Microsoft this week released an update to its Expression Blend application design tool to enable Blend projects to work in the newly released Visual Studio 2008 application development platform, said S. "Soma" Somasegar, corporate vice president of the Microsoft Developer Division, in his blog. Expression Blend Service Pack 1 can be downloaded on this Web site. "Earlier this year, we released Expression Blend th Microsoft this week released an update to its Expression Blend application design tool to enable Blend projects to work in the newly released Visual Studio 2008 application development platform, said S. “Soma” Somasegar, corporate vice president of the Microsoft Developer Division, in his blog. Expression Blend Service Pack 1 can be downloaded on this Web site.“Earlier this year, we released Expression Blend that is tailored to the designer community. Last week, we released Visual Studio 2008 for the developer audience. These are two products that together can help to build this seamless workflow and relationship between developers and designers,” Somaseger said. “Obviously, we all want the latest versions of these products to work together.” Technology Industry