Hey-- I'm developing a site in Visual Web Dev Express, and when I run/debug, I'd like to be able to set my application's document root so that I can use safer paths, like "/css/style.css' instead of "css/style.css". How would I accomplish this? ...
I find it odd that in Visual C# 2008 Express edition, when you use the database explorer, your options are: 1) Microsoft Access 2) SQL Server Compact 3.5, and 3) SQL Server Database File. BUT if you use Visual Web Developer 2008 Express, you can connect to a regular SQL Server, Oracle, ODBC, etc. For people developing command-line o...
I am getting ready to completely overhaul my web server. I use it for both development and to present product to clients. It also hosts my company website. I will be loading MS Server 2008 and MS SQL 2008. I want it to have the latest .NET Framework as well as the latest MVC templates. I want it to use SubSonic. I also want to start usi...
Where can I set it? I need files to be encoded in UTF-8 by default... there is nothing in Tools -> Options or any other menu as far as I know :( P.S. I don't need to set default encoding for Project or so, I need it to be default for any files I create. Thanks for your help :) ...
Visual Studio tries to be helpful by showing all the nested tags where the cursor is (the display at the bottom of the code window, next to the "Desgn | Split | Source" options), but I never use it, and it seems to slow things down when I'm just trying to cursor past large blocks of code. Is there any way to turn this feature off? ...
Hi all I've just started a new project using Visual Web Developer 2008 Express and all my code behinds are not in any namespace. How can I set the default namespace for the project? In VisualStudioPro it used to be in project properties, the website properties in Visual Web Developer 2008 Express seem very ... express. Thanks, David....
I admit that I am not a guru of Visual Studio products at all. I am using Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition and I'm trying to load someone else's project. This project happens to be a website with many pages. After loading VWD, it asks for a project to open and I select the solution file. It then proceeds to take an extremely l...
I used Visual Web Developer to open up Website_A directly through FTP, which was real nice. It let me edit the files on my computer and then save them right up to the server so I could see the effects my changes were having immediately. This is just like what I used to do with UltraEdit on non .Net sites, but with the added benefit of ...
I have a weird problem with images in visual web developer, I cant change my images properties from properties panel (my changes don't take effect) and all images in my website have gotten the same size when I resize one image (by dragging the border), all images get that new size? any idea? ...
How to get a reference to a control from its' string name in C#? ...
I am trying to write a web application using ASP.NET MVC. I prefer C# as the programming language. Which IDE is better to use for this purpose? Visual Studio or Visual Web Developer? What are the features of the IDEs? What are the benefits of using one over the other? Thanks in advance. ...
Supposing that while debugging with VWD the ASP .NET Development server runs at port 4754. (tray icon). The page for debug is opening at http://localhost:4750 and every time i have to type in the address bar the correct address. http://localhost:4754 In other words the http://localhost port, is always the ASP .NET Development server p...
i have a folder called "Helpers" (containing .cs files) that is in the root directory of my web application project structure (along with App_Data etc). lately for some reason this folder keeps moving to other sub-directories by itself. the first time it happened i thought i accidentally dragged/dropped it using visual web dev express "s...
Is this possible? I installed Dreamweaver to take advantage of some third party plugin to make special xml files but upon installing it, it took over all my ASP.NET file types (even though I clicked 'select none' on the pop-up at first start). Anyways does anyone know if there is a quick automated way to restore them to Visual Web Develo...
When I yesterday returned to Visual Web Developer I was no longer able to run/debug my projects. Clicking the green play button launches ASP.NET Development Server (and it shows up in the systray) but the browser only shows the error message "Firefox is not able to connect to localhost:58127" (translated from Swedish). IE7 says "Cannot s...
I recently installed in order: Sql Server 2008 Express Visual Web Developer Express 2008 When I right click on app_data and try to add a db it returns: Connections to SQL Server files (*.mdf) require SQL Server Express 2005 to function properly. Please verify the installation of the component or download from the URL: http://go.micro...
I need to create a ASp.net website with silverlight controls. I am having only express editions of 2008 (Web developer edition and C# express editions). I have created the WPF application sing C# expression and create the new XAML files. Then I have created asp.net website in web developer edition and linked the xaml files with the . ...
Hi, this is a very newbie question, sorry! I need to create an aspx website based con C# and am calling some webservices based on some DLL's I already have. Beforem purchasing Visual Studio, I decided to try Microsoft Visual Web Developer Express (is this ok?) creating a Web Application ASP.NET based on Visual C#. I created the form t...
I can't create New Project on my Visual Web Developer 2008 Express with SP1. (I can only create New Website) My colleague has the exact same version (if you go to Help - About) but they can create both New Website and New Project. I am trying to do this tutorial on MVC that also says that you can do it on Web Developer Express (http://...
When I double click on an mdf file on Visual Web Developer 2008 (NerdDinner.mdf) it says: Connections to SQL Server files (*.mdf) require SQL Server Express 2005 to function properly. Please verify the installation of the component or download from the URL: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=49251 The URL of course points to SQL ...