. Current rating: 3.5. Average rating: 3.5/5 (2 votes) Your rating: not submitted Blend for Visual Studio is a software application that provides a set of useful tools that will assist you in the creation of applications for Windows Store, Windows Phone, Microsoft Silverlight and WPF. The program comes with a neatly organized and user friendly interface, allowing you to work on multiple projects at once in order to save precious time. All the features and options can be easily accessed. Blend for Visual Studio provides a wide range of effects, shapes and controls that will make your work easy and will help you enhance your projects.
We already upgraded our SL 4 project to SL 5 and tried to Use Expression Blend Preview for Silverlight 5, nothing but problem in every template editing. It would be nice, if Microsoft can provide some positive news on the Expression Blend 5 release dates. I Want old MS back too, where developers are king of the hill. Sep 7, 2011 - expressionblend5. You can download the Silverlight 5 version of Expression Blend from: Microsoft Expression Blend Preview for Silverlight 5.
Various templates and styles are also available. Pros. Provides a series of animation enhancements. Integrates with MS Visual Studio.
Cons.NET 3D objects are not fully implemented. Requires at least Silverlight 2.0 in order to work properly.
. Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow is a visual tool for designing and prototyping desktop and web applications. You build an application by drawing shapes, drawing controls such as buttons and list boxes, making the pieces of your application respond to mouse clicks and other user input, and styling everything to look uniquely your own. For more information about what else is new in this release, see.
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Supported Operating System Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP Service Pack 2. PC with 1 GHz or faster processor. 512 MB of RAM or more.
350 MB of available hard-disk space.NET Framework 3.5 with Service Pack 1. Support for Microsoft DirectX® 9.0 graphics with Windows Vista Display Driver Model (WDDM) Driver, 128 MB of graphics RAM or more, Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware, 32-bits per pixel.
DVD compatible drive. 1024 x 768 or higher-resolution monitor with 24-bit color. Actual requirements and product functionality may vary based on your system configuration and operating system.