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Tip#102: Did you know… How to specify tag specific formatting
Let’s see this with an example. I have the following html code on my page. Now if I format the document by selecting Edit –> Format document (or Ctrl K, Ctrl D) The document becomes I want the...
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Tip #103: Adding the New Website and Open Website buttons to the VS2010 Start...
In the new VS2010 UI, the start page has been completely re-written. Part of the changes made were to hide the New Website and Open Website buttons. Basically it went from the old look in VS2008: To...
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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...
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Tip #104: Did you know … How to view text for the ‘hint’ buttons on the...
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)...
View ArticleTip #105: Did you know … How to include empty directory when package a web...
By design, Visual Studio 2010 will skip the empty directory when packaging web application project using web deploy. To get empty directory packaged and deployed, we can work around this by adding an...
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Tip #106 Did you know … How to solve the errors when aspnetdb.mdf is created...
In VS2010 all editions, the default .NET Framework 4.0 ASP.NET Web Site and Web Application template create default website with following connection string in the web.config: <connectionStrings>...
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Tip #107 Did you know … How to improve debugging performance for MVC2...
VS2010 Ultimate included IntelliTrace functionality by default. IntelliTrace captures events (e.g. exceptions), and can affect performance of debugging. The typical performance hit is about 5% in the...
View ArticleTip #108 Did you know … How to improve reference efficiency in JavaScript...
In Visual Studio 2010, we can reference other JavaScript files inside current JavaScript file like the following, to get the IntelliSense. /// <reference path="JScript2.js" /> What if you have...
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Tip #109 Did you know … How to speed up build time by *only* building the...
When working with a solution that contains numerous projects, I find myself often wanting to only build and run the currently selected project. Other projects in the solution might have build errors...
View ArticleTip #110 Did you know … How to referencing root project’s master page’s...
Recently, I received a question referring to our blog Part 2 of 3: Creating shared user controls and master pages with sub-projects , asking how to reference master page’s properties from a sub...
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