RE: CSS Property Window Add-in For VS2005 Released!
This has been a small side project that the team has been working on for a LONG time to try and provide even richer support for CSS inside of Visual Studio 2005 and it is now finally avaialble as a VSIP plugin -- If you are doing any work with standards based design or working with CSS I highly encourage you to grab this download. Please note, since it is a VSIP plug-in it will only work with Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition and higher (or more simply put: it won't work with Visual Web Developer Express, just the Visual Studio Products) -- Download Here
Details:
Visual Studio 2005 provides some capabilities for visually editing the styles for elements in an HTML or ASP.NET page. For example, in Design view, you can right-click a control or element, and then choose Style to display the Style Builder dialog box. Although the style builder enables you to create and edit in-line styles, there's no way to edit the styles that are inherited from a linked style sheet. The new CSS Properties window provides this capability; it enables you to edit both in-line styles and styles in linked style sheets.
[Via Brian Goldfarb's Blog]
This looks sweet, I really don't like using inline styles any more than I have to, but all the built-in editor stuff up until now worked only with inline styles. The fact that this works with linked style sheets is a great feature, assuming that it works. Looking forward to trying this out. Should make CSS support even more seamless along with the already great built-in standards support in VS 2005.