If people are looking for an alternative to VS.Net (and not everyone can afford it) then TopStyle might help. As far as I've used the CSS editing facilities in VS.Net, they seem pretty pathetic compared with the useability of TopStyle with the visibility of
all possible styles and the cross-browser feature highlighting + the "live" preview and simple previewing in any browser, not just IE. Unless I'm missing something, the VS.Net CSS editor is just a simple text editor with a whole set of obfuscating dialogues
to set a style, IMHO all realtively clumsy to use. Put it this way, I learnt a lot more about CSS from using TopStyle (and its help files) than I ever would have done from VS.
First of all, I just don't get developers who say "Use notepad, it's all you need" Sure, you can build apps using notepad and compile from a command line but why drive a pedal-cart when you can drive a ferrari? Seriously, your teling me you can build applications
as quickly and as well structured in notepad as visual studio? No chance. Saying you use notepad to code is just a geeks way of trying to look manly. It's simple - fire up visual studio, build your web application - don't worry about the design. Open you aspx
pages up in dreamweaver and design in there. There is NO better tool for design and site management than dreamweaver and it has brilliant support for css. I never code in dreamweaver as I it sucks for that. Intellisense in vs rules. And I think intellisense
anctually helps you understand the architecture of you application better anyway. You can see what's available to your classes and how to use them. I can't think of another aplication that has that sort of design...
instead of everyone complaining about VS css support..why doesn't someone write to the development team and tell them to make it more like the dw program...
In VS2005 (even the betas) the html and css editors has been tremendously improved, and in my opinion offers at least as good an experience as both DW and TopStyle. For both HTML and CSS you get browser and schema (even custom made schemas) targeted validation
and formatting, detailed formatting customization, Intellisense and all kinds of other nifty features (Source control integration, for one) that are available today, or will come in the 2005 edition. Best of all, in my opinion; VS won't mess with the HTML
that you create. It won't even sneak in a single space or anything that you don't ask it to.
anyone know when v2k will be released? and if it will support asp.net 2.0?.. (off topic...any idea about asp.net 2.0 final realease date?..yes i know beta is here..)
i thought i would have to kill myself if i would have to watch any more then 3 minutes of that presentation....talk about yadda yadda yadda....he looks like *THE* most nervous person on the entire planet (guy on the right).... not really worth the 48 mb dl.....
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