Visual studio is never a good designing tool. Its not WYSIWIG(even if microsoft claims it to be so!!). Try using cs4 or dreamweaver and export it to VS. You still may not find the GUI consistent with different browsers. THey render them differently. use browsershots.org to make it look uniform.
On Jun 23, 3:06 pm, Marcus <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought VS2008 form designer was WYSIWYG. It appears not to be > though, and I dont know what to do about it. > > I have looked at some properties of the form and of the components > placed on it (ListViews, linklabels etc) trying to find out if there > is a property that is causing this behaviour. > I got somewhat closer to WYSIWYG by setting "None" as anchor on all > components, but some components still has a somewhat different > position when running the application compared to design mode. > > Is there a downside with setting anchor property to "None" on all > components that are contained in the form (my FormBorderStyle is > FixedToolWindow, so the user will not be able to resize the form)? > > Is there a better way of getting WYSIWYG (that works on all components > on the form)? > > As it is now, it all seems so arbitrary how my GUI ends up looking at > runtime.
