sharepoint 2007 webpart designer for visual studio

Is there a designer for SharePoint 2007 WebParts in Visual Studio? I downloaded Visual Studio 2010, and s开发者_运维百科ee there is one for SharePoint 2010... but right now we are writing parts for 2007. Alternatively, what is the overhead for using the ASP.NET developer, and porting the results to a SharePoint WebPart?

What you could do is use the same trick as VS 2010 does for SharePoint 2010.

In VS 2010, there is no real visual designer for Web parts, but a Web part is built out of a user control and of course VS has had a visual designer for user controls for a long time.

Look at MSDN magazine. This article describes the code for a "Visual" Web part and includes the code that the Web part uses to load the user control (figure 5).