Microsoft Expression Studio

The Microsoft company announced an exit of Expression Studio 4. The new version of set of graphic programs brings joint work of developers and designers to new level and helps to create dynamic applications, relying on the available experience and using familiar tools.

"The design and development equally require a lot of patience, experience and existence of professional tools. With Expression Studio 4 we offer uniform tool kit which integrates both of these directions, - told Page. "Catfish" Somasegar (S. "Soma" Somasegar), the senior vice president of division of tools for developers, Microsoft. – With new features of Expression Studio the 4th design bureaus and web studios receive big flexibility, including in communication with customers, and can bring much quicker new products to the market".

Expression Studio 4 includes a set of new features, for example:

• Coding and broadcast of events are live with support of IIS Smooth Streaming: Expression Encoder 4 allows to organize forward translations in the IIS Smooth Streaming format which provides uninterrupted video playback using Silverlight and HTTP. Everything that is required, - to specify output formats of H.264 or VC-1, zadt quantity and the sizes of flows, and video can be published directly in IIS Media Services. Thanks to the updated interface and a possibility of switching of sources of video management of broadcasting in real time becomes especially effective.

• Improvement of search ratings by SEO diagnostics: new tools of SEO analytics allow not only to carry out an inspection of the repeating or missing headings and meta-tags, but also to check contents for "sensitivity" to search to be convinced that components of the page do not contain generally applicable values.

• Writing of additions for Expression Web using HTML and JavaScript: now it is possible to add own components to Expression Web – the menu, the toolbars, buttons and even dialog boxes, using only HTML, CSS, JavaScript and XML.

• The publication of prototypes SketchFlow on the SharePoint portal: the publication of projects SketchFlow using Silverlight directly on the SharePoint portal provides idle time and easy access of all development team and designers to a prototype. What is very important during the team work – users can leave the comments in SharePoint right after the publication of a prototype.

• New components of behavior (behaviors) in Blend: Expression Blend includes new components of behavior, allowing to concentrate on design. Using new components it is possible to model multi-touch, to define conditions and even to apply some of them in SketchFlow.

• Design of user interfaces (UI) without uniform line of the code: new Expression Blend 4 allows to create even more difficult interactive designs without uniform line of the code. Thus, to create the code to set practically any behavior, it is not necessary any more.

Expression Studio 4 is fine addition of those tools which are already used by development teams and designers. The new version of set offers high-quality design tools which guarantee that the best design ideas can be used in interactive design. It also provides the fast and flexible organization of labor process through Expression Blend, the Visual Studio and. NET Framework.