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Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer
Tip #110 Did you know … How to referencing root project’s master page’s properties from sub project’s content page?
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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 project. I searched the answer and find the following...
Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer
Tip #109 Did you know … How to speed up build time by *only* building the currently selected project in a multi-project solution?
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over 2 years ago
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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 that I don’t want to resolve at the current time. By...
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Tip #108 Did you know … How to improve reference efficiency in JavaScript files inside a web project?
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over 2 years ago
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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 many JavaScript files and you...
Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer
Tip #107 Did you know … How to improve debugging performance for MVC2 application in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate?
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over 3 years ago
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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 default mode (collection can be increased to...
Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer
Tip #106 Did you know … How to solve the errors when aspnetdb.mdf is created dynamically with IIS?
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over 3 years ago
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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 > < add name = " ApplicationServices "...
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Tip #105: Did you know … How to include empty directory when package a web application?
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over 3 years ago
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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 empty stub file inside the directory to make...
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Tip #104: Did you know … How to view text for the ‘hint’ buttons on the Publish Web Dialog?
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over 3 years ago
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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...
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Tip #103 revisited
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over 3 years ago
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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 recommended practice; in fact, it’s recommended that you...
Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer
Tip #103: Adding the New Website and Open Website buttons to the VS2010 Start Page
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over 3 years ago
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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 the new look in VS2010: Of course, ASP.NET...
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Tip#102: Did you know… How to specify tag specific formatting
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over 3 years ago
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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 content inside td should remain on the same line...
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Tip#101: Did you know… How to scope Theme
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over 3 years ago
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Themes are a way to define properties of pages and controls, and can be used to provide consistent look across pages. There are several different levels of applying a theme to an individual control, a page, or an application. Control Level Define...
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Tip#100: Did you know… How to view ASP.NET trace information?
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over 4 years ago
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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...
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Tip#99: Did you know… You can now install new Media and Developer Tools products with Web PI v2 RTW?
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over 4 years ago
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RTW version 2 of Web PI, which shipped in September, now offers additional products through Media and Developer Tools scenarios through the new Options Dialog. You can include products from these scenarios from the Options dialog: and check the corresponding...
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Tip#98: Did you know… The default Application Pool Identity in IIS 7.5 (Windows 7) changed from NetworkService to AppPoolIdentity?
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over 4 years ago
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In Windows 7, IIS application pool isolation was taken yet to a different level. The new change introduced in IIS7 (Windows Server 2008) was a new option to run your application pool as AppPoolIdentiy. However, the default for an application pool identity...
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Tip#97: Did you know… How to Display Hidden Information in Design View
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over 4 years ago
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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...
Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer
Tip#96: Did you know…You could publish your SQL databases using the SQL Publishing Wizard?
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over 4 years ago
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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...
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Tip #95: Did you know… That Web Application Projects and Class libraries are now available in Express edition?
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over 4 years ago
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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 #94: Did you know … How to improve the performance of PHP application on Windows?
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over 4 years ago
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Today the Microsoft IIS team has released the beta of the Windows Cache Extension 1.0 for PHP . The Windows Cache Extension for PHP is a PHP accelerator , that is used to increase the speed of PHP applications running on the Windows operating systems...
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Tip #93: Did you know … PHP and Custom Error Pages configuration?
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over 4 years ago
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When deploying PHP web applications that handle their errors with their own error pages, the existingResponse for Custom Error Pages feature of IIS should be set to “ PassThrough ” for that particular site. This greatly improves the customer experience...
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Tip #92: Did you know … How to select a master page using 'Select a Master Page' dialog?
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over 4 years ago
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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 a master page...
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Tip #91: Did you know … How to automate FTP 7.5 installation and site creation?
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over 4 years ago
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With the imminent release of Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 to the general public, some of you may want to automate the installation FTP 7.5 on the machine. Thanks to pkgmgr , this is made amazingly simple! To install both the UI and the FTP service, simply...
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Tip #90: Did you know … How to rearrange menu items in Visual Web Developer?
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over 4 years ago
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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 #89: Did you know…You could customize Toolbars in Visual Web Developer?
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over 4 years ago
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Visual Web Developer by default shows the standard toolbar. To expose the remaining tool bars, you will have to right click on the standard tool bar area. This will bring up the list of all toolbars available. Select in this list to show or hide toolbars...
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Tip #88: Did you know… To not stress your server, limit the number of concurrent requests
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over 4 years ago
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The other day somebody ask me if there was a way to limit the amount of work that Site Analysis in IIS SEO Toolkit would cause to the server. This is interesting for a couple of reasons, You might want to reduce the load that Site Analysis cause to your...
Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer
Tip #87: Did you know… How to reuse a web page by converting into an ASP.NET User Control?
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over 4 years ago
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If you want to reuse a web form's content in other places in your application, you can easily convert the page into an ASP.NET User Control. Then you can add that user control to any other page. For example, you have a page in your application that looks...
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