In my previous post I mentioned my excitement for the final build of Microsoft Expression Web Designer. Well I got it all downloaded and have had some time to mess around with it...
The ONE THING that I was hoping for was the ability to add custom controls to the toolbox, ala Visual Studio. In the previous version my experience had been that any custom controls just rendered as an error:
Well, much to my dismay, the situation isn't any better in the release version than it was in the Beta. Expression still will not find assemblies that are located in the Bin directory & correctly render them in the designer. Oddly enough, as Rick Strahl mentioned, it is seeing my custom controls in the code-behind:
Bizzare.
However, after quite a bit of digging, I have discovered that if I add my assemblies to the GAC, and then reference them by their fully qualified name, that they will indeed render correctly in the designer!
No solution for getting them to show up in the toolbox though... any ideas would be much appreciated!