Has designer support for nested masters been fixed or improved in Beta 2? It looks to me like it hasn't...all I get is an "Error creating control" message in Design view for both the child-master and any content pages that specify the child ...
Hello.
It has not been improved. in fact, if you're using VWD you can use the designer if you have nested master pages.
Hello,
VWD is the acronym for Visual Web Developer 2005 Express.
Greetings.
Just to confirm Doug's experiment, we have not made any changes in support for Nested Master Pages between Beta 1 and Beta 2. We still do not support it. However, we're working on it for the next version. =)
OK, this must have just been a typo. I downloaded & installed VWD Express Edition Beta 2, and you still get the "Design view does not support editing or creating nested master pages. To create or edit nested master pages, use source view." ...
Nuts, I haven't bothered with VWD Express Edition. In all the reading I had done, I assumed it was a subset of VS 2005 and didn't have features of its own. Just to clarify ... you're saying that VWD Express Edition does have designer ...
Yes, perfectly safe. I use both quite happily.
Dave
I just downloaded Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Release Candidate 1. Trying to design a page with a nested master page still yields "Design view does not support creating or editing nested master pages". Will this be ...
The 2005 final release products will not have support for design view + nested masters.