Web Developer Tips : Visual Studio 2008

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 #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 #86: Did you know… Visual Studio has several different search options?

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:24:00 GMT

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...(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 Select the CSS Schema for Intellisense and CSS Properties?

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:56:52 GMT

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...(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 #74: Did you know…How to Add and Remove AJAX Extenders in Visual Studio 2008 Designer?

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:25:00 GMT

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....(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)