3.2 Creating WinFx User Interfaces Without Code Using Interactive Designer
Creating advanced user interfaces for WinFx (.NET 3.0) applications can be tedious and time-consuming. WinFx brings new challenges to the development of graphic interfaces, including support for storyboards, timelines, triggers, transformations, and many other concepts. Although they enable your software to provide a rich user experience, these new features can cause problems for developers. Trying to implement all this functionality by hand-writing XAML can be extremely difficult, if not impossible.
Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer is a bridge between the Microsoft Expression Graphics Designer and actual logic development in Visual Studio. Interactive Designer uses the same project file format as Visual Studio, enabling UI designers to give developers the exact same files they use for prototyping the UIs. Additionally, the developers can return UI projects to the designers if further UI tweaks are needed.
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Tool | Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer |
Version covered | May 2006 Community Technology Preview (CTP) |
Home page | http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/interactive_designer/default.mspx |
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Summary | A UI designer developed for creating .NET 3.0 applications. Provides the ability to add 3D ... |
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