Web Developer Tips : VWD

Tip#97: Did you know… How to Display Hidden Information in Design View

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:20:01 GMT

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...(read more)

Tip#96: Did you know…You could publish your SQL databases using the SQL Publishing Wizard?

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:05:51 GMT

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...(read more)

Tip #95: Did you know… That Web Application Projects and Class libraries are now available in Express edition?

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:27:39 GMT

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...(read more)

Tip #92: Did you know … How to select a master page using 'Select a Master Page' dialog?

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:02:20 GMT

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...(read more)

Tip #90: Did you know … How to rearrange menu items in Visual Web Developer?

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 05:36:19 GMT

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...(read more)

Tip #84: Did you know… How to set a Start page for your Web Site in Visual Web Developer?

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:49:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Tip #82: Did you know... How to migrate Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Project to Visual Studio 2008

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:32:56 GMT

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...(read more)

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 #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 #68 Did you know… How simple it is to attach an existing style sheet to your web page?

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Sun, 31 May 2009 21:19:01 GMT

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...(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 #61: Did you know… How to create an ASP.Net Dynamic Data Web Site?

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Thu, 14 May 2009 18:54:22 GMT

If your web site is heavily data driven then here is a quick and easy way for you to create one without writing much code. All you need is Visual Studio 2008 SP1 or Visual Web Developer 2008 Express SP1 installed on your box. Dynamic Data Web Sites makes...(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 #33: Did you know… How to create Nested Master Pages using VS 2008?

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:26:16 GMT

VS 2008 and VWD 2008 both support Nested Master Pages which means you can have a Base Master page which would cater to the whole site and then you can further customize these Base Master Pages. Here is how you do it: 1. Create a BaseMasterPage.master...(read more)

Tip #32: Did you know... How to easily create your own project templates?

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:22:00 GMT

Visual Studio makes it very easy to create item and project templates with the Export Template Wizard. Open the wizard by selecting Export Template... from the file menu. Note: For this tip I am using the Jobs Site Starter Kit . After selecting Export...(read more)