Symptom: When building a VS 2005 Web Site Project you experience very slow build times – where compilation seems to mysteriously pause for 30+ seconds (or even minutes), before continuing each time you do a build or F5 of the project. This compilation performance slow-down might be the result of...

Symptom: When building a VS 2005 Web Site Project you experience very slow build times – where compilation seems to mysteriously pause for 30+ seconds (or even minutes), before continuing each time you do a build or F5 of the project. This compilation performance slow-down might be the result of...

Problem You have a large ASP.NET page that you are working on within Visual Studio, and you want to quickly navigate back and forth between design-view and source-view without getting lost in the deeply nested HTML content, or have to spend a lot of time finding your place again in the document. Solution...

Problem You have a large ASP.NET page that you are working on within Visual Studio, and you want to quickly navigate back and forth between design-view and source-view without getting lost in the deeply nested HTML content, or have to spend a lot of time finding your place again in the document. Solution...

Problem You have a large ASP.NET page that you are working on within Visual Studio, and you want to quickly navigate back and forth between design-view and source-view without getting lost in the deeply nested HTML content, or have to spend a lot of time finding your place again in the document. Solution...

Problem You are coding away on an ASP.NET page, and are trying to isolate a problem within the page. You have some existing html/controls/markup/in-line code that is being used on the page, and you want to temporarily comment it out while you fix the problem. Solution ASP.NET supports a little known...

Problem You are coding away on an ASP.NET page, and are trying to isolate a problem within the page. You have some existing html/controls/markup/in-line code that is being used on the page, and you want to temporarily comment it out while you fix the problem. Solution ASP.NET supports a little known...

Problem You receive an HTML or ASP.NET page from another developer you work with whose html source formatting standards are different from your own (bad use of casing, inconsistent indenting, etc). You want to quickly clean-up and format the HTML “the right way” – where “the right way” is naturally defined...

Problem You receive an HTML or ASP.NET page from another developer you work with whose html source formatting standards are different from your own (bad use of casing, inconsistent indenting, etc). You want to quickly clean-up and format the HTML “the right way” – where “the right way” is naturally defined...

Several people have sent me email lately asking for a suggested short-list of my best/favorite blog posts to read (I’ve done 200 posts over the last 12 months and apparently it takes too long to read them all <g>). I’ve put together a summary page of ASP.NET 2.0 Tips, Tricks, Recipes...