Microsoft® Expression Blend™ 2.0.18.0 March Preview

                           

Microsoft^® Expression Blend^™ is the professional design tool to create engaging web-connected experiences for Windows.

Microsoft Expression Blend (formerly Expression Interactive Designer) helps you create streamlined, innovative and just plain beautiful applications. Users experience increased satisfaction, while you develop in a flexible, productive environment. Create engaging, cinematic user interfaces with a rich design environment that combines multiple media elements including vectors, pixel images, 3D content, video & audio, high quality text, and animation. Contextualize content by applying custom styles and layout to optimize the experience.

Drive seamless collaboration with developers using Visual Studio and maximize the integrity of designs by sharing the common WinFX platform during prototype, design, and development stages of building advanced UI and applications. Deliver exciting next generation user experiences that leverage the full capabilities of the Windows platform to provide greater overall performance, improved usability, and increased customer satisfaction.

                 

What’s new in Expression Blend 2.5?

Silverlight 2 Support

Use Expression Blend 2.5 March 2008 Preview to create and modify managed Silverlight 2-based applications. Expression Blend for Silverlight 2 includes all of the features in Expression Blend 2 but has not reached the quality level of Expression Blend 2 for WPF or Silverlight 1 development.

Installation Instructions:

1. Install the .NET Framework 3.5 first before you install Expression Blend 2.5.
2. Install Silverlight 2 Beta 1
3. Install Expression Blend 2.5 March 2008 Preview (25 megabytes)

Please note: Information about prerelease versions of Microsoft Expression products is subject to change.

^*This preview release does not require a product key. You can use the Expression Blend 2.5 March 2008 Preview until July 1, 2008. Users who have experienced problems with licensing in previous previews should have a significantly improved experience with this release.