Yet more Express info, the tools view
Seems like these blogs have been focussed just a little on the new Express SKU's, oh well might as well follow the crowd...
Lance from the Visual Studio Data Tools Team has a great post that explains how XCopy deployment works in express, here.
Like everyone else I am super excited about SQL Server Express, we have been keeping quiet on the plans for a long time and its been frustrating:-)
One of the tools that was shown in the demo(if it went as planned) at TechEd should have been Express Manager ( XM ). This is a new lightweight query and admin tool. We are going to make it available for download sometime in August as it is lagging a little behind the rest of Yukon. XM is built in managed code and the goal is to make the download size really small, the initial version that supports query only will be a 2MB download if you have the NETFx 2.0 and SMO on the machine.
XM will also work against the other SQL Server 2005 SKUs so it will be a great lightweight tool.