Expression Blend install impressions
So I downloaded the trial of Expression Blend yesterday and played around with it and its a very cool app indeed. First off, I noticed how light the size of the install was. It was like a 30M installer and 40M installed. I did need to download the .NET 3.0 framework first which is really where most of the functionality is but for a program that does so much 40M is great! A tribute to .NET, really.
I played around with creating a canvas and dropping a few controls on it and it worked well. It reminded me of that simple flash creator program by CoffeeCup software. And a bit like some of the higher-end 3d programs out there.
Curiously, I want to know how the licensing module works … it looks to be written in .NET and I’m wondering if that is something I could use in my own apps.
