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Programming WPF, 2nd Edition
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Programming WPF, 2nd Edition

by Chris Sells, Ian Griffiths
August 2007
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
864 pages
25h 52m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Tool Support

In most of the examples in this appendix, the XAML I have shown is fairly small and straightforward. The reality is that most interesting XAML is much more complex than what I can show you in a simple code example. Hand-coding complex XAML can be difficult, but that is where tools come in.

There are several tools to help you work with Silverlight XAML:

  • The Expression Toolset (including Design and Blend)

  • Visual Studio (including the Silverlight JavaScript Application Project)

  • Third-party tools (e.g., Photoshop and Illustrator)

Expression Toolset

New to the Microsoft family of products is the Expression set of tools:

Expression Design

An Adobe Illustrator-like tool for creating vector-based designs

Expression Blend

A design tool that works directly against XAML and interoperates with developer-level tools (e.g., Visual Studio)

Expression Web

A professional web design tool

Expression Media

A multimedia asset management tool as well as a video/audio editing and transcoding tool

For the Silverlight developer, the three parts of Expression that are of most interest are Expression Design, Expression Media, and Expression Blend. Currently, Design and Media are compatible with Silverlight. A new version of Blend (Version 2) is also compatible with Silverlight. At the time of this writing, prerelease versions of Expression Media and Expression Blend Version 2 are available.[137]

Expression Design

You use Design to mix vector and raster (i.e., bitmap) designs together. Expression Design allows ...

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