October 2008 - Posts
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
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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
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If you want to work on an web application project using IIS that is sitting on another server, you can use the remote debugger and the web property pages in Visual Studio 2008 SP1. First, open your web application project on the server (e.g. \\server\share
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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
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If you are using ASP.NET Ajax and you are having problems with a web page one quick and dirty way to debug it is to add tracing statements. You do this by using the "Sys.Debug.trace" function. For example: 1: < script language ="javascript"
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To run a page in Debug mode you will have to choose Debug –> Start Debugging or just press F5 . Debugging support is not enabled by default and if you have not run the debugger before on this web site, you will need to configure it. This is internally
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When writing JavaScript for a web application, there may be times when you want to do something different depending on the browser that is requesting the page. ASP.NET Ajax has an easy way to this with the Sys.Browser object. For example, let's say you
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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
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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
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