Expression Blend 2 Service Pack 1

Microsoft is updating its Expression Blend product to support Silverlight 2. Here’s the info:

Expression Blend 2 Service Pack 1 will directly and seamlessly patch the previously installed version of Expression Blend 2 to utilize the newest designer/developer technology and enhance overall user experience.  This will be a free of charge service pack for Blend 2 that will provide full authoring support of Silverlight 2. Customers who have been using either the Expression Blend 2 Trial or Expression Blend 2.5 Preview will receive an additional 60 days to test Expression Blend 2 once the Service Pack has been installed.

This Service Pack will provide, at no extra cost, full support of Silverlight 2, similar to the authoring environment that Expression Blend 2.5 Preview users have been experiencing.  In addition, the Service Pack will not disrupt developer or designer workflow, and will continue to support current Windows Presentation Foundation and Silverlight authoring.

By leveraging the full power of the desktop and Web, Expression Blend 2 Service Pack 1 will allow developers and designers to work together to deliver big-impact, high-performance Web user experiences that drive brand recognition and repeat use.

To find out more about Expression Studio 2 and Expression Blend 2, please visit the Expression Studio website at:www.microsoft.com/expression.

Discuss this Article 4

cone56
on Sep 26, 2008
Has Silverlight 2 gone final yet then?
panache1023
on Sep 26, 2008
We used WPF and Expression Blend where I work about a year ago....it was a DOG! When I say DOG, I mean it was slow as hell! The Grid that it came with was so slow as to be unusable. Since then, it seems they have made some improvements, but damn that thing (the grid) is still way too slow! WINDOWS FORMS FOREVER! HAHAHA :) What gets me is that for years, MS had such nice designers built into Visual Studio, and then along comes Blend which they were charging for...and it wasn't cheap. Do they still charge for it? Hopefully by the time Windows 7 comes out, WPF development will have matured enough to be quick and easy.
Waethorn
on Sep 26, 2008
"Hopefully by the time Windows 7 comes out, WPF development will have matured enough to be quick and easy." They already do: www.popfly.com
panache1023
on Sep 26, 2008
Waethorn, I'm not sure what that site is, but at a quick glance it didn't look relevant to a very important, mission critical, business applcation(s) (a widely used trading system). We need POWERFUL CONTROLS...like the Infragistics WinGrid...only the one they have currently is just too damn slow...we need a POWERFUL, FAST, load on demand Grid.. Until that day comes, and it performs at least close to the current iteration of Infragistics grid, WPF will not be used here.

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