They start by introducing the Quartz Web Designer. This designer looks to me as if it's FrontPage v.Next. Sure it's got a tag navigator (much like VS) and uses CSS-Positioning (basically a fully functional GridLayout) but what's nice is the Style Window allows you to modify existing object styles or create style classes (awesome!). Apparently this designer in Quartz is really just the Orcas designer (the next version of VS.NET - not 2005, the next version).
They move on to Visual Web Developer which can open up the design page from Quartz, set a few content regions and save it all as a Masterpage.theme.
I just wish that they had time to put these capabilities into VS2005. As it stands, Quartz will be released in 2006... which sounds an awful lot like the Longhorn timeframe... which is when I thought Orcas (VS.Next; .NET 2.1?) was going to be released.
Tags: [PDC05]
posted @ Thursday, September 15, 2005 3:06 PM