Web Developer Tips : tips and tricks

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 #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#85: Did you know… You can now do Multiple Selection of controls in your Designer with VS 2008 SP1?

Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:15:45 GMT

Visual Web developer 2008 SP1 supports multiple selection of controls on your designer using Ctrl+Click . You can see that the designer: Displays the primary selected control with a white tab. Button3 in the image below. Enable you to set property for...(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 #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)