Import your Adobe Photoshop files with full control over layers and objects straight onto the design surface of all Expression products; Debug Web pages with Snapshot Preview, which shows rendered page changes while you code, and SuperPreview, which displays your page on multiple browsers on your development machine; Select from a range of player templates and publish rich media experiences with Microsoft Silverlight; choose encoding settings, including IIS Smooth Streaming; Work with nearly all essential technologies, such as PHP, CSS, HTML/XHTML, XML, XSLT, JavaScript, ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, Windows Media, Adobe Flash and Photoshop files

Create visual databases of media, called catalogs, containing references of up to 128,000 files per catalog; Browse, search, and annotate your assets, even when your originals are offline; Quickly and easily import, organize, annotate, and classify large volumes of your digital media files; Browse and play media (100+ formats) using five different views to review images, listen to music, or watch movies; Search and sort media by any criteria and even rename media files and folders directly within Expression Media; Use the Built-in Image Editor for a wide array of tools, from cropping and red-eye removal to creating duotones and adjusting color balance; Extract or create thumbnail and preview images from your digital files for quick visual cataloging

Debug Web pages with Snapshot Preview, which shows rendered page changes while you code, and SuperPreview, which displays your page on multiple browsers on your development machine; Quickly see all of the styles, style properties and values, and order of precedence of styles used in the current selection in your Web page; Choose the FTP method for publishing your site, whether FTP, SFTP, or FTPS, depending on what your Web server requires, and do live on-server edits via FTP; Make your editing and debugging more productive with Intellisense and color-coding for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP; real-time standards validation provides instant feedback; Generate elegant, modern CSS layouts with a state-of-the-art design surface and the ability to directly manipulate positioning, sizing, margins, and padding; Easily add Silverlight, Flash, or Windows Media files with drag-and-drop controls; quickly encode and insert high-quality WMV, VC-1, and H.264 Silverlight video into your Web site; Integrate vector artwork and bitmap images in the same document to create hybrid compositions that you can import in part or in whole into Expression Web; Work with nearly all essential technologies, such as PHP, CSS, HTML/XHTML, XML, XSLT, JavaScript, ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, Windows Media, Adobe Flash, and Photoshop files

Connect to the data you need, regardless of its location, and build data-driven applications using Language Integrated Query (LINQ); Develop compelling solutions that access the user experience and capabilities of the 2007 Microsoft Office system and Windows Vista; Build rich, interactive applications using the ASP.NET AJAX interactive Web interfaces; Build applications that utilize the latest Web technologies with improved support for AJAX and Web Controls and the Microsoft AJAX Library; Create Web applications more easily with an improved design surface and standards support; Utilize data from any data source more smoothly with LINQ, a set of language extensions to Visual Basic and Visual C

Connect to the data you need, regardless of its location, and build data-driven applications using Language Integrated Query (LINQ); Develop compelling solutions that access the user experience and capabilities of the 2007 Microsoft Office system and Windows Vista; Build rich, interactive applications using the ASP.NET AJAX interactive Web interfaces; Build applications that utilize the latest Web technologies with improved support for AJAX and Web Controls and the Microsoft AJAX Library; Create Web applications more easily with an improved design surface and standards support; Utilize data from any data source more smoothly with LINQ, a set of language extensions to Visual Basic and Visual C#

Simplify the design, development, and debugging process with handy editor features, such as Edit and Continue and IntelliSense; Ensure application correctness easily with integrated unit testing; Build applications to target SQL Server by using Microsoft Visual Basic or Microsoft Visual C# code directly within the database; Build applications for Windows Client, Web, Microsoft Office system, .NET Framework, SQL Server, and Windows Mobile; Create connected applications using new visual designers for Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation; Design complex Office Ribbons with the Ribbon Designer and the provided Ribbon controls; Leverage rich design-time support for Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 in device projects; Get comprehensive support with a MSDN Professional subscription (for more information, see Before you buy section above)

Simplify the design, development, and debugging process with handy editor features, such as Edit and Continue and IntelliSense; Ensure application correctness easily with integrated unit testing; Build applications to target SQL Server by using Microsoft Visual Basic or Microsoft Visual C# code directly within the database; Build applications for Windows Client, Web, Microsoft Office system, .NET Framework, SQL Server, and Windows Mobile; Create connected applications using new visual designers for Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation; Design complex Office Ribbons with the Ribbon Designer and the provided Ribbon controls; Leverage rich design-time support for Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 in device projects; Get comprehensive support with a MSDN Professional subscription (for more information, see Before you buy section above)

Experience significant enhancements without having to modify your existing applications; Get data encryption and database auditing capabilities within existing applications; Effectively manage the growth of your data with features like policy-based server management; Discover the many performance enhancements within Analysis Services, Reporting Services, and Integration Services; Use query governor and data compression for scalable solutions that are more reliable for enterprise systems; Utilize new and improved tools for powerful and easy-to-use application-development enhancements; Create enterprise reports with a new report designer and reporting capabilities integrated with Microsoft Office

Immediately determine the cause of failed check-ins and obtain guidance for addressing the problems using new code-correctness policies; Use the hotpath finder to locate problem code paths and learn how to fix and improve code efficiency; Use the Managed Code Analysis tool to analyze and report information about managed assemblies; Discover the source of poor application performance and use integrated application profiling and tuning tools to diagnose, debug, and fix errors; Employ Profiling Tools to use sampling for relative performance data, or instrumentation for a more exact measurement; Use Code Metrics to help identify complex code by measuring depth of inheritance, cyclomatic complexity, and more; Run the Application Verifier to find subtle programming errors in C++ applications that can be difficult to identify with normal application testing; Use the C/C++ Code Analysis tool to identify possible defects caused by common coding errors, such as buffer overruns and memory leaks; Get superior support with a MSDN Premium subscription (for more information, see Before you buy section above)

Run your business applications on a cost-effective, secure, and reliable database; Deliver built-in reporting to any user, enabling better, faster, decision making; Get more productivity out of your business with a database that's easy to manage and install; Includes core database features of the SQL Server product line and is easy to upgrade to Standard or Enterprise

Allows for the quick and efficient sharing of files among projects, making team coordination intuitive; Provides a number of powerful database-maintenance tools to keep your databases operating efficiently and securely; Provides an application-lifecycle-management solution when combined with Team Foundation Server; As your team expands and needs change, Visual SourceSafe 2005 projects can be seamlessly migrated to Team Foundation Server; Use automation interfaces to write extensions based on Visual SourceSafe as needed; Supports parallel development and cross-platform development techniques; Supports archival and restoration through easy-to-use wizards, as well as command-line-based maintenance

Let your projects benefit from integrated process workflows and guidance to ensure predictable, successful results; Enables team members to continuously integrate and improve their work by automating builds, executing tests, and more; Take greater control of your code by getting the latest version on checkout, comparing branches, annotating code, and tracking your workspaces; Simplify project management across your organization through integrated Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007, easier setup, and support for more users; Benefit from version control to manage changes to project artifacts, and work-item tracking to communicate and manage work across teams; Features reporting and business intelligence on project status, performance, and quality metrics