Expression Studio 3 released
The Microsoft Expression product line has been updated today, including new versions of Expression Blend , Expression Design , Expression Web, and Expression Encoder.
Download the full set of products in one file here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7e2f033b-c6b5-4565-93a5-a6048246ce28 .
Updated grocery site - http://www.microsoft.com/expression .
The updated community site is http://expression.microsoft.com .
Further links to individual products and additional details.
Download the full set of products in one file here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7e2f033b-c6b5-4565-93a5-a6048246ce28 .
Updated grocery site - http://www.microsoft.com/expression .
The updated community site is 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 saving layers, graphics 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, which can be left open for the duration of the work.
- Creating templates / skins based on selected objects via the Make Into Control option.
- State Improvements (States) - improved Visual State Manager, editing and previewing transitions.
- Behaviors (Behaviors) - the ability to add interactivity to the program without writing code.
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- Improved data handling - using sample data to facilitate prototyping, improved data binding (Data Binding).
- Silverlight 3 support - including the ability to add work outside the browser and cache libraries directly from the project menu.
- Integration with TFS - now designers will learn what check in, check out and merge are.
- Improvements in working with animations , including EasingFunction — ready templates for changing parameters.
- Improved support for working with fonts - including the ability to embed fonts in Silverlight and WPF projects.
- Improvements in the workspace , including docking-functionality, improvements in work with gradients, layers, and much more in detail.
- Code support - editing directly from Blend, IntelliSense, auto-formatting, and others. There are buns.
- Extensibility - a mysterious Blend SDK is put together with Blend;)
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.
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 while editing the code.
- DeepZoom - integrated insert support for 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 — transfer multiple files at once (rather than one at a time), support for secure protocols.
Expression Encoder 3
What's new:
- Screen capture - now you can record screen castes directly in the Encoder.
- Several clips on the Timeline - now you can make videos from a variety of 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, splitting into chapters, playing in offline mode and in a separate window.
- Save encoding settings to Presets for reuse.
- Extended H264 support - with many options for fine-tuning.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/65147/
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