New release now available for download

Apr 27, 2010 07:21 GMT  ·  By

On the heels of Visual Studio 2010 RTM, .NET Framework 4 RTM and Silverlight 4 RTW, Microsoft made available for download the Release Candidate of Expression Blend 4. Just ten days later, an updated version of Expression Blend 4 RC has been released to the Microsoft Download Center, as the Redmond company worked to resolve issues reported by end users. According to the software giant, the Expression Blend RC refresh is simply designed to fix problems that resulted in crashes for some early adopters, and brings nothing new to the table on top of what the original RC offered.

“As most of you know, last week we released the release candidate version of Expression Blend 4. Shortly after many of you had a chance to play with it, some of you reported that Expression Blend crashes during launch. If you are one of those people whose Expression Blend crashes after launch, please download this minor revision of the release candidate we released last week,” a member of the Expression Blend and Design team revealed. “If you aren’t having any problems launching Blend, you do not have to upgrade. There are no new features or changes besides some changes to make sure Expression Blend runs properly on launch.”

Developers and designers can turn to Expression Blend 4 RC in order to build Silverlight 3 and Silverlight 4 Cloud applications and services. At the same time, the tool allows for the development of desktop apps leveraging Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) 3.5 with Service Pack 1 (SP1) and WPF 4.

“We were able to detect this issue thanks largely through the error reports those of you with this crash submitted. We constantly go through all of the crash reports we receive, and we try to fix as many of them as possible. While we hope you never have to experience crashes from running Expression Blend, if you do experience a crash, please do submit the error reports,” the Expression Blend and Design team representative added.

Expression Blend 4 Release Candidate (RC) is available for download here.

Visual Studio 2010 Express is available for download here.

Visual Studio 2010 Premium is available for download here.
Visual Studio 2010 Professional is available for download
here.
Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate is available for download
here.
Visual Studio Test Professional 2010 is available for download
here.

.NET Framework 4 RTM is available for download here.

Silverlight 4 Build 4.0.50401.0 RTW is available for download here.