Marketing description

Expression Blend, Visual Studio, Silverlight and .NET provide a seamless design and development workflow. Ideas evolve from your initial prototyping with SketchFlow, a feature included with Expression Studio Ultimate, to the completed project quickly and effectively, enabling you to create compelling applications for your customers.
Microsoft Expression web gives you the tools you need - PHP, HTML/XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, visual diagnostics, cross-browser debugging features and sophisticated CSS design capability - to produce high-quality, standards-based web sites.
With Expression Encoder Pro, encode a wide array of video file formats, stream live, or screen capture your PC. Make simple edits and enhance your media with overlays and advertising. Choose from a range of player templates and publish rich media experiences with Microsoft Silverlight.
Microsoft Expression Design 4 is the perfect companion to Expression Blend or Expression Web. Leverage existing artwork or use drawing tools to quickly build vector assets with their fidelity maintained throughout the entire design-development workflow.

Key selling points

• Revolutionize the speed of prototyping
• Enable interactivity without writing code
• Accelerate the creation of effective UI with sample data
• Fast, flexible, seamless: a workflow that adapts to you and your team
• Professional tools save time, creating web sites that deliver results
• Advanced visual diagnostics speed debugging
• Rich standards-based web design with the essential technologies
• Prepare video for Silverlight
• Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator import - utilize your traditional design assets

Product features

• Revolutionize the speed of prototyping
  SketchFlow enables you quickly create an effective prototype to present ideas, user interface flows, screen layouts and application functionality to your clients.
• Enable interactivity without writing code
  Behaviors are powerful building blocks of interactivity that bring a project to life by adding control of transitions, interactivity and animation to your applications.
• Accelerate the creation of effective UI with sample data
  Accelerate the speed and flexibility with which you can create your application designs through the effective use of sample data. Generate design time data on the fly, import via XML, or create from C# objects, then seamlessly swap for a live data connection at any time.
• Fast, flexible, seamless: a workflow that adapts to you and your team
  Expression Blend, Visual Studio, Silverlight and .NET provide the most impactful and seamless workflow on the market today. Ideas are taken from concept to completion with speed and flexibility, challenging you to deliver innovative applications to your customers on time and within budget.
• Professional tools save time, creating web sites that deliver results
  IntelliSense and color-coding for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP make your editing and debugging more productive. Generate elegant, modern CSS layouts with state-of-the-art, editable design surface with the ability to directly manipulate positioning, sizing, margins and padding.
• Advanced visual diagnostics speed debugging
  Debug web pages with Snapshot Preview, which shows rendered page changes while you code, and SuperPreview, which displays your page on multiple browsers on your development machine.
• Rich standards-based web design with the essential technologies
  Expression Web supports PHP, CSS, HTML/XHTML, XML, XSLT, JavaScript, ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight (video, animation, and Deep Zoom), Windows Media, Adobe Flash, and Adobe Photoshop files.
• Prepare video for Silverlight
  Encode a wide array of video file formats; stream live from webcams and camcorders, or screen capture your PC with Expression Encoder. Make simple edits to video files and enhance your media with overlays and advertising. Choose encoding settings, including IIS Smooth Streaming, choose from a range of player templates and publish rich media experiences with Microsoft Silverlight.
• Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator import - utilize your traditional design assets
  Powerful importers enable a smooth integration with the workflow visual designers are using today. Photoshop files can be imported layer by layer, regrouped and individual elements retain their original formats, layers, layer positions, editable text and vectors.