![]() ![]() ![]() Update: Microsoft has now altered its announcement to affirm that Blend will not, in fact, be integrated into Visual Studio and will continue to be a separate, but bundled, product. ![]() Update: Although Microsoft's page claims that Blend will be integrated with Visual Studio, we are informed by Microsoft's XAML tool developers that this is not in fact the case, and Blend will remain as a standalone product, albeit one that is bundled with Visual Studio. WPF and Silverlight developers should stick with Expression Blend for the time being however, they too will be able to use Visual Studio 2012's integrated support when Microsoft releases Visual Studio 2012 Update 2, which is expected sometime next year. Visual Studio has incorporated some of Blend's capabilities already, and Windows Store apps (both XAML and HTML) and Windows Phone apps use these integrated features. The SuperPreview Remote service that allowed developers to view their pages in a range of browsers hosted on Microsoft's servers will operate until the end of June 2013.Īlso being rolled into Visual Studio is Expression Blend, the tool for building user interfaces in XAML. Instead of developing Expression Web, Microsoft will continue to extend and improve Visual Studio's HTML, CSS, and JavaScript capabilities, with the IDE now being the company's main actively maintained Web development tool (though WebMatrix is also still being developed). ![]() It's no longer for sale and no new versions will be released, and it's now available as a free download. The same has happened to HTML and CSS authoring tool Expression Web 4. Microsoft is offering no replacement or alternative to users of the product. You can now download it for free, and it will continue to receive security patches as necessary until at least 2015. No new versions will be developed, and it's no longer for sale. Vector graphics drawing tool Expression Design 4 has been end-of-lifed. Microsoft has quietly announced that its Expression suite of Web and design-oriented tools is being killed off and phased out. ![]()
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