On Nov 25, 6:22 pm, "Terry Olsen" <tolse***@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Trying to create a web site in VWD 2008 Express, i've run into a really
> annoying bug/feature.
>
> I'm creating a page that has 4 panels with a datagrid and some links inside
> each panel. Only one panel is visible at a time selectable by links at the
> top of the page. Several times while building the page, it moves my
> components around. I don't notice anything wrong until I try to debug the
> page. The page comes up wrong in IE, so I go back into the designer and look
> and a datagrid has been moved out of its panel and placed inside a "div"
> block in a different panel. So I "cut" the grid and it disappears (the "div"
> block is left). I go into the panel that it's supposed to be in and "paste".
> It pastes the entire "div" block that I cut it from and everything else that
> was in it. So now the datagrid is still inside a "div" block and now I have
> duplicate items of everything else that was in the other panel. If I try to
> delete the duplicate items, it deletes the entire "div" block and everything
> inside it, including the datagrid. Extremely frustrating.
>
> It happened another time that it moved a command button from the bottom of
> the page up to the top between a couple of LinkButtons. That one let me
> cut/paste it back to it's correct location, but the datagrid is turning out
> to be impossible. I don't want to delete it and re-create it because i'd
> have to configure all the columns again.
>
> Has anyone else had similar annoyances with the designer in VWD 2008
> Express? Or am I being stupid and someone can tell me what i'm doing to mess
> myself up?