Using ASP.NET server control visual desgners in FP2003

[Geoff Taylor]

Hi,

I've just started trying to use FP2003 (I normally stick to VS.NET), so
this might seem like a naive question:

How do I get server controls I have written to appear design-time in
FrontPage?

MS trumpeted the use of control designers when .NET was introduced, and
it's nice being able to see the design-time rendering of controls when
laying out pages. Surely FP supports this somehow? If it does, how do
I get it work?

I have my ASP.NET pages in FrontPage. I have the <form
runat="server">... tags. I have my custom DLL in the /bin directory and
listed on the ASP.NET tab of the options dialog. But design-time, it
just seems to output the tag's code:

<opgeek:repeater runat="server" pagesize="5">
<view recordtype="news" orderby="datecreated" sortascending="false"/>
...
</opgeek:repeater>

Needless to say, neither the designer nor the preview browser can
understand this, since it's not HTML - it's ASP.NET to generate HTML.

Have I missed something?

Geoff

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

You have to use Preview in Browser and view the site via http://

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[Geoff Taylor]

You have to use Preview in Browser and view the site via http://

So there's no design-time support for ASP.NET controls, the way there is
in VS.NET?

Really?

Wow. That's pretty bad.

Geoff

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

You can not access any server-side functions in FP.

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[Bob Lehmann]

Guess that partially explains the price difference, eh?

Bob Lehmann

 

[Geoff Taylor]

You can not access any server-side functions in FP.

Yeah, but I'm not really trying to access server-side functions. All I
was trying to do was find a way to display design-time versions of
controls. Expensive tools like VS.NET from MS can do it. Free tools
like WebMatrix from MS' developers can do it.

FrontPage, it appears, can't.

Which is a shame.

Geoff

 

[Geoff Taylor]

Guess that partially explains the price difference, eh?

It would, if free tools like WebMatrix
(http://www.asp.net/webmatrix/default.aspx?tabIndex=4&tabId=46) couldn't
also do it.

Geoff

 

[Jim Cheshire]

The designer in FrontPage only allows design-time support of some server
controls (such as the DataGrid.) Other controls will show up much the same
as templated controls (like the Repeater) do in VS.NET.

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