Depending on the project and the visuals, I felt that it would be beneficial to not only blog about the experience while going through the book, but to give further visuals for those who are following this blog – perhaps it will assist those in making their decision as to which books might be good – so here is a youtube video of one of the very first things which you are walked through doing in Victor Gaudioso’s book on Expression Blend 2.  This is at the very end of chapter 3 and is pretty easy to do.  I took it a step further than explained, but if you are following along in the book, you’ll notice that nothing that I have done here is outside the scope of information that has been explained through the first few chapters.  To reword that: If you’ve never used MS Expression Blend before, you could use the knowledge gained up to this point to emulate what is done in this video.