SharePoint Designer 2010 is also free and available for public download. SharePoint designer 2010 available in both 32-bit and 64-bit. You can install SPD 2010 side by side along with SPD 2007. But, the limitation with this SPD 2010 is you cannot open the SharePoint 2007 sites in it. So, you have to...

It's free and saves so many $ to Microsoft customers. As they have included so many features everyone thoughts it's of high cost. But it's changed. IT's free....

Nice article that gives first idea of SharePoint designer 2010 and it support to SharePoint 2007 sites and limitations.

Do you know any option available in SharePoint Designer 2007 to login as different user? I believe no. Now this has been changed in SharePoint Designer 2010. Yes, you should know it.

I've just released the V1.0 of PowerActivity for SharePoint Designer. Anything PowerShell can do, anything PowerActivity can do. That's really, really a lot :-)

If use the default Split Container to build a Windows Form or create a new user control, and set some properties of that Split Container at design time using Visual Studio 2008, you may end up with a broken form or user control. I got that error using the Visual Studio 2008 - Professional Edition.

This post describes how to add a smart tag panel to your custom control.

This post describes how to use a control designer to add custom menu items on the custom controls by adding Designer Verbs.

This post shows how to filter metadata in the design time environment using designers and implementing PostFilter and PreFilter methods.