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They listen to the feedback! (WooHoo!) Expression Web will be available to MSDN Premium subscribers!

This is GREAT new!

Thanks Soma, keep listening our feedbacks!

As of early this morning, the Expression team has announced that Microsoft Expression Web and Blend will

And who says Microsoft doesn't listen. Somasegar just announced on his blog that Expression Web...

And who says Microsoft doesn't listen. Somasegar just announced on his blog that Expression Web...

In case you haven’t already heard it from elsewhere we have decided to include Expression Blend and Expression

Heute hat das Expression Team bekannt gegeben, dass Expression Web und Expression Blend (sobald released)

I just provided some behind-the-scenes commentary over on my blog regarding Somasegar's announcement

Soma Segar announced earlier today that the Web and Blend tools from the Microsoft Expression Suite are

From Soma's blog: Listening to your feedback - Expression and MSDN

Last year, Microsoft announced their new Expression suite of designer tools. Included in the suite are

Last December Microsoft announced the new Expression Studio products. These products enable designers

It seemed very irrational to me that Microsoft would take any steps to alienate their core developer

It seemed very irrational to me that Microsoft would take any steps to alienate their core developer

Poi non diteMicrosoft non viascolta Fonte : Listening to your feedback - Expression and MSDN

Last December Microsoft announced the new Expression Studio products. These products enable designers

NICE!

Thank you. It really bugged me as a MSDN subscriber that the Expression tools were not available to me... And having spent what I do on my Subscription I could not justify to my boss additional costs for the Expression tools...

I'm very glad you  (Microsoft) listened and took action.

Thank you again

Last December Microsoft announced the new Expression Studio products. These products enable designers

Will the software also be available on MSDNAA?

From Somasegar's WebLog: Listening to your feedback - Expression and MSDN "I am pleased to say that we

Listening to your feedback - Expression and MSDN When Expression Studio was announced last December, there...

Initially it seemed that the Expression suite of products would not be included in the MSDN subscription,

Soma (our VP) announced this morning that by popular demand, Expression Blend and Expression Web will

Microsoft has decided to make the Expression Blend and Expression Web products available for all MSDN Premium subscribers. This is great news for all developers, and a great enhancement to the MSDN su...

Wow, that decision is going over well!

Yes, we are including all expression products in MSDNAA

Vandaag kreeg ik de 16e editie van Microsoft .NET Magazine in de bus. Naast de vele artikelen die ik...

expression tools available to msdn subscribers

Excellent news this morning from Somasegar. Thanks to the Microsoft Expression blog for the heads up....

I don't know many folks that do web development that don't have an occasional need to edit images with transparency / work with layers etc.  Right now Microsoft's tool for this is Expression Design, so it needs to be part of MSDN subscription.

I came home from PDC05 excited about the demo I saw of Expression Design (Acrylic at the time).  Why feature it at PDC if it is not for developers?

Using the same logic: Why is office included w/ MSDN?

Based on community feedback, we are pleased to announce that we will be making Expression Web available

I am glad to see that Microsoft listened.  I always thought it odd that Microsoft felt that developers were never relegated to the designer role, since in my experience, a lot of projects never seem to have a budget for separate design staff.  Heck, if anything devs need BETTER design tools just to overcome our inherent lack of skills in this area.

You may recall the furor ([1], [2]) over Microsoft’s decision not to make the new Expression family of design tools available to members of the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) based on the not always obvious distinction between “designe..

Woot! Soma just announced a great change for those of us who try to straddle the developer / designer

More in the "listening to your feedback" category. Some great news on the new Expression products. Link

Expression Web is available starting today to all MSDN Premium subscribers. Expression Blend will also

this one is a home run ('baseball') or a 'sixer' (cricket)..

two more like these would give you a 'hat trick'.. (cricket)..

:-)

thanks,

SBC

One of the cool tools we had a chance to use while up at the WPF Bootcamp in Redmond was Expression Blend

A lot of things happening in the .NET world these days. While going through my unread RSS Feeds I summarize

Thats perfect. I was just debating with myself if i should really go and purchase Expression Web.

Thanks a ton.

