Whats the best visual page designer for .NET web applications?

Question

Im currently working on the GUI for an ASP.NET MVC application using Visual Studio 2005. The visual webpage designer (for the views) is awful.

Any input on what other people use would be most appreciated!

Answer 1

I'd like to advice you to create your markup by hand as everybody else does. Using designers is mostly unprofessional and leads to low quality results.

Answer 2

Visual WebGui is a web/cloud framework that provides form-based visual development and easy to use WYSIWYG designers both for development and design. As opposed to most visual development Visual WebGui allows complete flexibility with extensibility and customization capabilities which means that it is not limited and suitable also for rich applications.

Development experience demo

Visual WebGui also just introduced its VWG XAML implementation (VWG Sites). It will be the first truly compliable XAML implementation as Microsoft implemented Silverlight and WPF as a runtime markup interpretation opposed to the ASP.NET markup implementation which is compiled to CLR code once. We have chosen to implement the VWG Sites parser as a different way to create CLR code that provides greater performance over the reflection alternative. VWG Sites will also be the first server side XAML UI engine which, while giving the power of XAML, it will not require any plug-ins or installations on the client side.

Answer 3

Having installed and tested several products over the past few days, I have come to the conclusion that Microsoft Expression Studio is probably the best option when it comes to a visual design aid. Its code is clean and compliant, and although fairly basic, it allows you to create your layouts as required.

Answer 4

Visual Studio 2008 was a big step forward over 2005. 2005 was horrible. And Visual Studio 2010 is better yet - the quick snippets can save you a bunch of time once you get used to them.