Visual Studio plugin to convert HTML controls to ASP.NET controls

Monday, April 9. 2007

Visual Studio plugin to convert HTML controls to ASP.NET controls

Several times a week, I wish that Visual Studio 2005 had an option where I could convert an HTML control to its ASP.NET counterpart. Generally, I am given a page mocked up by an HTML designer and I need to "make it work" in an ASP.NET application. Wouldn't it be great if I could right-click a 'input type="text"' HTML element and convert it to an ASP.NET TextBox? Or even better yet, run the conversion against an entire page and have every HTML element converted in one fell swoop. 'select' to DropDownList, 'input type="radio"' to RadioButton or RadioButtonList, and so on and so forth. If I wanted to make it really slick, it would capture attributes like "name" or "size" and convert them to the ASP.NET attributes like "ID" and "Width".

If anyone knows of such a tool, drop me a line. If I ever get a spare day, I might whip something up myself. Let me know if you'd be interested as well.

Posted under the influence of [[Ratatat::Seventeen Years]]

Posted by JClermont in Bright Ideas at 21:09 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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Yes, that would be awesome. I haven't found anything yet, but I'm still looking ...

#1 jrummell (Link) on 2007-09-03 13:11 (Reply)

Certain Tool should exist. as its the problem of all web engineers when they get the page from html developers.
i have made the tool which parse the some of HTML Controls and convert them to asp.net controls by appending in to that aspx file,
but still there are so many of them.. havent addressed all of them yet.
figuring out if we could get the product which can do the same with maturity.

Regards
Sheryar Nizar
http://www.sheryar.net

#1.1 Sheryar Nizar (Link) on 2008-07-29 22:49 (Reply)

Can you please provide me your code?
I am looking for this since long time...

Thanks in advance!

#1.1.1 Imran on 2009-03-16 15:55 (Reply)

That's exactly what I want. I am doing exactly that - 'converting' a page with 50 controls made by a web developer. I found this post googling for the exactly tool you've described. Let me know if you come across one!

#2 jonesy on 2007-11-30 21:49 (Reply)

Sounds like a money maker! Figure that one out and we might see you on The Big Idea w/ Donny Duetch. I am a recent grad starting my first IT job and I'm now waist deep in Visual Studio to ASP.NET conversion. If you have any tips let me know.

#3 Scott Heist (Link) on 2008-01-15 15:48 (Reply)

I found you by Googling for an exact tool. I have just had 2 HUGE html forms dropped in my lap...

#4 Eric on 2008-03-31 13:27 (Reply)

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