Expression Blend 3 has two pre-defined Workspaces, available under the Window/Workspaces menu.

1. the Design Workspace is tuned for layout and UI creation, and is the default view you see in Blend.
   
2. the Animation Workspace is tuned for creating Storyboard Animations and gives you a larger view of the StoryBoard timeline.

We can also create and save our own custom Workspaces using the Window/Save as New Worspace menu option. And we can Rename and Delete Workspaces using the Window/Manage Workspaces menu option.

Workspaces save the following information:

• visibility of panels
• the size and orientation of panels
• the panels that are within panel groups
• whether a panel is floating or docked

Sharing Blend Workspace Settings

I was recently asked, how can we share Workspace settings across multiple users? For example, you may have set up the perfect Workspace for completing a task, and want to share this with other users in your team.

While Blend does not support this natively, we can hack around a bit to get a Workspace copied to another machine.

1. Copy the Workspace settings files stored in this folder:
   
   %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Expression\Blend3\Workspaces
   
   Each Workspace has a "default" version (containing the original settings from the "Save" operation), and a "modified" version (containing any changes made after the Save).
   
2. We also need to add settings to the user.config file located in this folder:
   
   %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Expression\Blend3\
   
   Open the user.config file in your favorite XML editor (well, notepad works). Look for the node containing UserWorkspaces, and add the name of the Workspace to this value. Note that we can add multiple Workspace names, with a pipe delimiter. 
   
   <ConfigurationObject Name="WorkspaceService">
       <PrimitiveObject Name="ActiveWorkspace">WorkspaceX</PrimitiveObject>
       <PrimitiveObject Name="UserWorkspaces">WorkspaceX|WorkspaceY</PrimitiveObject>
     </ConfigurationObject>