Jun 15, 2009
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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Jun 12, 2009
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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Jun 11, 2009
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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Jun 09, 2009
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...
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Jun 05, 2009
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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May 31, 2009
Ctrl +Shift+W does the trick for you. This short cut is mentioned under File Menu -> View in Browser . So if you are still using Select File -> Right click for context menu and then selecting View in Browser as shown below, you may want to start...
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Tags: Visual Studio 2008VS2008VWDtips and tricksDesignerVisual StudioCSS and HTMLDevelopmentASP.NETReshmi MangaloreVSTSVisual Studio 2008 SP1Shortcuts
May 31, 2009
Open an existing web site in VWD. Open the page by double clicking on it in solution explorer to which you want to attach the existing style sheet in your web site. Now, switch to Design View of the page and bring up Select Style Sheet dialog by clicking...
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May 29, 2009
It's a nice time saver if you would like the HTML editor to automatically add quotes for the attribute values while you are typing. To set this option select Tools->Options. Check Show all settings. From the left pane select Text Editor -> HTML...
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Tags: Visual Studio 2008tips and tricksDeepak VermaEditorHTML