Formatting in Visual Studio.net

[venerable bede]

I am creating a web application in Visual Studio.net and am having great difficulty in formatting the layout of pages. Having previously used Macromedia's Ultradev I am finding VS.net a nightmare. Microsoft has obviously not given much thought to layout.

In Ultradev it was easy to drop a table onto the page and merge cells e.t.c.

How can this be done in Visual Studio?
I can create a table easy enough but how do I merge cells and Add coloumns and rows?

Thanks in Advance

[rdove]

If you look at the bottom right of your form you will see 2 buttons. Click the one that says HTML and you will be able to edit the placement and format the page with HTML.

[venerable bede]

I realise that but who the hell wants to mess around doing HTML by hand in this day and age.

Microsofts design set skills are non-existant.

It amazes me how useless they are at something essentially so simple.

They should take a leaf out of Macromedias book and start giving us the products we deserve and not this sh*t.

I cant believe my employers paid so mush for this Cr*p.

I hate U Bill.
Your software makes my life more difficult, not easier.

[EyeTalion]

you can do some table formatting by right clicking on the table and selecting properties.

enjoy

[kleptos]

I realise that but who the hell wants to mess around doing HTML by hand in this day and age.

To be dead honest, i would rather do HTML by hand then have an IDE do it for me, i have more control over what i want that way.

[Edneeis]

I'm with venerable on this one. I was very surprised that asp.net doesn't even have some of the basic editing features that say Frontpage does. I agree it is good to mess with the html directly, but I like to lay out things visual first and then fine tune them in html. Add if they had that feature at least that would be an option. Oh well maybe in the next version, for now I'm starting to get used to editing the html.

[rdove]

FrontPage?? DreamWeaver?? Screw those programs. They do sooo much crap to your code its ridiculous. I spend more time fixing those program screwups then I do writing the HTMl from hand. I for on am quite glad it doesn't want to do everything for you.

[Lord_Rat]

Originally posted by rdove
FrontPage?? DreamWeaver?? Screw those programs. They do sooo much crap to your code its ridiculous. I spend more time fixing those program screwups then I do writing the HTMl from hand. I for on am quite glad it doesn't want to do everything for you.

FrontPage does. DreamWeaver does not.

Make sure you know what you are talking about.

I usually lay out the pages in Dreamweaver if they are that complex and then finish the code in VB.Net.

Most of the time, however, I use .Net all the way.

When I do, I write the code in the HTML pane usually without ever using the WYSIWYG editor.

[Edneeis]

PS In now way am I saying Frontpage is good I only mentioned it because it is also made by Microsoft, you figure they could have taken a bit from there to let you edit tables at designtime.

[J Staniforth]

You can actually merge cells -
if you selected the cells which are to be merged then right click to get a drop down menu - choose Merge Cells.
Admittedly it is tricky to get it to select the cells. You need to place the cursor on the border of the required cell getting to change to solid black arrow - click and the cell is selected. Holding down the ctrl key go to each cell selecting them.