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The problem is doing web work , too many pieces out of your control
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I use Visual Studio to write article content, and then paste that into the CP editor. That way, I'm pretty much immune to the whims of the CP devs' ideas of how an editor should work. Of course, it might not even be their fault, and they are simply at the mercy of the base control they're using. Whatever the case, I find it more convenient to write the article offline so that I'm in the actual CP article editor for as short a time as I can manage.
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for some reason i have terrible luck trying to get visual studio to edit pure HTML unless i go and use the source by itself.
it just doesn't produce like i like, and it seems to insist on aspnet tags sometimes. it's just annoying. I haven't used it much with 2017 though and I'm not really using 2018 so maybe it improved since I've used it last.
I honestly liked the old devstudio7 editor.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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It looks like crap in VS because you don't have all the CP style sheets. It's just a better editor than anything available online, so that's what I use.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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yeah that's part of it. also i'm using a lot of tables in this article and i hate the way VS shows me tables. Although I think there's a way to change it, I got bored trying to find it.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Connections drops. Sessions time out. My personal rule of thumb: Don't do "hours of work" in a browser, especially when you know it's not designed to persist anything until you invoke some final "commit" function.
I realize this might not be applicable in all cases, but as much as I can, do I all my editing locally, then copy and paste into the control on the page that's waiting for my input. Or I try to go about it the other way around: Periodically copy from the control on the page and paste it back locally into Notepad.
Can you tell I'm speaking from experience? 
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I've done some of it that way, but I don't have a good HTML editor. =/ meh.
at least for wysiwyg html. I don't like mucking with tags while writing an article except to refine
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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codewitch honey crisis wrote: at least for wysiwyg html. I don't like mucking with tags while writing an article except to refine
Same. I tend to write things locally in Notepad and tweak until I'm done, so all I have to do back in the browser is paste, then apply the styling. Although it does suck if you have to re-do that multiple times. What we need (at a minimum) is a WYSIWYG HTML editor that can recognize data coming from such things as Wordpad's RTF control...
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yes to this. Is it really such a big deal? I'd purchase Word if it would spit out sane and simple HTML
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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snort
Word spits out HTML, but it's neither sane nor simple.
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*sigh* I know. I almost want to make a universal XSL stylesheet to strip all the junk but it would be a bear to accomplish
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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yeah i tried. I need a better editor. If i write enough articles maybe i'll buy one.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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codewitch honey crisis wrote: I need a better editor.
notepad++, pspad?
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Visual Studio works well with that.
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I write my articles in Notepad.
Sometimes I even write longer forum posts in Notepad.
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there's a ton of formatting in this one though, including several HTML tables
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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codewitch honey crisis wrote: including several HTML tables
Which can be temporarily simulated with tabulations and <pre lang="text"> in notepad
I used a mix with mines. Wrote it in notepad, pasted it in CP Editor (as a draft) to use the preview and went back to notepad to continue / correct things as many times as necessary.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Yeah i think normally i would have tried something like that, but this just had so much formatting in it i decided not to to "save time" 
blew up in my face.
what i need is a good wysiwyg editor that makes simple HTML. I used to have one, and i can't remember what it's called now.
People keep talking about VS code, but does it do wysiwyg html?
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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codewitch honey crisis wrote: but does it do wysiwyg html?
I don't know, I wouldn't want that. I prefer to see the raw HTML.
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when i'm writing an article i prefer the tags out of my way. i use them when i want to refine
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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codewitch honey crisis wrote: People keep talking about VS code, but does it do wysiwyg html?
No idea. I didn't even know about VS Code 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Besides VS Code, MS still has Expression Web available free for download.
It was the replacement for FrontPage, and is more about the web design and less about the coding; and a lot less overhead.
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codewitch honey crisis wrote: So I was editing an article for submission and I found out the Code Project
I still don't find the CP editor usable. FrontPage for me!
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Marc Clifton wrote: FrontPage for me!
Nothing wrong with that, much less overhead than any of the Visual Studio alternatives
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