At work I am forced to use Visual Studio 2005 as an HTML editor instead of my precious FrontPage 2003. Visual Studio 2005 is better than Visual Studio 2003 for editing a web page but I still have the following complaints:
- No spell checker for web page content
- Does not convert web addresses and email addresses to links automatically
- Dragging an image to the page does not insert an image on the page
- Need to drag items from HTML Toolbox to the web page. This is how to insert an image
I recently installed the beta version of Visual Studio 2008 which features many improvements as a web page editor. You can now drag an image onto the page in order to insert an image. There is still no spell checker. When you type in a web address it now automatically converts to a link. You now have a split screen display mode so you can view the code and the design at the same time. Some of the new features are similar to changes that appeared in Microsoft Expression Web which replaced FrontPage. There is the same blue outline that appears around a page element.
