Web Developer Tips : ASP.NET

Tip #81: Did you know... How to use Web.Config transformation

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:58:17 GMT

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...(read more)

Tip #80: Did you know… How to show JScript validation errors as warnings?

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:54:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Tip #79: Did you know… How to quickly comment and uncomment in your web pages?

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:36:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Tip# 78: Did you know… How to navigate using Document Outline?

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:08:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Tip# 77: Did you know… How to enable Page Level Tracing for your ASP.NET pages?

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:58:54 GMT

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...(read more)

Tip #76: Did you know… How to hide a non-visual control in your designer?

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:36:35 GMT

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...(read more)

Tip #75: Did you know…How to maintain scrollposition after post back?

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:43:04 GMT

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...(read more)

Tip #69: Did you know…The keyboard shortcut for View in Browser?

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Sun, 31 May 2009 21:27:35 GMT

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...(read more)

Tip#65: Did you know...How to quickly create a GridView that is hooked up to a SQL table?

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Wed, 27 May 2009 22:02:00 GMT

In Tip#64, we showed you how to convert a GridView's bound fields into template fields. In this tip, we will show you how to quickly create a GridView that is hooked up to a SQL table. Typically, if you want a GridView then you need to add it to the page...(read more)

Tip#63: Did you know…How to specify a fixed port for Visual Studio Development Server while using WAPs?

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Tue, 19 May 2009 21:59:18 GMT

In Tip#21 we showed you how to set a fixed port for the Developer Web Server in Web Sites. Here is how you will be able to configure this for Web Application Projects. 1. Go to the properties page of WAP. Right Click on your Web Application and click...(read more)

Tip#62: Did you know… How to add Ajax Control Toolkit to the toolbox?

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Sat, 16 May 2009 19:58:51 GMT

Steps to add Ajax Control Toolkit for Framework 3.5 SP1 Steps to add Ajax Control Toolkit for Framework 2.0 Ajax Control Toolkit for Framework 3.5 SP1 Following are the steps to add Ajax Control Toolkit to the toolbox for ASP.NET 3.5 webs in Visual Studio...(read more)

Tip#57: Did you know… How to manage web site configuration through a web interface

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:37:10 GMT

The Web Site Administration Tool provides a web interface for you to manage different web site configuration settings. To launch the tool, for Web Application Project click Project-> ASP.Net Configuration & for Websites, click Website-> ASP...(read more)

Tip # 53: Did you know... How to edit the templates for gridview in VS designer?

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:44:04 GMT

Gridview control has the flexibility to be configured how it's rendered using templates. Following steps show how the control's edit template can be changed in the Visual Studio Designer. I have a GridView hooked up to Sqldatasource using Northwind.products...(read more)

Tip #50: Did you know…How to absolute position the controls in Visual Studio Designer?

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:32:41 GMT

Absolute positioning control(s) in the designer can seem confusing at first until you learn the visual cues. You can do one of the following two possible actions by dragging the control in the designer. Re-parent the control Change the controls position...(read more)

Tip #45: Did you know…How to change the DynamicData folder location?

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:29:05 GMT

ASP.NET Dynamic Data is a framework that lets you create data-driven ASP.NET Web applications easily. It does this by automatically discovering data-model metadata at run time and deriving UI behavior from it. By default for a Dynamic data Web Application...(read more)