Absolute and relative positioning in Visual Studio 2008 Web designer

Interesting Finds: March 6, 2008

Jason Haley — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:43:34 GMT

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Steve Wagner — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:36:49 GMT

Excellent explaination. Thank you. Old dog trying to learn new tricks, but there aren't any shortcuts. Thanks again.

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Techdribble — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:40:58 GMT

The label positioning bug is a pain and I have gone back to VS 2005 because of this. I hope the service pack is coming sooner rather than later.

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Someone — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:12:04 GMT

Why did they have to mess with a good thing? Visual Studio 2005 had no problems and was easy to use. I have to fight with '08 just to get it to do what I want...WHY???!!!!

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Chris Duva — Sat, 31 May 2008 15:52:07 GMT

It appears that I'll be heading back to VS2005. Design View is virtually useless and Split doesn't work properly.

If I place a div into the ContentPlaceholder on a page with a master page and then add a text box with absolute positioning, the position is 0,0 which places the white tab OUTSIDE of the div and makes it impossible to grab.

How do you select more than 1 object for alignment or common property assignment?

The keyboard commands for moving and resizing are totally counter-intuitive. In Access, selecting an object and using Ctrl-Arrow allows you to move the element in smaller increments than the grid spacing. Shift-Arrow performs resizing. It's been that way for a long time.

I am going to try the SP1 Beta. It can't make things any worse, and I can go back to VS2005 to create new pages and revise existing ones.