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z1p
September 22nd, 2006, 06:48 PM
The beta for Microsoft's new web designer tool is now available. I've been using the CTP version of it and its been pretty good. I only ran into a couple of problems (passive mode FTP didn't work and applying a style sheet to all pages crashed sometimes) though I didn't use many of its features.

The link to the download page is below. Remember it will only work till March of 2007 and that it is a beta. Though from my experience with the CTP, I expect it to be reasonably stable.

http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/web_designer/wd_free_trial.aspx

renegade600
September 23rd, 2006, 02:39 PM
does it have extensions? or it it going to be more like dreamweaver?

z1p
September 23rd, 2006, 03:30 PM
I haven't used dream weaver, so I can't compare. I was going to say that I hadn't seen any provision for addons, but the latest message at MS blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/xweb/default.aspx) talks about releasing an addon right after it is released.