You can use the SQL Publishing wizard in VS 2008/VWD 2008 to deploy a local database from your development machine to a hosting environment on a remote machine. This is how you will accomplish this: Step 1: Create a new web site by selecting menu File...

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...

If you want to reuse a web form's content in other places in your application, you can easily convert the page into an ASP.NET User Control. Then you can add that user control to any other page. For example, you have a page in your application that looks...

Following steps highlight how a Visual Studio 2005 Web application project can be migrated to Visual Studio 2008. Take backup of the original project Open Visual Studio 2008 Click File -> Open Project and browse to the folder to open the project You...

Some times as you are building your web page, you may want to hide all the non-visual controls like Timer control so that the page looks close to how it would be rendered on your browser. Our Designer can toggle between displaying and not displaying Non...

Document Outline window can be launched from the menu View -> Document Outline , or via short cut key Ctrl-Alt-T . The Document Outline window displays a nested, hierarchical tree of the elements and scripts on the page. It gives you a good overview...

Select the lines you want to be commented in your ASPX, HTML, web config file etc  and click on the Comment/ Uncomment icon in Toolbar. The comment icon looks like this:   The icon for uncomment looks like: Alternatively you can use  Keyboard...

With Visual Studio 2008 RTM, JScript validation setting is an option on the HTML validation page on the Options dialog. Since Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and later, we added a new option page JScript on the Options dialog, see the blog "Introducing JScript...

VS2010 Ultimate included IntelliTrace functionality by default.  IntelliTrace captures events (e.g. exceptions), and can affect performance of debugging. The typical performance hit is about 5% in the default mode (collection can be increased to...

In the new VS2010 UI, the start page has been completely re-written.  Part of the changes made were to hide the New Website and Open Website buttons.  Basically it went from the old look in VS2008: To the new look in VS2010: Of course, ASP.NET...

Assume that you already have a data source SqlDataSource1 that binds to a simple query returning some details from the Customers table. <asp:SqlDataSource ID= "SqlDataSource1" runat= "server" ConnectionString= "<...

Windows 7 RC’s IIS included ftp 7.5 feature.  Installing it from command line is a little bit different than the vista IIS7 command line.  It is as following:   start /w pkgmgr /l:log.etw /iu:IIS-WebServerRole;IIS-WebServer;IIS-CommonHttpFeatures;IIS...

Following are the new configuration settings available in FastCGI 1.5 Extension Beta: MonitorChangesTo - This property specifies path to a file, changes to which will trigger a recycle of FastCGI executables running for this FastCGI process pool. If value...

Technorati Tags: VWD , Visual Studio 2008 , tips and tricks , ASP.NET , IIS , IIS Remote Manager , WebPI Last week, IIS Remote Manager was re-released to support Windows 7. Prior to this release, remote management was supported only on XP, Vista, Windows...

Gridview control has the flexibility to be configured how it's rendered using templates. Following steps show how the control's edit template can be changed in the Visual Studio Designer. I have a GridView hooked up to Sqldatasource using Northwind.products...

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...

When doing remote front page debugging using visual studio 2008 in windows 2003 or windows 2008, one might found the breakpoint in the script cannot be hit.  A likely reason is that we need to turn off Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration...

It's always good to have friendly URL so that people visiting your site find it easier to remember. Asking your user to remember http://www.contoso.com/article.aspx?id=342&title=URL-Rewrite-Walkthrough for URL Rewrite walkthrough is not the nicest...

Overtime C# source code files may have unnecessary & unorganized using directives. Visual Studio IDE organize using options can help you to unclutter the source code. To organize the C# code right click anywhere inside the code editor, select Organize...

IIS7.0 Failed Request Tracing (FRT) is a powerful troubleshooting tool for request-processing failures. More details regarding FRT and how to enable it can be be found here . Once the failed request tracing is enabled for your site, do the following to...

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...

Here are the steps on how to create a Local IIS Virtual Directory.To start with you should have IIS installed on your box. Step1: Go to File Menu->Click on New Web Site. Step2: Click on the Browse button in the New Web Site dialog. This will bring...

Source View is the default view for the IDE when you edit a Web page. You can customize the IDE so that Design View is the default. Select the menu option : Tools – > Options… From the Options dialog tree select HTML Designer –> General Select Design...

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...

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...