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 23, 2009
Nearly every program needs a logger to log events, errors and exceptions. Sometimes it is also useful to log the name of the method that logged the event. The easiest way to do that is to make the log method take both the calling method name and event...
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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 18, 2009
In Visual Studio 2008, there is a Style Sheet Toolbar (visible only when a CSS file is active) which allows the user to select a CSS Schema, as seen in this screen shot: However, this setting only affects the CSS editor, not the Intellisense in...
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Tags: Visual Studio 2008tips and tricksCSS
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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Tags: VWDtips and tricksVisual StudioASP.NET
Jun 15, 2009
With Visual Studio 2008 RTM, JScript validation setting is an option on the HTML validation page on the Options dialog. Since Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and later, we added a new option page JScript on the Options dialog, see the blog "Introducing JScript...
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Tags: Visual Studio 2008tips and tricksASP.NETJScript
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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Tags: Visual Studio 2008tips and tricksASP.NET
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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Tags: Visual Studio 2008tips and tricksASP.NET
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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Tags: Visual Studio 2008tips and tricksDesignerASP.NET
Jun 08, 2009
When web pages are posted back to the server, by default user is returned to the top of the page. On a large web page, you might have a requirement to scroll down the user automatically to the last position on the page. MaintainScrollPositionOnPostBack...
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Tags: tips and tricksVisual StudioASP.NETDeepak Verma.NET
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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Tags: Visual Studio 2008tips and tricksDesigner
Jun 03, 2009
IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit Beta – is a free toolkit that helps Web developers, hosting providers, and server administrators improve their sites’ relevance in search results by recommending how to make them more search engine-friendly...
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Tags: tips and tricksIISDeepak VermaSEOWeb PI
Jun 01, 2009
Technorati Tags: VWD , Visual Studio 2008 , tips and tricks , ASP.NET , IIS , IIS Remote Manager , WebPI Last week, IIS Remote Manager was re-released to support Windows 7. Prior to this release, remote management was supported only on XP, Vista, Windows...
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Jun 01, 2009
Following are the new configuration settings available in FastCGI 1.5 Extension Beta: MonitorChangesTo - This property specifies path to a file, changes to which will trigger a recycle of FastCGI executables running for this FastCGI process pool. If value...
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