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Storyboards are one of the primary ways you create animations in Silverlight, WPF, and Windows Phone using Expression Blend. Creating a storyboard is fairly easy, but actually using a storyboard such as having it play is not. To help with this, you have the ControlStoryboardAction.

While customizing properties is something Expression Blend allows you to shine at, its influence doesn’t go beyond the artboard. If you want to change the properties of something in a running application, you probably have to write some code or do some other tasks that you may not like. 

To make it easier for you to change properties at runtime, we created a simple behavior called ChangePropertyAction.

In one of my earlier tutorials, I gave an overview of events and event handlers where you learned how to associate events with event handlers that react to the event. What I didn’t write about was some of the nuances of events. Let’s address that with this short tutorial where I cover routed events and, more specifically, event bubbling and event tunneling.

This post only focuses on the sessions from MIX that are Expression Blend specific. By now, all of the sessions from MIX should be available online, so head over to the MIX Sessions page to view more: http://live.visitmix.com/Sessions