- Expression Studio V2 is coming this April.
- It will include V2 of Expression Design!!! (Yes, finally)
- Expression Design V2 allows selecting a "slice" of your design and export it to XAML directly. Seems that the export process improved a lot. Not sure about roundtrip export-import though.
- V2 of Expression Studio contains Blend, Design, Web, Encoder, Media.
- Expression Web 2
- supports PHP with Intellisense, Syntax coloring, Local preview with Cassini (development web server).
- Insert Flash, ActiveX, Window Media Player content.
- Preview ActiveX (including Flash) on design surface.
- Insert and Host Silverlight content.
- Support for ASP.NET AJAX.
- Expression Blend 2 new CTP available tomorrow.
- Silverlight 1 support with JavaScript code editor
- Vertex animation
- Font embedding
- XAML split view
- Drag&drop integration of media and desktop
- Expression Design 2
- Export slices of XAML and images
- Improved bitmap exporting
- Possibility to create XAML and HTML containers for positioning content
- Expression Encoder 2
- New Silverlight players with settings.
- Gallery players.
- XAML and video overlays, including alpha channels.
- Enhanced image editing.
- 2-ways workflow editing in Blend. Edit the player in Blend, save it and the changes show in Encoder directly.
- .NET object model.
- More control over the encoding.
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