Parastream PagePorter

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Parastream^® PagePorter™ is an entirely new web site design add-in for Microsoft^® Visual Studio^® .NET. PagePorter fills the gaps in Visual Studio .NET with features found in more user-friendly web authoring tools such as Microsoft FrontPage^®. PagePorter was created to address scenarios such as these:

"Visual Studio .NET would be better suited for creating web sites if it had more of the features found in FrontPage..."
"My web application is in Visual Studio .NET, but I wish I could do some of my web page layout and design work using Microsoft FrontPage and then turn it into ASP.NET to add the code..."
"I want to add ASP.NET pages to a FrontPage site and have them look like the rest of the site. Can't I use FrontPage and Visual Studio .NET together on the same web application?"
"I have a web site that was done in FrontPage, and I'd like to move the whole project over to Visual Studio .NET..."

Key Benefits

Enhances Visual Studio .NET with many powerful new web development features, which make web site development as easy as with FrontPage.
Works equally well with or without FrontPage depending on your personal preference and needs.
FrontPage webs can be converted to ASP.NET all at once, or you can keep the web in FrontPage, and convert just those pages that will really benefit from the .NET framework.

PagePorter is for web developers who want a more productive environment than Visual Studio .NET by itself. PagePorter contains:

A Visual Studio .NET add-in that:
- Visually edits a web site's navigation structure with the Navigation View window.
- Manages a site's hyperlinks with the Hyperlink Manager so you can move and rename project files at will without breaking links.
- Applies FrontPage themes to a site and/or pages.
- Converts web sites and pages created in FrontPage to ASP.NET including most FrontPage web controls.
- Can manage a converted web site with Visual Studio .NET and FrontPage.
A web page base class (derived from System.Web.UI.Page) that adds:
- Support for shared borders as in FrontPage.
- Support for FrontPage themes.
- Optional http/https redirecting for secure web pages.
A suite of seven ASP.NET web controls that emulate FrontPage web control functions.

By itself, PagePorter adds new web site development capabilities to Visual Studio .NET with support for themes, shared borders, hyperlink management, a GUI site navigation editor, and seven FrontPage compatible web controls. If you want to use FrontPage with Visual Studio .NET, PagePorter is the component that bridges the gap between them.

The site management capability of PagePorter consists of a Navigation View window that is compatible with the FrontPage navigation structure, and a site hyperlink manager. To enable conversion of FrontPage web pages to ASP.NET, PagePorter comes with a suite of controls that provide the functionality of the FrontPage controls (formerly called "webbots"). Since the "look and feel" of the PagePorter components is the same as FrontPage components, your site visitors will not see any difference between your old FrontPage site and your new .NET site (except for the new features you can now add to your site in .NET!).

Features

Works with Visual Basic^®, C#^®, or J#^® languages.
Shares the FrontPage Navigation Structure, Themes, and Parameters with the Visual Studio .NET project.
Can keep the Visual Studio .NET project "in sync" with the FrontPage project.
All ASP.NET pages inherit the shared borders and other functionality from a base class that you control.
All of the custom controls come with full documentation to support writing your own code.
The "look and feel" of the supported .NET component features are identical to their FrontPage counterparts.

PagePorter and Parastream are trademarks of Parastream Technologies, Inc.
Microsoft, FrontPage, Visual Studio, C#, J#, Visual Basic, and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.