Ctrl +Shift+W does the trick for you. This short cut is mentioned under File Menu -> View in Browser . So if you are still using Select File -> Right click for context menu and then selecting View in Browser as shown below, you may want to start using Ctrl+Shift+W. Reshmi Mangalore SDET, Visual...

Open an existing web site in VWD. Open the page by double clicking on it in solution explorer to which you want to attach the existing style sheet in your web site. Now, switch to Design View of the page and bring up Select Style Sheet dialog by clicking on menu: Format –> Attach Style Sheet  ...

If you would like turn off intellisense in HTML editors (aspx, html files) and CSS editor (css files), you could do so by going to Tools->Options dialog. For HTML editor, go to Tools->Options->HTML->General. In the right pane, under Statement Completion, uncheck "Auto list members"...

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 F12 button. This will highlight the CSS class for...

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/CSS errors as warnings as shown in the picture...

To absolute position any control on your designer, you select the control and then select the following menu option: Format –> Position… ->Position style ->Absolute. Sometimes you may want the controls to be absolutely positioned on the design surface as soon as you drag drop...

There is a Tools –>Options setting under Text Editor –> CSS –> Format Node which helps you change the default CSS Format settings. This dialog gives you the flexibility of setting the default CSS Formatting styles in any of     the following Styles: Compact rules: In this...

Tip#10 spoke about the New Style Builder Dialog. There are various other entry points to this dialog. You can invoke it from the following places from the IDE:  CSS Properties Tool Window: Bring up the CSS properties dialog by selecting View –>CSS Properties. Click on any rule in “Applied Rules...

Visual Studio 2008 has a New Style builder dialog. This dialog box helps you design new styles and also preview it at the same time. Using this dialog, you can create a style which can live in current page, an existing external style sheet or a new external style sheet. You can create styles which are...

One of the cool features in Visual studio is the Tag navigator which is available both in design and source view modes. The tag navigator appears at the bottom of HTML Editor. Here is how it looks when you open up a page in Visual Studio: In the picture below you can see that the cursor is placed inside...

As a web developer one of the things that might be interesting to you is to view your page in different browsers. Here is how you do this from within Visual Studio: 1. Open your web site in Visual Studio. Select the page and right click to bring up the context menu as shown below:      ...

The style application toolbar allows you to create and modify styles automatically. This tool window works in two modes " Auto mode " and " Manual mode ". The Auto mode is targeted for users who are new to CSS and in this case Visual Studio will control where the newly generated styles...

Visual Studio 2008 introduces three new tool windows for CSS styling. They are: Apply Styles Manage Styles CSS Properties All the above options are available under the V iew menu when you are in design view or in split view mode.   Apply Styles : Using this tool window you can create, apply and...