Microsoft Expression Studio 4 Ultimate

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Product Feature

• Microsoft Expression Studio 4 Ultimate combines Expression Blend 4 + SketchFlow,
• Expression Web 4 Professional, and Expression Design 4, and Expression Encoder 4 Pro
• Design compelling user interfaces for the web and desktop. Fast, flexible, seamless workflow adapts to you and your team
• Professional tools save time, creating web sites that deliver results; advanced visual diagnostics speed debugging
• Web supports PHP, CSS, HTML/XHTML, XML, XSLT, JavaScript, ASP.NET, ASP-NET AJAX, Silverlight, Windows Media, Adobe Flash, and Adobe Photoshop files

Product Description

Microsoft Expression Studio 4 Ultimate opens up a new world of creative possibility. Its professional design tools give you the freedom to make your vision real—whether you ��re designing for standards-based Web sites, rich desktop experiences, or Silverlight. Includes Expression Blend + SketchFlow, Expression Web, Expression Design and Expression Encoder. Design Tools for Silverlight & .NET Design compelling user interfaces for the Web and desktop using Microsoft Expression, tools purpose built to complement Visual Studio. From Concept to Completion Prototype your ideas rapidly, engage and interact with your customers to get your projects off to a flying start, then save time and energy by reusing assets as you bring your prototypes to life in your production projects. Industry Standard Technologies Create standards-based Web sites with a tool that provides precision layout control, supports a broad range of technologies, and speeds cross-browser debugging with advanced visual diagnostics.

Microsoft Expression Studio 4 Ultimate Review

I've been using Microsoft Expression Studio for the past year and upgraded to Expression Studio 4 Ultimate this summer. Expression Studio is the best thing Microsoft has put out in a long time and hardly anyone knows about it. Expression Studio is a package that includes Expression Blend, Expression Web, Expression Design, and Expression Encoder. All of these products are very high quality and help designers (and developers!) do things on Windows that previously would require a much more expensive Adobe package. Expression isn't for everyone, but I really like it, and haven't found any major problems with it at all.

Another reviewer stated that he had problems using Expression when his .Net installation was possibly corrupted - and well, this software uses .Net, so if your .Net installation is corrupted, you really can't blame Expression for not working properly. Mine has worked flawlessly for a long time. Sure, there are some annoyances where it might show too many popup confirmation boxes, but the products work just fine otherwise.

Expression Blend 4 - if you are a Silverlight dev, you need Expression Blend - it's the fastest way to create professional UIs for Windows and Windows Phone. Blend is very powerful and is as good as (or better than) any UI designer on the market today, and if you want to do Flash-like UIs for Silverlight, Blend is the way to go. If you used Microsoft LiquidMotion (Macromedia Flash for Java UIs competitor of 10 years ago) - you'll understand the basic concept, but Blend takes it to a whole new level. While Flash is dying fast, Microsoft plans to support Silverlight through 2024, and with Silverlight 5 out now, I expect Blend 5 to be released in 2012.

Expression Blend's "SketchFlow" product - SketchFlow is a rapid Silverlight desktop-app UI prototyping tool, but I didn't care for it because I didn't find it all that "rapid". You'd have to use it a lot to be productive with it, and I just don't use it that often. It also doesn't translate well to apps/websites, where I'd really prefer to use it. Still, I consider SketchFlow and add-on that I really don't need and wouldn't miss if it was gone.

Expression Web 4 - a great way to create standards-based websites with ASP.NET or PHP. Works with Silverlight and simultaneously with Visual Studio 2010 (you can actually use VS2010 and Web 4 at the same time on the same project). The best Web designer tool I've used in a long time and a must if you also use VS2010. Replaces Microsoft's FrontPage junk - Web 4 is a professional tool that is simple enough for mere mortals to use, but could use more templates, an easier way to create them, and support for publishing to mobile devices. Competes with Adobe Dreamweaver.

Expression Encoder 4 - a tool for encoding and publishing video in Silverlight or by exporting to other video formats for use on the Web (e.g. YouTube). I use this to make videos of my Windows Phone apps and while it's not very intuitve at first, once you figure out what you're doing it works very well.

Expression Design 4 - probably one of the least publicized Microsoft products, although quite good, Expression Design is a vector graphics designer that competes with Adobe Illustrator. Although not as full featured as Illustrator, Expression Design is a professional quality tool at a fraction of the price. If you're familiar with Illustrator but can't afford it, this is a great option as many of the controls work the exact same way as in Illustrator. The only thing it's really lacking is better marketing!

So what's this package missing: A graphics editor (like Adobe PhotoShop), a video editor (like Adobe Premiere), a special effects editor (like Adobe After Effects), an Audio Editor/Mixer (like Adobe Audition), multi-device targeting (like Adobe Device Central), etc., and support for HTML5 instead of just Silverlight. Hopefully these things are coming in Expression Studio 5! But honestly, the only things here that I really miss are the graphics and video editing, where I am stuck with using other tools.

If you already have an Adobe Creative Suite package with Flash, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and either Media Encoder/Flash Video Encoder, and like them, then Expression Studio is not for you. If you need a high-end package that includes many of the things listed above that are missing from Expression Studio, you might want to look to Adobe (nobody else has all of those things either). But if the price-point for Adobe Creative Suite is too high, you only need the capabilities of Blend, Design, Web, and Encoder, or you are just heavy into Silverlight and Visual Studio development too, then the Expression tools will serve you well. I've been quite happy with it.

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