Expression Studio 3 released

    Today, the Microsoft Expression product line has been updated , including new versions of Expression Blend , Expression Design , Expression Web, and Expression Encoder.
    You can download the full set of products in one file here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7e2f033b-c6b5-4565-93a5-a6048246ce28 .
    Updated product site - http://www.microsoft.com/expression .
    Updated community site - http://expression.microsoft.com .

    Further links to individual products and additional details.

    Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow



    What's new:
    • Prototyping with SketchFlow.
    • Import Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator files with preservation of layers, graphic and text elements.
    • Support for Silverlight 3 and WPF effects directly in Blend.
    • Annotations - the ability to leave comments on individual elements for effective teamwork.
    • The control panel is now a separate Assets panel that can be left open for the duration of the work.
    • Creating templates / skins based on selected objects through the Make Into Control option .
    • State Improvements (States) - Improved Visual State Manager, editing and preview transitions.
    • Behaviors - the ability to add interactivity to a program without writing code.

    • Improved work with data - the use of data samples to facilitate prototyping, improved data binding (Data Binding).
    • Silverlight 3 support - including the ability to add work outside the browser and caching libraries directly from the project menu.
    • Integration with TFS - now designers will know what check in, check out and merge are.
    • Improvements in working with animations , including EasingFunctionready- made templates for changing parameters.
    • Improved font support - including the ability to embed fonts in Silverlight and WPF projects.
    • Improvements in the workspace , including docking functionality, improvements in working with gradients, layers and much more on the little things.
    • Code support - editing directly from Blend, IntelliSense, autoformatting, etc. buns are present.
    • Extensibility - along with Blend put a “mysterious” Blend SDK;)
    Download Expression Blend 3 : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e82db5e2-7106-419e-80b0-65cce89f06bb

    Expression Design 3



    What's new:
    • Import Adobe Photoshop files - with support for layers.
    • Improvements in the workspace - now all panels have docking functionality.
    • Silverlight 3 Support - You can create graphic elements and export them for use in Silverlight applications.
    • Export effects - for Silverlight and WPF, for example, DropShadow or Guassian Blur.
    Download Expression Design 3: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=10e4a530-2c96-4aff-b00c-a154501876bc

    Expression Web 3 + SuperPreview



    What's new:
    • SuperPreview is a special utility for debugging the display of pages in various browsers. See also here .
    • Snapshot Preview - An updated preview of the appearance of the page directly during code editing.
    • DeepZoom - built-in support for inserting DeepZoom image collections (Silverlight and Ajax versions)
    • Silverlight - built-in support for inserting Silverlight video players and applications with the ability to select and customize skins.
    • Improved FTP support - transferring multiple files at a time (and not one at a time), support for secure protocols.
    Download Expression Web 3 : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0a73a3a7-3e06-4125-b3c6-f9c10387e9cc

    Expression Encoder 3



    What's new:
    • Screen capture - now you can record screen-castes directly in Encoder.
    • Multiple clips on Timeline - now you can compose a video from many pieces, inserting them anywhere on the timeline.
    • Adaptive Streaming Support - for IIS Smooth Streaming.
    • New Silverlight-templates - an updated set of video players, including support for H264, playlists, chaptering, playing offline-mode and in a separate window.
    • Save encoding settings to Presets for reuse.
    • Enhanced H264 support - with many options for fine-tuning.
    Download Expression Encoder 3 : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b6c8015b-e5de-46c0-98cd-1be12eef89a8

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