Since Inkscape is cross-platform (running on Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX), this opens up cross platform development quite a bit.Obviously, the Expression products are compelling for XAML creation, but it’s nice for the Silverlight platform to show that it’s not directly tied to a product. It’s nice to be able to say that you can create full featured Silverlight apps without having to buy a product, in the same way that a free csc.exe and the Visual Studio Express products really round out the.Now that Inkscape is picking up XAML export, there's a third way that doesn't start with any buying. Buy Adobe Illustrator ($599) and use the XAML export plugin.Buy Expression Blend and Expression Design ($599).Right now, there are only two real ways to do any serious design in XAML: It's unfortunate that IE doesn't (and likely never will) support SVG, since browser support for standards based vector-based graphics and text could do so much for the web.Īlthough the drawing primitives in XAML are very similar to SVG, up until now there hasn't been a really solid way of developing assets in SVG and moving them to XAML. SVG is a W3C standard, with pretty good support in most non-IE browsers (check out SVG Tetris in Firefox 1.5 or higher). Inkscape is a little unique in that it uses SVG (scalable vector graphics) as its base format. Rather than drawing in pixels (like you'd do in Photoshop, Paint.NET, etc.), you're drawing in vectors. Great, what's Inkscape? Glad you asked! Inkscape is an open source vector graphics editor, like Adobe Illustrator. Today, Adam Kinney gave me the tip off to some cool news: Inkscape is adding XAML export.
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