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2/2/2009 10:03 PM

	width
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Designer is not available in community SDK

Modified By Eyal.Albert on 2/3/2009 2:03:31 AM)

I had upgraded from 6.2.2a to the build 6.3. but I get error message when I doubleclick on the form1.cs:

"Designer is not available in community SDK"

My envs: VS2008 + windows 2003, How to fix this issue ?

Thanks.

2/2/2009 10:53 PM

	Guy
2346 posts

Re: Designer is not available in community SDK

Hi,

The designer in 6.3 is now part of the Professional Edition which is a commercial edition which is offered as a perpetual license (specific version license currently 6.x) or a subscription license (per year subscription) that can be purchased in the General > Products section.

We are currently offering the commercial license in a pre-release price (for everyone) or community discount price (which is provided to community members that can provide test cases).

You can still keep on working with Visual WebGui for free in two possible editions which is the community SDK that provides support for Visual Studio Professional edition without the designer or the Visual WebGui express edition which provides a full working community edition including the designer in Visual Studio Express edition.

The forum contains allot of talk about the recent change including clarifications which are explained in details in the General > Products section and will be updated to reflect those clarifications.

As I said in several other places we are not planning any more surprises and that the current change was required from the unprecedented growth of the Visual WebGui developer community and its growing demands. We are planning to provide a rapid acceleration to the Visual WebGui framework development based on this change and the next 6.4 version will reflect those changes in terms of cross browser support (Chrome, Safari, Netscape and etc) and theme-ing and customization support which will be simplified to a simple point and click designer. Of course the most important acceleration will be in stabilization and the echo system which will evolve from this change.

I have gathered a few threads on the subject to help you guys to be updated on the different aspects of the change:

New VS 2005 Edition

In 6.3 VS Pro users no longer have access to a free designer

If I pay for VWG Pro, can I use it more than once? Or per website?

When will VWG look like this? How much will it cost?

CLARIFICATION - VWD Express - New Versions of VWG

Gizmox - What are the limitations of Visual Web Developer Express???

DESIGNER IS NOT AVAILABLE IN COMMUNITY SDK!!!!!!

Hope that sheds light on the changes.
Cheers,
Guy

2/3/2009 12:08 AM

	nistam
218 posts
www.elval.gr

Re: Designer is not available in community SDK

I was away for almost a month for an educational trip. During that period, I was not involved with programming at all, so i did not catch up with the latest VWG news. I must say i was a little bit surprised that after 2 years of continuus VWG usage, i found out i could not use the VWG designer. BUT, i must admint that before starting using the VWG, my company had paid for 3-4 different AJAX frameworks and also annual subscriptions for other ASP.NET controls and i calculated the costs for all of them and it got 3 times more than VWG Pro annual subscription. Not considering, how easy VWG framework makes things for the developer. So, it is definitely worth the money. And i believe that Guy himeself should see his efforts turned into business (and money too!). I'm into it!!

Keep up the good work! (i'm not hunting for a discount)