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Game Graphics Created in Expression Design

Today I wanted to share some game prototyping graphics created in Expression Design.   These are useful for would-be game developers who happen to be missing a set of quality graphics and/or people who want sample files that can help them understand Read More...
Posted Friday, November 30, 2007 12:48 PM by xprblog | 6 Comments

Expression Blend 2 August Preview Live!

You can get to the preview either through the Expression website or the Download Center: Expression site: http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/download.aspx?key=blend2preview Download Center: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=69540337-B619-4A47-AC27-52D8AF3A7830&displaylang=en Read More...
Posted Friday, July 27, 2007 12:43 PM by xprblog | 1 Comments

Expression Blend and Studio: problem installing Visual Studio from included DVD

The Expression team has become aware of a problem with the Visual Studio 2005 Standard DVD included in the packaging of the Expression Blend and Expression Studio products (specifically, setup repeatedly prompts for the DVD). Please accept our sincere Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 05, 2007 10:53 AM by xprblog | 1 Comments

Samples and Tutorials Gallery - Expression Design

To view a sample or tutorial, click on one of the thumbnails or links below. Some samples also have supporting tutorials. These are indicated with a check mark. Sample Tutorial available? Glassy Feed Buttons in Expression Design Create glassy feedback Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 05, 2007 4:45 PM by xprblog | 10 Comments

Blend 1.0 Survey- Win a Free Zune!

Hello, The Microsoft Expression Blend Program Management team is currently working on planning features for future versions of Expression Blend. We encourage all newsgroup participants to take our Blend 1.0 Survey and send us your feedback. All participants Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 27, 2007 5:12 PM by xprblog | 2 Comments

Samples and Tutorials for Expression Blend have been updated to match the Release Candidate!

The Samples and Tutorials for Expression Blend have been updated with the following changes: The samples and tutorials now reflect the Release Candidate (RC) build of Expression Blend. Additional sources of tutorials and samples were added to the bottom Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 20, 2007 12:44 PM by xprblog | 1 Comments

Samples and Tutorials Gallery - Expression Blend

For Expression Blend tutorials, there are a lot of great resources on the web you can visit: Google , Live . On the team itself, we have quite a few people who write tutorials on Expression Blend / Silverlight / WPF: NibblesTutorials (Celso Gomes) kirupa.com Read More...
Posted Monday, March 19, 2007 5:22 PM by xprblog | 4 Comments

Generating key splines from a Path drawn in Blend

In Blend you can author keyframes with ease out and ease in interpolation to give your animations acceleration and deceleration: in other words, life. You can also draw a motion path and animate an element along it. A value curve is a graph of the change Read More...
Posted Monday, January 01, 2007 3:35 PM by xprblog | 2 Comments

Keyframe easing and key splines

An animation authored in Blend contains keyframes. The animation defines which element/property to affect and each keyframe defines a key time at which a value should be in effect. The process of animating the property values between successive key times Read More...
Posted Saturday, December 30, 2006 7:41 PM by xprblog | 4 Comments

Expression Blend -- What Is That?

Expression Blend is an authoring system for professional designers to build user experiences that target the .NET 3.0 platform, and more specifically, WPF, or Windows Presentation Foundation. WPF provides the platform to bring rich, animated, skin-able, Read More...
Posted Monday, December 04, 2006 9:29 AM by xprblog | 2 Comments

Announcing the Microsoft Expression Blend Beta 1

Thanks for being patient! The previous CTP of Expression Interactive Designer was back in September. Since then the team has been focused on some major changes to the product ready for today’s announcement of our first beta. A list of all the new features Read More...
Posted Monday, December 04, 2006 9:00 AM by xprblog | 6 Comments

Expression Web Beta 1, EGD and EID Sept. CTPs (target .NET 3.0 RC1)

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 Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 06, 2006 10:00 AM by xprblog | 1 Comments

Webcast: Introduction to Microsoft Expression

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. Read More...
Posted Friday, August 25, 2006 4:44 PM by xprblog | 2 Comments

July CTPs of EGD and EID available - target July CTP of .NET Framework 3.0

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 Read More...
Posted Friday, July 21, 2006 11:40 AM by xprblog | (Comments Off)

June CTPs of EGD and EID now available!

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 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 04, 2006 2:12 PM by xprblog | (Comments Off)
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