Microsoft Expression Design 2 is a professional illustration and graphic design tool that lets you build compelling elements for both Web and desktop application user interfaces.

Expression Design 2 is only offered as part of Microsoft Expression Studio 2.

Expression Design 2 is only available as part of the Expression Studio 2, which has an estimated retail price of US $699.

Each of the Microsoft Expression products is available in the following languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, and Korean.

Yes. The fully featured 30 day free trial for Expression Web 2 is currently available for download here.

There is an Expression Community Website that contains a frequently updated wealth of materials on all the Expression products and the Microsoft technologies that they are designed to work with.

Microsoft Expression Design 2 is the perfect companion to Expression Blend 2 allowing for an end-to-end XAML based design workflow. You can leverage existing artwork by incorporating graphics from other applications using standard file formats such as JPEG, PNG, and GIF, open vector-based artwork from other popular graphic tools, or quickly build sophisticated vector assets using the intuitive and flexible drawing tools.

Expression Design 2 features a powerful new export engine and slicing tools that seamlessly bring your artwork to Expression Blend and Expression Web, allowing you to target individual slices as separate formats, including Silverlight canvas, WPF canvas, WPF resource dictionary, HTML comp, XAML, PSD, and PDF. XAML allows your finished graphics, user interface elements and design assets to move seamlessly from your initial concept to the finished product while retaining their full fidelity throughout the process.

Yes, both version 1 and version 2 of Expression Design can be installed at the same time.

Expression Design can import the following formats:.psd, ai, .jpg, .bmp, .png, .gif, .tif, .ico and .wdp (Windows Media Photo) files. Expression Design can export the following formats:.psd, .jpg, .bmp, .png, .gif, .tif, wdp, .pdf, and .xaml. Additionally there is support for copy/paste to Microsoft Office, and copy/paste of XAML to Expression Blend and other XAML editors.

With WPF, designers and developers can work together to build applications that deliver a superior user experience and enhance user productivity and satisfaction.

Expression Design 2 supports the creation of graphic designs for export to the XAML file format, the declarative markup language used to describe user interface elements and rich content (such as 2D, 3D, text, animation, and video) for WPF.

Yes, Expression Design 2 supports both WPF and Silverlight.

Yes. The expiration date for Expression Design 2 Trial is 30 days after your install the application. When your trial expires, select the option "I have a product key and want to license Microsoft Expression Design" if you have a valid product key and want to enable full licensing rights to your copy of Expression Design 2.

You must uninstall the pre-release version of Expression Design 2. The new Expression Design 2 Trial release will not automatically remove the previously installed versions before you install the new one.

No. Expression Design 2 is not available on the Apple Mac platform.

Visit Microsoft Help and Support.

Formal support is not offered for this Expression Trials. Instead, we have a community web site and forums for all the Expression products where you can solicit feedback and help get your questions answered by the both the Expression community and the moderators from the different Expression teams.