-Sashidhar Kokku

Great news!

On the other hand... another app I have to find time for... ;-)

It's great news this morning that Soma Somasegar and Forest Key have announced that Expression Blend

Thank you so much for making this available on MSDN.   We really appreciate your listening to us.

Please convey my sincere appreciation to all those at MSDN who worked to make this possible. :-)

Jan :)

Dnes bylo konečně oficiálně oznámeno , že nové Expression nástroje Microsoftu budou součástí MSDN, i

Hi!

First, I think you have made the right decision. As a MSDN subscriber for over 10 years, I was puzzled by the original decision. But I see that common sense prevails...

I believe that Expression Design should also be included. In many small groups or during prepartion of proof of concept, a developer may need to produce graphics (Icons, bitmaps etc.). At least for myself, I am a developer, and I found myself using Acrylic (the code name of Expression Desig) more than once. I do use Paint.NET and Adobe phoneshop Elements.

Again, I am not a graphics designer, I am a developer, however from time to time I do need to assemble some pixels into a shape...

I think that the based on logic that governs MSDN premier subscription of including all the tools a developer needs, Expression Design should be included as well.

Best regards,

 Yuval

I maybe out of the norm, but I think if Microsoft developers have to pay for a studio package like Adobe's Studio, they should also have to buy Expression Studio separately as well.  I am probably out of the norm with this, but developers and designers are usually very different animals, though not always.

Thank you for  listening to the community.  I hope those subscribers and partners out there will now get behind the Expression toolset and push the uptake of rich, dynamic user experiences built on the WPF using Blend & Visual Studio.  

Soma made the announcement today "I am pleased to say that we will be making Expression Web available

Expression Products Added to MSDN(ScottGu's Blog)より 来ましたよ！！来ましたよ！！Expressionプロダクトが MSDN Premium に追加です！！

Soma has announced this morning that Expression Web and Expr ession Blend will be made available to MSDN

Expression Web ed Expression Blend saranno inseriti in MSDN Premium. Da subito è disponibile Expression

大ニュース ExpressionがMSDN Premiumに提供

大ニュース ExpressionがMSDN Premiumに提供

Awesome news, finally I can lay my hands on Expression Studio. Phew, nearly wanted to buy the software

*****

Seriously, you all need to think about opening those tools up to the MSDN pro subscriptions as well.  I can't see how you all think you're going to sell those web tools to mid size businesses without that extra help.  I have an msdn pro subscription, not premium, and I'll keep my designers in Dreamweaver until we've had enough time to test these products.  And to tell you the truth I missed the whole 30 days of trying it out, I'm a busy guy ;)  I definitely need more time.  We're talking about a big change here.  And please, Dreamweaver sucks for .net development, you all definitely do it way better. Thanks for listening and I definitely applaud throwing the design tools into MSDN subscriptions.  Its win win for both of us.

*****

Thanks you guys! This is excellent news and a great catalyst for MS Dev's! Way to go! :)

C'est officiellement annoncé sur le blog de Soma Somasegar. Les abonnés MSDN - vous chers clients et

Thats great news and thanks!

But.... (there's always a but)

Expression Design should also be included in my opinion. This is not to say a developer will be using Expression Design for any significant period of time. Being a small developer shop, we don't have any designers in house. We have to use external designer resources to get any decent graphic design work done. 90+% of designers use Adobe products e.g. photoshop and illustrator. This pushes us to Adobe products for the minor inhouse graphic design work.

We want to be able to farm out work to a designer, but if any minor modifications are needed then just get the developer to make the change inhouse. So really we want to have a graphic design package available for these small occasional changes rather than have to make the round trip to an external designer.

As it stands there is absolutely no incentive for us to convince the external design shop to use the Expression Design package. This keeps the status quo which is the Adobe dominance of that product segment.

If you included Expression Design in the MSDN mix, then:

a) you don't lose any sales because any development house with small design needs would have gone with an Adobe product because of their market dominance in that area.

b) you provide some incentive for developer companies/departments to influence designers to use Expression Design.

Regards,

Apolon

Thanks Soma for listening to the hearts of the developers. And we also hope you'll listen to what Apolon has said, which in most cases, deem to be true.

