Oh dear. Do they still have that Drag/Drop stuff in Visual Studio? Sorry to hear you got bitten by it. Those tools have never worked. And for some reason, s

Oh dear. Do they still have that Drag/Drop stuff in Visual Studio? Sorry to hear you got bitten by it. Those tools have never worked. And for some reason, somebody at Microsoft really wants people to use them anyway. The first thing that everybody learned was to stay well clear of the drag/drop interface builder and anything that seemed like it existed only to support it. In 2001, that lopped off roughly 90% of ASP.NET and left one with a really nice platform for development. It's actually surprising to hear that it has persisted all the way through to ASP.NET MVC and the new view engines. I hadn't heard of anybody getting bitten by it, had to advise anybody to steer clear of it, or even seen it in any version of VS.NET since 2007. Apologies that the message never made it through. Don't use any of that stuff, and you'll find that the Microsoft stack is quite a good platform to build off of.