Announcing the release of the first "WPF/E" CTP
This morning Microsoft released the first public community technology preview of "WPF/E". You can install it here, and then try out a few of the early samples that show off some of its capabilities below note: some of the servers might not have finished propagating the samples, so check back later if the links don't work
To learn more about WPF/E, check out this Channel9 video about the project:
Microsoft Introduces Expression Studio, Enhances Family of Professional Design Tools
The Expression family, together with our Visual Studio development tools and platform technologies, uniquely elevates the craft of design and user experience to the forefront of the software development process. Our goal is to enable designers to collaborate like never before with development teams so together they can raise the bar for user experiences and deliver compelling, rich, immersive, highly usable applications and content across the Web, the Windows desktop, mobile devices and the digital home. - S. Somasegar, VP of the Developer Division at Microsoft.
Expression Web is shipping today, and the full Expression Studio is planned for delivery in the second quarter of 2007.
Also launched today is a new professional designer community site