Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 Available - Now with VWD 2008

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We recently announced the RTW of Visual Studio 2008 beta 2. What you might not know is that beta 2 also introduces the new Visual Web Developer Express Edition 2008. ASP.NET developers should be pretty excited about the new features, and this product will be available free once it RTMs.

You can download the beta 2 build of VWD 2008 from the following URL:

 https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/express/future/bb421473.aspx

If you're new to ASP.NET and want a great introduction to architecture and building web applications using VWD 2008 without a focus on writing a lot of server-side code, you might want to pre-order my book, The Expression Web Developer's Guide to ASP.NET 3.5. While the title does mention Expression Web, this isn't an Expression Web book. My publisher wanted to target Expression Web users because many of them are feeling the push to ASP.NET and we wanted to give them a strong foundation book.

You can pre-order my book on Amazon right now.

Jim