Expression Books

Steve Johnson

For those who would rather be shown how than told how! This book uses real world examples to give you a context in which to use the task. It also includes workshops to help you put together individual tasks into projects.

Nolan Hester

Packed with more than 600 screenshots, the book goes beyond crafting good-looking single pages. Instead, it shows you how to use templates to generate whole sites with uniform, yet creative, layouts that can be reconfigured with the click of a button. You'll also learn how to give sites extra polish with interactive behaviors and forms.

Steve Johnson and Perspection Inc.

This book uses real world examples to give you a context in which to use the task. This book also includes workshops to help you put together individual tasks into projects. The Expression Web example files that you need for project tasks are available at www.perspection.com

Jim Cheshire

We crafted this book to grow with you, providing the reference material you need as you move toward Expression Web proficiency and use of more advanced features. If you buy only one book on Expression Web, Special Edition Using Microsoft Expression Web is the only book you need.

Cheryl D. Wise

The author-expert MS trainer and MVP Cheryl D. Wise-starts with the very basics, and then takes you to an advanced level through a series of practical real-world exercises. No prior knowledge of Microsoft Expression Suite is assumed, and the book is written with a highly professional tone. This makes it extremely useful whether you're a beginner or an advanced web developer or designer who wants to make use of the software.

Zak Ruvalcaba

Microsoft Expression Web gives you the tools to develop sophisticated sites that integrate standardized CSS layout with ASP.NET 2.0, XML, and SQL Server 2005. Written by an experienced ASP.NET and Dreamweaver Web developer, this book shows you how to take advantage of all of Expression Web's innovative features to create a memorable online experience. Expert tips and techniques on Web page structuring, page formatting style sheets, HTML forms, and more will show you how to design and develop new Web applications.

Linda Hefferman, Asha Dornfest

Microsoft Expression Web For Dummies arrives in time for early adopters to get a feel for how to build an attractive Web site. Author Linda Hefferman teams up with longtime FrontPage For Dummies author Asha Dornfest to show the easy way for first-time Web designers, FrontPage vets, or users of other Web design tools how to get results from Expression Web.

Greg Holden and Gregory A. Beamer

This complete reference introduces readers to this new software, beginning with the basics, and then moving on to adding interactivity to the site, understanding behaviors and special effects, making a database driven site, adding e-commerce functionality, and more. An essential reference for any designer who uses Microsoft-based tools and is looking to increase the usability and impact of a Web site.

Joe Marini

From understanding the concept of smart web design, to creating, editing, and maintaining a web site, instructor Joe Marini, Group Product Manager at Microsoft, gives his insider tips for real-world web site design using Expression Web. From creating forms and tables, creating and modifying templates, making sites accessible, using CSS and XML data, to creating dynamic pages and publishing the site, Joe shows how to use Expression Web through each stage of a web site's design and development.

Greg Holden

This book serves as an introduction to using Expression Studio to create Web sites, graphics, and presentations, and to organize and edit media files. You'll learn how to use the Expression Studio programs individually, and you'll also learn how easy it is to export files and projects from one application to another. Each section of the book covers a specific program, so you can read the book from cover to cover to get a complete idea of how the entire suite works together, or just jump to specific topics of interest on the program you want to learn more about. By the end of the book, you'll be creating interactive sites that utilize Cascading Style Sheets and databases with Expression Web, creating and manipulating images with Expression Design, cataloging and keeping track of your content and creations with Expression Media, and putting it all together with Expression Blend.

Robert Reinhardt

This task-based, visual reference guide uses step-by-step instructions and plenty of screenshots to teach beginning and intermediate users how to create streamlined, innovative and just plain beautiful applications with Microsoft's new application development tool . Design expert and author Robert Reinhardt takes readers step-by-step through the features and tools, and shows them how they can use Microsoft Expression Blend to create engaging, cinematic user interfaces with a rich design environment that combines multiple media elements including vectors, pixel images, 3D content, video and audio, high quality text, and animation. Whether learning the application from start or looking for specific task-based answers, Microsoft Expression Blend for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide, provides designers and application developers with exactly the information they need.

