Editing Microsoft Blend (section)

{{Short description|User interface design tool by Microsoft}}
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{{Infobox Software
| name = Microsoft Blend
| logo = Blend_For_Visual_Studio_logo.png
| screenshot = Blend for Visual Studio screenshot.png
| caption = Blend for Visual Studio 2012 screenshot
| developer = [[Microsoft]]
| released = 
| latest release version = 2022 v17.13.5
| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2025|3|25}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-notes#17.13.5|title = Visual Studio 2022 version 17.13.5 Release Notes}}</ref>
| latest preview version = 
| latest preview date = 
| programming language = 
| operating system = [[Windows 7]] and later<ref name=Microsoft-download-blend />
| platform = [[DirectX]]<ref name=Microsoft-download-blend />
| language = <!--Same as Visual Studio?-->
| license = Same as [[Visual Studio]]<ref name=insider-now_GA />
| website = {{URL|https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/}}
}}

'''Microsoft Blend for Visual Studio''' (formerly '''Microsoft Expression Blend''') is a [[User interface builder|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. It is an interactive, [[WYSIWYG]] front-end for designing [[Extensible Application Markup Language|XAML]]-based interfaces for [[Windows Presentation Foundation]], [[Microsoft Silverlight|Silverlight]] and [[Universal Windows Platform|UWP]] applications. It was one of the applications in the [[Microsoft Expression Studio]] suite before that suite was discontinued.

Expression Blend supports the [[Windows Presentation Foundation|WPF]] text engine with advanced [[OpenType]] typography and [[ClearType]], vector-based 2D widgets, and 3D widgets with hardware acceleration via [[DirectX]].