Now it's Dreamweaver's turn
It's been a long history that Microsoft kills competition, this way or that way but end result is always the same that Microsoft becomes the number one in the domain.
Microsoft had promised to change web designing also which was ruled by Macromedia or Adobe Dreamweaver. Microsoft had long been working on this which was code named as Quartz. Finally Microsoft has announced first Community Technology Preview of its tool which is now called as Microsoft Expression.
It'll have two more tools but since those are dependant over Microsoft Vista OS so Microsoft will not be releasing those before 2007.
Microsoft will be phasing out FrontPage which was acquired by Microsoft in early 1996 when it bought Cambridge, Massechusetts-based Vermeer Technologies but its features will be made part of Web Designer and SharePoint Designer 2007, which will be part of the upcoming Office 2007 suite.
The software will let designers work in drag-and-drop environments while producing underlying code in the Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML).
Users will be able to exchange the XAML code with developers creating business applications, portals and services for Windows Vista.
Expression Web Designer will include reporting and management tools. Designers can get reports on whether Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) on a site are resulting in errors, whether the site is accessible to handicapped Web users and how many errors users of older Web browsers are encountering when viewing the site.
The suite will include the following design and development tools:
Graphic Designer: It offers features similar to Adobe’s Photoshop and Illustrator tools. Expression Graphic Designer provides output in a variety of industry-standard graphic formats (such as JPEG and PNG) for incorporation into Visual Studio projects, and designs can be saved as XAML, the markup language that describes user interface elements and media for the Windows Presentation Foundation. It is on to its fifth test release now.
The suite will include design and development tools:[b]Graphic Designer[/b]: It offers features similar to Adobe’s Photoshop and Illustrator tools. Expression Graphic Designer provides output in standard graphic formats (such as JPEG and PNG) for incorporation into Visual Studio projects, and designs can be saved as XAML, the markup language that describes user interface elements and media for the Windows Presentation Foundation.
Interactive Designer: It is for building multimedia user interfaces. Interactive Designer shares the same project files as Visual Studio, and can pass both XAML and VB.NET/C# code back and forth between the applications so that designers can design the look, feel and behaviour of the user interface. Developers can add functionality and build and deploy. The software is in testing now.
Web Designer: This one is a competitor to Adobe’s Dreamweaver for producing Web sites. Web Designer draws on site functionality and Web services created in Visual Studio, and both products can be used collaboratively between designers laying out pages and developers building back-end functionality. ASP.NET 2.0 code and controls are fully compatible, and the design preview surface within both products is identical so that designers and developers can work on the same solution and build the better end-user experiences.
You can goto official site at http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/default.mspx to find out more and continuous details.
Microsoft had promised to change web designing also which was ruled by Macromedia or Adobe Dreamweaver. Microsoft had long been working on this which was code named as Quartz. Finally Microsoft has announced first Community Technology Preview of its tool which is now called as Microsoft Expression.
It'll have two more tools but since those are dependant over Microsoft Vista OS so Microsoft will not be releasing those before 2007.
Microsoft will be phasing out FrontPage which was acquired by Microsoft in early 1996 when it bought Cambridge, Massechusetts-based Vermeer Technologies but its features will be made part of Web Designer and SharePoint Designer 2007, which will be part of the upcoming Office 2007 suite.
The software will let designers work in drag-and-drop environments while producing underlying code in the Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML).
Users will be able to exchange the XAML code with developers creating business applications, portals and services for Windows Vista.
Expression Web Designer will include reporting and management tools. Designers can get reports on whether Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) on a site are resulting in errors, whether the site is accessible to handicapped Web users and how many errors users of older Web browsers are encountering when viewing the site.
The suite will include the following design and development tools:
Graphic Designer: It offers features similar to Adobe’s Photoshop and Illustrator tools. Expression Graphic Designer provides output in a variety of industry-standard graphic formats (such as JPEG and PNG) for incorporation into Visual Studio projects, and designs can be saved as XAML, the markup language that describes user interface elements and media for the Windows Presentation Foundation. It is on to its fifth test release now.
The suite will include design and development tools:[b]Graphic Designer[/b]: It offers features similar to Adobe’s Photoshop and Illustrator tools. Expression Graphic Designer provides output in standard graphic formats (such as JPEG and PNG) for incorporation into Visual Studio projects, and designs can be saved as XAML, the markup language that describes user interface elements and media for the Windows Presentation Foundation.
Interactive Designer: It is for building multimedia user interfaces. Interactive Designer shares the same project files as Visual Studio, and can pass both XAML and VB.NET/C# code back and forth between the applications so that designers can design the look, feel and behaviour of the user interface. Developers can add functionality and build and deploy. The software is in testing now.
Web Designer: This one is a competitor to Adobe’s Dreamweaver for producing Web sites. Web Designer draws on site functionality and Web services created in Visual Studio, and both products can be used collaboratively between designers laying out pages and developers building back-end functionality. ASP.NET 2.0 code and controls are fully compatible, and the design preview surface within both products is identical so that designers and developers can work on the same solution and build the better end-user experiences.
You can goto official site at http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/default.mspx to find out more and continuous details.
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