How do design-time controls differ from Visual InterDev?
FrontPage and Microsoft Visual InterDev are compatible in most areas. For design-time controls, FrontPage provides full access to the Document object model that’s available in Microsoft Internet Explorer. The Web object model is also available for design-time controls and provides a rich array of objects, events, methods, and properties. FrontPage also provides support for removing tags (or text) that is inserted into a document by design-time controls. Properties supported by FrontPage that are not supported by Microsoft Visual InterDev: Preview—returns a string containing the controls preview text. Tag—returns the tag context for the preview string. Built-in options in Visual InterDev that FrontPage doesn’t support: QueryBuilder Data connections Visual InterDev object model for .asp pages How to access the FrontPage object model from a design-time control A design-time control is a type of ActiveX control, and thus accesses its host’s object model similarly to other controls (see FPH
