Editing ASPX Pages in Visual Studio .NET

Iron Speed Designer creates ASPX pages based on various configuration settings.  ASPX pages should not be edited in Visual Studio .NET because they may be overwritten when Iron Speed Designer rebuilds your application.  In fact, you may get an error message if you try to edit the page in Visual Studio .NET.

Instead, we recommend you add any custom ASPX code and make any other modifications in Iron Speed Designer via the HTML Editor in the Layout Editor.

Custom Controls Created by Iron Speed Designer

The custom controls in the application classes are designed to integrate with Visual Studio .NET's Visual Designer, and are used in the user controls (the ASCX files) created by Iron Speed Designer.  This means that if you open one of the ASCX files using Visual Studio .NET Visual Designer, you will be able to see the Iron Speed Designer custom controls, edit their custom properties using their property sheets, add them to your Visual Studio .NET Toolbox, etc.

The web controls in the application classes contain special .NET meta-tags in their code to enable this integration with Visual Studio .NET.  You need take no special action to use these controls.  These controls are already used in the web pages created by Iron Speed Designer, so the web pages may be opened directly in Visual Studio .NET.

See Also

Working with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET

Editing ASPX Pages in Visual Studio .NET

Making DLLs CLS Compliant

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