Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer ("Sparkle") Is Here!!!

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Damir Tomicic — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 15:31:21 GMT

Hi Tim,

remember this one? ;-)

http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2004/06/07/150000.aspx

Cheers
Damir

re: Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer ("Sparkle") Is Here!!!

tims — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 19:28:45 GMT

Hi Damir, only just barely - it's been eighteen months since I wrote that post :) Thanks for adding the link back - it's a good reminder of the historical context.

re: Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer ("Sparkle") Is Here!!!

Don Burnett — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:30:52 GMT

Does this build work on an x64 Dual core XP Pro 64-bit machine? Survey says... NO (total disappointment..) It comes up with the user interface then a dialog comes up saying

"Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvienience. If you were in the middle of something, the information you were working on might be lost." Debug or Close

I guess I will just have to make due with Cider.. But this is really disappointing..

(this is an XP Pro x64 dual core machine with all the other requirements installed)..

re: Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer ("Sparkle") Is Here!!!

tims — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 23:06:38 GMT

Don, I'd like to take this offline and work out what's going on, rather than trying to do a technical diagnosis in a blog comments section :) Would you mind sending me a mail via the contacts section of the blog, and we'll see if we can track down what's going on here?

Thanks, Tim

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likn — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 23:17:01 GMT

Cool, thanks.

Has anyone posted anything on how to use Video with Sparkle?

R u guys planning a video codec designed specifically to work with WPF Applications etc? (sort of like Flash 8 Video where it can emit cuepoints events, support alpha channels etc etc)?

cheers

GRRRR: Doesn't Work With AMD

George Maney — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 01:43:30 GMT

Only Pentium 4 support in this preview. I've got lots of AMD machines but NO pentium 4s. I'm heartbroken.

re: Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer ("Sparkle") Is Here!!!

Joku — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 04:13:01 GMT

Wow!

It looked great in the demos, but trying out this stuff yourself.. Almsot wet my pants ;-)

re: Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer ("Sparkle") Is Here!!!

Damian Galeltini — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:12:11 GMT

Hello, my name is Damian Galletini and i am from Argentina. Sorry for my english, that is quite precarious. I have a question, i must develop a gadget for the sidebar of Windows Vista with avalon, but not where to look for information about to the subject. Can you help me please??

re: Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer ("Sparkle") Is Here!!!

tims — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 04:05:40 GMT

All the gadgets information is at http://www.microsoftgadgets.com, but I don't know that there's anything available about Windows Sidebar yet.

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Divy — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 07:27:37 GMT

Hello there,
I am Divy~
Can anyone help me about why the installation felt after I downlaod its trial version from Microsoft site?~ Please help us to check steps: great thanks!

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We tried to install from this link:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=ED9F5FB2-4CFC-4D2C-9AF8-580D644E3D1D&displaylang=en

-----------------------------------------------While installing, a dialog box indicate that we need to install Window Presentation Foundation version 6.0.5257.51106 first.

I couldn't find this WPF 6.0.5257.51106 ? Where can I get it?

Then I found WPF Hands On Lab here

http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/building/presentation/hands_on_lab/default.aspx

and download it.
Still, the WPF 6.0.5257.51106 installation felt too. Another dialog box appears when installing , and says 'product.cab' is currupt....

Meanwhile, an anyone help us to complete the installation? We really like to try on the Sparkle.

We really appreciate your help. ^^

re: Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer ("Sparkle") Is Here!!!

tims — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 20:39:08 GMT

Divy, you need the Jan CTP of WinFX Runtime Components, available from here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getthebeta/default.aspx

Hope that helps, Tim

re: Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer ("Sparkle") Is Here!!!

David — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 01:25:49 GMT

I see that the standard Microsoft practice of taking something with a cool name and calling it something absolutely unmemorable and unattractive continues :).

re: Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer ("Sparkle") Is Here!!!

tims — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:05:46 GMT

To look at this problem obliquely, perhaps we should start giving our products less cool codenames, and then the final release names won't be such a disappointment.

Coming soon to a machine near you, Microsoft "Tepid"... :)

http://theserverside.net/news/thread.tss?thread_id=38665

TrackBack — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 19:20:53 GMT

Microsoft Expression "Sparkle Interactive Designer" est dans les bacs !

The BloGuiBlog — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 14:49:55 GMT

Comme nous l'a déjà dit notre confrère Pierrick sur son blog.
Enfin,... "Sparkle" Interactive Designer...

re: Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer ("Sparkle") Is Here!!!

Paulm — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:52:56 GMT

I can't use the produce because of the menus...
How do you change the font rendering (I assume its vista presentation) 'cause it looks terrible on my CRT?

re: Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer ("Sparkle") Is Here!!!

nate — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 03:42:43 GMT

can anyone find this download?

Windows Presentation Foundation version 6.0.5257.51106

re: Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer ("Sparkle") Is Here!!!

Martin — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 17:07:23 GMT

Why does Microsoft recommend to download the February CTP of WinFX at the download page of Interactive Designer when it does not run with this release but need the January CTP????

Experiments with Expression

The ShiSh List — Wed, 10 May 2006 04:36:30 GMT

Last weekend I tried out the Expression suite of products and was pretty impressed ... well VERY impressed...

re: Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer ("Sparkle") Is Here!!!

Don Burnett — Mon, 15 May 2006 02:30:20 GMT

Is there an expression build that yet works properly on x64 without crashing?

Add a little "Sparkle" to your world!

Federal Developer Weblog — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 18:08:36 GMT

Tim Sneath just blog’d that Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer (code name "Sparkle") is available...

MS re-org

JD on EP — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 23:40:42 GMT

MS re-org: This link goes to a CNET story about Microsoft getting out of the online music store biz... the Sept04 press release doesn't mention the project targeted at the existing audience of Apple's iTunes Music store, but that's what many pundits believed

Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer ("Sparkle") Is Here!!!

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GRRRR: Doesn't Work With AMD

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http://theserverside.net/news/thread.tss?thread_id=38665

Microsoft Expression &quot;Sparkle Interactive Designer&quot; est dans les bacs !

re: Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer ("Sparkle") Is Here!!!

re: Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer ("Sparkle") Is Here!!!

re: Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer ("Sparkle") Is Here!!!

Experiments with Expression

re: Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer ("Sparkle") Is Here!!!

Add a little &quot;Sparkle&quot; to your world!

MS re-org

Microsoft Expression "Sparkle Interactive Designer" est dans les bacs !

Add a little "Sparkle" to your world!