Way to go! Keep it up.

And at the meantime.... guys, have fun with Expression Blend and Web!

Somasegar's WebLog : Listening to your feedback - Expression and MSDN Listening ...

I'm surprised I haven't seen this news everywhere. I first saw it on Cory Smith's blog , then I see Steve

For all those who asking about how goes licensing of Microsoft Expression Suite, the answer is, that

Thank you !! Microsoft proves once again my decision to go the MS route was the right one.

Thank you !! Microsoft proves once again my decision to go the MS route was the right one.

All comments express the same surprise, Somasegar has ears!!

Was he pushed by Kevin Turner or has a revolution taken place in Redmond??

There are still 12259 unsatisfied custromers at http://www.classicvb.org/petition/ which is 60 new signatures the last two weeks. When will he listen to them?

Customers are not willing throwing away millions of dollars in investments, is there anyone who could explain this to Mr S.!

All comments express the same surprise, Somasegar has ears!!

Was he pushed by Kevin Turner or has a revolution taken place in Redmond??

There are still 12259 unsatisfied custromers at http://www.classicvb.org/petition/ which is 60 new signatures the last two weeks. When will he listen to them?

Customers are not willing throwing away millions of dollars in investments, is there anyone who could explain this to Mr S.!

Godt at se at vores venner i Redmond har valgt at ændre standpunkt, efter at mange bloggere har været

Buenas por un lado, algunos compañeros de Holanda, por otro Euge , y otras fuentes más ( blogs MSDN )

Buenas por un lado, algunos compañeros de Holanda, por otro Euge , y otras fuentes más ( blogs MSDN )

April 3 Somasegar's Weblog announced: Based on this feedback, I am pleased to say that we will be making

Via Somasegar's blog: I am going to check whether this applies to partners (Gold and Certs get MSDN Universal)

Via Somasegar's blog : I am going to check whether this applies to partners (Gold and Certs get MSDN

This is great news from Soma's blog. Now Expression Web and Blend (soon) will be available to MSDN Premium

Hallgatva a népek (Magyarországról hiányolta valaki? :)) kérésére, az MSDN részévé lett a fent említett

Produkty z rodziny Expression stały się ostatnio bardzo popularnymi narzędziami wśród programistów tworzących

De eerste announcement van de Microsoft Expression Suite (je weet wel, die toolset waarmee designers...

So all of the feedback from all you dev's about wanting these tools included in your MSDN Premium Subscription

The Enterprise Performance Tools Team Blog on Introducing new Visual Studio Profiler Features in the...

Thank you for adding Expression Web and Blend to MSDN.  I agree with other comments that Design should be included.  

We have a small company with no design staff.  We are already MSDN Premium subscribers.  Most of our projects are "one man show" type of things where the developer does ALL the work including graphic design.

In the past we have used Macromedia (now Adobe) tools.  If we have to choose between buying Microsoft's design tools or Adobe's, we will buy from Adobe since they are familiar and the rest of the world uses them.  If Expression Design were offered with MSDN, we wouldn't buy from Adobe and we would just use the Microsoft tools that were available on MSDN.

I understand that this wouldn't put any more money in Microsoft's pocket directly but it would probably convert a bunch of small dev shops into using Microsoft design tools exclusively.

Microsoft has its own ways to amuse people with there new products. Almost every year Microsoft invites

If you haven't already heard , both Expression Web and Blend will be including in your MSDN subscription

Expression Web and Blend will be available to all MSDN premium subscribers. yooohooo .... More power

Somasegar, vice-presidente da divisão de desenvolvimento da Microsoft, anunciou em seu blog que

A common question I receive when discussing the Expression products is whether there are plans for availability

I have been using the Blend beta for my most recent application.  I find it is much better than using Visual Studio for making WPF interfaces.  Including it in the MSDN subscription has just made my life easier.  

Please include Expression Design also.  I have been drawing in this tool and moving them over to my application.  

As you've probably seen around the media, Expression will ship in certain MSDN subscriptions. Microsoft

I noted Rickard's earlier comment about VB6 support.

