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

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 elements from your page while editing. To enable it in designer click on View -> Formatting Marks -> Show Now you will start seeing the hidden elements on the designer surface. Hope this helps, Deepak Verma SDET | Visual Web Developer...( read more ) Read More...

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

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-visual controls using   Ctrl+Shift+N Display ASP.NET Non-visual controls turned on: Display ASP.NET Non-visual controls turned off: This option is also present under View menu. View->Visual Aids –>ASP.NET Non-visual controls as shown below...( read more ) Read More...

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

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. 2. Drag drop an asp button control to the designer to which you would want to add the extender. 4. Select the button control and click on the Smart Tag. This will bring up the      Add Extender.. option. 5. Now click on Add Extender...( read more ) Read More...

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

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 using Ctrl+Shift+W. Reshmi Mangalore SDET, Visual Web Developer...( read more ) Read More...

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

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 on menu: Format –> Attach Style Sheet   as shown below. Click the OK button and this will add a link to the Style sheet that you selected in the Select Style Sheet dialog. Now you can make use of all the styles described in this style sheet...( read more ) Read More...

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

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. I have selected Generate Insert, update and delete statements while configuring the sql data source (by clicking the Advanced button) Click on smart task for grid view & select Enable Editing check box for the grid view Now to convert a column...( read more ) Read More...

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

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. When you drag the body of the control, you are changing the parent of the control.  You can see this because the cursor changes to the small arrow with a square box.  On the other hand, when you drag it by the white tag, you change the...( read more ) Read More...

Tip # 30: Did you know... Ajax Extender controls UI behaves differently in VS 2008 than in VS 2005

In VS 2005, you can drag and drop an extender control anywhere on the design surface. However, in VS 2008, you can drop an extender only on an ASP control which the extender can extend its functionality. When you drag an extender and hover it over a control, if the control can support the extender, you would see the cursor turn into a plus (+) sign. If you hover an extender over the blank design surface, or over a control which is not supported by the extender, the cursor will turn into a stop sign...( read more ) Read More...

Tip #19: Did you know…How to set the default view to Design view?

Source View is the default view for the IDE when you edit a Web page. You can customize the IDE so that Design View is the default. Select the menu option : Tools – > Options… From the Options dialog tree select HTML Designer –> General Select Design View radio button from the Start Pages in section as shown in the picture below. Deepak Verma SDET | Visual Web Developer...( read more ) Read More...

Tip #18: Did you know…How to absolute position controls on copy paste or drag drop from Toolbox?

To absolute position any control on your designer, you select the control and then select the following menu option: Format  –> Position… ->Position style ->Absolute. Sometimes you may want the controls to be absolutely positioned on the design surface as soon as you drag drop control from the tool box or as soon as you copy paste on designer. Here is how you enable this: Go to Tools –> Options –> HTML Designer –> CSS Styling And check “Change positioning to absolute for controls...( read more ) Read More...