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 Also available is the Update for the Expression Media Encoder Preview…this update ensures templates work properly with the latest Silverlight bits: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3A3C901C-C23D-4567-A76F-CC46CB113D1E&displaylang=e

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 apologies for our mistake and, if you're affected by this issue, here is a temporary remedial solution. We will follow up this post with a more official solution very soon. To work around the issue: 1. Create a new folder on a hard drive on your system

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 will be eligible to enter a drawing to win a free Zune! The deadline for submitting a survey response is Tuesday, April 3, 2007. The Blend Connect homepage is: https://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=32 Survey Link: https://connect.microsoft.com/Survey/Survey.aspx?SurveyID=3761&SiteID=32

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 of Samples and Tutorials Gallery - Expression Blend . Each of the tutorials appears much longer than they were before because they have been edited to include more details for each step to help you understand where you might use the information again.

To view a sample or tutorial, click on one of thumbnails or links below. Some samples also have supporting tutorials. These are indicated with a check mark. Sample Tutorial available? Fabrikam Catalog Part 1: Layout and Data Learn the basics of layout and data binding with the first Fabrikam Catalog tutorial and sample. Fabrikam Catalog Part 2: Control Templates Continuing the Fabrikam Catalog theme, the second tutorial and sample introduces the incredibly powerful technique of customizing the template

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 in a property value over time, and the combination of different value curves for different properties allows fine control over advanced scenarios such as acceleration along a curved trajectory. The previous post Keyframe easing and key splines explains

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 is called interpolation . Let’s say you’re translating an element from the top of a Grid to the bottom to represent a falling motion. With the element at the top of the screen you drop a keyframe at time 0. Then you move the playhead to time 1 and

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, UX envelope-pushing applications to the desktop. Applications that blend content, media and user interface into real user experiences. WPF provides sophisticated vector graphics and blurs the distinction between user interface and content. You can

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 is given below but something you'll notice immediately is that the product’s name has changed from EID to Microsoft Expression Blend. Also, Blend has a new look! The Blend beta requires the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 on Windows XP, as described

One of the new databinding features in the March CTP of Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer is the ability to handle value converters. This article will explain how to databind 2 TextBox controls using a custom value converter which reverts the text. Step 1 - Create a custom value converter We will create a very simple value converter which reverts a string. We will define the custom converter class in the code behind file for Scene1. So, copy paste the following code into the codebehind file