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Visual Basic Pack for Visual Studio 2005 SDK

If you are a Visual Basic for .NET programmer who has tried to extend Visual Studio in the past, here's some really good news:

The Visual Basic Pack for Visual Studio 2005 SDK download provides the SDK samples converted in the Visual Basic language and a new wizard that is used for generating Visual Basic based integration Packages for Microsoft Visual Studio. This download is an add-on to version 4.0 of the Visual Studio 2005 SDK. While VB support for the VS 2005 SDK is in the form of an independent add-on install, VB support for the upcoming VS 2008 SDK will be included (integrated in along with C++ and C# support).

This is the Visual Basic Pack for VS SDK 2005 V4 targeting VS 2005. It contains Visual Basic samples and wizards for creating VSIP packages using VB. These samples are the migrated CSharp samples that were shipped with VS SDK 2005 4.0. A new wizard has been added for the creation of VSIP package in Visual Basic.

For more information and news about VSX (Visual Studio Extensibility), visit the VSX Developer center at http://msdn.com/vsx and the VSX Team Blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/vsxteam.

posted @ 12:13 PM

What is Microsoft Expression Studio?

What is Microsoft Expression Studio?

When I make web design presentations lately I get more and more folks asking "What is Microsoft Expression Studio?", so I went looking on the web for some good resources that explain the studio and the applications in it.

What follows are abstracts from Wikipedia pages about the studio and its applications and then a bibliography with links to you can read the full text of the pages.

Microsoft Expression Studio is a suite of design and media applications from Microsoft aimed at developers and designers.

Microsoft Expression Web, code-named Quartz, is a WYSIWYG HTML editor and general web design program by Microsoft, replacing Microsoft FrontPage.

Microsoft Expression Blend is Microsoft's user interface design tool for creating rich graphical interfaces for web and desktop applications that blend the features of these two types of applications. Expression Blend is itself written using the .NET Framework 3.0 and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) [1]. Expression Blend is effectively an interactive, WYSIWYG front-end for designing XAML-based interfaces for WPF and Silverlight (Blend version 2.0 onwards).

Microsoft Expression Design is Microsoft's commercial professional illustration vector and raster graphic design tool based on Creature House Expression, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2003. It is part of the Microsoft Expression Studio suite and is written using Windows Presentation Foundation.

Microsoft Expression Media is a commercial digital asset management (DAM) solution for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. It is the next version of iView Media and is a part of Expression Studio. It also includes Expression Encoder which is a VC-1 professional content authoring and encoding software, available only for Windows.

Bibliography

Microsoft Expression Web - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 22 Sep. 2007 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Expression_Web>.

Microsoft Expression Blend - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 22 Sep. 2007 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Expression_Blend>.

Microsoft Expression Design - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 22 Sep. 2007 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Expression_Design>.

Microsoft Expression Media - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 22 Sep. 2007 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Expression_Media>.

Mike McIntyre

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posted @ 11:56 AM

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