After the Beta 2 release of Visual Studio 2010, the Publish Web Dialog was modified to include two information buttons associated with the Service URL and Site/application text boxes. (See Figure 1) Figure 1 – New information (‘hint’) buttons (see circled question marks) There are two keys to remember...

You can enable ASP.NET tracing either at an Application level or at a page level; see Tip# 77: Did you know… How to enable Page Level Tracing for your ASP.NET pages? for more information. With the tracing enabled, you can view the trace output in a trace viewer by navigation to trace.axd from the...

The design view in Visual Studio can display glyphs and borders for the hidden non - graphic elements (such as div, span, form, and script elements). This feature helps you to see where the elements are and avoid inadvertently deleting the non-graphic elements from your page while editing. To enable...

Master page for a Web form can always be set manually in the source code, but here is an option to select the master page while create the webform using the 'Select a Master Page' dialog. The path to select a Master page using the 'Select a master page' dialog is different for a Web application project...

In Tip#21 we showed you how to set a fixed port for the Developer Web Server in Web Sites. Here is how you will be able to configure this for Web Application Projects. 1. Go to the properties page of WAP. Right Click on your Web Application and click on Properties in context menu. This will take you...

If your web site is heavily data driven then here is a quick and easy way for you to create one without writing much code. All you need is Visual Studio 2008 SP1 or Visual Web Developer 2008 Express SP1 installed on your box. Dynamic Data Web Sites makes use of a mechanism called Scaffolding. When Scaffolding...

Absolute positioning control(s) in the designer can seem confusing at first until you learn the visual cues. You can do one of the following two possible actions by dragging the control in the designer. Re-parent the control Change the controls position. When you drag the body of the control, you are...

VS 2008 and VWD 2008 both support Nested Master Pages which means you can have a Base Master page which would cater to the whole site and then you can further customize these Base Master Pages. Here is how you do it: 1. Create a BaseMasterPage.master for the base look: First we need to create a Base...

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 the control can support the extender, you...

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 and Continue These two setting will enable...

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 able to do this you can use a feature of the compilation...

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...

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 the page. Partial Page Rendering - Partial-page rendering...