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I am looking for a tool which can edit asp.net pages and supports intellisense. I know several tools like Web Developer Express but I am looking more lightly softwares and of course it must be free because I am not that rich to pay money to a software :) and if it was open source,it'd be more great (:
If you knew any and shared it with me,it'd be great.
Thanks in advance.
Free
Light
Supports Intellisense, Syntax Highlighting and Code Formatting
For Asp.NET
(Optional) Open Source
These are the requirement that I want the software to does have :)
Sorry for wanting so much things.. :)
You could try notepad++ and set it to c#/vb. You won't get auto complete but you will have a light text editor with syntax highlighting. I could be wrong, but I believe the only free tools with everything you want are the VS Express IDEs that MS offers.
MonoDevelop is a IDE for C#/.Net on Linux, but it sounds like it might suit your needs.
Here's the link: http://monodevelop.com/
Here is another list from archive.org:
http://web.archive.org/web/20071217202115/http://www.dotnetcoders.com/web/Articles/ShowArticle.aspx?article=49
You have some very particular requirements. They are not unreasonable but I'm not sure you will find all of those things and FREE. If you have the skills and/or desire, maybe you should consider building the tool you want for yourself.
Intellisense, syntax highlighting, and code formatting, particularly in multi-context files like those used in ASP.NET, are precisely why the available editors aren't terribly lightweight.
If you can give up perfect syntax highlighting and complete Intellisense, I recommend using a general-purpose programmer's editor such as UltraEdit, which is inexpensive and very fast. UE doesn't force you to bundle your source code into "solutions," has powerful search and replace, etc.
But on the flip side, for that extra speed, the highlighting and other fancy features are implemented using pattern recognition, not true behind-the-scenes compilation or interpretation of your code. So it can highlight certain words, recognize comment blocks, etc., but it doesn't have the ability to follow along and provide object-specific Intellisense, etc.
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I would really like to learn how to use Twitter Bootstrap 3. The problem is that it seems I can't find a good source to learn it from. Any source I've tried so far assumed that you somehow have some knowledge and wasn't explaining what are the available classes for elements, what are the classes they have used are actually doing etc.
I simply want a source it can either be a book/videos or w/e that will start from scratch and if possible, will use HTML5, modernizr and respond.js to make it cross-browser supported and actually give me a start point (base folder just like H5BP) which I can then later on start building my own websites.
Thanks in advance!
The bootstrap docs are really helpful, probably the best resource.
http://getbootstrap.com/getting-started/
http://getbootstrap.com/components
My first recommendation is to learn CSS in depth. Oftentimes, Bootstrap is just not necessary, but developers rely on it because they are too lazy to master CSS fundamentals. You are welcome to check my book series - Functional CSS - which covers almost the entirety of CSS using practical examples.
If you are keen on sticking with Bootstrap, then you can 1) print the source code for their example (Bootstrap examples) and simply re-implement them on your own, typing each block of code one line at a time and observing the effect, and 2) read the Bootstrap source code. The latter is a bit over 6000 lines and should not take long to go through. And, 3) reflecting on what you have learned in 1 and 2, create personal realistic website that uses Bootstrap.
If you are looking for a good source here is one: http://ieatcss.com/twitter-bootstrap-tutorial.html
3 Step by step real time examples are used in Ieatcss bootstrap 3 tutorial. You can easily understand them without any knowledge of the basics.
Don't worry about learning CSS & other messy things. The tutorials in http://ieatcss.com is targeted at complete beginners, you can easily understand them.
Regards,
Hussain.
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I'm looking for automated tools to help me refactor a bunch of CSS files, for example:
Remove unnecessary selectors (e.g. not used inside the page)
detect repeatable rules inside several selectors and suggest a merge
Are there any such tools?
Thanks!
Yes Google Page Speed does this CSS investigation. Link:
http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/overview.html
not totally automated, but this one works well.
I like the fact that I can see what I'm changing. While I've done UI for 15 years, there's always little things that I notice myself repeating via using this tool. In the long run, doing things a bit manually is going to make me a better developer.
Doing one that looks for unnecessary selectors is a dangerous game. You could do it, but if you ever find yourself doing dynamic and/or ajax injected divs, you'll immediately blow up your page or app using an automated tool. If you do it, make sure it's not something that works on the fly, without some sort of very good testing environment to verify the resulting output. My current corporate clients would never allow me to use any sort of point-of-request tool based on their requirements of 100% tested and verified CSS.
