visual-web-developer

(IIS) 7 Configuration - Visual Web Developer

I develop small web base .asp applications that basically store and display data from a backend MsAccess database. The application websites are developed and tested on my local machine (the finished work eventually gets published to a company web server) . To run the development web server on my XP machine I did not load any additional s...

Testing input fields not available for web service in Visual Web Developer Express

I have a web service that I am trying to test in Visual Web Developer Express Edition (Service Pack 1). I am working with two different websites on two different branches from an SVN repository but largely the same code. The web services are the same code but there are some code differences for other features. My problem is that when ...

VWD 2008 Adding reference to a public class

Problems started after upgrading from VWD2005 to VWD2008. In VWD2008 the App_Code does not exist any more. How can i add a reference to a class that existed in the App_Code directory of VWD2005? ...

Use currently logged-in user in query

I am using VisualWebDeveloperExpress2008 with Access as the membership provider. I have some cases where I want users to edit their own data. This would involve a query where the UserId should equal the UserID of the user who is using the site. I am expecting to use WHERE UserId = ?, but I have not found out where to direct "?". The ...

looking for free source safe for visual web developer express 2008

Hi, I am using visual web developer express 2008 for one of my personal projects. I am looking for a source safe or similar product that is free and that can integrate with visual web developer 2008. Please let me know if you know any products. Thanks, sridhar. ...

PHP syntax highlighting in Visual Web Developer?

I recently installed PHP 5 on IIS, however, I am unable to find a PHP syntax highlighting plug-in or extension for VWD. Where can I find a plug-in? I thought there was an official one. ...

Is it possible to add HTML5 validation to Visual Studio?

I'm working on a page using <canvas>, which is a HTML5 tag, in Visual Web Developer Express Edition 2008, and the validator in the HTML editor is telling me it's an invalid tag. That's because it's set to validate against XHTML 1.0 Transitional. I'd prefer for it to not do that and tell me what's valid or invalid based on the HTML5 docty...

Customizing the cassini webserver

Currently the local webserver exectutes at http://localhost:51377 Is there any option of customizing the web server in order executing under http://192.168.1.2:51377 (where 192.168.1.2 is my static intranet ip address) ...

Modifying SQL Database on Shared Hosting

I have a live database on a shared hosting server. I am making some major changes to my site's code and I would like to fix some stupid mistakes I made in initially designing the database. These changes involve altering the size of a large number of fields, and enforcing referential integrity between tables properly. I would like to make...

JavaScript method to write to Microsoft Visual Web Developer Debugger?

I generally test my web apps with Firefox and use Firebug. I love Firebug. But when I'm testing JavaScript code in IE I use the debugger in Microsoft's Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition. I would love to have an equivalent to Firebug's console.log methods which would allow me to log messages to Visual Web Developer. Any way to log...

Twitterizer dll

Hi, I am using Visual Web Developer and trying to use Twitterizer. I have downloaded and extracted the framework and created a reference within my project. When I run the project, the projet tells me that it cannot find TwitterRequest.cs. It appears to be looking for it on an invalid path. I don't know how to change this file path. I ha...

Select a Master Page in Web Developer Express

The dialog box for adding a web form to a web project in Visual Studio has a checkbox to 'Select Master Page'. This checkbox doesn't exist in the Web Developer Express Edition. Is there a simple alternative to attach a Master Page while adding a new web form in the Express Version? ...

How to add multiple projects in one solution in VS2008 Web Devloper Express?

Hi I been using VS2008 Pro for a long time now but since of licensing issues(Pro is under academic license) and the current project I am doing could be considered as commerial I decided to give VS2008 Express a go. Now I made my project and a shell of all my pages. I went to add a class library to my solution so I can start adding my n...

Visual Web Developer - jQuery Intellisense not showing

Hi, I'm trying to follow this tutorial - http://www.dotnetcurry.com/ShowArticle.aspx?ID=231&amp;AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1 I have both the vsdoc file and the main jQuery script files in the same folder, and when I include the jquery file, I get no intellisense when I start typing $(, but I do get intellisense when I include the jque...

Set the development server to serve from a subdir in Visual Web Developer Express 2008

I have been messing with this for a while now and cannot get it to work. I have a directory called "wwwroot" in the root of my project. When i start the debugserver from within the IDE it serves pages from my root dir and I have to click the "wwwroot" directory link. I want "wwwroot" to be available under http://localhost:1134/projectNa...

Making a stylesheet(.css) file apply to my MasterPage in Visual Web Developer 2008.

How can I do this? <head runat="server"> <title></title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="default.css" type="text/css"> <asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="head" runat="server"> </asp:ContentPlaceHolder> My CSS file is called default.css and it's located in the App_Themes folder > Default > default.css Any help? :( ...

Can you edit resx files with Visual Web Developer?

Simple question, but I am not allowed to install this program at work to test it out. Does it work just like Visual Studio for editing resx files? ...

Visual Web Developer Document Formatting is not working

Hi Everyone, When I am trying to format the document with CTRL+K,CTRL+D it says The Operation could not be completed. The parameter is incorrect. How can I solve this problem ? Thanks in advance. Sincerely. ...

Visual Web Developer - Child page preview with Login View on Master Page

I have the following problem: I run Visual Web Developer 2008. I have one Master Page and few child pages. On the Master Page I have Login View control, as below: <asp:LoginView ID="LoginView1" runat="server"> <LoggedInTemplate> <asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="ContentPlaceHolder1" runat="server"> </as...

How to turn on Break on All Exceptions in Visual Web Developer Express

In Visual Web Developer Express, how do I turn on Break on All Exceptions? I'm looking for the Debug > Exceptions menu item but not finding it, not even if I try to customize the menu. This page on MSDN suggests that it ought to be possible. ...