<<I do like using the WinForms designer for layout >>
At the risk of reading too much into this statement, I'll point out that
laying out controls is one thing and having them appear where you expect in
a rendered HTML page is a different thing. What you see is definitely not
what you get in the world of Web Forms (which is really just HTML and CSS at
the end of the day). On the Web, you have much less control over how pages
display given how different browsers interpret and render HTML, their
various compliance with HTML and CSS standards, etc. The VS.NET IDE (or any
tool, really) won't give you the same results you might be expecting based
on experience with WinForms (which do appear almost exactly at runtime as
they do at design time). A good topic to familiarize yourself with if your
new to Web page development is the various techniques for laying out a page;
each technique has very different advantages and disadvantages. To start off
with, an older yet well-documented method is to do layout with tables,
another is with CSS (CSS-P)...
Good Luck.
"Jason" <nf*@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:uf**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
I have only been doing WinForms so am not an expert on WebForms. I do like
using the WinForms designer for layout and setting basic properties and am
not anxious to lose this capability for WebForms.
Since we are rewriting a Java/BEA/Oracle Extranet to .NET and it will be
approximately an 18 month project I am toying with the idea of starting
development with the beta version of Visual Studio that has better support
for thimgs like Master Pages, etc.
"Kevin Spencer" <ks******@takempis.com> wrote in message
news:uW**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl... Hand-coding HTML, while a good skill, is not a practical one (how much
are you paying this guy per hour?). The Visual Studio.Net IDE does
everything well except HTML. Therefore, I use FrontPage to do the HTML, paste it
into the IDE, and go from there. I also know of a number of developers who
supplement VS.Net with Dreamweaver.
If you do your HTML right, it doesn't affect the Designer at all.
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HTH,
Kevin Spencer
.Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Big things are made up
of lots of little things.
"Jason" <nf*@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:e6**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl... We have a developer who claims the Visual Studio designer is not
sophisticated enough to build enterprise grade web pages and thus hand
codes all of his HTML in such a way as to make the designer impossible to
use.
Is this common?