Comments | dogsolitude_v2: Expression Studio

dogsolitude_v2

Expression Studio

Nov 08, 2010 14:21

I was chuffed to find that installing the Expression Studio 4 demo next to my installion of Expression Studio 3 actually gave me the full version of 4!

Considering the fact that I got 3 cheap because it was the old version, that's a bit of a result :)

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mikki_g November 8 2010, 20:24:55 UTC

How do you find Expression Studio. I'm probably going to be using for new job. I don't want to dismiss it out of hand, but i pretty much use Notepad++ for most stuff.

dogsolitude_v2 November 8 2010, 21:33:16 UTC

It's pretty good, looks nice etc. I found the main strength, and therefore advantage over Notepad++ is the ability to compose and compile C# code and XAML for WPF .Net applications. The XAML situation is made much easier by the drawing tools, which are more sophisticated than those found in Visual Studio 2010.

Expression Blend works great as an IDE for people like me who want to noodle around with Windows apps that look pretty, and aren't taht fussed about Enterprise-level database architecture.

Not used it for web dev, just the odd Windows apps whilst learning WPF and C#. For web stuff I use Visual Studio if doing .Net, and Notepad++ for HTML, Javascript and CSS. I've yet to find anything that can beat N++ tbh. Oh, and Photoshop for shiny buttons, lens flares and kittens. Everybody loves kittens.

I've not bothered with doing much in Silverlight. In fact, having only had Expression Studio for a few days I've only really started to use it!

As an aside, have you done anything with HTML5 and/or CSS3 yet?

mikki_g November 8 2010, 23:22:11 UTC

I've heard it good if you are doing MS based app/code dev. Luckily I don't think I'll need to go anywhere need that and suspect it may be an elaborate code editor for me. Although I'm worried I might have to use it's image app as no photoshop. Might have to bring out the GIMP.

Not done anything with HTML5 yet (it's still not even been finalised), but this is a good start if you're interested: http://diveintohtml5.org/ As for CSS3 and little bit, but mostly for rounded corners :]

dogsolitude_v2 November 9 2010, 09:24:20 UTC

I like making little Apps. In WPF I've made a version of Mastermind, a stock shares thingy, an RSS reader, a streaming podcast thing (in progress), and I'm working on a Chess game GUI. All buggy as hell with sub-optimal code, but I tend to make these things as learning exercises ( ... )