Expression Web is the replacement for the FrontPage. It has a sister product
called SharePoint Designer that is essentially the same as EW, but has
additional functionality geared towards working with SharePoint.
The Expression products are focused on creating compelling interfaces using
tools such as Blend for XAML interfaces, and EW for web interfaces. EW works
very nicely with Visual Studio and makes adjusting and tweaking the visual
style of a web page faster. The two problems I've run into is it doesn't
pickup a change in the file while EW has it open (in other words, edit a
file that is open in EW and EW won't notify you that the file has changed so
when you save it you over-write any changes made in another app like VS).
The other problem I've notices is a bug with the <brelement. It creates
closing <brelements like so </br>, which is incorrect and can't create the
self-closing XHTML-compliant <br />.
You can think of Silverlight as a JavaScript enhanced design viewer that
will let you create XAML designed interfaces for the web. Basically,
enabling you to do with a web-page what you'll be able to do with Visual
Studio "Orcas" (next version of VS).
You may want to take a look over at
www.visitmix.com. The sessions are now
available from that conference in video which may help explain what's going
on.
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Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Former Microsoft FrontPage MVP 199?-2006
"Ronald S. Cook" <rc***@westinis .comwrote in message
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I'm a Visual Studio developer confused by seeing these new products coming
out... Expression and Silverlight.
Is Expression maybe a successor to FrontPage and is Silverlight maybe
something to compete with Flash?
Are Visual Studio, Expression, and Silverlight expected to exists together
(and in some sort of harmony) in a development shop, or is something else
going on.
I've read the FAQs but I'm still confused.
Thanks for any clarification,
Ron