Read original post by Dante Gagne at The Visual Studio Blog
It’s a familiar scenario. You’re developing your application and you’ve got a design in mind. It may have come from a professional designer or a sketch on the back of a cocktail napkin, but you need to move from a concept to a working, implemented design. This can be easier said than done.
When your design calls for the baseline of that text to be exactly 100px from the top, but that baseline is within a control template buried in a custom control, it’s a headache to figure out what value needs to be tweaked to get that precise position. In another case, you want the Image to be exactly 300px wide, but your asset is 260px wide and you plan to skew it horizontally until it’s the right width. You probably don’t want to use trigonometry to figure out the correct angle of skew. Blend has heard the pleas for an easier way to do it, and with Blend for Visual Studio 2013, we’ve implemented some new tools to help you take that design and turn it into a polished, ready to impress app. Let your designers go wild; now you’re ready.