Microsoft Expression Blend

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  1. Microsoft Expression Design is a powerful illustration tool that allows you to create both vector and bitmap graphics for use in projects created with the other applications in the Studio suite, including Expression Web and Expression Blend.
  2. Introduction to MS BLEND. Stepping into the new horizon of designing, Microsoft Product, Expression Blend provides extraordinary user interfaces/tools for both windows as well as web applications. Expression Blend is itself written using the.NET Framework and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).

Blend for Visual Studio helps you design XAML-based Windows and Web applications. /dish-anywhere-app-for-mac.html. It provides the same basic XAML design experience as Visual Studio and adds visual designers for advanced tasks such as animations and behaviors. For a comparison between Blend and Visual Studio, see Design XAML in Visual Studio and Blend for Visual Studio.

Microsoft Expression Blend

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Blend for Visual Studio is a component of Visual Studio. To install Blend, in the Visual Studio Installer choose either the Universal Windows Platform development or .NET desktop development workload. Both of these workloads include the Blend for Visual Studio component.

If you're new to Blend for Visual Studio, take a moment to become familiar with the unique features of the workspace. This topic takes you on a quick tour.

Tools panel

You can use the Tools panel in Blend for Visual Studio to create and modify objects in your application. The Tools panel appears on the left-hand side of the XAML designer when you have a .xaml file open.

You create the objects by selecting a tool and drawing on the artboard with your mouse.

Tip

Some of the tools in the Tools panel have variations, for example, instead of a rectangle, you can choose an ellipse or a line. To access these variations, right-click or click and hold on the tool.

Selection tools

Select objects and paths. Use the Direct Selection tool to select nested objects and path segments.

View tools

Adjust the view of the artboard, such as for panning and zooming.

Brush tools

Work with the visual attributes of an object, such as transforming a brush or applying a gradient.

Object tools

Draw the most common objects on the artboard, such as paths, shapes, layout panels, text, and controls.

Asset tools

Access the Assets window and show the most recently used asset from the library.

Assets window

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The Assets window contains all the available controls and is similar to the Toolbox in Visual Studio. In addition to controls, you'll find everything you can add to your artboard in the Assets window, including styles, media, behaviors, and effects. To open the Assets window, choose View > Assets Window or press Ctrl+Alt+X.

  • Enter text in the Search Assets box to filter the list of assets.
  • Switch between Grid mode and List mode view view of assets by using the buttons at the top right.

Objects and Timeline window

Use this window to organize the objects on your artboard and, if you want, to animate them. To open the Objects and Timeline window, choose View > Document Outline. In addition to the functionality provided in the Document Outline window in Visual Studio, the Objects and Timeline window in Blend for Visual Studio has a timeline composition area on the right. Use the timeline when you're creating and editing animations.

Use the storyboard-related buttons to create, delete, close, or select a storyboard. Use the Timeline composition area on the right to view the timeline and move keyframes.

Hover over each button in the window to learn more about the available functionality.

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Microsoft Blend
Developer(s)Microsoft
Stable release
2019 v16.4.1 / December 11, 2019; 12 months ago[1]
Operating systemWindows 7, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8, Windows 10[2]
PlatformDirectX[2]
LicenseSame as Visual Studio[3]
Websiteblogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wpf/2015/04/29/blend-for-visual-studio-2015-rc/

Microsoft Blend for Visual Studio (formerly Microsoft Expression Blend) is a user interface design tool developed and sold by Microsoft for creating graphical interfaces for web and desktop applications that blend the features of these two types of applications. It is an interactive, WYSIWYG front-end for designing XAML-based interfaces for Windows Presentation Foundation, Silverlight and UWP applications. It was one of the applications in the Microsoft Expression Studio suite before that suite was discontinued.

Expression Blend supports the WPF text engine with advanced OpenType typography and ClearType, vector-based 2D widgets, and 3D widgets with hardware acceleration via DirectX.

History[edit]

Expression Blend was code-namedSparkle, and originally the product was announced as Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer, before it was renamed Expression Blend in December 2006.

