Master Pages and Dreamweaver 8

Good Morning Forum,

Is there a way of displaying / editing ASP .master (and there
ContentPlacesHolders) in Dreamweaver 8?  

Thanks in advance,
Harold Clements

No.  DW8 was developed before ASP.NET 2.0, so it doesn't understand files with a
.master extension.  It can open them, but treats them as plain text.  The Code
View/Design View options are greyed out.

You should use Visual Web Developer Express instead.  It's free, and has been
designed to work with ASP.Net 2.0.  Click the "Downloads" link at the
top of this page.

Thanks for your reply,

I thought as much. I was not sure whether Macromedia has brought out a patch or
something to cover Master Pages. I am already using VWD, which is excellent for
doing the behind the scenes coding but not so hot on the designing side.  

Cheers again,
Harold

This is kind of late... 

Yes Visual Studio is not the "best" for design.

In several sites I am working on I am using masterpages and other people who
work with me on Design and SEO / SEM attributes of those sites want to use
Dreamweaver to make the modifications and changes... and get frustrated that it
does not display them correctly. (And unfortunately that "makes it so they
can't edit them")

It is great however that in "Microsoft Expression Web" it does allow
the rendering of masterpages, and pages that inherit the masterpages with just
contentplaceholders. It even allows designers to access asp control attributes,
smart tags, and has what I consider so far the best css wysiwyg design tool yet
on the market. (Atleast I think it far surpasses any of the big competitors
including Dreamweaver)

The unfortunate thing is that I can't get my team members to use Expression Web
because they have the cultist sayings that "it is a Microsoft product and
Microsoft just tries to suck people in."

--Sighs-- When will everyone just learn to compromise!?

 Did I mention they only use Safari for design testing... Hahaha.

I just signed up here to follow up on this.

 
Are there any products anybody knows of that allow WYSIWYG design work on
ASP.NET on non-Windows platforms, specifically OS X?   We have a couple clients
who insist on ASP.NET, and I'm tired of being the bottleneck as the only
Windows/Visual Studio in the shop.