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amazon.com says I can have my upgrade edition by December 16 and I bet it arrives more quickly than that.

I have my fingers crossed on how well it will work with me, attached as I am to the SiteServer model with IIS, FrontPage extensions, and VSS.

LOVE the product...  but are not able to use it!

All of the sales FAQ talks about seamlessly passing web sites between VS2005 and Expression Web for coding and design, but we cannot get Expression Web to recognise any custom server controls that are part of the project. (Sometimes loading the DLL's to the GAC will work, but that breaks a host of other things in a development environment - not a viable solution)

Is there any documentation that addresses how to actually move a real life project between both environments when the project uses custom ASP.Net Server Controls in addition to the basic inbuilt ASP.Net 2.0 controls (which virtually every serious real-life project does)?

Without this piece, Expressions Web is virtually useless as a partner app to VS2005!

Anxiously anticipating...

-Steve.

Hi,

I just wants to know when it will be avalaible in French and the confditions to upgrade from Frontpage.

Best Regards,

E. Baudelet

Did I look at the wrong place or is it still not on MSDN Subscriber downloads available ?

I have been using the beta version for a p&w band website and really like it.  I had previously used a couple of shareware web site softwares and Serif's WebPlus.  Now that the beta has expired, I am hoping to purchase the Expression software.  My only problem is the cost.  Will I qualify for a competitative upgrade with the WebPlus or for an educator's discount?  (I teach in middle school.)

Thanks!

Richard Williams

OK.  Sorry.  I answered my own question after I looked at the info on Best Buy.  According to that, I can upgrade because I have Office 2000 Premium that includes Frontpage.

So now my question is, when I install the upgrade, will it install over my beta version and preserve the files I have been using for my website?

Thanks!

Richard Williams

Are there any plans to add support to non-Microsoft languages down the road; for example, integration between Windows clipboard and Expression Web make it a compelling choice (vs. Dreamweaver). But server-side languages (like PHP) do not get syntax highlighting, let alone intellisense. Actually, the same holds in large part true for ASP.NET; it would be nice to see the same code completion for server-side in Expression as we have in Visual Studio!

This is excellent news! I didn't realize you were already so far into EW 2; with this description, I cannot wait to get my hands on the first beta. It sounds great - I hope "near future" is really near!

Thanks for the quick replies, Anna and xWebTeam