In VS 2005, you can drag and drop an extender control anywhere on the design surface. However, in VS 2008, you can drop an extender only on an ASP control which the extender can extend its functionality. When you drag an extender and hover it over a control...

If you want to edit your WAPs while debugging them, here is how you do it: 1. Check the “ Enable Edit and Continue ” checkbox in the Web Properties page. 2. Check the “ Enable Edit and Continue ” checkbox under  Tools->Options->Debugging->Edit...

If you have a style defined as Class = ”fooRed”   as shown below and want to quickly know what does fooRed style contain? < div class ="fooRed"> In RED </ div >   Just place your cursor on fooRed and hit the...

Microsoft's Web Platform Installer has been a cool and simple tool that install's Microsoft's entire Web Platform including IIS (5.1, 6.0 or 7.0), Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition, SQL Server 2008 Express Edition and .NET framework. The user...

If you are taking advantage of the App_Code folder to develop an ASP.NET WebSite some times you need to use code files that are written in different .NET languages. For example, you may want to use C# files and VB.NET files in the same web site: To be...

Canonical URLs help you to make your links Search Engine Optimized (SEO). For human it is easy to understand that http://www.contoso.com is same as http://contoso.com . But many search engines will not make this assumption and treat them as two separate...

VS 2008 has this cool feature of downgrading any CSS/HTML errors to warnings. This is helpful when you want to separate out validation errors and are looking for what is actually stopping your build. In VS 2008 the default behavior is to display any HTML...

Normally we use Tools->Options->Text Editor->HTML->Format to launch the Formatting Options dialog shown below: You can also launch the above dialog from the editor surface with just 2 clicks. On the editor surface, right-click and choose ...

Avoid unnecessary round trips to the server - You can use ASP.NET Ajax and partial page rendering. ASP.NET Ajax - ASP.NET Ajax allows the developer to create web application in ASP.NET which can update data on the web page without a complete reload of...

Technorati Tags: Visual Studio 2008 , VS2008 , VWD , tips and tricks , Visual Studio , Cassini , Developer Web Server When you create a file based web site, the "Developer Web Server" is fired up on a local port to serve the web site. ...

Sometimes while developing WAP you might want to switch to IIS Web server instead of the Visual Studio Development Server provided by VWD. Here is how you do it: 1. Go to the Properties page of WAP by clicking on properties under WAP in Solution Explorer...