Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer : Formatting

Tip#97: Did you know… How to Display Hidden Information in Design View

WebDevTools — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:20:01 GMT

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 it in designer click on View -> Formatting Marks -> Show

Now you will start seeing the hidden elements on the designer surface.

Hope this helps,

Deepak Verma
SDET | Visual Web Developer

Tip #59: Did you know…How you can automatically format unformatted HTML on paste in VS?

WebDevTools — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:36:04 GMT

Do you copy/ paste a lot of unformatted HTML content in to your web forms? Do you always format HTML after pasting such content? There is an easy way to automatically format HTML on paste in VS. Here is how you do it.

In Tools->Options dialog, go to Text Editor->HTML->Miscellaneous page. Check ‘Format HTML on paste’ option.

After checking this option on, whenever you paste unformatted HTML, it gets formatted automatically.

Ranjini Mathrubootham

SDET, Visual Web Developer

Tip #23: Did you know…How to launch Formatting options dialog for editor with 2 clicks?

WebDevTools — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:12:23 GMT

Normally we use Tools->Options->Text Editor->HTML->Format to launch the Formatting Options dialog shown below:

You can also launch the above dialog from the editor surface with just 2 clicks. On the editor surface, right-click and choose 'Formatting and Validation' from the context menu.

Voila! You get the Formatting Options dialog shown above.

Ranjini

SDET | Visual Web Developer Team