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Cheers! The Expression Blend Team
We are pleased to announce that the Beta 1 release of Expression Web (formerly Expression Web Designer) is now available! For more insight into Expression Web Beta 1, please see the Expression Web team blog.
Additionally, September CTPs of Expression Graphic Designer and Expression Interactive Designer are available and target the Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of .NET Framework 3.0.
Found a bug? Report it to us.
Have something to say about the Betas and CTPs? Join a discussion group:
This webcast describes the powerful features and capabilities of Microsoft Expression Graphic Designer, Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer, and Microsoft Expression Web Designer, and includes a 40 minute demonstration of Expression Web Designer.
The first twenty minutes cover concepts of user experience, the .NET 3.0 and WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) platforms and how they enable the next generation of user experience, and designer and developer collaboration using XAML (Extensible Application Markup Language). The discussion about Expression products and CSS begins around minute 21, and the Expression Web Designer demo begins around minute 27.
Register now to replay this session:
http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032306063&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
Five (5) new Expression Web Designer training videos are now available for viewing and download at http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/demos.mspx. Simply click the Web Designer tab near the bottom of the page, and then click one of the video links under Training Videos.
Enjoy!
We are pleased to present new CTPs of Expression Graphic Designer and Expression Interactive Designer that target Microsoft WinFX Runtime Components Beta 2--the latest release of WinFX.
Follow the links below to start downloading the May CTPs...
Remember, you will need to install WinFX Beta 2 first before installing Expression Interactive Designer May CTP.
Also, before installing the latest CTPs of WinFX and Expression Interactive Designer, please be sure to uninstall previous CTPs of these 2 products to prevent compatibility issues.
Have something to say about the CTPs? Join a discussion group.
Download for free the first-ever Expression Web Designer CTP now via the Microsoft Expression Web site.
Also, you can discuss Expression Web Designer in the forums as well as send feedback or report a bug to help us make a better product!
In his blog post [1], Tim Sneath answers the following questions about considering when and where to use the most appropriate presentation layer technology:
[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2006/02/23/538189.aspx
You'll be interested in this if you (or someone you know) currently attend school/college/university, are 16 years or over, like to imagine, would be keen to earn a few thousand dollars in prize money and a free trip across the world to see the Taj Mahal, want to make friends and contacts in different academic communities globally, and wouldn't mind learning a lot about technology in the process.
Imagine Cup [1] is an annual Microsoft-sponsored competition that offers contestants the chance to give their ideas exposure, make critical contacts, and experience a true sense of friendship with peers worldwide. The theme of this year’s Imagine Cup is "Imagine a world where technology enables us to live healthier lives".
Also, this year’s competition will have a new track - "Interface Designer". With so many tools and platforms available and emerging that aim to improve users' experiences with hardware and software, the timing couldn't be better!
[1] http://imagine.thespoke.net/
In case you were wondering what we look like, here's a cheerful photograph taken this evening when the Expression team gathered together to relax and share a drink and mark the occasion of the two CTPs being released today. As is natural with a large team, not everyone could be present for the photograph, and regrettably there are one or two notable Expression-ists (pardon the terrible pun) whom we weren't lucky enough to capture on CCD. Maybe we'll correct that in the future.
Hi, we’re glad to have you visit the Expression team’s blog - we hope you’ll like the resources and information you find here and we hope you’ll return often to see what’s new.
This introductory post will talk about what the Expression family of products is. It will also talk about the blog itself, what it’s for, and what kinds of things you can expect to find here over the coming months.
So, first, what is Expression? Microsoft Expression is a suite consisting of three products each intended for use mainly by the professional designer community. Expression Graphic Designer is a visual arts package equally at home with vector or with bitmap graphics. Expression Interactive Designer gives interaction designers the environment in which to build Windows applications for the Windows Presentation Foundation platform - in other words, to build the new Vista-wave generation of Windows user experiences. Expression Web Designer is the product which offers all the tools you’ll need to produce high-quality, standards-based Web sites.
For lots more information, videos and downloads about Expression, please see the Microsoft Expression product website.
Now, about the blog. The blog’s scope embraces all three Expression products so there will be a great diversity of resources to be found here, all brought together with the intention of being of interest to designers and to the designer sensibility. Although we expect professional designers to be our main audience, if you’re a design dilettante or a Windows or Web developer, please feel free to dive in and experience and enjoy Expression too!
In the Article Categories section of the blog, you will find up-to-date directories of sample applications, tutorials and visual artwork. As the names indicate, these samples are targeted at particular pre-release or Community Technology Preview (CTP) versions of the Expression products.
In the same section there are also articles which contain the ‘readme’ files for particular pre-release or CTP versions of the Expression products.
The types of blog posts you can expect to see include these:
Happy designing!
- the Expression team