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Expression Web Designer has an easy way to add an image map to a web page.   To use this control, look in the Toolbox under the ASP.NET Controls section and find the "ImageMap" control and drag and drop the control to the area on your web page where you would like the image map to appear.

Expression Web Designer offers an easy way to add rotating ads (or any images).  In this tutorial, we'll be creating an ASP.NET web page that uses an AdRotator control to randomly display ads.  This page will use an XML file to define the ads that will rotate. 

With an ".aspx" page open in design mode, find the AdRotator control in the ASP.NET Controls section of the Toolbar, and drag and drop the control to the area of your page where you'd like the ad to appear.

It's easy to use Expression Web to connect to an Access database.  This tutorial connects to the "Northwind" Database which is the sample database that comes with Microsoft Access.  If you don't have this database installed, you can download it from Microsoft's website here: 

Microsoft announced today that Expression Web is now available for download for MSDN Premium subscribers. This is good news to many developers who expected Expression Web to be part of MSDN when it was released several months ago.  Microsoft also announced that Expression Blend will also be available to MSDN Premium subscribers once Blend is released (which is expected within the next two months).

April 04, 2007

Microsoft is now offering a free 60-day trial of the entire Expression Studio package.  This package includes: Expression Web, Expression Blend, Expression Design and Expression Media.  You can download the free trial from Microsoft here

June 11, 2007

Students are now eligible to download Microsoft's Expression Studio for FREE!  Microsoft announced the campaign today to generate more interest in their development tools.  They are also offering students the opportunity to download a copy of Visual Studio 2008 and Windows Server 2003.  The offer is currently open to students in 11 countries.  For more information, go to: https://downloads.channel8.msdn.com/