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What is included in Expression Studio 4 Ultimate?
Expression
Blend®
Expression Blend, Visual Studio, Silverlight and .NET provide a seamless
design and development workflow. Ideas evolve from your initial prototyping
with SketchFlow,
a feature included with Expression Studio Ultimate, to the completed project
quickly and effectively, enabling you to create compelling applications for
your customers.
Expression
Web + SuperPreview
Microsoft® Expression® Web gives you the tools
you need – PHP, HTML/XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, visual
diagnostics, cross-browser debugging features & sophisticated CSS design
capability – to produce high-quality, standards-based web sites.
Expression
Encoder Pro
With Expression Encoder Pro, encode a wide array of video file formats,
stream live, or screen capture your PC. Make simple edits and enhance your
media with overlays and advertising. Choose from a range of player templates
and publish rich media experiences with Microsoft Silverlight.
Expression
Design
Microsoft® Expression Design 4 is the perfect companion to
Expression Blend or Expression Web. Leverage existing artwork or use drawing
tools to quickly build vector assets with their fidelity maintained
throughout the entire design-development workflow.
Top 10 Features
1. Revolutionize the speed of prototyping
SketchFlow enables you quickly create an effective prototype to present
ideas, user interface flows, screen layouts and application functionality to
your clients.
2. Enable interactivity without writing code
Behaviors are powerful building blocks of interactivity that bring a
project to life by adding control of transitions, interactivity and animation
to your applications.
3. Accelerate the creation of effective UI with sample data
Accelerate the speed and flexibility with which you can create your
application designs through the effective use of sample data. Generate design
time data on the fly, import via XML, or create from C# objects, then
seamlessly swap for a live data connection at any time.
4. Fast, flexible, seamless: a workflow that adapts to you and your team
Expression Blend, Visual Studio, Silverlight and .NET provide the most
impactful and seamless workflow on the market today. Ideas are taken from
concept to completion with speed and flexibility, challenging you to deliver
innovative applications to your customers on time and within budget.
5. Professional tools save time, creating web sites that deliver results
IntelliSense and color-coding for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP make your
editing and debugging more productive. Generate elegant, modern CSS layouts
with state-of-the-art, editable design surface with the ability to directly
manipulate positioning, sizing, margins and padding.
6. Advanced visual diagnostics speed debugging
Debug web pages with Snapshot Preview, which shows rendered page changes
while you code, and SuperPreview, which displays your page on multiple
browsers on your development machine.
7. Rich standards-based web design with the essential technologies
Expression Web supports PHP, CSS, HTML/XHTML, XML, XSLT, JavaScript,
ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight (video, animation, and Deep Zoom), Windows
Media, Adobe Flash, & Adobe Photoshop files.
8. Prepare video for Silverlight
Encode a wide array of video file formats, stream live from webcams and
camcorders, or screen capture your PC with Expression Encoder. Make simple
edits to video files and enhance your media with overlays and advertising.
Choose encoding settings, including IIS Smooth Streaming, choose from a range
of player templates and publish rich media experiences with Microsoft
Silverlight.
9. Team Foundation Server integration
Share your Expression Studio project files with your colleagues by using
check in and check out functionality with Microsoft Team Foundation Server
interoperability (sold separately).
10. Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator import — Utilize your
traditional design assets
Powerful importers enable a smooth integration with the workflow visual
designers are using today. Photoshop files can be imported layer by layer,
regrouped and individual elements retain their original formats, layers, layer
positions, editable text and vectors.
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