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The Expression IQ Team is happy to announce that all of the documentation that’s included with the Expression 4 software (Help > User Guide) is now available on the web. Currently, the content is available in English only, but they will publish translated versions for international audiences within the next few weeks. You can find the content on MSDN or the Expression Community site. For this release, they’ve also made SDK documentation available online for the following apps: - Expression Blend (one SDK for Silverlight, one SDK for WPF)
- Expression Web
- Expression Encoder
From: Expression 4 docs hot off the presses! « Expression IQ  |
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SlapShot is a new extension written for Expression Web 4. For those of you who already use the SnapShot panel (a feature that debuted in Expression Web 3), you will feel right at home with SlapShot. For those of you who haven’t yet used SnapShot (or who need a quick refresher course), SnapShot is a panel in Expression Web that displays an image of the current page as rendered by the selected browser. It allows you to easily change the browser and browser resolution without having to repeatedly preview in browser to see your changes. 
SlapShot is based on the same premise in that you can easily preview a page without loading a browser, however SlapShot extends the features of SnapShot by including full ActiveX support (Silverlight®, Flash®, and so on), as well as interactivity within the page (including navigation). In the following screenshot, you can see that SnapShot displays only the Install Silverlight message but SlapShot displays (with interaction) the actual Silverlight content. 
More at: SlapShot for Expression Web 4 - Expression Web team blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs  |
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 | On Monday, June 7, 2010, you are invited to join Microsoft for the launch of Microsoft Expression Studio 4, design tools for the Web, the desktop, mobile devices, and Silverlight. The featured guest speaker will be Bill Buxton, Principal Researcher at Microsoft and author of the book, "Sketching User Experiences." They will also show the products in action and showcase design agencies who have seen their businesses grow with Expression Studio. | The Launch event begins at 11 am and is being held at: Metropolitan Pavilion
IWNY Headquarters at Metropolitan Pavilion
125 W. 18th Street
New York, NY 10011 To signup, please register at the following site: www.ustechsregister.com/expression4launch And remember, if you buy Expression Studio 3 now, you will get a free upgrade to Expression Studio 4!  |
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If you are a licensed user of: - Any Microsoft® Expression product
- Any Adobe Creative Suite product
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 or later
you can buy Expression Studio 3 for 40% off ERP and upgrade later to Expression Studio 4 Free! Go to the Microsoft Expression web site for eligibility and pricing info.
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Microsoft Expression Web 3 Service Pack 2 (SP2) contains general improvements to the application and in SuperPreview. Issues resolved in this service pack - When editing PHP, files you may have been asked to update related hyperlinks on the page. If you did so, some PHP tags may have been removed. PHP tags are no longer removed when you update related hyperlinks.
- When you renamed a PDF file from the Folder List, the PDF file became corrupted and could not be opened. PDF files now save normally.
- Expression Web 3 would crash if the list-style-image property was used in a CSS file. Using the list-style-image property in a CSS file no longer causes Expression Web to crash.
- SuperPreview sometimes crashed while launching because of a problem that occurred when locating Firefox on your computer. SuperPreview no longer crashes while locating Firefox.
Improvements provided by this service pack SuperPreview now supports Firefox 3.6. If Firefox 3.6 is installed on your computer, then it should be available in SuperPreview. How to obtain and install Expression Web 3 SP2 Expression Web 3 SP2 is available on the Microsoft Download Center.
More at: Description of Expression Web 3 SP2 |
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 Expression Web MVP and WordPress hacker Morten Rand-Hendriksen is doing a 1 hour live webcast with Microsoft Canada demonstrating advanced WordPress customization with Expression Web 3 on April 6th, 2010, and you are welcome to join. It will be an extended version of his MIX10 session with more demos and more time for questions. All you have to do to participate is register. Full writeup below: REGISTER
Invitation Code: 0781DA
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
Start Time: 11:00AM PST (02:00 PM EST)
Webcast Duration: 60 min
Questions about these events?
