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"Kills" isn't a fair characterization. Blend was the bread and butter of the suite; it was like the "Photoshop" of Adobe's Creative Suite. Here's the first pa
by alexforster 14y ago
"Kills" isn't a fair characterization.
Blend was the bread and butter of the suite; it was like the "Photoshop" of Adobe's Creative Suite.
Here's the first paragraph of the right-hand column:
Blend will be fully integrated with Visual Studio 2012.
Blend for Visual Studio 2012 provides a rich design-centric
environment for building Windows Store apps and Windows
Phone apps. In addition, WPF, Silverlight and SketchFlow
support is available today as a preview and will be released
in Visual Studio 2012 Update 2.
Yes, they're killing Design and Web, but those were only [very] poor competitors to Illustrator and Dreamweaver, respectively.
- christoph 14y agoSomething never quite fit with the Expression suite. I'm very glad I never set aside the time to learn it's arcane ways now. It had huge potential, but always fell somewhat short. Blend was much like Abobe's Catalyst - both products shared a somewhat similar vision, but were also somewhat, evidently, doomed. The problem I have at the moment is, for doing quick-fire multi-screen, multimedia apps that can take advantage of modern hardware, there's not much left to use. Adobe Flex still seems to be about the best in terms of structure, performance, productivity and reliability. The only other system I've found vaguely comparable is Ventuz, but this has a fairly high licensing costs, lack of easily available talent and various other complications.
- randomfool 14y agoBlend is effectively dead as well- the people responsible for the 'creative' side of the product were re-org'ed out this summer. The core of Blend goes into VS, but the vision is going to be traditional WinForms design scenarios from now on out- that's what management is looking for.