what is microsoft blend for visual studio?

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what is microsoft blend for visual studio 2015? and what different is it than visual studio 2015? and what is it used for? and what does it do?

Banketeshvar Narayan · Answer

Hi, Microsoft Blend for Visual Studio (formerly Microsoft Expression Blend) is a user interface design tool developed and sold by Microsoft for creating graphical interfaces for web and desktop applications that blend the features of these two types of applications. It is an interactive, WYSIWYG front-end for designing XAML-based interfaces for Windows Presentation Foundation and Silverlight applications. It was one of the applications in the Microsoft Expression Studio suite before that suite was discontinued. Expression Blend supports the WPF text engine with advanced OpenType typography and ClearType, vector-based 2D widgets, and 3D widgets with hardware acceleration via DirectX. For more details you can visit the below link: http://microsoft-news.com/microsoft-details-new-blend-for-visual-studio-2015-preview/ Please accept as answer if it helps you

Ramesh Maruthi · Answer

For designing and developing Silverlight /WPF applications, the only tool you really need is Expression Blend. You get a fully interactive artboard and design surface along with a code editor for writing your C# or Visual Basic code. Note : It's not free see this : http://www.expressionblendstepbystep.com/?content=Chapter2

Iknowitsme . · Answer

Thank you for your reply, it is very much appreciated :) i will wait a while and then i will choose it as the correct answer if i find no better, because it was a little too complicated ":D