On January 24, 2007, Microsoft released the first public Community Technology Preview of Expression Blend as a free download on their web site. The final version was released to manufacturing along with other Expression products on 30 April 2007. The RTM news was announced at Microsoft's MIX 07 conference for web developers and designers.[4] Expression Blend Service Pack 1 was released in November 2007.[5] Expression Blend requires .NET Framework 3.0. Expression Blend and Expression Web are also available as part of the MSDN Premium subscription.

In December 2012 Microsoft announced that they discontinued the standalone Expression suite tools.[6][7] Expression Blend was integrated into Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio Express for Windows 8.

Release history[edit]

ReleaseRelease DateHighlights
22008-04-28Support developing Microsoft Silverlight browser-based Rich Internet Applications providing animation, vector graphics, interactivity and video playback capabilities. Version 2.0 supported only Silverlight 1.0 applications at release and Microsoft had planned Blend 2.5 for Silverlight 2.0 applications, however the capabilities of the preview version 2.5 have been added to Blend 2.0 Service Pack 1.
32009-07-22Support for PSD and AI files, SketchFlow,[8] TFS support and number of other significant improvements. Sketchflow is a user experience prototyping module implemented in Blend.[9][10]
42010-06-07Support for Silverlight 4 and WPF 4 while also remaining compatible with Silverlight 3 and WPF 3.5 SP1 applications. Other improvements and additions: shapes library, improved Photoshop file support, added pixel shader effects, path layout, transition effects, ListBox item transitions, Model-View-ViewModel pattern support, additional Behaviors, conditional Behaviors, sample data from CLR classes, design time resource resolution, easing functions for WPF 4, cleaner XAML, and .ZIP support for projects and templates.[11] Support for Windows Phone 7 projects to Expression Blend 4 Release Candidate.[12][13][14]
20122012-08-15Name changed to 'Blend for Visual Studio 2012'. Released alongside the Windows 8 & Visual Studio 2012 RTMs. Includes support for WPF version 3.5, 4.0 and 4.5, Silverlight 4.0 and 5.0, SketchFlow, and Blend tools for Windows 8.[15][3][2]
20132013-10-17Released alongside Visual Studio 2013 RTMs
20152015-07-20Released alongside Visual Studio 2015 RTMs[16]
20172017-03-07Released alongside Visual Studio 2017 RTMs[17]
20192019-04-02Released alongside Visual Studio 2019 RTMs[18]

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References[edit]

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  1. ^https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2019/release-notes#16.4.1
  2. ^ abc'Download: Blend + SketchFlow Preview for Microsoft Visual Studio 2012'. Download Center. Microsoft. 15 August 2012. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
  3. ^ abSchormann, Christian (15 August 2012). 'Available Now: Blend for Visual Studio 2012'. Blend Insider. Microsoft. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
  4. ^Expression Studio RTM news
  5. ^Expression Blend SP1
  6. ^'Microsoft Kills Expression Suite'. i-programmer.info. 2012-12-21. Retrieved 2013-06-01.
  7. ^'Microsoft ending development of Expression suite of Web and design tools'. Ars Technica. 2012-12-20. Retrieved 2013-06-01.
  8. ^SketchFlow Concepts: An Overview
  9. ^SketchFlow – Sketching and Prototyping in Expression Blend
  10. ^SketchFlow: A Bit of History
  11. ^What’s New for Expression Blend 4 Release Candidate
  12. ^Microsoft Expression Blend Add-in Preview 2 for Windows Phone Release Notes
  13. ^Microsoft Expression Blend 4 for Windows Phone video
  14. ^Blend FAQ
  15. ^Arthur, Erik (15 August 2012). 'Announcing Blend + SketchFlow Preview for Visual Studio 2012'. Blend Insider. Microsoft. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
  16. ^'Visual Studio 2015 RTM'. Visual Studio News. Microsoft. 20 July 2015. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
  17. ^'Visual Studio 2017 RTM'. Visual Studio News. Microsoft. 7 March 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  18. ^'Visual Studio 2019 RTM'. Visual Studio News. Microsoft. 1 April 2019. Retrieved 8 April 2019.

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