Working with Visual Studio 2005 and Dreamweaver 8.

Hi,

I´d like to know if anybody uses both programmes to create a site.

What I mean is , use dreamweaver 8 to design the site and (somehow) import this
to visual studio 2005 and do all the code work from here, asp.net 2.0 I mean.

 Would this be a practical way to work?

Does anybody out there works like this?

IF you do, how to you get around importing into Visual Studio 2005? Links to
pages that could explain this? I have done several searches , google I mean, and
found nada,nothing.

I am aware of the new "Microsoft EXpression Web designer", but I would
rather stick to Dreamweaver and VS2005 ,if I possibly can!, for some time.

Hope somebody could give me some advice,

Thanks people!
Rauland

I´ve done some progress.

I´ve done a test, and so far it seems to be working fine.

I first create a site, with server technology (this in dreamweaver). And choose
ASP.Net VB.

Then each page I create must be asp.net vb pages.

Once I design the page. I save, go to the file, and copy that page and paste it
into my VB2005 file where I´m creating my web.

It opens up fine in Visual Studio. YOu only have to do some minor Html changes,
as some tags seem to be considered outdated.(add a form tag with
runat="server",...)

I´ve only done this test with a simple page, with CSS.

Hopefully I could do all the design work in Dreamweaver and this way import into
VS2005 and do all the asp.net code work from here.

Hi,

 

but have you ever received any errors while uploading them to the web. i.e
changing from a html page, to a aspx page.

such as this: 



The XML page cannot be displayed 

Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then
click the Refresh button, or try again later. 

A name was started with an invalid character. Error processing resource
'file:///C:/Inetpub/wwwroot/Copy of web-css-take-it...

<%@ Page Language="VB" %>
-^

 

I copied the visual studio files into my web directory, and linked the html page
to a aspx file.

do u have any idea whats going on?

andy

Hi,

I do remember seeing that error before.

Did you install IIS after installing microsoft .net framework 2.0 ?

If so, just go to the control panel,add/remove programs, and repair microsoft
.net framework 2.0.

This should fix it, it did it for me. (Don´t ask me why, so if anybody out
there knows the reason why this happens, and would like to explain ...)

Even though, and at the moment, I tend to do the designing in dreamweaver, and
then copying the files into VS2005 and doing all the code work from there.

This means Web site is not running ASP.NET so instead of being processed by the
server, <% %> expressions are getting sent to the client browser, which
chokes on them. You need to verify that site is based on IIS and that IIS is
properly configured to run ASP.NET i.e. .NET is installed on the server and
enabled in IIS.