For clarification, we are very sensitive to the fact that our customers have major investments in Visual Basic 6.0 applications, and we have listened. That is why we have shipped the Visual Basic 6.0 runtime with Windows Vista, meaning that Visual Basic 6.0 applications will be supported for free until 2012, and will remain under extended support until 2017.

You can find more information at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/ms788708.aspx.

Microsoft announced today that Expression Web is now available for download for MSDN Premium subscribers.

Just saw this ... it made me smile. Expression Tools Being Added to MSDN We will be making Expression

As I stated on my last post , a lot of newsworthy items have taken place while I was basking in the sun

I’m very happy to tell everyone that Expression Web is now available to MSDN premium subscribers. Expression

Soma made the announcement today "I am pleased to say that we will be making Expression Web available

Somasegar's WebLog : Listening to your feedback - Expression and MSDN 이미 많은 분들이 아시다시피 MSDN Premium Subscription에

Clarification to Michael O'Neill: Most of Micrsoft's divisions are humble and listen to their customers, I know, that is why I still am a lojal MS customer: Office, Operating Systems are good examples. The VB-petition is not just about protect running investments, it also very clear about migration of applications and peoples knowledge into the new and better technolgy to a reasonable cost.

Today 12264, still growing with 5-10 persons a day, without any focus in media or anywhere. If I were Mr. S. I would have been very concerned.

Last December Microsoft announced the new Expression Studio products. These products enable designers

Expression Web and Blend have been added to MSDN Premium. Check out Scott Guthrie's post about it. The

Your statement about the Visual Studio Team Suite is a  little confusing because it is followed shortly by a statement that some parts of the Expression Suite will not be available.  Are Expression Design and Expression Studio going to to to VSTS customers or not?

Thanks,

Dale

We listen really hard to our community and when this subject came up loud we responded. If you head over

This is great news, and Im looking forward to using it.  There is a slight little problem, though, in that your comment  " ... making it available today" appears not to be quite true.  Ive been looking in my subscriptions on 4/5 and 4/6 and its not there, and the concierge is saying sometime in the future with no ecd.

Perhaps you mean you've made the decision to offer it to subscribers and it will be available in the near future?

Gracias a los aportes de la comunidad Microsoft a decidido incluir Expression Web y Expression Blend

We have a voice...Microsoft listens! The decision extends to all MSDN Premium subscribers, including

Processos e Agile Ivar Jacobson publicou um artigo com sérias críticas aos processos que dominam o desenvolvimento

Falo bastante aqui sobre WPF e "WPF/E" e um pouco sobre a ferramenta que será bastente utilizada que

As Soma mentions in his blog ( http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2007/04/03/listening-to-your-feedback-expression-and-msdn.aspx

Great news last week for those of you in the web development space, thanks to the great feedback from

I took a week off last week, and in my absence, look what they did - Expression Blend and Expression...

Good! I'm really satisfied! Now, how about the Team Server Suite?

My team leader once taught me that the job of a manager is to be an enabler - remove all the obstacles so that the team members can be productive.

I think MS should position itself similarly in relation to developers.

You know KISS? Your mission statement should be crystal clear: When you, Mr. Developer, commit to us - we commit to you. We open our stores wide open and give you everything you think you need for development - No limits: Designer tools, team suites, even flight simulators for you to relax and money to do your expense reports.

One licence to bind them all!

La nouvelle est tombée la semaine dernière mais j'ai pensé que ça valait tout de même la peine d'être

In case you have not yet received this news . http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2007/04/03/listening-to-your-feedback-expression-and-msdn.aspx

Holy cow! A lot of people read this blog; it took me some time to get to the bottom. :-)

Great news!

Thanks

Yes it is true! If you have MSDN Premium with Team Suite, you get everything in Expression Studio. If

For those of you that attended my talk in Salt Lake City - here's the links I referred to in my talk...

Alright, I realize that nobody will read this but I'm quite annoyed and need to spout again. In my ever

So the WPF/E moniker is gone and Silverlight is unveiled . Microsoft will be launching a new Silverlight

So the WPF/E moniker is gone and Silverlight is unveiled. Microsoft will be launching a new...

