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Expression Web and Expression Blend added to MSDN!

Back in December 2006, Microsoft released Expression Web, a designer tool that's a great companion to Visual Web Developer and Visual Studio.  You can read about this tool in this earlier blog post that we had made.  Since then, we have received a ton of feedback asking why this as well as Expression Blend are not included in MSDN.   As a result of this feedback, the Expression team announced last week that both Expression Web and Expression Blend will be available as part of MSDN Premium.  We are excited about this announcement and believe that this will be a huge win for web development teams that include both designers and developers.  There's already good workflow between the Expression and Visual Studio brands of products and the workflow is only going to get much better over time.  What's more, the same designer component is used in both Expression Web and Visual Web Developer Orcas, so the user experience in the two products will be similar.

For more details on the Expression announcement, you can read Somasegar's blog post regarding this.

-- Bash

 

Posted: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 11:27 PM by WebDevTools

Comments

Mike said:

"...the same designer component is used in both Expression Web and Visual Web Developer..."

Actually, no, it's not. It's used in the previews of the next Visual Studio.

# April 12, 2007 4:52 PM

WebDevTools said:

Good point Mike.  I've edited the post to say "Visual Studio Orcas" that helps clarify this point.

-- Bash

# April 12, 2007 6:59 PM

jalpesh vadgama said:

Microsoft WebExpression is a very good tool. Do you know any tools for asp.net 1.1 just like micosoft web expression

# April 13, 2007 7:15 AM

WebDevTools said:

No unfortunately there isn't a Microsoft designer tool for ASP.NET 1.1 similar to Microsoft Expression Web for ASP.NET 2.0.  There is minimal ASP.NET support in FrontPage 2003, but it is certainly not as extensive as the support in Microsoft Expression Web.

Hope that helps.

-- Bash

# April 13, 2007 11:05 AM
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