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There are sometimes when I truly wonder if designers and developers have it out for me.

Take for instance, the ASP .Net 2.0 login control. The designer wants it to look one way, however the .Net login control call only gives you so many options for style and layout. What is a front end architect to do?!

Thankfully, I’ve been blessed with the knowledge of the view as template option in Visual Studio 2005. The “view as template” option allows you to expand the normal login control code to a more complete view including the table that incapslates all the labels and text boxes.

To get to this magic option, do the following:

1. open the page with the login control you want to expand
2. view the page in design view
3. select the little black arrow to the right side of the control on the page
4. select ‘view as template’ in the drop down
5. switch back to the code view and skin to your hearts desire

Come one, come all to Desert Code Camp! Want to learn more about a new technology or how your peice of the development puzzle fits in with another? Maybe you just want to hang out with a bunch of geeks for two days? 

When: September 15th & 16th

Where: UAT Campus

Classes are filling up now, so sign up on the Desert Code Camp website asap to reserve your seat.