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Scott Guthrie has posted on Tuesday that the Expression Blend and Expression Web products will be added to the MSDN downloads section. This will be available for all MSDN Premium subscribers. You can check out Scott's full post including links to the existing trials here: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/04/03/expression-added-to-msdn.aspx 
If you haven't checked this out yet, be sure to take a visit to it. Scott Guthrie has compiled a list of ASP.NET 2.0 Tips, Tricks, and Gotchas. He has compiled some of the best resources for navigating through the UI, VS 2005, AJAX, and more. Be sure to check the list out at http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/pages/ASP.NET-2.0-Tips_2C00_-Tricks_2C00_-Recipes-and-Gotchas.aspx.
Brad Kingsley, the founder of Orcsweb, has created a new blog on the Orcsweb site. I'm sure Brad will be passing on some great info about hosting .NET apps and server configuration. You can check out his new blog at http://blogs.orcsweb.com/brad.
If you remote into many machines, this should appeal to you. Terminals is a free, open source project on CodePlex that allows much better management of remote desktop connections than the default XP/Vista experience. Check it out today, it’s a quick download.
http://www.codeplex.com/terminals
Since I was one of the people bitching about Microsoft not releasing Expression Web a while back I am glad to see that Microsoft has decided to now offer these products on MSDN. Kudos for listening to the community on this issue. I've been using Expression Web for quite a while for my non coding html and site management and I like it ton. In fact I bought a copy as soon as it became available and it was worth the price of admission especially as an upgrade to FrontPage. But the big reason for my bitching wasn't about the $100 or so to shell out, but rather the perception and the need to get a tool like this into the hands of as many people as possible so that they can spread the product out into the world. Microsoft is targeting these products at Designers primarily but the reality is that most of the people who will be using them at least at the start are going to be developers who need richer tools for editing. Let it spread out from there. Expression Web is a fine product although it could use a few more bug fixes and better developer friendly functionality, but for a 1.x product from Microsoft it's pretty damn good. I just hope that Microsoft can keep Expression Web and the Visual Studio Editor in some sort of sync so that some of the developer centric features can bubble back up into the standalone product as well... I've also used Blend over the last week or so and it's come a long way from the early previews. It's quite nice as well, although I find it difficult to work with, especially after having played around with Aurora which is kind of similar but just feels much more intuitive than Blend. Most of this is probably my ineptitude with dealing with such a graphics centric design metaphor. I have to say that I'm really struggling with concepts like this and Blend isn't doing much in the way of helping me out. But that's not Blend's fault, but * cough * mine... Anyway, I think this was a smart decision by Microsoft. If you haven't looked at Expression Web now there's no excuse not to check it out...
Repost from .NET Valley (full article here - http://dotnetvalley.com/news/articles/article13.aspx): .NET Valley has cancelled the Scranton, PA event for April that was supposed to be held on April 18th. The reason for the cancellation is that we are preparing ourselves for a big announcement on April 6th. Be sure to stay tuned as this announcement is sure to effect all ... [read more]
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