As a high-school student [that pretty much has C# knowledge of a first degree] – I got an assignment for the Israelish ‘Bagrut’ exams [which are the final, most important exams in high-school] – before we actually went through the materiel in-class [about 3 years earlier.]
It was to make a simple dynamic website, maybe a basic social website or an online-store, with importance of server-side ASP.NET.
My teacher gave me a book from 2006 called ‘ASP.NET & XML Web Services’ – and I’ve started learning.
The problem is, I have VS2010 Ultimate with .NET FW 4 installed, and apparently, is majorly different from the C# Express that the book author has.
On my VS, the Design Editor of the HTML is not allowing me to have the WinForms level of freedom, but makes me write the CSS myself, not show me the common XY based designer, but something like a blog WYSIWYG – without the freedom of moving stuff around.
As I do not want to work too hard converting the book instructions to my VS, I would like to know if its possible to get the [probably obsolete] WinForms – WebForms designer – and not by downloading a very old version of VS.
I’ve tried playing around a bit with VS, and found out that the book used System.Web.UI.Page, while my VS uses System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlForm – even manually changing to UI.Page did nothing to the designer.
Is it possible to ‘go back’ to the WinForm type of designer? Thank you!
No, it’s not possible to do what you want. You are referring to the ugly, terrible, thing-that-should-have-never-been-created-in-the-first-place grid layout thing that Visual Studio 2003 used to have. Learn a bit of HTML. Tables are easy enough to learn and lay out things properly on your markup.