[MonoDevelop] Webpage Designer View

[Michael Hutchinson]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Paulo J. Matos <pocm at soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> For developing ASP.NET applications it would be interesting to have a
> designer view. However, I can't find one in current monodevelop (i am
> almost sure there isn't one), or in the TODO list (which is
> troublesome). However, I am sure others have come accross this issue.
> How have you solved this?
> The only solution I can think of is doing it in a web page designer
> outside monodevelop (NVU, for example) and integrate the webpage with
> monodevelop once it is done. Only issue is that ultimately I think the
> asp.net controls have always to be hardcoded, right?
>
> Suggestions are welcome,

A designer does exist (http://www.mono-project.com/AspNetEdit) and it
can be built against current MD SVN. However, I haven't worked on it
for a long time and it's still pretty feature-incomplete. Instead I've
been prioritising code completion / text editing features, and I feel
that those are more useful (and easier to make useable).

If I do resume work on it in the future, the first step will be to
port it to Webkit-GTK (instead of Gecko). There's a long list of
reasons for this.

-- 
Michael Hutchinson
http://mjhutchinson.com