Typically when you work on projects you have a standard approach that you like to use to structure and organize your code (folder layout, default namespaces included, assembly references included by default, standard CSS stylesheets included, etc). This is often the first thing developers setup and do...

Symptom: You are using ASP.NET AJAX Beta1 or Beta2, and create a .aspx page that is based on a .master file. You add the <asp:scriptmanger>, <asp:updatepanel>, <asp:updateprogress> or <asp:timer> control into the content page, and find that markup intellisense no longer works...

I've been including this technique in my ASP.NET Tips/Tricks talks the last year, but given how many people are always surprised by its existence I thought it was worth a dedicated tip/trick post to raise the visibility of it ( click here to read other posts in my ASP.NET Tips/Tricks series). Problem...

Recently I've helped a few developers who have been having some weird JavaScript issues (both when using ASP.NET AJAX and with some other custom JavaScript routines they were using). The culprit was that they had automatically migrated a VS 2003 Web Project to VS 2005, and still had the <xhtmlConformance...

One of the questions I'm often asked is whether it is possible to run an ASP.NET web-site project as a top-level root "/" site using the built-in VS web-server and the VS 2005 Web Site Project model. By default, when you open a web-site as a file-system based web site project and run it, VS will launch...

Scenario: You finish building a great ASP.NET application, have everything testing and working right on your local system, are taking full advantage of the new ASP.NET 2.0 Membership, Role and Profile features, and are ready to publish it to a remote hosting environment and share it with the world. Copying...

Scenario: You finish building a great ASP.NET application, have everything tested and working right on your local system, are taking full advantage of the new ASP.NET 2.0 Membership, Role and Profile features, and are ready to publish it to a remote hosting environment and share it with the world. Copying...

One of the questions I'm often asked is whether it is possible to run an ASP.NET web-site project as a top-level root "/" site using the built-in VS web-server and the VS 2005 Web Site Project model. By default, when you open a web-site as a file-system based web site project and run it, VS will launch...

Recently I've helped a few developers who have been having some weird JavaScript issues (both when using ASP.NET AJAX and with some other custom JavaScript routines they were using). The culprit was that they had automatically migrated a VS 2003 Web Project to VS 2005, and still had the <xhtmlConformance...

I've been including this technique in my ASP.NET Tips/Tricks talks the last year, but given how many people are always surprised by its existence I thought it was worth a dedicated tip/trick post to raise the visibility of it ( click here to read other posts in my ASP.NET Tips/Tricks series). Problem...