Brennon Williams

Microsoft Expression Blend Unleashed is about learning a new tool for designers, but also learning a new mindset for developers. Expression Blend enables the delivery of rich interactive applications, for the web as well as the desktop, allowing you to take graphical assets and blend them with functional .NET code through the power of XAML and the WPF platform. Microsoft Expression Blend Unleashed also features a C# Primer, introducing designers to the .NET Framework. .NET allows the reader to extend the functionality of many of the WPF elements used in Expression Blend. The most important concept for the reader to grasp is that Blend and Visual Studio together are about facilitating the kind of user experience everyone wants from the applications they use. This book will give you the skill set whether you are a designer or developer; from there, you just need to use a little imagination.

Robert Reinhardt

This task-based, visual reference guide uses step-by-step instructions and plenty of screenshots to teach beginning and intermediate users how to create streamlined, innovative and just plain beautiful applications with Microsoft's new application development tool. Design expert and author Robert Reinhardt takes readers step-by-step through the features and tools, and shows them how they can use Microsoft Expression Blend to create engaging, cinematic user interfaces with a rich design environment that combines multiple media elements including vectors, pixel images, 3D content, video and audio, high quality text, and animation.

Gurdy Leete, Mary Leete

Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer will simplify the development of rich, interactive Web applications and this comprehensive reference introduces every tool and characteristic of this new software Detailing the ins and outs of the program, veteran authors Gurdy and Mary Leete provide professional Web designers, developers, and serious home users with the know-how they need to create amazing Web sites. Readers interested in online game development will enjoy the coverage of 3D Web animations-something Flash can't do.

Shawn Livermore, Rob Ferrante, August Banks, and Tony Ferreira

Expression Interactive Designer (EID) provides an easy interface for programming desktop applications that are both visually attractive and use advanced design features such as 3D in a functional way. Offering an approach for and from a programmer's perspective, this book begins with the general concepts involved with EID and the advancements in design and development that it seeks to achieve with the intent to add useful skills to a developer's repertoire of knowledge, the material goes on to cover designs and file systems for using EID, XAML documents, creating building blocks (shapes, objects, graphics, textual elements, user interface controls), creating and combining scenes (layers, keyframes, storyboard), animating objects, and advanced design and animation (3D, topography, video integration, data-aware animations)

Shayne Bowman

Expression Media is the asset management tool for the entire Expression Studio suite of applications, which also includes Expression Design, Expression Blend, and Expression Web. With Expression Media users can catalog and organize all their digital assets for effortless retrieval and presentation. The book covers workflow efficiency and automation, batch processing media, scripting, customizing workspaces, creating and then viewing media in catalogs, reviewing and comparing media, metadata and tagging, and much more. It also shows how to impress audiences with slideshows, videos, and Web galleries. All of this is taught by leading authority Shayne Bowman who has been working as an evangelist on the product for years. As with all Visual QuickStart Guides, step-by-step task-based instructions, with plenty of screen shots along the way, make learning quick and easy.

David Blatner, Jeff Carlson

In this Visual QuickStart Guide, filled with friendly prose, task-based instruction, step-by-step explanations, and visual aides, readers will have everything they need to know about the key features of Expression Design right at their fingertips. Expert authors Jeff Carlson and David Blatner walk readers through Expression Design's easy-to-use professional interface, and guide readers through all the key features. Users will learn how to: create compelling graphic designs and illustrations; apply high-quality effects and filters; bring existing vector-based artwork from other popular graphic tools into Expression Design; export into a wide variety of formats; and use the created elements with Expression Blend. Microsoft Expression Design for Windows Visual QuickStart Guide will have users up and running quickly and building awesome graphic assets in no time!

Ted LoCascio

For those who would rather be shown how than told how! This book uses real world examples to give you a context in which to use the task. It also includes workshops to help you put together individual tasks into projects.

