Microsoft Blend

Microsoft Blend
Developer(s)Microsoft
Stable release
2022 v17.7.2 / 2022; 2 years ago (2022)[1]
Operating systemWindows 7 and later[2]
PlatformDirectX[2]
LicenseSame as Visual Studio[3]
Websitevisualstudio.microsoft.com

Microsoft Blend for Visual Studio (formerly Microsoft Expression Blend) is a user interface design tool developed and sold by Microsoft for creating graphical interfaces for web and desktop applications that blend the features of these two types of applications. It is an interactive, WYSIWYG front-end for designing XAML-based interfaces for Windows Presentation Foundation, Silverlight and UWP applications. It was one of the applications in the Microsoft Expression Studio suite before that suite was discontinued.

Expression Blend supports the WPF text engine with advanced OpenType typography and ClearType, vector-based 2D widgets, and 3D widgets with hardware acceleration via DirectX.

  1. ^ "Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11 Release Notes".
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