expression-web

Expression Web Source Control Integration?

Does anyone know if Expression Web (and Blend, for that matter) has any form of direct integration with source control? Right now that's about the only real downside we've discovered in a couple days of using it. But it's a big downside. Quick edit: Yes, we're currently using the demon spawn Source Safe. (For the record, with the siz...

Expressions Web 2 - rewriting code

One of our designers is looking at Microsoft Expressions Web, mainly to evaluate it against Dreameaver for maintaining the web based interfaces to our projects, and we've found a behaviour that we can't explain and can't believe is correct - it seems to be altering code in some cases. A small example that shows the issue is: <framese...

Anybody using Expression web to remote edit php files on a *nix server?

I am trying to see if anybody is aware of any ssh or ftp ways of editing files in expression web. This is similar to notepad++. I am already aware of sftpdrive option. I am looking for something that is free, and robust. I have not played with open site feature in Expression Web. I am not sure if this will work well with a php site on a...

Does Microsoft Expressions Web support Web Application Projects?

I would like the designer to be able to open the same solution file as me. Is this possible with Expressions Web? ...

Microsoft Expression Studio - Web / Superpreview with ASP.NET

Is there anyway to test an ASP.NET webpage fully with Expression Studio or is it only possible to see a static view of the page and no way to interact with any of the elements on the page? ...

Change settings for file extensions in Expression Web 3

I want to change how certain file extensions are treated within Microsoft Expression Web 3. For example, *.inc should be treated like PHP includes, so they get PHP color coding and code hints. Is this possible and how can I achieve this? ...

Getting started with PHP and Expression Web

I want to build a basically interactive website with these tools. I need to make a navagation bar with a submenu. Ex: Services then when mouse is over Services it looks like: Services boo foo I'm familiar with adding css styles, i'm just not sure about sub menus. On the php side of things, I want people to select from the ...

PHP not working with Expression Web 3

I'm starting to try to learn PHP while using Expression Web 3. I set up PHP runtime and configured the ini. What happens is my script doesn't do as it should. My page looks like: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt; <html dir="ltr" xmlns="http://www...

Round rectangles in website

I'm working on a web site with Expression Web. I came across this website http://www.ecodetox.ca and what I really liked was how everything seemed to be in round rectangles. I also noticed the background had a drop shadow. I'm wondering how I could achieve this type of effect in expression web without using loads of images from Photosho...

Using art from Expression Design, in Expression Web

I built a round rectangle in Expression Blend, and would like to bring it into Expression Web as a background for my #welcometext div. I want to be able to position it and then add text over it. I brought it in with CSS but it's too big, how can I resize it to fit the div? Thanks ...

Is there an autocorrect feature in Expression Web 3 and if so how can I turn it off?

I have an aspx page that starts with the code <%@ Page Title="" Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/Views/ Every time I hit the save button, the text is changed to <%@ Page Title="" Language="C#" MasterPageFile="Views/ (with the tilde and slash missing). Why does Expression Web 3 do this and how can I turn this off? ...

Can I use Expression Web 3 to design ASP.NET MVC views?

I want a visual tool to build the html for my ASP.NET MVC views, and Expression Web 3 is on sale. Alternative would be Dreamweaver. But I have not used either tool so I don't know if they 'play well' with MVC. I basically want a tool to design a clean, professional looking web front end without having to type up all the HTML by hand i...

Scrolling Textbox Content Overflows into padding area

How can I stop my scroll bar and the text when scrolled from appearing in my top padding area. I am new to Microsoft Expression Web and CSS and I am very frusterated with this. Here's what I have so far but as mentioned above the text still wants to scroll into the top 75px of padding as well as the scroll bar is permantly displayed th...

Expression Web: Frames vs. Dynamic Web Template

Hi all, I am making a website that has a lot of links that do not change from page to page. I have made similar websites before using the DWT feature of Expression Web with good results, but I still see a lot of people using frames for this kind of thing. Is there some benefit that frames have over DWT that I am missing? Are there any...

Does Expression Web produce semantically correct html?

I am usng Expressoin Web to design some pages and wondering if it generates xhtml that is compatible with all browsers. ...

Microsoft Expression Web 3 clipboard bug

There seems to be a rather annoying bug in MS Expression Web 3 (or perhaps an incompatibility with something else I have installed). Quite often HTML code editor would refuse to copy things into clipboard. You select some text, press Ctrl-C, Ctrl-Insert or use context menu and nothing happens. Then in 10..15 seconds it would start worki...

Implementing a "special" Access database to Expression Web

I have just got an answer to my question about combining the result of a SQL. This was done with "ConcatRelated". Now I want to implement this in Expression Web 3. The SQL's I used in Access: SELECT land.id, land.official_name, vaksiner.vaksiner FROM land INNER JOIN (vaksiner INNER JOIN land_sykdom ON vaksiner.id = land_sykdom.sykdom) ...

Getting a QueryString from a DropDownList

I am using Microsoft Expression Web 3 and I have to pages, the first with a DropDownList and a button and the last shows the result. The DropDownList contains a list of countries where the user is supposed to select a country and the click on the button, this should send the user to a new page to see what's needed to travel to that count...

Expressions Web 4 Format Code Shortcut?

Is there a keyboard shortcut for formatting code like Visual Studio has Ctrl+K Ctrl+D? ...

Why are Html Entities replaced by MS Expression Web??

I'm using Microsofts Expression Web 5 to edit my HTML documents. I have noticed a strange behaviour when using the 'Reformat HTML' method. If my html document (UTF-8) contains html entities in the like of the entity is replaced by a euro character. The html entities with a special meaning like '<' and '>' will not be replaced. So '<' (...