Asp.net mvc in MS Expression Web (and other web editing tools)

Question

Today I gave in to all the banners asking me to test MS Expression web 2 demo. After some setup hickups I fired up the thing and immediately encountered a problem: How do I make this tool work with my asp.net-mvc projects? Actually, how do I make my websites work with ANY tool but visual studio 2008?

Untill now I did everything with VS2008 / Notepad++. Does anybody have experience with using asp.net-mvc projects in tools like dreamweaver, expression web etc?

Answer 1

You can use any web tool to edit the HTML+CSS+Javascript side of the site, but you'll need to compile it with VS2008 or MSBuild to run it.