A new extension point we have added to Blend 3 (based on very popular demand) can be seen put to good use with the Silverlight Chart control - we call it the AlternateContentProperty attribute. Annotating the properties of a control with this attribute...

Some customers have reported issues in launching Expression Interactive Designer where it crashes on launch. This issue has been documented here . These problems have since been addressed by the WPF team. While there is no known workaround for the non...

With Blend 4, we have made a number of significant changes to how we generate XAML, primarily with the aim of generating more compact XAML. You will find a couple of these interesting: a) DoubleAnimation v/s DoubleAnimationUsingKeyframes In Blend 3, rotating...

We just published a new build of Expression Interactive Designer targeting Beta2 of WinFX and Windows Vista. Please download it from here . We look forward to your feedback.

Our March CTP that targets the February CTP of WinFX run-time components is now available. Visit http://www.microsoft.com/expression and give it a shot!

This: We recently finished up another product development milestone, and at the end of it had a day-long bug-bash to find bugs in the product. Arturo and I teamed up and came with the simple "application" above done 100% using the Expression tools...

To create a Silverlight application and host it in a custom website, you could use the following steps: a) Create a Silverlight project in Blend, and test it. We assume that you are now ready to publish the application on a website. b) Open the solution...

We just made available some training videos for Expression Interactive Designer. Be sure to check them out here . Simply click on the Interactive Designer tab at the bottom of the page.

While Blend 3 has a number of stellar features that I am sure everyone reading this blog has heard about (buzz words include SketchFlow, behaviors, sample data support, Illustrator and Photoshop import, TFS support, and many more), we really devoted a...

Hi - welcome to my blog! Let me begin my first post by introducing myself. I am a Program Manager on the Expression Interactive Designer team. Though my background is majorly in software development and research (Information Retrieval, Visualization...

The last few weeks (or months) have been really hectic! We finally finished all the features that we wanted to add to Blend 3, and are now actively fixing all the feedback (read bugs and crashes :)) that you have been reporting to us, as well as making...

For Blend 4, we have added a new extension point to our Asset library - ToolboxExampleAttribute. Like most of our other attributes Consider this scenario (which we ran into as we were adding new content into our SDK - the various shapes like Star, Arc...

Our first public CTP is now available: please visit http://www.microsoft.com/expression . -Unni

If you do run into a situation where the Blend flyout menus appear on the left instead of the right as shown below, the Tablet PC Settings panel is a good place to check.

I am sure you must have heard - Expression Blend 3 Preview is here ! And I am back after a 2 year break from writing on this blog - if you were to use the product, you will realize what kept us busy :). If I were to list the new features in Blend 3...