jcolby at colbyconsulting.com
jcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Mon Jul 28 19:45:31 CDT 2003
I am looking for a reasonable wysiwyg ASP.Net programming environment. I have the ASP.Net Web Matrix widget from M$ site, and I also have Visual Studio.net with ASP.Net (I guess, at least the ability to create web pages from it). My main problem with VS.net is that it doesn't do things the easy way, rather creating an entire slew of directories and files for any "project" that you create. While this may eventually be a good thing, at the moment it simply obscures what I am trying to do. OTOH it is very powerful with built in wizards to do things like help me hook up to data etc. and (for those used to it) intellisense. Web Matrix OTOH can work with a single page, creating things drag and drop. No intellisense (AFAICT) and few if any wizards but a nice drag and drop environment none the less. To be quite honest, my biggest problem with that is I haven't figured out how to get it to NOT attempt to start a new copy of it's built-in web server when one is already open. When you run a page to test it, it opens it's built in web server. If it's already open, it tells you that the server is already open. I have to go close it, then run the page again. Does anyone know how to get the Web Matrix not to remind me that the server is open and just use it (or close it for me) automatically? Are there any other recommendations for programming environments for ASP.Net? John W. Colby www.colbyconsulting.com