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What are these things – are they different ways of doing the same task? When would I use one in preference to another? Do they all work in all project types?

This post will try to answer those questions by describing the animation and control customization tools that are available to you in Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow, and discussing what jobs each tool is meant to do. I’ll be classifying project types along two independent axes: WPF or Silverlight, and Blend or SketchFlow.

In this quick tip coming from the Expression Blog you will learn how to modify the SketchFlow project settings.

SketchFlow project settings are applied on a project-by-project basis. You can modify the settings for the current SketchFlow project in the SketchFlow Project Settings dialog box.

For Designers, there is always challenge to build interactive prototypes for customers so as to give feel of application to customer in reality, Typically before tools like Blend Sketch Flow, we use to either build POCs (Again we need to put Man efforts in this activity) or we use to build designs in Excel or word, Drawback of this was, it does not helps to exactly put forth our point in front of client since they might not be that interactive and realistic which can give feel of application which we plan to build.

SketchFlow has been out for a couple of weeks now, so I wanted to do an article on how to bind data to your controls to give the users a richer experience when they’re viewing your prototype. As quoted on  the Microsoft site "Sketching and prototyping are proven techniques that enable you to explore ideas and concepts quickly without excessive investment in either time or resources. You can use drawing tools, sticky notes, WPF or Silverlight controls and components, as well as imported images to iterate on and visualize your ideas quickly".

In a previous post last week I posted a sample for a behavior for conditional navigation by using a global state object. Just a few days later, we got a question on how to represent and reflect user roles (or other global state) in a SketchFlow application. This article shows a simple example how this can be done. There are many possible extensions and variations on this technique, but in this post I can’t do more than show a simple starting point.

Out of the box, there is no built-in behavior to do conditional navigation, but the good news is that it is not hard to write one. Here is an example for how to do it.

In this the second or two episodes that Carl and Shawn recorded last month at DevTeach in Vancouver, Shawn shows us Microsoft's new SketchFlow. SketchFlow is a prototyping tool that will actually generate a framework of code that can be used to start your .NET project.

Nick Josevski decided to show how to package up your goodness using SketchFlow so that your users can see it too.

A key objective of using SketchFlow in the prototyping phase is to gather feedback from key users. So once you have your prototype to a state where you would like users to start exploring it, you can package up the project.

For more on this feature, check out Figure 15 on this blog post. Much to my surprise (and geekish delight), the entire file is in XML. Here’s a brief snippet.