Expression Blend for Windows Developer Preview is a full-featured professional design tool for creating dynamic and responsive apps that can be tailored to run on a wide variety of hardware platforms such as PCs and tablets.

Expression Blend for Windows Developer Preview is a gateway to app development for developers whose focus is media and the web and who are fluent in web technologies, including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

“A first look at Expression Blend for Windows Developer Preview” will help you to familiarize yourself with the Expression Blend for Windows Developer Preview workspace.

Ready to jump in and create your first app? “Design your first Metro style app with JavaScript using Expression Blend for Windows Developer Preview” will walk you through designing your first interactive app, a memory game. Begin by planning your app, and move your way through creating a new project, apply styles, modifying layout, and building and then running your app.

For more information, be sure to check out the following additional resources on the Windows 8 Developer Center for Metro style apps:

• Forums
  • Building Metro style apps with HTML5
  • Building Metro style apps with C++
  • Building Metro style apps with C# or VB
  • Tools for Metro style apps
  • UI Design for Metro style apps
• Community

The Expression Blend Content Publishing team is here to help you navigate your way through Expression Blend for Windows Developer Preview. Please share your comments, feedback, and suggestions by leaving a comment here or by e-mailing us at exprdocs@microsoft.com.

Meet the Content Publishing team:

Pad Gallagher In addition to developing the Expression Blend and Expression Web user documentation, Pad puts his money where his mouth is, developing things such as the ExpressionIQ blog. In Expression Web, of course!

Alex Mukora I am proud Dad of 2 boys and 2 girls and have lived half of my life in Texas despite the heat and I am an Avid Dallas Mavericks Fan! I also love playing soccer, rugby (whenever I can find someone to play with ), and I grew up practicing different forms of Karate and Kung-Fu since I was a kid. My favorite foods are fish & chips, meat pie, and off course BANGERS (served with fried onions and gravy)! And for Afters, a 99 will do!

Pam Keesey I began working on FrontPage, and later transitioned to Expression Web. Since then I have had opportunities to work on all of the current Expression Studio products. I love working on Expression Studio, in part because I work with such a great team!

Elliot Meacham I write about all things relating to Expression Encoder, Expression Design, and SketchFlow, and, basically feed off the energy and knowledge of both my fellow content publishing cohorts and the Encoder development team. Our work is great fun.

Chris Lohr I manage the Content Publishing discipline—and its stellar group of writers seen on this page—for the Microsoft Expression team. Ask anyone on my team what “Content Publishing” is, and they’ll tell you it is the art of authoring user documentation for a target audience. That said, most people simply call us the “Help” team, but that often leads to fisticuffs!