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Wictor Wilén

SharePoint Server MVP / Author / MCT / MCTS / MCP / MSc writing about SharePoint and other interesting Microsoft technologies

First Impression of Microsoft Expression Web Designer

Posted at 2006-05-16 02:09 by Wictor Wilén in Microsoft Expression , Personal , .NET , C# with 1 comments.
So, after some installation trouble the Microsoft Expression Web Designer was installed, read more about it in the EWD Discussion group.

The Expression Web Designer is for me a new and improved FrontPage more focused on the layout. I made some initial pages/sites and I feel that it works pretty smoothly to work with. The target group for this product is purely front-end/html programmers.

The EWD will complement the Visual Studio development but the lack of source control integration is not just irritating - it's a "application breaker". I think the usage of EWD when building large and complex projects will not be that high if this is not implmented. I think my company will still be using Visual Studio for editing webpages for a while....

I also lack a nice integration with the Expression Graphics Designer, it would be nice to right-click an image and open the EGD editor within EWD! (When is the next CTP/beta/Gold for EGD coming???)

But, I think I'll give it a shot and try to use it some more before I give it my final judgement. Do you agree or disagree?       

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