Microsoft Expression Studio 4 Professional
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Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2008 Win32 English DVD DVD Amazon.com. Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition is a comprehensive set of tools that accelerates the process of turning the developers vision into reality.Microsoft launched its most well-known logo on January 5, 1987, and since then, has been cherished by many. Dec 20, 2012 Expression Web is a full-featured professional tool for designing, developing, and publishing compelling, feature-rich websites that conform to web standards.
- Pros
Efficient website editor with full support for current standards. Clear interface. Flexible preview functions help target pages to browsers.
- Cons
Lacks Dreamweaver's built-in support for building for phones, tablets, and desktops.
- Bottom Line
Web design app Microsoft Expression Studio 4 Web Professional costs than half the price of Dreamweaver CS6, yet it offers most of its features of its more muscular competitor, in a clearer, more efficient interface.
The biggest and most powerful app isn't always the one that works best for you—and the app that proves that point for me is Microsoft's Expression Studio 4 Web Professional ($149 direct; upgrade $79). In the small field of website editors, Adobe's Dreamweaver continues to hold the lead in its range of features and power, and Dreamweaver CS6 ($399.99; upgrade $199.00, direct, 4 stars) is the first Web editor that's fully at home in a world where cutting-edge designers need to build sites for phones, tablets, laptops, and desktops. But, for me, Expression Web is still the app I choose for editing websites.
Laptop Friendly
I don't design enterprise-level sites, the kind that Dreamweaver is ideal for—and that Expression Web can also build—but I want a flexible and straightforward set of tools for working with current Web technologies, and Expression Web offers exactly that. With all its strengths, Dreamweaver sometimes seems sprawling and muscle-bound, and it works well only when you give it more screen space than you have on a laptop. Expression Web feels at home on both a desktop monitor and a cramped laptop. I also like the fact that Expression Web costs less than half the price of Dreamweaver.
Expression Web 4 is one of three components in a package called Expression Studio 4 Web Professional , which also includes Expression Encoder (also available as a free download), a limited tool for encoding AVI and QuickTime video into Windows Media format, and Expression Design, a vector-graphics program that can import Photoshop assets. This review covers Expression Web 4 only.
Features
I sometimes think Expression Web is Microsoft's best-kept secret. Its feature set is smaller than Dreamweaver's, but everything is easy to find and intuitively easy to use. The main editing screen, as in Dreamweaver, can display a code view or editable WYSIWYG view of your page, or it can split to show both views side by side. A separate, uneditable 'snapshot' view displays the current page as it will appear in a browser. A terrific fine-tuning feature is the SuperPreview window that lets you preview your site in multiple browsers at once, including any browsers on your disk and multiple browser versions hosted at Microsoft. SuperPreview includes an optional tree-style view of the elements in your page, so you can navigate through the page elements to find the one that causes layout problems in specific browsers. This feature outclasses the similar BrowserLab in Dreamweaver.
Like Dreamweaver, Expression Web surrounds the main editing window with tabbed controls for selecting files, applying CSS styles, inserting tags and form controls, and other features. All these panels make clever use of limited screen space—for example, the Folder List tab displays a tiny thumbnail of the selected image file, making it easy to select the right asset to insert on a page. Expression Web's menu system is mostly spare and easily navigable, compared with the cascade of choices in Dreamweaver, which has 35 items on its View menu.
The first release of Expression Web 4 came out two years ago, but both Service Pack 1 and the recent Service Pack 2 add enough features and conveniences that Microsoft would have been justified in promoting each one as a new release. The latest version (like Dreamweaver) includes surprisingly flexible and intuitive IntelliSense support for jQuery scripts, making it easy to create custom-styled lightbox-style images and other modern design features.
Microsoft Expression Studio 4 Web Professional
Bottom Line: Web design app Microsoft Expression Studio 4 Web Professional costs than half the price of Dreamweaver CS6, yet it offers most of its features of its more muscular competitor, in a clearer, more efficient interface.
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| Developer(s) | Microsoft |
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| Stable release | |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
| Available in | English, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish[1] |
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| License | Trialware |
| Website | www.microsoft.com/expression/ |
Microsoft Expression Studio is a discontinued suite of tools for designing and building Web and Windows client applications and rich digital media content.
- 1Overview
Overview[edit]
Microsoft introduced Microsoft Expression on September 16, 2005, at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. Microsoft Expression Encoder was introduced at NAB 2007. Microsoft Expression Studio was released to manufacturing (RTM) on April 30, 2007. The RTM news was announced at Microsoft's MIX 07 conference for web developers and designers.[2]
Microsoft Expression Studio 2 was released on May 1, 2008, which also included a graphical makeover for the suite to an inverse of the previous black-on-white theme. This release brings all products in the suite to version 2, and now also includes Visual Studio Standard 2008. Microsoft Expression Studio is also available to students as downloads via Microsoft's DreamSpark program.
