Quick Start Guide Addendum for Version 4
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Contents Microsoft Expression Studio 4 Editions ���������������������������������������������������������� 2 Learning and Community Resources ������������������������������������������������������������� 3 Expression Web 4 ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 5 Expression Blend 4 ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ 11 Expression Encoder 4 ����������������������������������������������������������
Microsoft Expression Studio 4 Editions Expression Studio Ultimate edition includes: Expression Blend® + SketchFlow, Expression Web, Expression Encoder Pro, and Expression Design. Expression Studio Premium edition includes: Expression Web, Expression Blend, Expression Encoder, and Expression Design. Expression Studio Web Professional edition includes: Expression Web, Expression Encoder, and Expression Design.
Learning and Community Resources In addition to the User Guides (on the Help menu for each Expression product), the following content and resources are available: • Expression community website expression.microsoft.com • Expression discussion forums social.expression.microsoft.com/forums • Expression gallery gallery.expression.microsoft.com • Expression library msdn.microsoft.com/library • Feedback and bug reporting center connect.microsoft.com/expression • Microsoft Help and Support support.microsoft.
Using Microsoft Expression Web 4, you can design, develop, and publish compelling, feature-rich websites that conform to web standards. The Expression Web SuperPreview online service expands cross-browser testing to include more browsers and operating systems than in previous versions. The SEO Checker analyzes your site and generates reports to help identify ways to improve the ranking of your site in search-engine results.
SuperPreview Online Service The Expression Web SuperPreview online service is a beta service that extends the capability of SuperPreview to include support for additional browsers and operating systems, such as Safari® on Macintosh®. Now you can see how your page will look—even on a different operating system. For more information about the SuperPreview online service, see “Displaying pages in SuperPreview” in the Expression Web User Guide.
1 SuperPreview Online Service You can enable the online service to view a page in another operating system or in a browser that isn’t installed on your computer. 2 OPERATING SYSTEM NATIVE CONTROLS If you choose a browser in another operating system, your page renders with the native controls for that operating system. 3 SYNTAX COLORING IN DOM VIEW Keywords are displayed in color in the DOM view, helping you to more quickly find the properties for a tag.
SEO Checker The SEO Checker helps you optimize the pages in your site for discovery and indexing by search engines. Pages that follow good Search Engine Optimization (SEO) guidelines rank higher in search-engine results, helping people find your site more easily. You can choose SEO options, display an SEO report, filter the results in the SEO report, and step forward and back through the list of results in the SEO report to see more detail for individual list items.
Extensibility Expression Web includes a new Software Development Kit (SDK) that you can use to extend the capabilities of Expression Web. New for version 4, Expression Web introduces a JavaScript Application Programming Interface (API) and a JavaScript bridge to the managed code API. Developing extensions in JavaScript and HTML is familiar to web developers, which makes it easier than developing extensions in managed or native code.
With Microsoft Expression Blend 4, you can create websites and applications based on Microsoft Silverlight® 3 and Microsoft Silverlight 4, and desktop applications based on Windows® Presentation Foundation (WPF) 3.5 with Service Pack 1 (SP1) and WPF 4. Expression Blend introduces new SketchFlow features. Using Publish to SharePoint, you can share feedback among multiple reviewers for Silverlight projects.
Publish to SharePoint with SketchFlow (Expression Studio Ultimate only) After you have created a Silverlight SketchFlow project, you can publish your project to a Microsoft SharePoint® document library. The SketchFlow project will be available to anyone who has read-only permission to view content on the SharePoint site. Reviewers with read/write permission will be able to publish feedback for the prototype to the SharePoint site.
1 My Feedback panel The feedback that you leave in the SketchFlow Player appears in the My Feedback panel. 2 Shared panel The feedback that others publish to SharePoint appears in the Shared panel. 3 SketchFlow Feedback panel A designer working in Expression Blend can view all the shared feedback in the SketchFlow Feedback panel.
SketchFlow Integration with TFS (Expression Studio Ultimate only) If the SketchFlow project that you are working on is being tracked by Team Foundation source control, you can quickly create a work item from a .feedback file. When you convert feedback to a work item, a screen shot of the screen that the feedback applies to is added to the work item, and information about the work item is included in the work-item template. You can add or modify the information directly in the work-item template.
Export Feedback to Microsoft Word (Expression Studio Ultimate only) You can now include feedback for a SketchFlow project in the Microsoft Word document when you export your SketchFlow feedback to Word. In addition to feedback, the Word document will include a table of contents, a list of figures, the SketchFlow map, each screen in the application flow, and all associated annotations.
Path Layout A new feature of Expression Blend is the ability to lay out items along any path using the PathListBox control. The path can be any element and can be of any size or shape. Items can be arranged along the path according to several settings that can be animated. By animating the Start property, you can also use this feature in motion path scenarios. Once you have created your list, you can add PathListBoxItems explicitly, or add a data source from the Data panel.
1 PathListBox in the Objects and Timeline panel After you add a PathListBox to the project, the path appears in the Objects and Timeline panel. 2 Layout Paths in the Properties panel You can configure the path by using the Layout Paths category in the Properties panel.
