This seems like the chronicle of a death foretold, WebDesigner, the new tool in the Expression Pack, and a direct competitor to Dreamweaver has its days numbered, since web developers are in luck. It is about integrating it into Visual Studio, so that you can permanently abandon any layout designer and have everything in the same tool.

The “code name” that was initially given has been Sapphire and the new features it has in store for us are:

 1. New designer based on Expression Web technology. 2. Extension of CSS tools. 3. Nested Master Pages support. 4. Split view. 5. Ability to access all ASP.NET tools and controls from Source view. 6. Intellisense and validation in sections . 7. Support for Master Pages in web.config. 8. Considerable improvement in view switching. 9. Unified the undo/redo operation stack in all views. And if anyone still doesn’t believe it, here are some images that demonstrate it: