How are you supposed to make a half interesting page in Visual Studio? :-(

[Simon Harvey]

Hi there everyone,

I have a fairly open ended but simple question that I could really use some
assistance with. When I first bought visual studio (under the student
license) i thought it was great. Especially the design tool for ASP.net. It
was like making websites as easily as VB or C# - Drag and drop - a total
life saver.

But, now that I want to make some more complicated pages I'm finding it
really hard to work in VS. The other option is of course dreamweaver, but
then its not so good at the coding part - only the design part.

So what does everyone else do? I'm not an html or asp genius, so i need to
use a tool like dreamweaver to design with, but i also need a decent
programming environment like Visual Studio. The two just dont seem to get on
though. For example, I've tried to design pages in dreamweaver and then do
the coding in VS - utterly tedious and i seemed to be hitting loads of bugs.

I'd really appreciate any advice on how you geniuses make even remotely
attractive sites (like this one!) :)

Many thanks to anoyone who can help


Simon

[Kevin Spencer]

I do my HTML for the page in FrontPage, and then copy and paste it into the
page in the VS.Net IDE. From there, I can right-click any form controls to
make them runat server, add WebControls, code, etc.

HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
Internet Developer
[url]http://www.takempis.com[/url]
Big things are made up of
lots of Little things.

"Simon Harvey" <sh856531@microsofts_free_emal_service.com> wrote in message
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> Hi there everyone,
>
> I have a fairly open ended but simple question that I could really use

some

> assistance with. When I first bought visual studio (under the student
> license) i thought it was great. Especially the design tool for ASP.net.

It

> was like making websites as easily as VB or C# - Drag and drop - a total
> life saver.
>
> But, now that I want to make some more complicated pages I'm finding it
> really hard to work in VS. The other option is of course dreamweaver, but
> then its not so good at the coding part - only the design part.
>
> So what does everyone else do? I'm not an html or asp genius, so i need to
> use a tool like dreamweaver to design with, but i also need a decent
> programming environment like Visual Studio. The two just dont seem to get

on

> though. For example, I've tried to design pages in dreamweaver and then

do

> the coding in VS - utterly tedious and i seemed to be hitting loads of

bugs.

>
> I'd really appreciate any advice on how you geniuses make even remotely
> attractive sites (like this one!) :)
>
> Many thanks to anoyone who can help
>
>
> Simon
>
>