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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...

A Tale of Two Developers and Visual Studio Sites and Apps

We've encountered several scenarios in which customers have multiple developers working on a single web application in Visual Studio. In such cases, it's not uncommon for each developer to be working on a portion of the application. There isn't any problem in working with this way, but you may encounter some very real problems when you deploy your application unless you plan in advance. The Scenario Suppose you have two developers working on your web application. Developer A (we'll call him John...( 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...

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#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...

Tip #82: Did you know... How to migrate Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Project to Visual Studio 2008

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 will receive the following conversion wizard to help you convert the solution or project to the current version. Click Next. Select Yes on this screen if you want the wizard to help you to take the backup, otherwise select No and Click Next. Be sure...( read more ) Read More...

Tip #81: Did you know... How to use Web.Config transformation

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 settings in the web.config file such as connection strings, application settings,... It can be hard to keep track of those settings and time-consuming to do so manually if the user keeps switching between development stages often. With the Web...( read more ) Read More...

Tip #75: Did you know…How to maintain scrollposition after post back?

When web pages are posted back to the server, by default user is returned to the top of the page. On a large web page, you might have a requirement to scroll down the user automatically to the last position on the page. MaintainScrollPositionOnPostBack page property can be used to achieve this in one of the following ways. Application level: To set the property by default for all pages in the website, open web.config and add the attribute to the pages node. <pages maintainScrollPositionOnPostBack...( read more ) Read More...