VS.NET really annoyed me today. When I changed my custom page base class to be abstract, the web forms that inherit from it could only be seen in HTML mode. Their HTML editor leaves a lot to be desired. Maybe I’ll have to figure out how to switch to SciTE automatically when the visual designer croaks.

On the other hand, not using the visual designer does get rid of VS.NET’s annoying habit of trying to create new declarations of web user controls in the web form code-behind when you’ve already got them declared in a custom base page class.