[MonoDevelop] Monodevelop and Asp.net Views

[Levi Bard]

> I was thinking about how to implement a start page with mono. While
> using gtk could one option I think that asp.ner is a better one. Like
> visual studio.net start page we could include recent projects, some
> options and last news/releases.
>
> My problem start with the how to make an asp.net page that can get the
> current MonoDevelop instance properties. I'm thinking the better ways is
> no make a new MonoDevelopXSPService addin to enable this. Anyway, I
> still have no clue about how I could make a page to be an addin to
> monodevelop.
>
> While a new dependency in XSP (maybe not) could be a trouble for some, I
> think that as soon as MonoDevelop have support to ASP.net that would be
> a must-to-have dependency.

Argh, I hate the vs.net startpage!  And I think it's a terrible idea
to require MD to run XSP and an asp interpreter at startup just for a
startpage.

I am not wholly against the concept of a startpage (that's able to be
turned off), but a gtk# panel or a html snippet generated by c# code
will more than suffice without all the extra stuff thrown on top.
Perhaps something along the lines of Anjuta's startup dialog (
http://bard.sytes.net/anjutastart.jpg ) would be appropriate.

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