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Microsoft Blend for Visual Studio (formerly 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.
Blend modes (alternatively blending modes [1] or mixing modes [2]) in digital image editing and computer graphics are used to determine how two layers are blended ...
Direct3D is an Immediate mode graphics API. It provides a low-level interface to every video card 3D function (transformations, clipping, lighting, materials, textures, depth buffering and so on). It once had a higher level Retained mode component, now officially discontinued.
Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces (APIs) for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft platforms. Originally, the names of these APIs all began with "Direct", such as Direct3D , DirectDraw , DirectMusic , DirectPlay , DirectSound , and so forth.
Microsoft Blend is a designer-oriented tool that provides an artboard for the creation of WPF applications with 2D and 3D graphics, text and forms content. It generates XAML that may be exported into other tools and shares solution (sln files) and project formats (csproj, vbproj) with Microsoft Visual Studio.
Primitive blend modes (e.g. source-over, source-copy, min blends, etc.) Image built-in and custom effects for photo adjustment, graphical and color transform; Gradient brush and mesh; Command list for command buffering and printing; Scalable ink stroke; Sprite batch for game development
As of December, 2012, Microsoft has announced that Expression Studio will no longer be a stand-alone product. Expression Blend is being integrated into Visual Studio, while Expression Web and Expression Design will now be free products. Technical support is available for customers who purchased Web or Design following their published support ...
Polymer blend, a member of a class of materials analogous to metal alloys; Microsoft Blend for Visual Studio (formerly Microsoft Expression Blend), a user interface design tool for WPF and Silverlight; Blend modes in digital image editing, used to determine how two layers are blended into each other; The Blend (Sirius XM), a satellite radio channel