Dears friends:
I recently discovered that SharePoint Designer 2013 has not Design view. Only Code view.
From everything I've seen in SharePoint since 2001, honestly this is the most -mmm- how to say not to sound so ugly? ... "irrelevant" as I can remember ...
For starters, if you do not have Design view, then it should be called SharePoint"Designer" ... now be simply "SharePoint Encoder" or"SharePoint Programmer" ...
I checked the arguments responsible for this change in Microsoft, and anything that poses as relevant as it seems to remove this feature Designer ... in fact, I think they're just killing this application, because if I want to edit code, I served up Notepad.
Moreover, the true grace of SharePoint Designer is that-as the name indicated-enabled visually customize pages, without going into the code, which I and perhaps many more who are not programmers, was what we liked the program.
Finally, the manager argued that "now SharePoint sites can be designed in any design program" ... and that hurt me even more, because I spent years arguing with me saying "you can used Dreamweaver" or other editors, and always answered was precisely for that is "SharePoint Designer"...
Anyway, I think that Microsoft's many bright people, and most are very smart, but sometimes I think -excuse the frankness- there are some idiots.
Alexis López Tapia
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