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Increasing Productivity by Increasing
Collaboration
In your application, you may want to import sophisticated art that is externally created, and you
may also want to connect your user interface design to a back end of complex programming to run
the various tools and features that you design into your interface. For this you may want to rely on
the work of others. Blend is designed for collaboration both with other designers and with pro-
grammers. In large applications, Blend provides the link between the graphics and the back-end
programming environment.
Microsoft Expression Design can export (among other things) XAML code, the same format in
which Blend stores its data (as described in the section “Including 3D models and animation” ear-
lier in this chapter). So, vector objects created in Design can be imported into Blend easily.
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