Wednesday, May 27, 2009

How to create mini Blend Heaven

After months and months of working with (very limiting) Blend, I've decided to take the plunge and implement any extra help out there! I found a few add-ins:

Unify is an install which basically allows you to open up a “special edition” of Blend and add-in more add-ins (without Unify you’d have to open Blend from a command line and specify ONE add-in to include with it).

So with Unify installed, you can now specify multiple add-ons to run in one instance of Blend e.g.
BlendSense (intellisense for Blend, need I say more?!)
ColorfulExpression (a cool palette of colour combinations, from Adobe’s Kuler)

To add them, simply go to Start => All Programs => Expression Blend => Microsoft Expression Blend 2 With Unify (or similar… use common sense)
Once your “special edition” Blend is loaded, go to Tools => Unify!

Add as many add-in dlls as you please and enjoy Blending in mini Heaven

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