Microsoft Expression Studio 3 was released on July 22, 2009. This release brings all products in the suite to version 3, with significant improvements especially targeting Silverlight 3. Expression Media is no longer a part of package, while all other products have been significantly improved and enriched.[3]
On June 7, 2010, Expression Studio 4 was released. Expression Studio 4 is a free upgrade version for licensed Expression Studio 3 users, but only for retail copies.
End of life[edit]
On December 20, 2012, Microsoft announced[4] that the Expression products would be discontinued, with Blend becoming a standalone tool with Visual Studio 2012 Update 2, Expression Studio 4 Ultimate and Expression Studio 4 Web Professional no longer available for sale but supported through their support lifecycle, Expression Design 4 and Expression Web 4 available as unsupported free editions, Expression Encoder 4 Pro available for purchase through 2013, and Expression Encoder 4 remains available for download at no charge.
Microsoft Expression Studio
Editions[edit]
Microsoft Expression Studio 4 Web Professional
As of version 4, there are two editions of Expression Studio available to general public: Web Professional and Ultimate
Expression Studio Web Professional consists of:
- Expression Web, HTML editor and web design program
- Expression Design, vector graphics editor
- Expression Encoder Pro, video editing tool for authoring VC-1 and H.264/MPEG-4 AVC contents
Expression Studio Ultimate consist of all previous components, as well as:
- Expression Blend, graphical user interface builder for XAML or HTML applications
- SuperPreview, complementary web design program for testing compatibility and performance
- SketchFlow, complementary user interface tool that facilitate workflow design
Expression Encoder and SuperPreview are the only components that can be obtained individually. Windows xp x86 iso. Expression Encoder consists of two editions: A freeware edition and a commercial Pro edition.[5]
Prior to version 3, the suite also consisted of Microsoft Expression Media, a digital asset management application sold to Phase One.
Features[edit]
Until version 2, Expression Web was the only application in the Expression Studio suite based on Microsoft Office code and dependencies.[6] With version 3, Expression Web was rewritten in Windows Presentation Foundation, in line with the rest of the Expression Suite, without Microsoft Office dependencies, essentially making it a new managed code program. A result of the complete rewrite was features like customizable toolbars and menus, standard Windows color scheme, spell check, DLL addins, file menu export feature, drag-and-drop between remote sites, comparing sites by timestamp were removed in this version.[6][7][8][9][10] Other features do not work reliably or are incomplete, like Undo for instance.[11][12] Version 3 introduced Expression Web 3 SuperPreview tool for comparing and rendering webpage in various browsers. Also noted was the lack of support for root relative links, links that start with a '/' to refer to the root of a web server. This feature was added with Expression 3 Service Pack 1.[13]
The version of Expression Encoder Pro 4 available as part of Expression Studio in programs like DreamSpark, BizSpark, WebsiteSpark and through MSDN Ultimate does not include royalty incurring codec and standards support for exporting in MP4 format (H.264 video and AAC audio).[14] It also does not include import filters for TS, M2TS, AVCHD, MPEG-2, and AC-3 although if third party DirectShow filters are installed, it is able to import these formats as is the free version.[14] Expression Encoder Pro version available in retail does not have these limitations. The free version available to everyone and included in MSDN Premium lacks IIS Live Smooth Streaming and unlimited screen capture.[15]
With the release of Expression Studio 4, three editions of Expression Studio were introduced: Expression Studio 4 Web Professional (includes Expression Encoder, Design and Web), Expression Studio 4 Premium (adds Blend to the suite) and Expression Studio 4 Ultimate (adds SketchFlow). MSDN subscribers receive only the SKU of Expression Studio 4 that corresponds to their Visual Studio 2010 license. As such, MSDN Premium users do not get SketchFlow.
Some editions of Expression Studio also include product activation.
Microsoft Expression Studio 4 Professional Upgrade
See also[edit]
Microsoft Expression Studio 4
- Relatives
- Microsoft FrontPage, the predecessor to Expression Web
- Creature House Expression, the predecessor to Expression Design
- iView Media, the predecessor to Expression Media
- Lists
References[edit]
- ^Localization and What Goes on Behind the Scenes
- ^Expression Studio RTM news
- ^Expression Studio 3 overview - including all toolsArchived July 25, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^Microsoft Shuts down Expression Brand - Neowin
- ^http://www.microsoft.com/expression/try-it/Default.aspx
- ^ abHow to customize Toolbar Icons in Expression Web 3
- ^Expression Web 3 File Export Function Missing?
- ^Why I can't copy files between two sites on Expression Web 3?
- ^Using timestamps to compare if remote website has changed (EW 3)
- ^Has Expression Web a future?
- ^Expression web 4 undo is broke. When will it be fixed?
- ^Buggy Undo still present in EW4
- ^Moscinski, Todd (April 26, 2010). 'Different types of hyperlinks'. Microsoft Expression Web team blog. Microsoft corporation. Retrieved August 25, 2010.
- ^ abExpression Encoder 4 Information
- ^Expression Encoder 4: Compare features
External links[edit]
Microsoft Expression Studio 4 Professional Pro
- Official website [dead link]
- Expression Blend and Design on MSDN Blogs
- Expression Encoder on MSDN Blogs