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Free Trial Microsoft® Expression® Interactive Designer
Welcome to the January 2006 Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer. This is our first public CTP release and represents our initial opportunity to share our work with you—though it is still very much in progress. If you are building user experience for WinFX® applications on the Windows® platform, this tool is a great start. Future versions of Expression Interactive Designer may be optimized for other platforms such as the Web and mobile devices. This release of Expression Interactive Designer is a great way to experiment and begin familiarizing yourself with the tool, but we do not recommend using it for production work. We welcome you try its innovative features such as rich 2D & 3D graphics, animation, dynamic layout, data binding, style & template editing, and resource management. We are releasing this CTP to give you an opportunity to influence the product early in our development cycle and to help us make a better product with your valuable feedback. You will likely encounter bugs, incomplete features or limitations. Specifically, many of the user interface controls are not fully completed, making some of the functionality difficult to discover. We recommend that you explore the included sample projects and read the documentation. Please send your feedback to us via our discussion forum or our product feedback center (see link below). Because this is an unfinished product, some knowledge of WinFX (see the Windows Presentation Foundation section) and .NET programming will help you when working with this CTP. You can get a free copy of Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005 Express here. Have fun designing. We look forward to getting your feedback! Important: There are issues present in the January 2006 CTP of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) that may keep WPF from running correctly on processors other than an Intel Pentium 4. You may experience erratic behavior while running Expression Interactive Designer or other WPF applications on an older Intel (Pentium 3 or older), 64-bit processors, or AMD processor. These issues have been resolved, and the fixes will be included in the next release of WPF. To get hardware accelerated performance from WPF and Expression Interactive Designer, you need to make sure you have a recent graphics driver installed. Check your display adapter for the following settings (Start | Control Panel | Display):
If you are trying to test build a project (Project | Test Project) immediately after installing WinFX and Expression Interactive Designer, but Expression Interactive Designer was never launched before, your build attempt will fail. If this occurs, you will need to close Expression Interactive Designer and launch it again. Downloads
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