Introduction to MS BLEND
Stepping into the new horizon of designing, Microsoft Product, Expression Blend provides extraordinary user interfaces/tools for both windows as well as web applications. Expression Blend is itself written using the .NET Framework and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). Expression Blend is effectively an interactive, WYSIWYG front-end for designing XAML-based interfaces for WPF and Silverlight.Expression blend not only supports WPF text engine but also vector based 2D and 3D widgets accelerated by DirectX.
Expression Blend is used for building Rich Interactivity with Vector Graphics, Animation, 3D, Advanced Topography, bitmap graphics, data binding, Video and Audio. Having a sophisticated Interactive designing environment, Expression Blend provides easy to handle tools like menu, sliders, buttons, viewboxs, listboxes without even writing any code.
Few Terms related to Expression Blend
- Windows Presentation Foundation :
It provides the features of adding multimedia tools to the applications like audio, video, user interface etc. It is uses the markup language, Extensible Application Markup Language and thus provides ease to the developer. - XAML :
Extensible Markup Application Language is a markup language developed by Microsoft. XAML plays vital role in developing applications in Expression Blend i.e. either the application can be created by writing XAML code or by using IDE as in this case the XAML code is reflected behind according to the design view. - SIlverlight:
Using some features of WPF silverlight is used to create rich interactive applications and media experiences for web. It contains some website files which use features of wpf. Silverlight uses cross browser, cross platform plug ins for incorporating video, animation, interactivity, and stunning user interfaces.
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