Microsoft Expression Studio…………..

Expression Studio is a suite of tools for designing and building web and Windows client applications and rich digital media contents.

Microsoft introduced Microsoft Expression on September 16, 2005 at Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. Microsoft Expression Studio was released to manufacturing on April 30, 2007. Microsoft Expression Studio 2 was released on May 1, 2008, which also included a graphical makeover for the suite to an inverse of the previous a white on black theme.

Microsoft Expression Studio 3 was released on July 22, 2009. On June 7, 2010, Expression Studio 4 was released. Expression Studio 4 is a free upgrade for licensed Expression Studio 3 users, but only for retail copies.

The suite consists of:

Microsoft Expression Web: Expression Web can design and develop web pages using XML, CSS 2.1, ASP.NET or ASP.NET AJAX, XHTML, XSLT, PHP and JavaScript. Expression Web 4 requires .NET Framework 4.0 and Silverlight 4.0 to install and run.

Microsoft Expression Blend + Sketch Flow: Microsoft Expression Blend is a user interface design tool for creating graphical interfaces for web and desktop applications . It is an interactive  for designing XAML-based interfaces for Windows Presentation Foundation and Silverlight applications.

Microsoft Expression Design: Microsoft Expression Design is vector andraster graphic design tool for web images based on Creature House Expression.

Microsoft Expression Encoder : Microsoft Expression Encoder  is a Windows-based program for encoding digital video for Silverlight-based web video. Expression Encoder can be used to create video compressed VC-1 as well as H.264 for distribution via Microsoft Silverlight.

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