I have both VWD 2005 and VWD 2008 Express on my system.  I am doing my development in 2008, under the assumption that it has more features, etc.  However, I am finding things in VWD 2008 that simply do not work.  Whereas, the same things works fine in 2005.  For instance,

In 2008 in a GridView control while editing the Columns collection, I changed the "Button Type" on the first column (which contains the "Edit" link).  I changed it to Button and the button appears.  I changed it to "Image" and the image I choose appears.  However, when I save the page and reopen it, the button or image is gone and the Edit command has gone back to text.  In 2005 the same operation results in a real change to the page.  In 2008 no matter what changes I make to the "Edit" column, the code that results is:

<asp:CommandField ShowEditButton="True" />

Whereas, in VWD 2005 when I edit all the properties I want to change I get:

<asp:CommandField ShowEditButton="True" ButtonType="Image" CancelImageUrl="~/Images/Buttons/Cancel.jpg" DeleteImageUrl="~/Images/Buttons/delete.jpg" EditImageUrl="~/Images/Buttons/Edit.jpg" SelectImageUrl="~/Images/Buttons/select.jpg" UpdateImageUrl="~/Images/Buttons/update.jpg" />

IS VWD 2008 KNOWN TO BE BUGGY AND WOULD I BE BETTER OFF TO USE VWD2005 EXPRESS?

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Dr. Douglas Pruiett
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Hi Doug.  I can not reproduce the problem.

Here is the code I used:

 

    <asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server">
    <Columns>
    <asp:CommandField ShowEditButton="True" ButtonType="Image" CancelImageUrl="eaae-01.gif" DeleteImageUrl="eaae-01.gif" EditImageUrl="eaae-01.gif" SelectImageUrl="eaae-01.gif" UpdateImageUrl="eaae-01.gif" />
    </Columns>
    
    </asp:GridView>

 Granted i used the same image for all the buttons but the image displayed as it should have.  One thing I notice though, you are using the ~ character, which is fine, but you can have problems with it using VWD and Cassini.  For example the URL for the test app i created to test out the above code is:

http://localhost:55074/WebSite1/default.aspx

However, by using the ~ character in your code, your image reference is going to be to http://localhost:55074/images/buttons/edit.jpg for example.  Just a general fyi.

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Its a buggy b*stard. I'm only sticking with it cus of the support for .Net 3.5.

 

Current list of bugs i've found:

 - SLOW AS HELL when it comes to making ANY changes in the dataset designer.

- Resizing a control in a template field is bodgy.

- Adding new rows/columns to tables with merged cells , the new column/row usually splits the merged cell rather than inserting a new column/row beside/below.

- more to come!

 I have to agree that VWD 2008 express is very slow. In design mode if typing in text, it is slow to the point where it is unusable. It is easier to type text in Source mode instead.

The machine I use it on has a core 2 duo CPU with 2 GB RAM. That should be good enough to run it.

Perhaps there is some setting someplace that is causing this? 

Have any of you found the Layout Menu Item, in  your menus. I seem to have had the pleasure of working with this control before but not any more. It was good feature where you could easily drop in nice templates and then right click on the Masterpage.master, to work with. Now the style builder is complicated as well and you have to use the Manage Style to manage each and every style. hmmm..Any help would be nice.