Apologies if it's already been said -

But Microsoft is leaving a PILE of money on the table by limiting ANY creative tools to Windows.  I type this on my company's 4x2.5 Ghz PowerMac at 12:11 in the morning in preparation for another night of pain that is the Flash IDE... Believe me, we are begging for alternatives.  If nothing else, hopefully your product will encourage Adobe to get their act together and improve their apps.  (doubt it)

If you are going to pull the trigger - for God's sake, do it with Cocoa - there IS a difference

As a professional developer, I applaud your move to make Expression Web part of MSDN.  But I work with designers all day long, and it's crucial that I have a product with Design-like capabilities.  Even though I'm not doing the majority of design myself, I often need to work with their files, so PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make Design available in MSDN too!

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If you're an MSDN subscriber, you might be wondering what parts you can get hold of without purchase

As a result of attending a number of MSDN Road show sessions in the last few months, I am very aware

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Microsoft Expression Studio shipped and is now available for purchase. Between Expression Design and

Microsoft Expression Studio shipped and is now available for purchase. Between Expression Design and

Expression Web og Blend i MSDN Premium

There's been a lot of talk going on in the Microsoft community ( here , here , here , and here ) lately

Good Little Developer, do what you are told

Visual Studio with MSDN Premium or any Team role (Team Architect, Team Database, Team Developer, Team

The Official Microsoft Expression website contains great information on the Expression studio products

I am having a problem trying to find the sample files, that are mentioned in the Expression Blend Self Study Tutorial (Expression Design End-To-End Exercise, page 57 and 73) : <labroot>\Labs\Assets\Fabrikam_Logo.design and <labroot>\VideoPlayer_Assets\Playlist.xml etc.?  They are not there in the files that I downloaded, where are they? Help

+1 to add Expression Design too.

I'm a developer, but sometimes I need to do some basic designs, cropping, etc.

Expression Design will be great to have all similar technologies for doing our work

We are a small ISV, and 80% of our artwork in projects is done by the developer team. Only 30% is done by dedicated designers. We also train developers and designers in tools and process management, so we need access to all this excellent tools. Count us up for voting for adding Expression Design to the MSDN subscriptions.

Best wishes

Rolf

Expression Now Available With MSDN

I would like to restate this comment:

I am having a problem trying to find the sample files, that are mentioned in the Expression Blend Self Study Tutorial (Expression Design End-To-End Exercise, page 57 and 73) : <labroot>\Labs\Assets\Fabrikam_Logo.design and <labroot>\VideoPlayer_Assets\Playlist.xml etc.?  They are not there in the files that I downloaded, where are they? Help

Can we find these files anywhere???????

I had the same problem, for the moment I am cheating a bit - I've opened  VideoPlayer_Final.design  from  ...\4 - Intro to Expression Blend\VideoPlayer_Assets and just doing copy & paste into my project. If anyone knows a better solution please let us know!

Originally when these products were announced, they were not going to be included in MSDN and they were

I'm working the Expression Blend End-to-End Exercise to familiarize myself with this program.  When I got to page 57 and was asked to open sample file Fabrikam_Logo.design in the Assets folder, it's not there!  

MAJOR Frustration!!  Where can I find this missing file, and will there be other files missing further down the process?!?

EXPRESSION BLEND TUTORIAL ISSUES

Thank you so much for being in touch with us and letting us know about some typos you’ve found in the Expression Blend Self Study Tutorial.

We have reviewed the two reported issues. We have a solution for you at http://ux.artu.tv/?page_id=43

Woot! Soma just announced a great change for those of us who try to straddle the developer / designer disciplines. ...Based on this feedback, I am pleased to say that we will be making Expression Web available starting today to all MSDN Premium subscribers.

Lexapro side effects. Lexapro.

For any one looking for the VideoPlayer_Asset files from the Expression Blend tutorials (as Clifford Darrett was above) then try http://wpfkorea.com/?mid=Downloads&page=1&document_srl=893&listStyle=&cpage=

I know it's all in Korean but the link is in english (which is about the only thing that is so you can't miss it.)

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