{"id":185,"date":"2007-08-14T13:58:22","date_gmt":"2007-08-14T18:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"\/cgi\/wp\/?p=185"},"modified":"2007-08-14T13:58:22","modified_gmt":"2007-08-14T18:58:22","slug":"visual-studio-as-an-html-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/?p=185","title":{"rendered":"Visual Studio As An HTML Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At work I am forced to use <strong>Visual Studio 2005<\/strong> as an HTML editor instead of my precious <strong>FrontPage 2003<\/strong>. Visual Studio 2005 is better than Visual Studio 2003 for editing a web page but I still have the following complaints:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>No spell checker for web page content<\/li>\n<li>Does not convert web addresses and email addresses to links automatically<\/li>\n<li>Dragging an image to the page does not insert an image on the page<\/li>\n<li>Need to drag items from HTML Toolbox to the web page. This is how to insert an image<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I recently installed the beta version of <strong>Visual Studio 2008<\/strong> 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 <strong>Microsoft Expression Web<\/strong> which replaced FrontPage. There is the same blue outline that appears around a page element.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/?p=185\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}