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 and Silverlight applications. It is one of the applications in the Microsoft Expression Studio suite. 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.


Microsoft Expression Design is Microsoft's commercial professional illustration vector and raster graphic design tool for web images based on Creature House Expression, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2003. It is part of the Microsoft Expression Studio suite. Expression Design is more oriented towards editing XAML and web graphics rather than print graphics (like Photoshop and Illustrator) and does not incorporate all of the raster image editing features of the original Creature House Expression. Expression Design was codenamed Acrylic and was originally announced as Expression Graphic Designer until the current name was adopted in December 2006.


Microsoft Expression Encoder (formerly Expression Media Encoder, now titled as Microsoft Expression Encoder 4 Pro) is a Windows-based program for encoding digital video for Silverlight-based web video. Expression Encoder can be used to create video compressed VC-1 as well as H.264 for distribution via Microsoft Silverlight. Expression Encoder features a WPF-based modern graphical user interface as well as a command line interface. It supports Silverlight player controls and Silverlight templates. Microsoft Expression Encoder is available in two different editions: Retail edition, which is the full-featured commercial incarnation of the product and Express edition, which is a free of charge but feature-limited version. According to Microsoft, Expression Encoder 2 is not a replacement for Windows Media Encoder, despite having many similarities.[3] However, Windows Media Encoder has been replaced more recently by Expression Encoder Standard, which is a stripped-down version of Expression Encoder 3.

Requirements
Microsoft Windows® XP with Service Pack 3, Windows Vista™ or Windows 7 operating system
PC with 1 GHz or faster processor
1 GB of RAM or more
2 GB or more of available hard-disk space
1024 x 768 or higher-resolution monitor with 24-bit color
Microsoft .NET Framework 4 48.11Mb