I downloaded this and wish to run and debug this in VS 2005. Looks like there are templates, what are these for and how can I debug this/

thanks

Ralph

1. Install Visual Web Developer (VWD) or Visual Studio 2005 (VS).
2. Download and open/run the VSI file for this adapter kit.
3. This will bring you through an installation wizard.  Typically you just want to hit "next" a bunch of times until you are done.
4. Open VWD or VS.  Under the file menu you'll find a way to create a new web site.  That will bring up a dialog where you can specify your prefered language (C# or VB).  Then, you can choose various web site "templates."  Installing the VSI adds a new web site template to your available list.  It is called CSS Friendly ASP.NET Control Adapters.  Choose it, specify where you want the new site to be stored on disk and finish up creating your new web site.
5. In VWD or VS run or debug your new web site.  It should run under Cassini without any need to further change anything.

If you have problems, write back on this thread and the community here will continue to help you.

There is absolutely no need to manually unzip the VSI file or anything like that.  All you need to do is "install" it and then us VWD or VS to create a new web site from the site template that the VSI installs.

Clear as mud?

The white paper has directions for adding these adapters to existing projects.  It tells you exactly what files to move into what folders.  It's perfectly plausible to use the menu adapter, for example, in an existing project that already uses an <asp:Menu> tag.  The existing ASP.NET code will (or should) continue to function after you add the MenuAdapter to the project... but now the menu will use unordered lists (ul and li tag) rather than tables.  Of course, you will have to create the CSS styles to work with your adapted menu (like you see are being used for the menu sample in this kit).  But if you do that, there's no reason that the adapters should fail just because they are being fitted into existing code/markup.

I am also having trouble loading in the adaptors.  Great article, but where is the adaptor folder the author speaks off, or even the VSI file that was mentioned?

Perhaps I cannot see the files as I found the article through a search engine. Am I missing something?

BuR

Found it..

http://www.asp.net/cssadapters/Default.aspx

The VSI file can be downloaded from the home page of the kit, http://www.asp.net/cssadapters.  Click the button that is labeled "Download Source." After you accept the license, you will be prompted to save or open the VSI file.

As noted in earlier replies in this thread, the VSI is a file that adds functionality to Visual Studio.  Specifically, in this case, it adds to the list of web site templates that Visual Studio lets you select from when you use Visual Studio to create a new web site.

So, you will need to install Visual Studio before you try to open (double click on) the VSI file for this kit.  There is a free version of Visual Studio called VWD (Visual Web Developer Express) that you can install if you don't already have another form of Visual Studio 2005 installed.  You can get VWD for free here, http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vwd/download/.

So, first you should install VWD (or the full version of Visual Studio 2005).  Then you should download and install the VSI for this kit from http://www.asp.net/cssadapters.

Does that help you get started?

Thanks Russ,

All sorted now. I just needed a link to actually download the files.

BuR

Russ Helfand:

1. Install Visual Web Developer (VWD) or Visual Studio 2005 (VS).


2. Download and open/run the VSI file for this adapter kit.


3. This will bring you through an installation wizard.  Typically you just want to hit "next" a bunch of times until you are done.


4. Open VWD or VS.  Under the file menu you'll find a way to create a new web site.  That will bring up a dialog where you can specify your prefered language (C# or VB).  Then, you can choose various web site "templates."  Installing the VSI adds a new web site template to your available list.  It is called CSS Friendly ASP.NET Control Adapters.  Choose it, specify where you want the new site to be stored on disk and finish up creating your new web site.


5. In VWD or VS run or debug your new web site.  It should run under Cassini without any need to further change anything.

Thank you.

I didn't notice these instructions on the CSSAdapters site or in the readme file. It would probably be helpful there to those unfamiliar with VSI files.

Good idea.  I've updated the landing page for the kit to include (a modified version of) these instructions (above).  It will appear in the next rev of the kit (which will be released in the coming weeks).