MS Expression Blend - Installation

When working with Silverlight or WPF the tool that you need to have is MS Expression Blend .The latest version of it is Expression Blend 4. This really helps in great design of UI and enhancing productivity. Blend helps in creating rich interfaces apart from VS2010 IDE. Blend is integrated to VS IDE ,in the sense you can open a VS IDE created File in Expression Blend and the XAML UI created by Blend will always supported by VS IDE. It should be a tool that every Silverlight developer need to have.

You can download 60 day trial version from the following link.

Installation Steps

Once you download the the tool from the link and run the exe file, an installation wizard prompts to accept the terms and conditions.

Step1

If you would like to join the customer experience program, you can check yes otherwise Check-No

Step3

Check the components to be installed in Expression Studio Ultimate
Expression Blend, Studio Design & Encoder, and WPF Tool KIT.

Click on finish to complete installation.

It can be integrated to TFS 2008 or TFS 2010 as well.

1. We need to make sure that TFS has correct permissions to handle the tasks . The permissions to create project is different from check out the files.

2. TFS can be connected using Team explorer.

3. We need to create a workspace that contains local  copies of source control files in TFS.

4. After the workspace is created files can be downloaded to the local folder from TFS.

5. Once the files get copied to local folder , now we can check-in, checkout or merge, compare files using TFS , from Blend or VS2010.

This way it acts exactly as collaboration tool for designers and developers.

 

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Silverlight Challenge? Ready for it

Intrested in attending MIX -08??
Win the sompetetion and grab the opportunity Hurry up!

The winners of all national competitions (there are great local prizes as well) will get the chance to compete against each other on a European level and win one of our 3master prizes – paid trip to MIX 08 in Las Vegas including conference passes and some more goodies!

The main person in charge is Jose Louis Latorre Millas (JoseLuis.Latorre@ineta-europe.org, VP Sponsorship, INETA Europe) who will be really glad to provide any further info you may need.

More details here

MIX 07 Anouncements

On 30th night I was watching live meeting of MIX07 The key note of Ray Ozzie was amazing.
Scott Gutherie ,the way he presented Demos like Orcas remote debugging on a CLR process running within Firefox on a remote Mac system is astounding.
WWW.Silverlight.net is the SilverlightCommunity Site that has sutpendous information
related to Silverlight. Now we have MS Silverlight 1.1 CTP available,that supports
ASP.NET AJAX, cross-platform debugging, JavaScript, C#, VB, Ruby, Python languages.
As part of Silverlight Services, Silverlight Streaming is a storage and video delivery service .This will make developers and designers to upload their application to Silverlight Streaming and then deliver this application to any website.The alpha version of this is available.
WOW! I can say that MS is going a head with innovative step in new Media
Hat's Off

Microsoft Silverlight ! Just Released and named after David

I thought of posting on MS Sliverlight in my blog from the day it was released and couldn’t make it to happen as I was a bit busy. By hearing the release of this the first person who came into thought is David. But I didn’t guess or expect that it has been specifically named after him. While I was visiting the site Community-Credit I came to know that it was named after Mr. David Silver Light .He is a Florida .NET developer , who is the president of Community-Credit.com and also http://www.nonprofitways.com/, http://www.dwightbobbleheads.com/, http://www.realtechnologyheros.com/, http://www.xmlpitstop.com/.I was really got surprised. I know him through cc and I never met him until MVP Global Summit 2007.Here is his conversation with BillG



I met David recently at the MVP Summit 2007 . He said that he was searching for me for 3 days at the Summit .On the final day he met me. He also given my January Community-Credit prize ,with Certificate, which I have kept in my drawing room. We talked about Community-Credit and the new sites that are going to be developed . He also blogged about our meet in his blog.

These are the photographs that I have taken with him.

1.Silverlight is the name for WPF/E which is part of dotnet framework 3.0
2.Develpers and designers can work collaboratedly using XAML
3.This will allow cross browser, cross platform plug-in for rich interactive applications on the web.
4.It makes life of webapplication developer and windows mobile developers more convenient

Features:
More Details at MIX 2007

Now I feel what if Microsoft names some product like "Hima" or "Vejella" and every one start using it. It's a great privilege. I congratulate David for his passion on technology and achievement.