design-view

In Visual Studio, my design view doesn't load the master page controls. Why?

It's just so much HRESULT E_FAIL, if you know what I'm talking about. And if you use Visual Studio, you know what I'm talking about. Similar thread, but not a duplicate: Is the design view for aspx pages in Visual Studio useful? Any insight, including input from Microsoft MVPs (oh, I know you're out there) would be super cool. ...

Flex design view not working for components with custom base class

I have a Flex component that, instead of inheriting directly from Canvas, inherits from a custom class (MyBaseComponent ) that I wrote which in turn inherits from Canvas: Canvas > MyBaseComponent > MyComponent (mxml) Design view does not work for this control. I just get a blank gray screen. (It works if I use Canvas instead of my cu...

Hide Radiobox and Checkbox Name on Visual Studio Design View

I have been designing controls in Visual Studio 2008 and as you may have notice when I use radio button and checkbox web controls for ASP .NET it shows the name on design view, this causes me to see an odd preview because the text are unnecessarily wide. I was wondering if there is any settings in visual studio to turn this off? ...

VS2008 partially freezing when switching to HTML design view

This is an odd freeze. When I switch from source view to design view for an HTML or ASPX file, the client area freezes, but I can still click on other tabs and menus. What am I missing here? Really don't feel like reinstalling VS2008. ...

PHP IDE with design view?

Are there any good IDEs for PHP that have design view as well? Like in Dreamweaver, or visual studio, sometimes it is advantageous to place controls with drag and drop. Also want syntax highlighting and some kind of versioning control. I know this question is quite like others asking about PHP but I specifically desire this feature....

Is there a way to prevent Visual Studio 2008 from opening a file in design view by default?

I'm writing an NUnit TextFixture for portions of a Windows Forms application. Some of the classes in the file are derived from UI component classes, like so: [TestFixture] public class MainFormTest : PersistenceTestBase // Base class here is not a form { class TestMainForm : MainForm // MainForm inherits from Form { pub...

Asp.Net WebForms designer auto update

When we work over Asp.Net Forms (like .aspx pages), the source view gets updated automatically when we edit designer. On the other hand, disigner is not bothered about changes made at mark-up/ sources. We have to click synchronise view after every bit of change we make in source to be available in the desighner. Are there some sett...

Design view not working in Web Projects in Visual Studio 2008

When I try to edit an ASPX file with the Design View it freezes for a moment and does nothing, not even an error message. Looking through menus I've seen some strange things: If I go to Tools->Options->HTML Designer it gives me no options on the right panel, just a "Error loading property page" message. When I try to open a file using ...

Can you target Visual Studio's design view with CSS?

My template uses the perfect three column layout found at: http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/perfect-3-column.htm It renders fine in all major browsers, however this layout is known not to work in Dreamweaver and Visual Studio design views. The trouble is nothing shows up at all on the page. It's impossible to select elements and use ...

Moving the javascript code to design view is not working. Only code-behind Attributes.Add("onclick" works. Puzzled

I wanted to disable a button after it is clicked and at the same time fire the post back event to generate a report. My first set of code did not work because soon after the button is disabled the page won't submit/post back. here's the first set of code which was not implemented. the onclientclick calls a javascript function which has t...

Problem loading UserControl with DLL reference in Design View

I have a C# project with a UserControl in it. This user control depends on a particular C++ Mixed mode dll which in turns, acts as a facade to an unmanaged C++ DLL C# C++ Mixed C++ Umnanaged [ main app ] ---> [ myUC ] ---> [ OCShell.dll ] ---> [ OCC.dll ] In the Design View, I cannot add th...

Expression Blend Error - Value cannot be null. Parameter name: stream

I'm getting the above error when trying to load a User Control xaml file in design view in Expression Blend 4. The xaml itself runs successfully in VS 2010, and I can view the xaml in blend, but not in design view. When viewing the xaml in 'xaml view' the UserControl element is underlined in red. Anybody run across this issue? ...