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Tip #104: Did you know … How to view text for the ‘hint’ buttons on the Publish Web Dialog? by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

After the Beta 2 release of Visual Studio 2010, the Publish Web Dialog was modified to include two information buttons associated with the Service URL and Site/application text boxes. (See Figure 1) Figure 1 – New information (‘hint’) buttons (see circled...

Tip #103 revisited by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

In Tip #103 I showed a way of customizing the start page in order to add the New Website and Open Website controls.  It turns out that using a loose XAML file as I did in that post is not the recommended practice; in fact, it’s recommended that you...

Tip#100: Did you know… How to view ASP.NET trace information? by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

You can enable ASP.NET tracing either at an Application level or at a page level; see Tip# 77: Did you know… How to enable Page Level Tracing for your ASP.NET pages? for more information. With the tracing enabled, you can view the trace output in a trace...

Tip#97: Did you know… How to Display Hidden Information in Design View by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

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...

Tip#96: Did you know…You could publish your SQL databases using the SQL Publishing Wizard? by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

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...

Tip #95: Did you know… That Web Application Projects and Class libraries are now available in Express edition? by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

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...
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Tip #92: Did you know … How to select a master page using 'Select a Master Page' dialog? by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

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...
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Tip #90: Did you know … How to rearrange menu items in Visual Web Developer? by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

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...
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Tip #84: Did you know… How to set a Start page for your Web Site in Visual Web Developer? by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

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...
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Tip #82: Did you know... How to migrate Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Project to Visual Studio 2008 by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

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...
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Tip #81: Did you know... How to use Web.Config transformation by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

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...
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Tip #69: Did you know…The keyboard shortcut for View in Browser? by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Ctrl +Shift+W does the trick for you. This short cut is mentioned under File Menu -> View in Browser . So if you are still using Select File -> Right click for context menu and then selecting View in Browser as shown below, you may want to start...
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Tip #68 Did you know… How simple it is to attach an existing style sheet to your web page? by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Open an existing web site in VWD. Open the page by double clicking on it in solution explorer to which you want to attach the existing style sheet in your web site. Now, switch to Design View of the page and bring up Select Style Sheet dialog by clicking...
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Tip#63: Did you know…How to specify a fixed port for Visual Studio Development Server while using WAPs? by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

In Tip#21 we showed you how to set a fixed port for the Developer Web Server in Web Sites. Here is how you will be able to configure this for Web Application Projects. 1. Go to the properties page of WAP. Right Click on your Web Application and click...
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Tip #61: Did you know… How to create an ASP.Net Dynamic Data Web Site? by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

If your web site is heavily data driven then here is a quick and easy way for you to create one without writing much code. All you need is Visual Studio 2008 SP1 or Visual Web Developer 2008 Express SP1 installed on your box. Dynamic Data Web Sites makes...
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