Problems with rendering the "Design" View for a simple asp.net website from Visual Studio 2008

rakkimk — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:36:00 GMT

I recently worked with one of my customer who when clicking on the "Design" view of an ASPX page, the designer window doesn't appear - blank page appears. And if you minimize the VS window, and maximize it again - we will see the desktop background in the place of the Designer surface.

Verified that neither the "Microsoft Visual Studio Web Authoring Component" nor "Microsoft Web Designer tools" was installed on the machine (Control panel --> Add/Remove window components).

Ran the file [Path to the Installation DVD]\WCU\WebDesignerCore\WebDesignerCore.EXE

NOTE : This exe doesn't have a UI, so watch the Task Manager to know when this exe completes its installation.

Reference : http://forums.asp.net/t/1167590.aspx

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Microsoft Web Platform Installer Beta

rakkimk — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:11:50 GMT

If you are a web deployment guru, and looking to reduce your burden of downloading lot of software, configuring them and if you didn’t check Bills’ blog earlier, you better do check it right now.

The new ‘Microsoft Web Platform Installer Beta’ gives you an easy way of configuring the ASP.NET/IIS stack along with tools needed for development all in one go.

1. Select the IIS components you need to install

2. Select the tools, .NET SP

3. Download and Installation

You can get it from here. Happy Deployment (with less hassles)!

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Problems with rendering the "Design" View for a simple asp.net website from Visual Studio 2008

Microsoft Web Platform Installer Beta