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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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HTML 5 intellisense and validation schema for Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer

Wednesday, Nov 18 by WebDevTools

You all probably know that new HTML 5 standard is coming. We made a new intellisense schema that you can add to VS 2008 or VWD Express 2008 and get intellisense and validation on HTML 5 elements. Note that schema is for...

Converting a Web Site Project to a Web Application Project

Thursday, Oct 29 by WebDevTools

Differences between Web Site Projects (WSP) and Web Application Projects (WAP) are highlighted in blogs such as this one. Based on that, if you feel a WAP would be better for your particular needs than a WSP, but have...

New Silverlight Tooling Support in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2

Tuesday, Oct 27 by WebDevTools

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 will bring full support for developing applications in Silverlight 3. There’s a few things that have changed since VS2010 Beta 1, and we hope you enjoy the new beta release! Silverlight...

Tip#99: Did you know… You can now install new Media and Developer Tools products with Web PI v2 RTW?

Tuesday, Nov 3 by WebDevTools

RTW version 2 of Web PI, which shipped in September, now offers additional products through Media and Developer Tools scenarios through the new Options Dialog. You can include products from these scenarios from the...

Tip#98: Did you know… The default Application Pool Identity in IIS 7.5 (Windows 7) changed from Netw...

Friday, Oct 2 by WebDevTools

In Windows 7, IIS application pool isolation was taken yet to a different level. The new change introduced in IIS7 (Windows Server 2008) was a new option to run your application pool as AppPoolIdentiy. However, the...

Tip#97: Did you know… How to Display Hidden Information in Design View

Wednesday, Sep 30 by WebDevTools

The design view in Visual Studio can display glyphs and borders for the hidden non - graphic elements (such as div, span, form, and script elements). This feature helps you to see where the elements are and avoid...

Web Deployment Painkillers: VS 2010 & MS Deploy

Tuesday, Nov 24 by noreply@blogger.com (Vishal R...

Last week I did a talk at the PDC 2009 and the talk is now available to view online live at www.microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT56 The abstract of the talk was “Learn about next generation of ASP.NET Web Deployment with...

VS 2010 Beta 2 Read Me Items for Web Deployment

Saturday, Oct 31 by noreply@blogger.com (Vishal R...

There are some known issues/bugs related to VS 2010 Web Deployment features in VS 2010 Beta 2 Read Me… I can imagine reading the entire Beta 2 read me file can be daunting so I thought I can just copy paste the ones...

How to ensure placeholder folders are created during VS 2010 Web Deployment

Tuesday, Oct 20 by noreply@blogger.com (Vishal R...

During many web deployment scenarios developers want to be able create place holder folders where eventually their log files or runtime generated files like XMLs, Images etc will be stored… With VS 2010 Web Deployment...

Must Read Visual Web Developer Express Blog Posts

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.

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.

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.