VS 2008 has this cool feature of downgrading any CSS/HTML errors to warnings. This is helpful when you want to separate out validation errors and are looking for what is actually stopping your build. In VS 2008 the default behavior is to display any HTML/CSS errors as warnings as shown in the picture...

Avoid unnecessary round trips to the server - You can use ASP.NET Ajax and partial page rendering. To get more information, see partial page rendering overview and ASP.Net Ajax . Use the Page object's IsPostBack property to avoid unnecessary processing Leave buffering on unless you have a specific...

Sometimes while developing WAP you might want to switch to IIS Web server instead of the Visual Studio Development Server provided by VWD. Here is how you do it: 1. Go to the Properties page of WAP by clicking on properties under WAP in Solution Explorer or Right click on WAP and select Properties from...

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...

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...

If you want to work on an web application project using IIS that is sitting on another server, you can use the remote debugger and the web property pages in Visual Studio 2008 SP1. First, open your web application project on the server (e.g. \\server\share ), by going to File > Open Project. ...

A lot has changed in the IIS7 UI from IIS6, sometimes it can be hard to find out where to set certain things such as the execute permission for CGI's and ISAPI's. Yesterday, I was trying to get a CGI to execute, but couldn't find where to set it. In IIS7, you'll need to go to the Handler...

On one of the email lists that I'm on, someone had posted a question about running a website using the root path "/" or a different virtual path than the project name that is populated by default. James Crowley pointed out a blog entry from Scott Guthrie where Scott walks through this process...

For quite some time I've been working with a modified version of Scott Hanselman's "Dark Theme" for Visual Studio. The reason for my modifications is that the HTML and CSS settings were very difficult to read. Here is the complete list of changes I've made in Tools > Options > Environment...

Did you know that… you can use Live Mesh to backup files in 1 click ? Here is how to do this in Vista (with Live Mesh client installed): First, create a BackupToMesh folder somewhere on your drive Then Share it on your Mesh (Right-click / “Add folder to your Live Mesh…” ) Now create a shortcut to this...