Designed for Microsoft Silverlight 1.0*
Standards based design with Expression Web 2
Design UX with Expression Blend 2
Reasons to buy
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- Combine Expression Studio for designers with Visual Studio for developers for a powerfully integrated solution for designing and coding innovative applications.
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- Design for today's web standards with Expression Web 2, built to translate your visual layouts into fully compliant pages using your choice of versions of XHTML, CSS, XML and XSLT.
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- Collaborate with developers to produce applications with great user experience that both look great and function well. Design application skins with interactivity and animation without needing to type a line of code.
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- 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.
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- Expression Studio 2 is the essential design resource for Microsoft's newest Web technology, Silverlight.*
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- 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 make compelling sites.
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- 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.
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- Keep track of your graphic and video files using Expression Media, a team asset management tool that lets you sort, keyword and find them with unsurpassed ease.
System requirements
- Processor
- 1 GHz or faster (PC); PowerPC or Intel processor (Mac)
- Memory
- 1GB of RAM (PC); 512MB of RAM (Mac)
- Media drive
- DVD-ROM drive
- Other
- .NET Framework 3.5 (if it is not already installed, it will be installed automatically during setup). Support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0 graphics with Windows Vista Display Driver Model (WDDM) Driver, 128MB of graphics RAM or more, Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware, 32-bits per pixel (PC); Apple QuickTime 7.3.1 or later (Mac)
- Operating system
- Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista operating system (PC); or Mac OS X version 10.4 or later (Mac). Expression Studio is not compatible with Mac OS; however, it includes Expression Media, a team asset management tool that is compatible with Mac OS.
- Hard disk
- 2GB (PC); 100MB (Mac)
- Display
- 1024 x 768 or higher-resolution monitor with 24-bit color (PC); Monitor set to Millions of Colors (Mac)