[MonoDevelop] Webpage Designer View

[Paulo J. Matos]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Michael Hutchinson
<m.j.hutchinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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).
>

I understand that but if you say other things would be more useful
it's because in general people have alternatives to that. Which
alternatives are used?
Or should I assume nobody uses mono for its ASP.NET capabilities?

> 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.
>
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Paulo Jorge Matos - pocm at soton.ac.uk
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PhD Student @ ECS
University of Southampton, UK