June 2009 - Posts
The standard methods for searching can be found under the Edit --> Find and Replace menu. The “Quick Find” method (Ctrl+F) allows users to search inside of the current document, all open documents, the current project, the entire solution, and the
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Visual Web developer 2008 SP1 supports multiple selection of controls on your designer using Ctrl+Click . You can see that the designer: Displays the primary selected control with a white tab. Button3 in the image below. Enable you to set property for
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As you are developing your site, you may want to start at a particular page for testing your web site. By defaults, when you start debugging, Visual Studio runs the page that was currently in focus in your designer. If you set this page, Visual web Developer
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Nearly every program needs a logger to log events, errors and exceptions. Sometimes it is also useful to log the name of the method that logged the event. The easiest way to do that is to make the log method take both the calling method name and event
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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
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In Visual Studio 2008, there is a Style Sheet Toolbar (visible only when a CSS file is active) which allows the user to select a CSS Schema, as seen in this screen shot: However, this setting only affects the CSS editor, not the Intellisense in
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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
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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
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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
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Enabling tracing at page level gives you a bunch of information that can be useful while debugging your application.Tracing helps understand which control uses more view state, start/end of PreInit, start/end of Init, start/end of Render, etc. This
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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-visual
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When web pages are posted back to the server, by default user is returned to the top of the page. On a large web page, you might have a requirement to scroll down the user automatically to the last position on the page. MaintainScrollPositionOnPostBack
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Tip#62 showed you how to add an AJAX Control Toolkit to your Toolbox. Once you have the toolkit here is how you proceed: 1. Switch to Design View of the page and drag drop ScriptManager control from the AJAX Extensions tab of toolbox to the designer.
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IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit Beta – is a free toolkit that helps Web developers, hosting providers, and server administrators improve their sites’ relevance in search results by recommending how to make them more search engine-friendly.
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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
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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
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