visual-web-developer

Can't view Visual Web Developer Websites when copy to web server

Hi, As far as I can work out I should be able to copy a web project/application to my IIS Web server and be able to see it as I do when designing it on my development computer. The problem is once I copy the folder over to my web server and then try to view it the browser it says Error 404 not found. There must be a real simple fix for...

Visual Web Developer Express command line doesn't seem to work

Visual Web Developer Express command line doesn't seem to work According to vwdexpress help, I should be able to do this: vwdexpress solutionfile.sln /build [ solutionconfig ] [ /project projectnameorfile [ /projectconfig name ] ] So in my solution, I have a solution file like so mysolution.sln. This has sub-folders containing subproj...

Setting up Membership/Login using Visual Web Developer & ASP.NET

Hey All, I'm following this tutorial: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-au/library/879kf95c.aspx And there seems to be a lot of information missing. It doesn't tell me how to upload the database to my server etc. I remember following this tutorial last year, and ran into numerous propblems, and a google search revealed THOUSANDS of people ...

What is the purpose of the vwd.webinfo file in an ASP.Net Website Project?

I have an ASP.Net 2.0 web project, which is setup is a Web Site (a file system web site I believe, though not sure). One file that keeps changing very often, ot it's own, is the vwd.webinfo file. It is located in the root folder of the project, and this is what it looks like: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><VisualWebDeveloper> ...

Visual Web Developer - Breakpoint Symbol Error

Hey guys, Running VWD 2010 Express and trying to debug my file. Getting the error: The breakpoint will not currently be hit. No symbols are loaded for this document. Can't manage to fix it! Any ideas? Thanks ...

Data source name not found and no default driver specified

The Error ERROR [IM002] [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no default driver specified The Story I've written a page outside of Visual Web Developer 2010 that uses a SqlDataSource object along with a FormView object that works perfect. Building upon those awesome skills I obtained I started to build a ...

Visual Web Developer Express 2010 doesn't save changes made to contents of Ajax Toolkit Tab Container in design view

When editing the contents of an AJAX Control Toolkit Tab Container in VWD Express 2010: Sometimes the changes are saved ok, sometimes extremely slowly & sometimes not at all. A "page changed" asterisk in the name tab of the page appears briefly, but then disappears again. Does anyone know anything about this, please? Thanks! Vlad ...

How to trigger "Markup Validation" in Visual Web Developer 2010

After turning on the Error List, the MS Visual Web Developer 2010 can report warning/error in the panel automatically. However, I would like to know what I can do to trigger this validation manually rather than wait for a unpredictable period until the application starts to check. ...

Silverlight designer unhandled exception

When I create a new Silverlight Application (C# if that matters) using Silverlight 4 (with or without WCF RIA Services Checked) and open the MainPage.xaml in the designer I receive an Unhandled Exception has occurred. Stack is below. This is on an unmodified project. I have uninstalled all Silverlight and reinstalled the tools listed...

What I can expect from Visual web Developer 2010, a free tool ?

Hi, Just wanted to know that does Visual web Developer 2010 [Free tool] contains MVC framework? I want to learn asp.net MVC, this is the reason why I wanted to know that if Visual web Developer 2010 conatins asp.net MVC I can practice it their or is there anything new I can learn from Visual web Developer 2010 ? Might be you will see ...

How to change language of visual web developer 2010 express from german to english

Because all error messages are in german and google doesnt help me to find solutions for german error messages I want to change the language of visual web developer to english. This shouldnt be too hard, but I just cant find a way to configurate the language. Google didnt help me either. I would very much appreciate some help. ...

Visual Web Developer 2010 - Intellisense will not display vb suggestions.

Recently installed Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2010. On .vb pages that I've added to the project, Intellisense will not display after spacing nor dot notation. I've verified that the following have both been checked: Tools->Options->Text Editor->Basic->General->Auto List Members Tools->Options->Text Editor->Basic->General->Paramete...

Stop building application when error occurs

I want to stop building the application in visual web developer 2008 when a compilation error occurs. Can anybody help me out? ...

When Creating a New website with VWD on HTTP location Front Page Extensions Login uses my PC domain

I'm Trying to create a new website with VWD 2008 using an HTTP Location. Frontpage Extensions are properly installed but when VWD prompts the login window it places my PC Domain before the username (GERRYSPC\FrontpageUsername_fp) I'm not able to remove the domain and VWD will keep prompting this window. How do I login??? Thanks ...

Visual Web Developer 2010 - VB.Net xml comment shortcut

Hi, Hopefully a question with a very quick and simple answer; In previous versions of Visual Studio and Visual Web Developer I've been able to type 3 apostrophe's (i.e ''') on the line before a function that results in the auto generated comment like: ''' <summary> ''' </summary> ''' <param name="sender"></param> ''' <param nam...

Visual Web Developer Express 2010 - Validation - XHTML 1.0 Strict?

I normally use the w3.org validation tool anyway, but I'm curious to why there is no XHTML 1.0 Strict option in VWD Express 2010? It only has: Internet Explorer 6.0 HTML 4.01 XHTML 1.0 Transitional XHTML 1.0 Frameset XHTML 1.1 Any theories? ...

Asking for good ASP.NET MVC 2 resources

Hi, since it's trivial that Rails crawls on Windows, I'm going to try and play with MS's ASP.NET MVC 2, any recommendation for the resources that I should be reading (ebooks/books are preferred, but tutorial websites are fine too) ? By the way my programming skills is beginner - intermediate. Thanks a lot guys. ...

Visual Web Developer - Timeout expired always on one line of code, **only** when the web server is first started up

Hey, I have a model-view-controller based web application. When the application starts up, I first call a clearup stored procedure. This basically removes any rows from the database which are now irrelevant. For example if the company had deleted a category but I had missed out the line to delete all products within this category, this ...

How to change target of Asp.net mvc Project in Visual Web Developer Express

I want to use DataContractJsonSerializ class inside my Asp.net MVC Application. To be able to use it I found out that Im supposed to target a different the .NET 4.0 Framework. But how can I change the target? ...

.dbo and .mdf in Visual Web Developer - some kind of mixup

I am really confused about the .dbo schema thing. Here is my issue: I have a website I'm building in VWD and I connected it to a database that I built in SQL Server Management Studio. The website works to pull up items from the database. However, I made changes to the database and they didn't show up in the website. I looked in the Datab...