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or does my question not make sense?
Sort of.
Hello,
Howdy.
I've tried and tried to get my datbase results region to
accept my form page but somethings wrong.
The wizard performs perfectly and creates all the aspx
pages and updates the results page. My book tells me
that i can edit the created form but when i right click
on the created form fileds or form i dont see the form
properites or the form field properites options. This is
baffling.......
Please help if you can
thanks
Rob
You're probably not getting a Form Properties choice
because the <form> tag has a runat="server" attribute.
This makes it an ASP.NET form, which has properties that
FrontPage can't accurately modify.
Similarly, you're probably not getting Form Field
Properties boxes because the form fields are ASP.NET Web
Server Controls. FrontPage doesn't have property sheets
for those, either.
If you want to edit ASP.NET code, you need to do it in
Code View, in WebMatrix, or in Visual Studio.
In any event, I don't generally recommend modifying
FrontPage-generated code. For one thing, if you rerun the
wizard, FrontPage will overwrite your changes. For
another, most FrontPage-generated code is pretty ugly. The
developers never intended it for human interpretation.
What *do* I recommend? Either use what FrontPage gives
you "as is", or code from scratch.
What book were you looking at? And if it's one of mine,
what page?
Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
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|| Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out
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|| Web Database Development Step by Step .NET Edition
|| Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out
|| Faster Smarter Beginning Programming
|| (All from Microsoft Press)
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