Call us at 1-888-789-7770 A follow up to Paul Laberge’s “101” webcast, Expression Web MVP and WordPress hacker Morten Rand-Hendriksen takes you through an intimate and enlightening look into his day-to-day work process. He specializes in building solid standards-based websites on the WordPress platform using Microsoft web technologies and Expression Web. The session takes you through real-life examples of customer projects and pulls back the curtain on a work process that employs what Morten jokingly refers to as the “Unholy Quatern” – Microsoft’s Expression Web 3, Web Platform Installer and Mesh combined with the open-source publishing platform WordPress. Combining these four technologies Morten has developed a process in which rapid site debugging, prototyping and implementation becomes a reality. Learn the inner workings of WordPress and how to use its theme engine to build pretty much any website you can think of using Expression Web 3 and see how using simple web technologies like WPI and Mesh can make your life as a CMS dev/igner much easier. Register Today! From: Webcast: An Intimate and Enlightening View into Microsoft Expression Web 3 | Design is Philosophy - The Pink & Yellow Media Blog  |
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One of my saved searches in Twitter is “Expression Web” and today I found that the Expression Content Publishing team is now on Twitter and blogging. The Expression Content Publishing team are the folks who author the Help documentation for Microsoft Expression products. Their blog is xIQ, short for Expression IQ. xIQ is a blog dedicated to addressing feedback about the Help documentation.
xIQ aims to…
- Improve quality and usability of the documentation.
- Provide new content based on your needs.
- Fix any existing issues in the documentation.
- Increase your IQ for Expression products!
- Provide a direct connection with our customers!
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Check out the following Expression Web articles:
You can send the Expression Content Publishing team your feedback using the following:
More at: Expression IQ  |
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From: Expression Web team blog : SuperPreview and Firefox 3.6 release SuperPreview users probably want to know if the newly released Firefox is compatible with our application. Currently, SuperPreview does not support Firefox 3.6 due to changes in Firefox that require engineering work on our end. However, we made specific updates in our Expression Web 3 Service Pack 1 in preparation for precisely this circumstance. In Service Pack 1 we added the ability to do incremental updates to our browser support outside our normal release cycle. These changes mean we can release browser support updates in a matter of weeks rather than months. We've already done a lot of the necessary leg work with the Firefox 3.6 beta and RC builds. We're waiting on some final 3.6 related items to be released from the Firefox team, then we'll enable support for Firefox 3.6 in SuperPreview. Be on the lookout for another post to this blog when a downloadable update is available. In the meantime, if you haven’t already updated, install Expression Web 3 Service Pack 1. Alex Moskwa Program Manager Microsoft Expression Web  |
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During the installation of Expression Web 3, you may encounter the following error:
Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.Cannot find DependencyProperty or PropertyInfo for property named ‘Effect’. Property names are case sensitive. Error at object ‘LayoutRoot’ in markup file ‘XSetupUI;component/initializationwindow.xaml’.
Clicking the OK button takes you out of the installation and there you are – no Expression Web 3 installed on the machine and you feeling pretty frustrated. What does that error even mean anyway?
In a nutshell, that error means you have a bad install of the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 on the machine, which is required for both the setup of Expression Web 3 and the program itself to run. To resolve it, follow the instructions at: Ruminations from the Expression Web support team : “Cannot Find DependencyProperty or PropertyInfo for Property named ‘Effect’” error during xWeb3 Setup  |
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From now until December 28, 2009, Expression Web 3 and Expression Studio 3 (Full & upgrade) are 30% off at the Microsoft Store.
This promotion is US only and requires no promo code.  |
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Apparently Firefox 3.5.5 includes a change that broke the ability of 3rd party applications, such as SuperPreview, to embed Firefox on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Those affected by this issue will see the error text: "Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt." More on the reasons why and how to workaround the problem until Firefox releases an updated version with the fix, visit the Expression Web Team Blog.  |
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Expression Web SuperPreview for Internet Explorer is a free stand-alone visual debugging tool that makes it faster and easier to migrate your sites from Internet Explorer 6 to Internet Explorer 7 or 8. Expression Web SuperPreview for Internet Explorer shows your web pages rendered in Internet Explorer 6 and either Internet Explorer 7 or Internet Explorer 8, depending on which version you have installed on your machine. 
More at the Expression Web team blog  |
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 | There’s a great deal going on now at the Microsoft Online Store. All Expression 2 products are on sale for 50% off. This is a great deal – Expression Web 2 normally sells for $299.95 – it’s on sale now for only $149.95. Also, buying Expression 2 now will enable you to get Expression 3 at upgrade pricing when Version 3 is released - there will not be a free upgrade/grace period option.
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According to eWeek, Microsoft has set July 10 as the date for a launch event for version 3 of its Silverlight Rich Internet Application (RIA) technology and version 3 of the company's Expression design tools. In a "Save the Date" invitation, Microsoft announced the July 10 date as a launch event for Silverlight 3 and Expression 3, calling on prospective attendees to come and "see for yourself how Microsoft is helping teams light up Web experiences." Although the Microsoft invite said the launch event will be held "in the Bay Area," at 10 a.m. on July 10, it also said that further details would follow. More at: Microsoft Sets Silverlight 3, Expression 3 Launch Event for July 10  |
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