re: Expression Web Beta 2 Beta

apwestgarth — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:13:02 GMT

Hi Mike,

yes these features are all great but once again we are still waiting for Source Control Integration - just keep getting told it's coming at some point - this is a dealbreaker for many still :-(. I posted a comment to the Exp Web Team Blog - but still no response - http://blogs.msdn.com/xweb/archive/2008/03/05/expression-web-2-february-2008-beta.aspx#8094781

hmmm.

re: Expression Web Beta 2 Beta

MikeOrmond — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:48:16 GMT

Hi Andy. Yes, I know that's an issue for many people. And I know the EW team know that too. Unfortunately I don't have any insider knowledge on when they will incorporate SCC into EW. Mike

re: Expression Web Beta 2 Beta

Rick Dieffenbach — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:33:00 GMT

I think there is some happy refinement in Beta 2 - and from what I am seeing, the major changes for me are not Microsoft's stated changes.. except for the Version 2 'feature' of ftp improvements. (The marketing department obviously decided to call what was a major annoyance in Version 1 into a version 2 "feature".

But besides that, what really matters is how it performs in everyday work. And I think here that Microsoft made some improvements that they simply haven't or don't want to talk about it. What I am seeing is a program that simply seems to respond quicker when I go to the various menus and dialogs. It feels 'tighter'. Maybe they used a new compiler to build the program, or maybe they just did indeed tightened up the code a bit. At any rate, I like how the program performs for everyday tasks now.

On the down side, they are still building just enough ASP.net functionality to do some of the more basic kinds of things - most of the time. Still missing is a query builder and the system that VS 2005/2008 has for instantly creating page events, e.g, on_inserted, etc.

Yes.. I know these are in VS 2008 etc but it simpply wouldn't take much more functionality in Expression Web to make life simple for many users - who must jump back and forth between programs. Yes, it can be done, but with just a tiny bit of functionality increase, Expression Web can be all it can be.

Rick