Devin Rader, Jason Beres, J. Ambrose Little, Grant Hinkson

Silverlight--the hot new web technology based on the powerful WPF graphics platform that ships with Windows Vista--is the web developer's choice for creating cross-platform interactive applications that work in multiple browsers. This one-of-a-kindreference shows you, with full-color illustrations, how to create rich interactive apps with Silverlight.

Adam Nathan

Silverlight is a lightweight but powerful plug-in for multiple web browsers on multiple operating systems that makes it easier than ever to create rich web-based content, applications, and controls. With support for vector graphics, animations, full-screen high-definition video, and more, Silverlight gives you the ability to create more compelling content than you dreamed possible for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Silverlight provides much of the power of Windows Presentation Foundation, but with less overhead and easy integration with HTML and AJAX-style applications. Silverlight 1.0 Unleashed is the authoritative book that covers the technology in a practical and approachable fashion, authored by Silverlight guru and Microsoft developer Adam Nathan.

Adam Nathan

Printed entirely in color, with helpful figures and syntax coloring to make code samples appear as they do in Visual Studio. Whether you want to develop traditional user interfaces or integrate 3D graphics, audio/video, animation, dynamic skinning, rich document support, speech recognition, or more, WPF enables you to do so in a seamless, resolution-independent manner.

Chris Anderson

Architect Chris Anderson systematically introduces this breakthrough platform, focusing on the concepts and techniques working developers need in order to build robust applications for real users. Drawing on his unique experience as an architect on the team, Anderson thoroughly illuminates the crucial new concepts underlying WPF and reveals how its APIs work together to offer developers unprecedented value.

Matthew MacDonald

One of the most detailed books on new WPF technology, it provides you with the no-nonsense, practical advice you need in order to build high-quality WPF applications quickly and easily. It also digs into the more advance aspects of WPF and how they relate to the other elements of the WinFX stack and the .NET Framework 2.0.

Laurence Moroney

This book teaches you everything you need to get started with the technology, and is broken into three parts. The first introduces and contextualizes the WPF technology; the second part dives deeper into the facets of the technology that are of immediate and valuable use in developing applications; the last part offers you the real-world perspective you need to be productive in the community and customer base.

Chris Andrade, Shawn Livermore, Mike Meyers, and Scott Van Vliet

If you want to learn how to build killer user interfaces for Windows and the web, then this book is for you. It arms you with the tools and code you'll need to effectively utilize the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). From creating appealing graphics and animated structures to enhancing performance and security, you'll be programming in no time.

Eric van der Vlist, Danny Ayers, Erik Bruchez, Joe Fawcett, and Alessandro Vernet

Web 2.0 architecture opens up an incredible number of options for flexible web design, creative reuse, and easier updates. Along with covering the key languages and techniques of Web 2.0, this unique book introduces you to all of the technologies that make up Web 2.0 at a professional level. Throughout the chapters, you'll find code for several example applications built with popular frameworks that you'll be able to utilize.

Lori MacVittie

XAML in a Nutshell covers everything necessary to design user interfaces and .NET applications that take advantage of WPF. Prerequisites such as Microsoft's new unified build system, MSBuild, and core XAML constructs and syntax--including shortcuts--are all presented with plenty of examples to get you started. The Core XAML Reference section lets you dig even deeper into syntax rules and attributes for all XAML elements with a series of quick-reference chapters.

Chris Sells and Ian Griffiths

This is the book you need to get up to speed on WPF. By page two, you'll have written your first WPF application, and by the end of Chapter 1, "Hello WPF," you'll have completed a rapid tour of the framework and its major elements. These include the XAML markup language and the mapping of XAML markup to WinFX code; the WPF content model; layout; controls, styles, and templates; graphics and animation; and, finally, deployment.

Charles Petzold

In this book, Windows programming legend Charles Petzold covers in parallel the two interfaces that make up the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). From the outset, the reader can shift focus seamlessly between Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) and C# to see them as flip sides of the same processes. Beginning in the first chapter, Petzold presents the general syntax of the XAML and corresponding programming code with numerous illuminating examples on how the two correspond and interrelate.