Today we are going public with beta 1 of Expression Blend, and a new CTP for Expression Design. Before you ask – these are the new product names for what previously was known as Expression Interactive Designer and Expression Graphic Designer. Much more importantly, these new versions are not just...

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...

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...

The July CTPs of Expression Graphic Designer and Expression Interactive Designer are now available. Both of these CTPs target the July CTP of .NET Framework 3.0 (formerly known as WinFX). Download Expression Graphic Designer July 2006 CTP Download Expression Interactive Designer July 2006 CTP For...

After overcoming some obstacles with our publishing tools these past few days, we finally are able to share with you the June 2006 CTPs for both Expression Graphic Designer and Expression Interactive Designer. Our latest CTPs target the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 June 2006 CTP (formerly known as WinFX...

Software Test Engineer, Dante Gagne, takes us through a tutorial of how to bind media to playback controls in Expression Interactive Designer. For more tips and tricks like this, check out Dante's blog . After you've completed Dante's tutorial, try using Expression Graphic Designer to style your...

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...

On his blog Instrucciones Para Mirar [1], Miguetelo has published some beautiful artwork which he created with Expression Graphic Designer [2]. The pieces created with EGD are Corvo [3] and Corvo 2 [4]. I'm sure you'll be aware that corvo is Spanish for crow (or raven ). We hope you enjoy looking at...

We're pleased to announce the availability of the Graphic Designer March CTP download [1] on the Microsoft Expression web site. [1] http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/graphic_designer/gd_free_trial.aspx

On his blog, Claudio Castelli [1] has published some artwork which he created with Expression Graphic Designer [2]. The piece we'd like to spotlight is called La febbre del Sabato Pomeriggio (Saturday Afternoon Fever) [3]. It is, in Claudio's own words, an expressionist-grotesque digital painting about...

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...

Alexander Lih has used workflow between Expression Graphic Designer and Expression Interactive Designer to build a digital clock sample [1]. Thanks Alexander, we like it! [1] http://feebdack.com/article.php?id_art=14

Microsoft Expression Graphic Designer [1] is one application which exports designs to XAML ready to be imported into Expression Interactive Designer, but there are others. Mike Swanson , Technical Evangelist, has written a plug-in for Adobe Illustrator called AI->XAML [2] that exports designs to a...

The next version of Visual Studio is codenamed Orcas . Just as Visual Studio does today, Orcas will continue to integrate well with Expression for teams building applications in the Windows Vista time-frame. The disciplines in such a team include developers and designers, hence the specialization in...

Jeremy Kuhne has written an article Liven Up Your Office Clip Art [1] which you can find by visiting the gallery of Expression Graphic Designer samples over on the right of the blog. Look for the box titled 'Article Categories' and then click Samples and Tutorials Gallery - Expression Graphic Designer...

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...

Today we are also delighted to announce the availability of a new preview version of Expression Graphic Designer . This preview version is the January 2006 Community Technology Preview [1] We would like to thank you for your enthusiastic support regarding our professional graphic design application...

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...