Folks, several weeks ago I discovered I accidentally didn't install Expression Blend with VS2012 because I thought it was the same as V4 and would be duplicating effort. After correcting this misunderstanding and reading more about what's happening with the Expression Suite I'm becoming rather bewildered. See official page HERE<http://www.microsoft.com/expression/eng/> .
*Blend* is now merging (sort of) with VS2012. *Encoder* will be absorbed by Azure Media Services. The future of *Design* is completely indecipherable from the wording on the site. *Web* is apparently being replaced by VS2012, and that's the bit that really surprised me. This is one hell of a shakeup. I used FrontPage for a few years after it came out, then I used Dreamweaver for several years, then I moved to Expression Web (and discovered it was FrontPage sneakily renamed) and I'm using that now for mostly traditional static web site authoring. Now I'm told that it will be replaced by VS2012 ... well, whoopee because that's a product I'm familiar with, but I never considered it a candidate for managing "web sites". The old products were custom made for the job, maintaining databases of "sites", cross references of links and publishing options, but VS2012 doesn't seem built for that purpose. Can anyone confirm that VS2012 is a viable and capable product for creating large web sites full of mostly traditional static pages? Perhaps it can do that as a subset of some larger feature set I've ignored. Greg K
