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domingo, 4 de maio de 2008 21:06
A fabrica de lançamentos da Microsoft não para!
Em 2008 após lançar o Silverlight 2 Beta1, Windows Server 2008, Live Mesh, CTP do SQL 2008, SP1 do Vista e SP3 do XP, Popfly Game Creator, dentre muitos outros lançamentos, a Microsoft lança a 2a versão da sua suite de desenvolvimento Expression Studio, com novas versões do Expression Blend, Expression Design, Expression Encoder, Expression Web, Expression Media e Expression Encoder, além também de uma nova versão do Deep Zoom Composer!
Algumas novidades diretamente do blog do time Expression:
- Support for Visual Studio 2008 and WPF 3.5
- Silverlight 1.0 Support with built-in JS Editor
- UI Refinements (More incremental search, ability to close panels, etc.)
- Storyboard Picker for Managing your Animations
- Vertex and Clipping Path Animations
- KeySpline Editor for Editing Ease In/Out
- SplitView for Seeing your Design as well as the XAML
- Importing from Expression Design
- Font Subsetting
- Design-time Sizing
- Easier Ways to Incorporate Media
- New WPF and Silverlight Samples
- Support for more Object Manipulations (Being able to uniformly scale, resize, and rotate multiple selected elements.)
- Breadcrumb Bar
- Making and Editing User Controls from the Design Surface
- Being able to export Slices in Expression Design
Baixe o novo Expression Studio aqui.
Algumas das melhorias no novo Deep Zoom Composer
- Novas opções de exportação
- Projeto final com funcionalidades de Mousewheel, pan, zoom, and e interação por teclado
- Melhorias na Interface
- Novo Help
- Maior Performance
Baixe o novo Deep Zoom Composer aqui:
Abaixo alguns screenshots retirados diretamente do Press-release da Microsoft:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/gallery/screenshots/developer.mspx
Microsoft Expression Blend
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| Expression Blend opens the door to creating elegant and compelling user interface designs using a full spectrum of media types, including vector and pixel art, video, audio, text, 3D content, and animation. |
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| Leverage the full power of the desktop and Internet to provide your audience with big-impact, high-performance user experiences that drive brand recognition and repeat use. |
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| Work together in a friction-free environment, sharing projects, code, and designs for better productivity and quality. Quickly build stunning prototypes, and then turn them over to developers with confidence. |
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| Deliver applications that are more usable and achieve greater end-user satisfaction and productivity. |
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Microsoft Expression Design
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| Bring your existing vector-based artwork from other popular graphic tools into Expression Design along with bitmap JPEG, PNG, and GIF files. Then export in a wide variety of formats. |
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| With real time object formatting, stroke and font galleries, and an easy-to-use professional interface, you'll find yourself building awesome graphic assets in no time. |
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| Use Expression Design's powerful vector drawing and editing tools to explore new artistic possibilities and create compelling graphic designs and illustrations. |
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| Take advantage of Live Effects to apply high-quality effects and filters such as Bevel, Emboss, and Gaussian Blur to any vector or bitmapped object. Then change the effect or change the object with the confidence that Live Effects are always non-destructive and fully editable. |
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Microsoft Expression Media
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| Make digital asset management easy—just drag and drop to import more than 100 different media formats, including digital RAW files. |
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| Save time by taking care of basic image editing tasks, like rotating, cropping, and resizing, from inside Expression Media. |
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| Impress your audience with slide shows, videos, and Web galleries. |
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| Stick with the workflow that works for you and Expression Media will fill in the gaps. Support for RAW formats from the most popular cameras and industry-standard metadata formats means that your metadata is already there. |
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Microsoft Expression Web
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| Generate elegant, modern CSS layouts with state-of-the-art surface design tools. Directly manipulate positioning, sizing, margins and padding. |
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| Build and format views of industry-standard XML data using drag-and drop tools for quick visualization. XML data can be retrieved and presented via live RSS feeds that match your site's formatting. |
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| Create CSS-based, XHTML 1.0 Transitional-conforming Web sites by default. Work better across browsers, simplifying deployment and maintenance. |
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| Harness the power of ASP.NET 2.0 to transform your sites into dynamic, interactive Web applications. No code data binding required with integrated support for server and user controls. |
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Microsoft Silverlight
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| Example of a Microsoft Silverlight media application – Fox widescreen HD player. |
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| Microsoft Silverlight media application, Fox HD movie library. |
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| Example of a Microsoft Silverlight-based video game. |
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| Microsoft Silverlight media project using Expression Blend. |
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| Expression Media Encoder showing A-B compression comparison. |
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| User interface for Expression Media Encoder. |
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| Silverlight-based interface for Microsoft Interactive Media Manager. |
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