Does anyone use expression web

If you want to move beyond simple data presentation to create a fully dynamic web application, Expression Web makes this straightforward with its comprehensive ASP. NET 2 support. You can drag on a huge range of ASP. NET 2 controls to provide navigational features such as database integration, calendar display or login features. You can then manage the appearance and behaviour of these controls via the Tag Properties palette or in-situ.

With the bundled ASP. That said, a key feature of a programmer's IDE is extensive knowledge of the language s being used. This is where EW4 is weakest because, as a dead project, it is not getting updated as languages advance. The fact that I continue to use EW4 tells you that I am getting journeyman's work out of the EW editor and could continue to use it as is. Nonetheless, my productivity is falling a bit because after building sites for so long I have a deep reservoir of code with hundreds of functions and classes and methods.

I confess to a certain amount of laziness with respect to EW4. It meets most of my needs, is straightforward, and I'm very used to it. If I decided to do something differently, perhaps to abandon the DWT in favor of another method, I'd have to consider what that meant for all the sites I've deployed for clients. Those sites are running fine and it's very easy for me to install updates to my core software at any time, usually with no disruption.

What would be gained by changing my approach now? For the moment, at any rate, I plan to continue to use Expression Web as my central tool. What I will be changing is the editor I use. Because EW can launch an external editor for any file type, I can use a third-party editor to deal with PHP, the most important language I use and the one where programming productivity is crucial.

I only see one risk, a new version of Windows in which EW4 will not run. I am expecting this to happen at some point. I'll deal with the problem when it's a problem. A total of 17 related articles were found. See them all Microsoft Lifecycle Policies. All Rights Reserved. I'm still using it to build Web sites.

So are a lot of others. I only installed the web dev component. As Kathleen says the Design view isn't the most intuitive to find. If when 'opening with' from the VS Solution Explorer you set the default to 'web forms' it always opens with the Design option etc.

It's worth a look and if EW stops working for me then this will be OK as a replacement. Hopefully VS will go on to improve on this. Tuesday, August 25, AM. Kathleen Wilber BrightWillow - Asp. Net Applications. Sunday, August 23, PM.