This tool can do automatic css refactoring, though its value in project still need to evaluate carefully.
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Is there a better CSS Website design/editor tool to design CSS Websites other than Dreamweaver that could be considered a great tool for a developer?
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Thanks for your answers.
I am an ASP.NET developer. I need an easy way (GUI-like) to design Websites layouts with pure CSS however I am not planning to master CSS as I cannot allocate time to that.
I haven't used Dreamweaver yet, I am just checking on the relatively easiest and best tool for css layouts.
Appreciate your help.
Regards
If you're serious about front-end development, you shouldn't need anything more than a text editor with syntax highlighting for HTML, CSS and Javascript.
On Windows, Notepad++ does a pretty decent job, another good option is Aptana, especially for Javascript, although it can be a bit heavy weight depending on the job. I've also used Sublime but not in any great depth, and then there's Microsoft Expression Web which is very similar to Dreamweaver (I thought they had a free 'Express' edition but apparently not).
On Mac, as mentioned CSSEdit is worth a look as is TextMate or Coda or Espresso. CSSEdit is squarely aimed at CSS, although to be honest the only feature I really use is sectioning with #group comments (I usually use TextMate for HTML and Javascript along side it).
Or for the hardcore on any platform there's vim. Check out vim casts for some great tutorials.
If you are on Mac use MacRabbit's CSSEdit its the best money i've ever spent :)
Also I would insist upon my stack:
Left-to-Right:
Transmit, Billings, CodeBox, Coda(Just testing), TextMate, CSSEdit, Versions, Git Tower, Kaleidoscope, MAMP Pro, MarsEdit
All are non WYSIWYG.
BlueGriffon has a free version and is very good at CSS3/HTML5
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I have tried to find them through Google but haven't had much luck. I know the number of 3rd party controls is not as big as .NET or Java, but surely there are some out there better than what comes with the library?
Qwt is a source for graphing and technical components and Solutions Catalog has the property browser as well as many other useful widgets.
Also available are the Embedded Widget Demos, ofi-labs, and qt-labs.
ofi-labs is by a former Qt employee, the others are official.
Edit: Almost forgot, diagramming is covered by this example: GraphicsView - Diagram Scene
free: qt-apps.org
proprietary: qt-prop.org
there are Widgets and Components categories
Look at the nice Qt Property Browser/Editor: http://doc.trolltech.com/solutions/4/qtpropertybrowser/index.html
It's not exactly third party, but take a look at the Qt Solutions Catalog. Qt Solutions has been discontinued, but there is an archive.
There's also wwWidgets, although I've never had cause to use anything it provides.
For a property editing widget, see this SO question.
I doubt you'll find a general purpose diagramming widget that works exactly the way you want it to. You're probably going to have to do some work yourself on this one. To get started, take a look at The Graphics View Framework.
Take another look at the lists of widgets and classes Qt provides. There's an awful lot there, and I rarely find Qt to be deficient. When I need something special, it's usually not too hard to build a custom widget that does what I need.
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I need a light css editor with certain functions. Already downloaded and tried a few apps but still no luck, none of them fit my requirements. Actually, there is one, CssEdit (or TextMate), but unfortunately i'm a windows user...
Already tried:
built-in NetBeans IDE css editor (btw nice editor, the one i'm using now for css)
IntelJ IDE (very good html and css editor, but using the entire ide just for this - that's crazy)
ArduoCss (very buggy in win7 environment)
Notepad
Notepad++ (it rules, but as i said, i need something more functional for css editing)
Style Master ( if i don't find anything else, probably i'll choose this one)
Stylizer ( also might be my choice, but it's black interface kills me, also extremy noob-oriented, i even couldn't find a way to see the source code)
Some of the features i am looking for:
grouping by comments like here
snippets
autocomplete,
if i type for instance f-s, it should recognize and expand it to "font-size" property
color picker
The editor must have at least the first feature that i listed above.
Sorry for my poor english.
This is the closest thing to TextMate on the windows platform that I know of:
http://www.e-texteditor.com/
Check out TopStyle v4 - excellent Windows CSS (and HTML) editor. Great product, well worth its registration price.
Have a look at Zen Coding. It's a plug-in for several diferent editors adding helpful functionality for CSS (and HTML) coding.
http://code.google.com/p/zen-coding/
You can switch Stylizer's black interface to the white interface with CTRL + F10. Also, the Stylizer philosophy is setup differently that you don't need to see the "source code"...it's interface is just a graphical representation of the source code.