Toolbox
The Toolbox in Microsoft® Expression Blend™ enables you to create and manipulate objects within your application.
Selection tools: Used for selection and direct selection (nested objects and path segments) of objects and paths. | Path tools: Pen, Pencil | |||
View tools: Used to adjust the view of the artboard, such as for panning, zooming, and camera orbiting for 3D. | Shape tools: Rectangle, Ellipse, Line | |||
Brush tools: Used to work with the visual attributes of an object, such as transforming a brush, painting an object, or selecting the attributes of one object to apply them to another object. | Layout panels: Grid, Canvas, StackPanel, WrapPanel, DockPanel, ScrollViewer, Border, UniformGrid, Viewbox | |||
Object tools: Used to draw the most common objects on the artboard, such as paths, shapes, layout panels, text, and controls. | Text controls: TextBox, RichTextBox, TextBlock, PasswordBox, Label, FlowDocumentScrollViewer | |||
Asset tools: Used to access the Asset Library and to show the most recently used asset from the library. | Common controls: Button, CheckBox, ComboBox, ListBox, RadioButton, ScrollBar, Slider, TabControl, GridSplitter |