Things left to be desired in dot net

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willjay

I cannot believe that vb.dotnet doesn't have a better way to create data
entry webforms and winforms other than just drag and drop and cut and paste.
Why is there not a good formwizard , not the junk that is been given to us,
or like visual Interdev 6.0 a an easy way to establish all the text boxes
and labels from a table structure.

The formwizard is ok for winforms but it only creates a grid for webforms.
Visual Interdev 1.0 had a formwizard that would let you select a table, and
create lookup combo boxes from other tables, and you could with a few steps
create a webform that you could then modify. I know it had a lot of
overhead, and was a little buggy, but the concept was good.

Has anyone created something on that line of thinking. I have a project
that will require about 30 forms, and the thought of having to drop and
drag all these forms is depressing.

With all the hype about, donet and rapid application development you would
think that with all there ability MS would make this step a "piece of cake"
for developers.

Thanks wj
 
Hi Willjay,

To overcome what I said to Herfried, I have to say something more than you
think that it is maybe necessary in this message.

I find the visual designer at the moment very good.
For a webpage you have to use HTML (and delete the grid maybe) but than it
is real very good, because it is the first IDE that let me good do simulate
a online situation.

But in the next version of Visual Studio net are more things planed for
that, one of them a real very sophisticated webpage designer. Have a look at
whidbey aspnet. You will be suprised.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnaspp/html/aspnet-masterpages.asp

Cor
 
Cor said:
Hi Willjay,

To overcome what I said to Herfried, I have to say something more than you
think that it is maybe necessary in this message.
Click to expand...

The IDE however, is incosistent with the VB IDE. For instance; if you have
5 text box controls and you want to set tab index, you click on the first
one, scroll down to the tab index property, click on it, then enter your
value. When you go to subsequent text boxes, all you have to do is click on
the control and enter the tab index value. With aweb form, you must click
on the subsequent control and then again click on the property. PITA!
 
and you want to set tab index, you click on the first
one, scroll down to the tab index property, click on it, then enter your
value. When you go to subsequent text boxes, all you have to do is click on
Click to expand...

You're doing it the hard way! While the form is visible in the designer,
click View->Tab Order. Then just click the controls in the desired order!

You probably already knew this, but I thought I'd point it out just in
case.

Cheers,
 
Chris Dunaway said:
click on

You're doing it the hard way! While the form is visible in the designer,
click View->Tab Order. Then just click the controls in the desired order!
Click to expand...
That's besides the point. What I stated is tru of any property, Text, Name,
etc....
 
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