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

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 ->New Web Site. Switch to Server Explorer and add a new Data connection and connect to a database. In this case we will use the Northwind database that comes with SQL Express. You should point to the database you want to publish. Step 2: Select Northwind...( read more ) Read More...

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

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 to File –> New Project. Reshmi Mangalore SDET, Visual Web Developer....( read more ) Read More...

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

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' dialog is different for a Web application project than for a Web site. For a Web Application project: Right click solution explore. Select Add and then select New Item From the Add new Item dialog select Web content form and click on Add button. Select...( read more ) Read More...

Who is my IIS application process identity?

Over the versions of IIS, we have changed our process model in some ways with each release. Each of those changes required administrators to change the way they set up permissions for "code" to run properly on IIS. It also requires application developers to be aware of these changes. Let's skip ASP.net for this blog post (that code has it's own process model and identity configuration), and instead focus on how IIS itself will run script-mapped code and ISAPI filters and extensions. Let's also ignore...( read more ) Read More...

Who is the anonymous user?!

Many questions that we get on the forum's are around which users need which permissions for what resources ... isn't that how life goes? :) Anyways, to make this more complicated, we have changed "who" the "anonymous" user is in different versions of IIS. We did this to make migration easier and to make configuration less machine dependent. Also, the Web Deployment Tool will handle many of the migration difficulties that would arise from these changes (be thankful!) ... you can find Web Deploy here...( read more ) Read More...

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

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 menu and toolbar items. Now choose a menu or toolbar to rearrange. You can rearrange the items by selecting them and moving them up and down. You can also use this dialog to add your own menu options. Rearrange Commands Dialog:   Reshmi Mangalore...( read more ) Read More...

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

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 current block by changing the Look in selection.   If you set Look in to be the current project or the entire solution, Visual studio will open files that have matches as you navigate between matches. You can also adjust the settings under Find...( read more ) Read More...

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

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 the selected controls using Property Grid. Note that the property grid would show you only the properties that are in common for all the selected controls. Enables you to make use of the Align , Make Same Size and Order Menu commands in your Format...( read more ) Read More...

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

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 will start your web site with the Set Page and not the current page in designer. You can do this by right-click on the page and selecting Set As Start Page option from the context menu. This could also be set in Properties page under the Start...( read more ) Read More...