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Brian Claridge / .NET Slacker / MCSD for .NET

Editing .skin files...

Note to self.

If anyone is going to use .skin files to theme .Net 2.0 apps, I suggest making the following tweak to Visual Studio:

Tools > Options > Text Editor > File Extension

Add "skin" w/ "User Control Editor, Apply

Close all open skin files and re-open them. Voila, auto-complete now works.
Posted: Dec 06 2005, 03:34 PM by zerosleep | with 13 comment(s)
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Plip said:

Nice tip :-)

I recently did just this for Macromedia ActionScript files.
# December 6, 2005 6:10 PM

Brett said:

Good tip, cheers
# December 7, 2005 3:09 AM

David Taylor said:

I love you Brian.

That is definately the tip of the week. I am sick of prototyping skin changes in .aspx files and the cutting and pasting back into the .skin file...very nice.

# December 7, 2005 7:50 AM

Daniel said:

I don't see File Extension option - i am using VWD - could this be why?

# June 14, 2007 12:32 PM

Pete said:

In VWD make sure that "Show all Settings" is check in the lower left corner of the Options box.  The list of options should now include "Text Editor" and you can go from there.

Hope this helps.

# August 8, 2007 4:37 PM

Mark said:

Thanks alot, really starting to enjoy skins & themes after figuring out the whole setup

# October 16, 2007 5:20 AM

Derek said:

OMG i fucking love you! awesome tip!

# January 17, 2008 1:05 PM

JC said:

I never knew that can't be done. I was hating it the first time using skin. That should be set as a default. Thanks!

# February 14, 2008 11:29 AM

JC said:

Also, it would be nice if it will render in VS IDE rather than having to run the webpage....

# February 14, 2008 11:34 AM

Brian said:

This makes working with skin files MUCH easier.  Thanks!

# August 8, 2008 10:50 AM

Rich said:

Fantastic tip - thank you so much!

# February 22, 2009 3:13 PM

Ankit Singhal said:

That is really cool. I was wondering when intellisense Stopped Working for Skin Files... You made my day. thanks a lot

# July 20, 2009 9:36 AM

wagner said:

cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

# July 30, 2009 11:21 AM
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