A deep dive into Expression Blend for designing Metro style apps using HTML (Channel 9)

A deep dive into Expression Blend for designing Metro style apps using HTML

Date: September 15, 2011 from 10:30AM to 11:30AM

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Speakers: Christian Schormann

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Learn how to use Expression Blend to visually construct, style and layout Metro style apps using HTML for Windows 8. In this session, we will demonstrate how Expression Blend makes it possible to create a better user experience with greater productivity. We’ll start with semantic markup and JavaScript-generated content, and then we will demonstrate how to use Expression Blend to customize the user experience for Windows 8.

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Ian2 In geeks we trust ...

Sep 13, 2011 at 12:51 PM

(With apologies if this has been answered elsewhere)
Can I expect to see Blend available on ARM based devices?
Thanks,
Ian
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LanceSeidman Let's build a better future

Sep 15, 2011 at 10:42 AM

So, I assume now with Blend you technically don't need Visual Studio as you can build a site within and if so, will this be available for WP7 Developers?
Christian Schormann

Sep 16, 2011 at 5:04 PM

Ian,
we have no plans to make Blend available running on ARM devices.

Lance,
Blend for HTML does not contain for example debugging and deployment features, so that you will want to use VS for these tasks.
Blend for HTML is built for designing Metro-style apps. We do have a version of Blend for Windows Phone 7 development too (the WP7 APIs are based on SIlverlight), which is available for free in the Windows Phone Developer Tools package.

Regards,
CS
Chefgon

Sep 17, 2011 at 5:12 PM

When can we expect Blend to be updated to support Xaml projects? This entire platform is useless to me until that happens, which is a bummer because I was super excited for it.
csells99

Sep 23, 2011 at 5:39 AM

Chefgon, have you tried the XAML designer integrated into VS11? It's based on Blend technologies.
FrankieC The Mad Code Crunching Pianist

Sep 23, 2011 at 2:07 PM

This was an excellent presentation and demo of how to do visual authoring in Expression Blend covering the UI, CSS, HTML5 and much, much more. Lots of gems in this. Will have to watch again. Thanks Christian!
vsuley

Sep 29, 2011 at 12:55 AM

Really helpful presentation! I installed the Dev preview on my laptop and was pretty clueless about how to get started with Expression Blend...but this got me started. Thanks!
Darren Mart

Oct 09, 2011 at 10:06 AM

The cynic in me thinks it's intentional that Blend 5 Preview doesn't support XAML. Is Microsoft trying to steer the developers by intentionally withholding XAML support?

I'm not interested in HTML5/JavaScript. I invested years in XAML, so when it's coming to Blend 5?