Sep 30, 2009
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...
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Tags: Visual Studio 2008VS2008VWDtips and tricksDesignerVisual StudioDeepak VermaVSTSVisual Studio 2008 SP1FormattingOptions
Sep 27, 2009
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...
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Sep 20, 2009
Creating a Web Application Project was possible only in VS standard SKU and above in VS 2008. But with VS 2008 SP1 we went ahead and added support for WAP and class libraries in Visual Web Developer Express edition SP1. You can now create WAPs by going...
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Tags: VWDtips and tricksVisual StudioWAPVisual Studio 2008 SP1
Aug 21, 2009
Master page for a Web form can always be set manually in the source code, but here is an option to select the master page while create the webform using the 'Select a Master Page' dialog. The path to select a Master page using the 'Select a master page...
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Tags: Visual Studio 2008VS2008VWDtips and tricksVisual StudioDeepak VermaVSTSMaster PagesVisual Studio 2008 SP1
Jul 23, 2009
You can use the Rearrange Commands dialog box to do this. To get there: Launch the Tools->Customize dialog. Now select the Commands Tab. Click on the Rearrange commands… button, and this will launch the dialog that will help you with arranging your...
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Tags: VWDtips and tricksVisual Studio
Jun 26, 2009
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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Jun 18, 2009
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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Tags: Visual Studio 2008VS2008VWDtips and tricksVisual StudioDeepak VermaVisual Studio 2008 SP1
Jun 17, 2009
With Visual Studio 2010 Beta1, we introduced a new feature called Web.Config transformation to help ease the development process of a web application. At different stages during the life cycle of a project, the user usually needs to modify some environment...
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