Expression Studio 3 LAUNCHED TODAY!

Today we announced the official launch of Expression® Studio 3 , a suite of professional design tools for creating Rich Internet Applications. This announcement comes shortly after the July 10th Silverlight 3 launch and the availability of the release candidate for Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow. It is super exciting for us on the Expression Web , Expression Design , Expression Blend + SketchFlow, and Expression Encoder teams to showcase the final versions for the 3rd release of the Studio. Below are various links to the trials, blog posts and other info from the Expression Studio 3 site, community site,  team blogs, and forums. Stay tuned for upcoming related blog posts!        Expression Studio 3 Overview Video      The Visual Kitchen Video     Soma’s blog about Silverlight 3    Download the Expression Studio 3 60 day trial!

 

Expression Web 3 Microsoft Expression Web 3 gives you the tools you need – PHP, HTML/XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, visual diagnostics and sophisticated CSS design capability – to produce high-quality, standards-based Web sites. Includes SuperPreview. Useful Links: Expression Web 3 Overview + Video + 60 day trial Expression Web Community Site Expression Web Forums Blog Posts: Expression Web Blog Soma’s Expression Web 3 blog post Blog posts on the xWeb blog related to SuperPreview

Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow Microsoft Expression Blend 3 revolutionizes the speed and efficiency with which you can take your ideas from initial concept to completed project on the Silverlight and .NET platforms. Includes SketchFlow. Useful Links: Expression Blend Overview + Video + 60 day trialExpression Blend Community Site Expression Blend Forums Blog Posts: Expression Blend & Design Blog SketchFlow Concepts: An Overview by Christian Schormann Expression Blend 3: Photoshop Import by Janete Perez Behavior Blog Posts by Various Overview of New Features in Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow: Part 1 by Kirupa Introducing Sample Data in Blend 3 by Unni

Expression Design 3 Microsoft Expression Design 3 is the perfect companion to Expression Blend or Expression Web. Create sophisticated assets with their fidelity maintained throughout the entire designer-developer workflow. Useful Links: Expression Design Overview + Video + 60 day trial Expression Blend & Design Blog Expression Design Community Site Expression Design Forums

Expression Encoder 3 With Microsoft Expression Encoder, you can import and encode video files, produce live webcasts, enhance media with watermarks and advertising, and publish with Microsoft Silverlight. Useful Links: Expression Encoder Overview + Video + 60 day trialExpression Encoder Community Site Expression Encoder Forums Blog Posts: Expression Encoder Blog What’s new in Expression Encoder 3 blog post by the Encoder Team

Cheers!
The Expression Blend Team

Comments

• Anonymous
  July 22, 2009
  Any idea when this will be on msdn?

• Anonymous
  July 22, 2009
  I have fought with the issue below with Design 2, and anxiously downloaded Design 3, hoping it would be fixed.  No dice! The problem is when I am exporting selected objects to jpg (or png, for that matter).  Their combined dimension when selected is 291x200, as shown at the bottom left of the Design app.  However, when I choose Export... Selected Objects, it shows the dimensions as 292x201.  Why???  Why can't my dimensions when exporting be exactly the same as when designing them?  I thought maybe it was antialiasing, but unchecking that made no difference.  I also made sure my X and Y locations were integers, thinking there was some kind of rounding problem.  Still no difference. This has happened with multiple images.  I create banners of different sizes for various things, and have had this problem with most of them.  I struggle through it, manually forcing different sizes here and there.  But this just won't cut it.  If I can't get jpgs dimensions that match my design surfact dimensions, I simply can't use this product. Thoughts?  I'm glad to help troubleshoot in whatever way I can.  I did help the Deepzoom team troubleshoot a bug with their DLL; I'm glad to help here any way I can as well. John ps.  I'm sure there are things I can do by creating slices, or setting canvas size, etc.  I'm not looking for workarounds, though.  Because of how I work, I need this problem solved. pss.  The submit button wasn't working on IE8.  I am copying this to Firefox.  We'll see if the submit button works now... if you see this, it worked on Firefox, not on IE.

• Anonymous
  July 22, 2009
  I blogged an example of my problem for you to get a better understanding of what's happening. http://johnwest.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!EBA860160D5F5D75!1133.entry

• Anonymous
  July 22, 2009
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• Anonymous
  July 23, 2009
  When will it be available on DreamSpark?