Programming ASP.net

[Steve S]

Whats the best way to make a site with ASP.net and Visual Studio 2003...The
visual studio does not seem like the idea environment to make an ASP
page...maybe if it was just a grid on a blank white page, but images&tables
just seem impossible to work with...

[Alvin Bruney]

my 2 pence. i think they intentionally made it terrible to get programmers
away from the html stuff. it's working, its forcing programmers into the
code behind. think about it, they could build a solid codebehind
implementation, but they couldn't build html editing robust enough? don't
make sense to me.

"Kevin Spencer" <kevin@takempis.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Steve,
>
> There are 2 aspects to an ASP.Net page: The Page Template (.aspx file) and
> the CodeBehind class (.vb or .cs file). The Page Template ideally has

almost

> no server-side code in it, only server-side tags. The code should almot
> entirely be in the CodeBehind class definition. Where I'm going with this

is

> to acknowledge that VS.Net has terrible capabilities for developing HTML,
> which is the vast majority of what's in the Page Template. However, it is
> excellent for the CodeBehind. So, what I do is to use an HTML editor (I

use

> FrontPage) to compose my Page Template layout, then paste the HTML into my
> ASP.Net Page Template, and code from there.
>
> Hopefully, Microsoft will spend more time on the HTML Editor in VS.Net in
> future versions. Personally, I'd like to see them integrate FrontPage,

with

> all of its' web site management capabilities, as well as its' HTML Editor,
> into the IDE somehow.
>
> --
> HTH,
>
> Kevin Spencer
> Microsoft MVP
> .Net Developer
> [url]http://www.takempis.com[/url]
> Complex things are made up of
> lots of simple things.
>
> "Steve S" <highd@rogersNOSPAM.com> wrote in message
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> > Whats the best way to make a site with ASP.net and Visual Studio

> 2003...The

> > visual studio does not seem like the idea environment to make an ASP
> > page...maybe if it was just a grid on a blank white page, but

> images&tables

> > just seem impossible to work with...
> >
> >
> >

>
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