Forbidden Designer

[gesres]

I'm working at a shop that forbids the use of the designer for ASP.NET
pages. How many shops/projects make similar prohibitions? (Seems
extreme to me.)

Thanks

 

[David Hogue]

I'm working at a shop that forbids the use of the designer for ASP.NET
pages. How many shops/projects make similar prohibitions? (Seems
extreme to me.)

I've never heard of a shop forbidding the designer. Does indeed seem
extreme.

One possibility is that they have had the designer clobber hand
written/formatted code. I know vs2003 did this to me all the time,
vs2005 is probably better about it.

Personally I don't use the designer at all. I much prefer text . I
will use the designer to sketch something out and with Windows.Forms the
designer can be more useful.

 

[gesres]

<<One possibility is that they have had the designer clobber hand
written/formatted code. I know vs2003 did this to me all the time,>>

That's exactly the case.

My view is that this is the penalty for choosing this tool. ;-) When
you get a gain in productivity, you lose some flexibility as a matter
of course.

Thanks

 

[Edwin Knoppert]

I love the formatting of 2005.
It forces you to end all tags like <li></li> stuff.
If you put them in correct locations, the formatting will reposition them as
desired.. in blocks.
If you see your code being formatted to the right, you did something wrong.
(Usually old unoptimized code)
But maybe you meant the visible part not doing as should?