{"id":8886,"date":"2012-12-22T18:47:11","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T00:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8886"},"modified":"2012-12-22T18:47:11","modified_gmt":"2012-12-23T00:47:11","slug":"microsoft-kills-expression-suite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8886","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Kills Expression Suite"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Visual Studio is Microsoft&#8217;s only flagship development system and this raised the question of why Expression Blend, the XAML user interface designer, was a standalone product. Not all Visual Studio programmers were even aware of what Expression Blend could do for them. For example, books on programming Silverlight or Windows 8 would often concentrate on using Visual Studio and mention Expression Blend as an afterthought.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.i-programmer.info\/news\/90-tools\/5236-microsoft-kills-expression-suite.html\">Microsoft Kills Expression Suite<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visual Studio is Microsoft&#8217;s only flagship development system and this raised the question of why Expression Blend, the XAML user interface designer, was a standalone product. Not all Visual Studio programmers were even aware of what Expression Blend could do &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8886\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[50,87],"class_list":["post-8886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-microsoft","tag-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}