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
Aug 12, 2009
Over the versions of IIS, we have changed our process model in some ways with each release. Each of those changes required administrators to change the way they set up permissions for "code" to run properly on IIS. It also requires application developers...
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Tags: Tips and Tricksauthenticationprocess model
Aug 12, 2009
Many questions that we get on the forum's are around which users need which permissions for what resources ... isn't that how life goes? :) Anyways, to make this more complicated, we have changed "who" the "anonymous" user is in different versions of...
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Tags: Tips and Tricksanonymous userauthentication
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 30, 2009
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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