by Don Burnett
The Expression Blend 2.0 preview is out! A lot of of new features have been added including one very special one I have been waiting for as an animator. To celebrate Microsoft has added a new page to the Expression Studio Website just to showcase the new features of Expression Blend 2.0.
Here's a run down of the new features:
ANIMATION (YEAH!)
- Vertex Animation
- Improved Animation property editing
- A graphical editor for animation interpolation
- The Breadcrumb Bar- Improved navigation into template and style hierarchies.
- Quick switching in and out of templates without having to follow the entire hierarchy, even across multiple documents.
- Drag-to-Duplicate
- Enhanced transform support for multiple selections
- XAML Split-View (See XAML graphics and edit them too! at the same time no more switching from design view to XAML view)
- Font Embedding and Subset Creation for WPF project (Windows Platform Applications)
- Drag & Drop (says it all!)
- User Control Creation
- Draw Controls on the Artboard and turn them into user controls
