First Look at Expression Blend 3
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Unni Ravindranathan takes on a tour of the new
Expression Blend 3 Preview released at MIX09. Not only has Blend been updated to support Silverlight 3, but many new features have been added including improved graphic design tools,
Intellisense, TFS integration and improved extensibility.
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Is .net 4 going to be supported?
Can I copy/paste between Blend and Illustrator/Photoshop?
Yay! Source Control Integration!!!
About time!
What about WPF? Will it be updated to support all of these fancy Silverlight features?
.Net 4.0 support will be added to Blend at a later point of time (when .Net 4.0 support is publicly available).
There are very few select features in Blend 3 Preview that don't currently work in WPF because of the current lack of platform support (the only ones I can think of right now are interpolators and projection transform) - our plan is to support Silverlight and WPF uniformly, and innovate on both platforms. Stay tuned for future WPF platform enhancement announcements!
UPDATE: Looks like someone beat me to it. Right mouse click to save target as is now working
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This was the video that looks much better. http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/10-4/10-4-Episode-12-Simplifying-Your-Code-With-C-40/ That should be the default quality level for all demo content.
also, i was kinda disapointed by the lack of detail on behaviours and sketchflow at mix :/ (granted all not all sessions are online yet as im writing this) behaviours in perticular seems really useful, not only for designers but also as a way to encapsulate and abstract functionality => clear up code.
are behaviours just design time things or are the classes with arrtibutes or some kind of interface or what? it'd be really great to have more detail on that.
one other thing about sketch flow, what about exsisting apps? more often than not we're extending something that already exsist, either as a Vnext or some kind of extension, just beeing able to get all the diffrent views into a sketch flow would be very useful for for example simplyfing exsisting ui.. is that something thats coming?
while blend has been interseting before blend3 knock it up a notch indeed. id really like to see more of it here on channel9
folks here may be devs at heart but i think all of us are a little bit of everything
As a graphic artist, I'm very much looking forward to my shop making the upgrade.
Kudos to frame 9:21 in the video. LOL That's my green clock dial on the screen. NEAT!
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