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Visual Web Developer Express is a free Visual Studio Web development environment for building and testing next generation standards-based Web applications and services.


Visual Web Developer Express offers

  • A rich editor that allows you to work with HTML and CSS in source view, design view or both using split-view
  • Powerful debugging support for ASP.NET, C#, VB as well as JavaScript
  • Support for application frameworks like ASP.NET MVC, AJAX, Silverlight and third party libraries like jQuery
  • Built-in support for FTP-based Web deployment and database deployment
  • Intellisense features such as syntax highlighting and auto-completion that help improve productivity
  • Ability to test your Web applications instantly with the integrated Web server or IIS

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Request for Real-World Web Applications

Monday, Jul 12 by WebDevTools

In preparation for enhancing Visual Studio design-time experience testing, we’d like to collect a catalog of real world applications to use for performance, stress, and ad hoc testing by the Web Platform and Tools...

A practical example of using web application deployment package with IIS7

Friday, Jun 25 by WebDevTools

When a zip package is built from VS2010 web application UI (via Build Deployment Package command), or through command line (msbuild myproject.csproj /t:package), a few files are generated in the destination folder....

Web Custom Control Behavior and Authoring

Thursday, Jun 10 by WebDevTools

  Some Best Practices and Guidance for Web Control Vendors Targeting Visual Studio The goal of this post is to provide guidance for control vendors on best practices for writing custom controls with regard to...

Vishal Joshi

Web Deploy Parameterization in Action

Saturday, Jul 3 by noreply@blogger.com (Vishal R...

A few weeks back I explained the key differences between Web.Config Transformation and Web Deploy (aka MSDeploy) Parameterization…  Before you read this post I recommend that you read Transformation vs....

Vishal Joshi

Parameterization vs. Web.Config Transformation

Thursday, Jun 17 by noreply@blogger.com (Vishal R...

I was recently asked about being able to change values of different variables like ConnectionStrings, Installation physical directory, app Settings etc during install time rather than build time, so I thought it might...

Must Read Visual Web Developer Express Blog Posts

Stephen Walther

Webcast: New Enhancements for Web Developers in VS 2008

Monday, February 25, 2008 by WebDevTools

Get an overview of how Visual Studio 2008 takes web development to the next level. See highlights of the key new Web tools experiences in the Visual Studio 2008 product including support for multi-Targeting, JavaScript enhancements, rich support for CSS standards, rapid development of data-bound web pages using LINQ To SQL, and more.

Phil Haack

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta

Monday, May 12, 2008 by WebDevTools

In SP1, we have added some new features as well as many bug fixes. In this blog post I’ll attempt to give an overview of the features as well as some of the key issues the Visual Web Developer team has addressed so far in the service pack.

Scott Hanselman

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta

Monday, May 12, 2008 by ScottGu

These servicing updates provide a roll-up of bug fixes and performance improvements for issues reported since we released the products last November. They also contain a number of feature additions and enhancements that make building .NET applications better.

Phil Haack

Web Development Updates in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Monday, August 11, 2008 by WebDevTools

This blog post highlights the major changes in SP1 related to web development.

swalther

Multiple control selection in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 RTM

Thursday, June 12, 2008 by WebDevTools

We have been listening to your [strong] feedback and we are now happy to announce that multiple selection and alignment operations in Design view are coming back and will be included in VS 2008 SP1 RTM and Visual Web Developer Express 2008 SP1 RTM.

swalther

Introducing JScript Formatting in VS 2008 SP1

Monday, May 12, 2008 by WebDevTools

Colorization, validation, IntelliSense, and formatting comprise the core of any modern editor. With VS 2008 SP1, we are completing the core JScript editor by introducing code formatting.

swalther

jQuery Intellisense in VS 2008

Friday, November 21, 2008 by ScottGu

Over the last few weeks we've been working with the jQuery team to add great jQuery intellisense support within Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008 Express (which is free). This is now available to download and use.

swalther

ASP.NET MVC Support with Visual Web Developer 2008 Express

Sunday, June 01, 2008 by ScottGu

Last week I blogged about the ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 release. One important thing I forgot to mention about this release is that you can now use it with both Visual Studio 2008 as well as the free Visual Web Developer 2008 Express edition.

swalther

A Simple Silverlight 2.0 Stock Quotation Demo

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 by WebDevTools

I wrote a simple Silverlight demo of using data grid control to display stock quotes from a web service. Here's the demo.

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