Designing on VS.2003 is terrible

[Guest]

I use VS 2003. In VS 2003 design (page, table) is very difficult. FrontPage
is useful to design tables but FrontPage doesn't recognize asp.net panel
object.

I wonder whether VS 2005 is more easy to design.

 

[Lucas Tam]

I use VS 2003. In VS 2003 design (page, table) is very difficult.
FrontPage is useful to design tables but FrontPage doesn't recognize
asp.net panel object.

I wonder whether VS 2005 is more easy to design.

I use Macromedia Dreamweaver for design... VS (6.0, 2002, etc) has always
had bad HTML support and I hope VS.NET 2005 will have FAR better HTML
capabilities. Maybe Microsoft should just use FrontPage's HTML engine
instead.

 

[Kevin Spencer]

You're absolutely right. I use FrontPage to do my HTML, and then paste it
into Visual Studio, and program.

As for VS.Net 2005, no doubt it will be better. I just don't know if it will
be perfect. In the meantime, you now have a useful technique to employ.

--
HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
What You Seek Is What You Get.

 

[Kevin Spencer]

Maybe Microsoft should just use FrontPage's HTML engine

instead.

Hear hear! I've been telling Microsoft to do that for years now. Must be a
thorny issue.

--
HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
What You Seek Is What You Get.

 

[Andy Fish]

The worst thing is where just switching views causes it to reformat the
HTML, often mucking up significant whitespace as well as causing havoc if
you're using source-code control.

I've heard that whideby doesn't rewrite the HTML every time you switch from
design view to HTML view. I live in hope that it won't keep arbitrarily
deleting sections from the CodeBehind file as well.

--- Tim

You're absolutely right. I use FrontPage to do my HTML, and then paste it
into Visual Studio, and program.

As for VS.Net 2005, no doubt it will be better. I just don't know if it
will be perfect. In the meantime, you now have a useful technique to
employ.

--
HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
.Net Developer
What You Seek Is What You Get.

 

[Mark Rae]

I've heard that whideby doesn't rewrite the HTML every time you switch
from design view to HTML view.

It doesn't - hurrah!

I live in hope that it won't keep arbitrarily deleting sections from the
CodeBehind file as well.

Hmm - you're going to have to live in hope a little longer for that one...
:-(

 

[Mythran]

It doesn't - hurrah!


Hmm - you're going to have to live in hope a little longer for that one...
:-(

Deleting sections in CodeBehind? I don't seem to have that problem, but
then again, I turned off all of the auto-formatting features that I could in
the configuration for the .Net IDE for all languages. With the exception of
auto-indenting using spaces. My html and code-behind no longer gets
reformatted and I don't have a problem of code being deleted

Mythran