Journal for July 2006
MonoDevelop+AspNetEdit Teaser
Here's a shiny screenshot of AspNetEdit embedded in MonoDevelop. The code's not really ready for use yet, but I'm making good progress. It's been complicated by the fact that I'm running AspNetEdit and its property grid in a separate process so that the ASP.NET controls are isolated from the MD process.
In other news, apologies for the clashing colour scheme of my site. It's also completely broken in IE 7, despite working in IE6. I mean to fix both issues, but it's not a priority right now.
MonoDevelop ASP.NET addin is live
I've just committed a patch to MonoDevelop to enable the use of the AspNetAddIn that I committed a couple of days ago. It's not close to fully-featured yet, but I'm pleased because it now enables a basic ASP.NET workflow. One can create an ASP.NET project and various ASP.NET files, then build and run it. The XSP server will be launched, followed by a web browser, and the compiled page can be seen in all its glory. In theory all .NET languages supported by MonoDevelop can be used, though I have only been able to test C# so far.
There's also some basic CodeBehind support; for example, in the Solution pad, CodeBehind classes are shown as children of the files that inherit them, and the files containing the CodeBehind classes are hidden. This is more powerful than MS's approach, as it allows one file to contain more than one CodeBehind class, or classes that are used for more than one page. But it wouldn't have been possible without MonoDevelop's powerful code parsing services. In addition, when you run the compilation cycle, all page controls with IDs will automatically be added to the CodeBehind class as fields. Don't worry, I plan to make this more granular at some point!
Currently I'm working on integrating the AspNetEdit graphical designer, separating dependencies, and code that could potentially be shared by other designer.
(Update 2006-07-03, 17:43: added screenshot)