what is blend in WPF

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Hi, I've heard the name Blend mentioned many times by people who use WPF and Silverlight, but I don't know much about it. Could anybody tell me what Blend is, and why it is considered to be de rigeur for XAML application development.

Posted 6-Mar-10 22:20pm

nav234

Updated 12-Mar-10 11:58am

Pete O'Hanlon

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2010-03-06T22:26:00

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"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."
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Posted 6-Mar-10 22:26pm

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#realJSOP · Answer 2 · 2010-03-12T12:08:00

nav234 wrote:
why it is considered to be de rigeur for XAML application development.

Because Microsoft thinks an arbitrary separation of programmers and "designers" would be a good way to make more money ($600 for the entire Expression library). Every question asked of Microsoft by a programmer regarding customization of templates elicits the same response from MS - "Using Blend, do this or do that....".

Problem - Expression Blend doesn't come with Visual Studio, so guess what? You have to spend as much for Blend as you did for VS... What a crock.