Your vision, realized.
Bring your passion for design to both the Windows desktop and the web with the power of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight. Create experiences with new levels of usability.
Your workflow, harmonized.
Your beautiful designs work seamlessly with the power...Read More
Microsoft Expression Studio 2.0 Product Description
Your vision, realized.
Bring your passion for design to both the Windows desktop and the web with the power of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight. Create experiences with new levels of usability.
Your workflow, harmonized.
Your beautiful designs work seamlessly with the power of Microsoft development technologies. Art meets science, form meets function.
Your web sites, standardized.
Design websites with a focus on industry standards. Build amazing web applications that just work everywhere.
1. Design for Windows and the Web
Use a full range of new professional design tools to bring your creativity to the world of the .NET framework and Silverlight. Design the next generation of user interfaces for Windows and the Web.
2. Designer-Developer workflow
Combine Expression Studio for designers with Visual Studio for developers for a powerfully integrated solution for designing and coding innovative applications.
3. Design for Silverlight 1
Expression Studio 2 is the essential design resource for Microsoft's newest web technology, Silverlight 1-use a combination of Expression Blend 2 and Design 2 to create your Silverlight application and Expression Web 2 to integrate it into your website.
4. Standards-based design with Expression Web 2
Design for today's web standards with Expression Web 2, built to translate your visual layouts into fully compliant pages using your choice of XHTML, CSS, XML and XSLT.
5. Harness the power of ASP.NET and PHP with Expression Web 2
Expression Web 2 is the first web design tool to offer deep support for both ASP.NET 3.5 and PHP, which allows designers to collaborate with developers on web projects to build compelling sites.
6. Design UX with Expression Blend 2
Work with developers to produce applications with great user experience that both look great and function well. Design application skins with interactivity and animation without typing a line of code.
7. Design for XAML
Design graphic elements for Blend and Silverlight and export them in XAML format to retain absolute fidelity through the life of the project. Have confidence that your design lives on.
8. Create Artwork with Expression Design 2
Create artwork for your desktop and web applications using an exciting drawing tool, then either export as XAML or slice your images for the Web.
9. Manage your design assets with Expression Media 2
Keep track of your graphic and video files using Expression Media, a team asset management tool that lets you sort, tag and find files with unsurpassed ease.
10. Encode Video for Silverlight with Expression Encoder 2
Prepare your files for Silverlight delivery using the Expression Encoder to crop and add markers, helping your websites interact with your video content.
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