Microsoft Expression

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The Visual Studio Designer for Windows Presentation Foundation (code name "Cider")

You're a developer, and you expect the best development tools to help you build the next generation of Windows applications using the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). The next release of Microsoft® Visual Studio® (code name "Orcas") will contain the Visual Designer (code name "Cider") and associated development technology for building WPF applications.

You can get a preview now! The Microsoft Visual Studio Development Tools for the .NET Framework 3.0 provides developers and designers with support for building .NET Framework 3.0 applications. Built on top of the final, released version of Visual Studio 2005, the Development Tools for .NET Framework 3.0 contains a preview of technology in the "Orcas" release of Visual Studio. This technology preview includes a the "Cider" designer for WPF, XAML Intellisense support through schema extensions for the editor, project templates for WPF and WCF, project system support for .NET Framework 3.0 projects, and Windows Client SDK documentation integration.