list of programming language to choose, select one (C# or Visual Basic).
   
5. Then click on OK.

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Creating a new document

Once you have created a project, you can add some components. Take note you have at start a Window already created, in the file window1.xaml, and that you do not need to create one.

1. In the File menu, clic on New Item, then you can choose between several options:
   
   Window

   Add a window or a dialog box to the project.

   UserControl

   Define a graphical component to complete the graphical user interface.

   Page

   This page will hold code you can access with a file manager, a browser or any other program.

   Resource Dictionary

   Produce a resource to use from other components of the project.

2. In the Name field, type the name of the document or keep the default name.
3. Thick the Include case if you want to generate code into a file, for the created document.

Now you are ready to create you first program as a binary application.