Expression Blend Microsoft® Expression Blend™ is the professional design tool to create engaging web-connected experiences for Windows. Efficient Collaboration Work together in a friction-free environment, sharing projects, code, and designs for better productivity and quality. Quickly build stunning prototypes, and then turn them over to developers with confidence. Your designs can be used intact in the final product so you keep creative control. Developers no longer have to try to recreate them; play the hero and rid the world of developer art. Open existing Visual Studio projects to re-design and re-skin the applications. Modern Interface Live Preview Collaborate with Designers Collaborate with Developers XAML Connect to Code Audio/Video Tools for Creativity Expression Blend opens the door to creating elegant and compelling user interface designs using a full spectrum of media types, including vector and pixel art, video, audio, text, 3D content, and animation. Work inside a rich, real-time design environment optimized for creative professionals to shorten the distance between idea and execution. WYSIWYG Design High-quality Text Keyframe Animation Custom Styling Video Support True 3D Codeless Interactivity Add interactivity to your designs without writing code-just add fully customizable controls, from simply-styled buttons to sophisticated custom listviews. Easily connect interface elements to each other or to live data. Layout interfaces using containers that adapt your content and interface to various screen resolutions and form factors. Just drag and drop to add developer-written custom code or controls to your application. Common Controls Advanced Controls Databinding Fluid Layouts Triggers Deliver Better Experiences Deliver applications that are more usable and achieve greater end-user satisfaction and productivity. Leverage the full power of the desktop and Internet to provide your audience with big-impact, high-performance user experiences that drive brand recognition and repeat use. Easily create localizable and accessible applications for global audiences. Richer Experience Delivery Opions Online/Offline Accessibility<p>Microsoft Expression Blend System Requirements Operating System Windows Vista Microsoft Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2) Minimum System Intel® Pentium® or AMD processor, 1 GHz with MMX or equivalent 512 MB of RAM 350 MB available hard disk space Graphics processor that is DirectX® 9-capable 1024 x 768 monitor resolution with 24-bit color Recommended System Intel Pentium or AMD processor, 2 GHz with MMX or equivalent 1 GB of RAM Microsoft DirectX® 9.0-capable video card with 256 MB or more of memory -- for example, ATI Radeon® X300 or NVIDIA® GeForce™ 5600 class equivalent or better.