Behaviors You can add interactivity to your application, without having to write code, by using behaviors. Behaviors are reusable components that can be directly applied to any object on the artboard, and they are composed of extensible triggers, extensible actions, and other behaviors. Expression Blend includes the new TranslateZoomRotateBehavior multi-touch behavior, and a PanningItems control that you can use to scroll between items by using touch.
Data and Resources Expression Blend makes it easy to prototype, build, and test data-connected applications even when run-time data and resources are not available. Data Context The Data Context category on Data panel provides a view of the data context of an object, whether design-time or run-time, and lets you drag properties, commands, and methods onto the design surface to bind your user interface (UI) to them.
Photoshop Layer Effects You can now import layer effects from Photoshop. If a layer effect has been applied to a layer, the Layer effect icon appears next to the layer in the Import Adobe Photoshop File dialog box. A layer effect can be imported either by selecting the Flattened bitmap import option or by merging the layer with other layers. For more information about importing layer effects, see “Import Photoshop and Illustrator files” in the Expression Blend User Guide.
Shapes You can add a variety of common shapes such as callouts, stars, rings, and arrows directly from the Assets panel by clicking Shapes, and then clicking the shape that you want. You can animate shapes and bind data to shape properties after you add them to the artboard. For more information about shapes, see “Draw a shape or path in your project” in the Expression Blend User Guide. Rich Text Boxes Expression Blend has tooling support for the RichTextBox control in Silverlight.
Microsoft Expression Encoder 4 is a program for creating highquality audio and video that you can play back, or stream, seamlessly from the web, using Internet Information Services (IIS) Smooth Streaming* technology. Expression Encoder generates high-quality VC-1-encoded and, in Expression Encoder Pro**, H.264-encoded content. This content integrates well with the rich-media, interactive-presentation capabilities of Microsoft Silverlight.
Create Live Smooth Streaming Broadcasts (Expression Encoder Pro Only) In a Live Broadcasting Project, you can set your live production to broadcast using Live Smooth Streaming technology. This technology is the Microsoft implementation of adaptive streaming technology, which is a form of audio/video web-based content delivery that uses HTTP progressive download technology. Live Smooth Streaming content is encoded into streams of several different quality levels.
1 IIS Smooth Streaming Select IIS Smooth Streaming as your Output Format in order to perform Live Smooth Streaming. 2 Publishing point Type the publishing point where your live broadcast will be streamed. 3 Broadcasting If you view the broadcast in a graphing Silverlight player, you can see frame rate, bit rate, and CPU load information that adjusts dynamically depending on network conditions.
Protect Your IIS Smooth Streaming Content with Digital Rights Management (Expression Encoder Pro Only) Digital Rights Management (DRM) is a technology that you can use to protect your distributed content. You can use the tools in Expression Encoder to create DRM-encrypted files that are compatible with Microsoft PlayReady®. Once you implement DRM in your content, anyone who wants to view it must have a license. The process of playback is handled by both the client application and the license server.
1 The Security category Enter your DRM encryption information here before you encode your file. 2 Protected playback view Your content plays back only for users licensed to use it.
Create Content in Specifically Designed Workspaces In Expression Encoder 4, you have a choice of three different workspaces in which to assemble your media. These workspaces are called projects. Each project presents a unique layout and appearance, and each includes all the tools you need to create the output associated with that project. With the exception of screen capture, you will do all your work in Expression Encoder in a project.
1 The New Project dialog box Choose a project to work in. You can also choose from recent jobs or browse to a specific job. 2 A Transcoding Project In this project, you can use various tools to edit and encode your video. 3 A Silverlight Project In this project, you can quickly choose Silverlight templates. 4 A Live Broadcasting Project In this project, you can assemble live and saved sources and create a live broadcast from them.
Work with DXFP Caption Files Expression Encoder adds the ability to import text files that contain capture and subtitle data, such as SUB, SRT, SAMI, DXFP, and LRC files. Once the files have been imported, you can then output the media content, along with the caption files, into a single Silverlight package. Using an Expression Encoder template, you can then display the captions during playback.
Refine Your MP4 Encoding with Expanded H.264 Options (Expression Encoder Pro* Only) Expression Encoder 4 adds new parameters that give you more control over the quality of the compression of your H.264-encoded content. Along with increased performance, you now have more control over such parameters as reference B-frames, adaptive B-frames, and scene-change detection. *Not available in the DreamSpark or MSDN versions of Expression Encoder Pro.
Microsoft Expression Design 4 is an application for creative professionals and developers who want to build graphics for application user interfaces, the web, or any other medium. This version adds the ability to import Windows Metafile (WMF), Enhanced Metafile (EMF), and Enhanced Metafile Plus (EMF+) files into your Expression Design project. After you import them, you have full control over the vector paths and also any clipping paths in the images.
Import Windows Metafile and Enhanced Metafile Documents You can import Windows Metafile (WMF), Enhanced Metafile (EMF), and Enhanced Metafile Plus (EMF+) files into your Expression Design project. WMF and EMF files are highly portable files that contain vector-based graphics that are commonly created by using the art and illustration tools in Microsoft Office applications, such as Office Word and Office Visio®.
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