I've been using Visual Studio and utilize less than half of its Enterprise
capabilities so AFIK the most significant difference in this context is the
presence of wizards and code generators. Depending on the scope of one's
work, it also depends on how much a person needs to depend on wizards and
generator to remain productive. After that question is resolved it becomes
IMO a simple matter of fundamental competencies.
When tables were the dominant element for page design a tool like HomeSite
included a table generator (which I still use in conjunction with Visual
Studio 2005) and that table generator was for some time a priceless
feature. Once generated however, when using HomeSite a developer has to
modify tables by hand as HomeSite can not dynamically edit what it has
generated. When Dreamweaver/FrontPage came along and made it possible to
dynamically edit generated HTML productivity increased. However, dynamic
table generation and editing seems to be a commodity in all web
design/development tools developed by the major vendors these days. So IMO
they are all fundamentally the same. Even more considerable is the fact that
nobody's tools automate or generate markup styled with CSS in the same way
tables have been and can be dynamically generated and maintained.
So we're right back to square one and the question of one's competency with
page layout vs one's dependency on page layout generators as the quest for
productivity in the tools has shifted from page layout to development and
generation of the "code behind." In that regard the name of the game is
currently Visual Studio 2005 followed by the Express line of applications
noting Microsoft also has new tools that are taking this paradigm even
further [1].
<%= Clinton Gallagher
[1]
http://www.microsoft.com/products/ex...n/default.mspx
"JJ" <ab*@xyz.com> wrote in message
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Just out of interest, whats the significant differenct between Visual Web
Express 2005 and the professional version when it comes to asp.net (using
vb) development and page design?
The thought of being able to potentially do all my work in VS as opposed
to swapping and changing with dreamweaver is a big bonus.
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news:%2******************@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... ASP.NET 1.1 Master Pages, Themes and Skins using your own templates and
providers or some solution others have documented assuming you could
understand their logic and cope with what may then be discovered to not
be as ideal as the getting over the little boo-boo by upgrading to 2.0
and having it all handed to you right out of the framework all nice and
neat (more or less).
<%= Clinton Gallagher
NET csgallagher AT metromilwaukee.com
URL http://www.metromilwaukee.com/clintongallagher/
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news:ek**************@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... Thanks. Unfortunately I'm using .net 1.1 . (at least for now) so if
there's any way of doing it with this then please let me know
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ASP.NET 2.0 Master Pages, Themes and Skins
<%= Clinton Gallagher
NET csgallagher AT metromilwaukee.com
URL http://www.metromilwaukee.com/clintongallagher/
"JJ" <ab*@xyz.com> wrote in message
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> Having done most of the background sql coding I'm now ready to start
> designing my asp.net web pages.
>
> A basic question though - is there a way of having 'common' elements
> on pages (e.g. a header)?
> This used to be done using frames, but I undertand these are now not
> advised.
>
> Basically what I want is to have some text/code that is common to all
> pages, but that I only need to update in one place?
>
> Does that make sense??
>
>
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