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Help, Visual Studio 2008 filled my profile...

Having recently installed VWDExpress 2008 SP1 on my work machine I find I'm having a problem with the amout of space it uses in: [profile]\Application Data\Microsoft\VWDExpress\9.0 Profile space is restricted by company policy. Does anyone know how to make VS use a different file location? ...

Using ASP.NET MVC From Visual Web Developer Express 2008

I was wondering if there's a way (even a manual one) to setup an ASP.NET MVC project with unit tests under Visual Web Developer Express 2008 SP1. ...

How do I configure extensionless URLs with the Visual Web Development server?

I'm using Visual Studios' built-in ASP.NET Development Server (VWD) to test my web site during development. I would like this ASP.NET web site to use extensionless URLs (pages don't require the aspx extension). Ordinarily I would configure a custom 404 in IIS that directs to an ASPX page. How would I do this with VWD? P.S. This is no...

How do I use ASP.NET MVC RC with Visual Studio Web Developer 2008 SP1?

When I go to File > New Website there isn't a template for MVC. I googled "how to use MVC with vwd?" and these links came up http://geekswithblogs.net/jwhitehorn/archive/2007/12/10/117569.aspx http://jerusahat.wordpress.com/2007/12/12/aspnet-mvc-template-for-visual-web-developer-2008-express/ http://www.lazycoder.com/weblog/2007/12/10/...

System.Web.Routing missing in Visual Web Developer

I have installed Visual Web Developer 2008, the .net framework 3.5 but when i try to include System.Web.Routing intellisense can't find it and if i type it by hand it says it does not exist.. any suggestions? ...

localhost lookup fails, browser tries www.localhost.com instead

I used to run web applications all the time on my laptop, no problems, I am using VWD 2008 Express, i have the latest framework, Windows Vista Home Basic...etc.. Now, when ever i try to run a website, or even chose to Show a Page in Browser from Within VWD, the browser (both IE and Firefox) keeps looking for www.localhost.com... I tried...

How do I add NUnit as a test framework option for ASP.NET MVC to Visual Web Developer 2008 Express?

According to Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0, page 8, "If you are using VS 2008 Standard Edition or Visual Web Developer 2008 Express you will need to download and install the NUnit, MBUnit or XUnit extensions for ASP.NET MVC in order for [the Create Unit Test Project] dialog to be shown." Is there such an extension available to download f...

displaying a table's field in a textbox

I have a table and I want to select a field in it and then display it in a text box something like: SELECT userName FROM userTable WHERE (userLogged = 'ON') how can I display the selected username in a textbox? BTW the userLogged indicates wether the user is logged in or not if the user is logged in then the userLogged will be chan...

ASP.NET MVC, MonoDevelop and Windows

According to Miguel de Icaza posts (here and here) and Lluis Sanchez Gual post (here and here) MonoDevelop for Windows will be ready soon. Personally I'm very interesed in using MonoDevelop under Windows for developing open source projects for ASP.NET MVC. Yes, it's better to work in MonoDevelop under Linux but for many reasons I can not...

How to edit and continue in Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition and ASP.NET MVC?

I've enabled Enable Edit and Continue on the Web Properties page and it's also enabled in my configuration, yet Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition refuses to allow me to edit source files of an ASP.NET MVC project. I can edit the aspx file with no problem though. Any ideas what's wrong or what's missing? ...

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. ...

MySQL T4 Templates Error: Metadata file 'MySql.Data' could not be found

D:\Web\CityV2\App_Code\ActiveRecord.tt(0,0) : error CS0006: Compiling transformation: Metadata file 'MySql.Data' could not be found Let me start by saying I'm using VWD 2008 Express. These are the steps I've taken so far: Created an entirely new project Added references for Subsonic.Core.dll and MySql.Data.dll Copied Active Record te...

Possible to change Visual Web Dev without stop/start recompiling whilst debugging?

Hi -- This may be a stupid question, but I'll feel stupider if I don't ask and find out in 12 months that it was possible (this happened when I realized I could do what I'm requesting below with .aspx files). Is it possible to change my project files (c# classes, which predominate in an asp.net mvc environment) without recompiling whil...

Visual Web Developer Web site Assembly name

How can I find/set the Assembly Name for Web Site created in Visual Web Developer? Actually I am trying out NHibernate with Visual Web Developer Web site. In the .hbm.xml (mapping file) contains a attribute called Assembly where we need to specify the Assembly Name of the Project containing the entity class. Where can I find the assemb...

How to exclude web.config when publishing with Visual Web Developer Express?

When using the project publish feature in Visual Web Developer Express Edition 2008. How can you exclude publishing the web.config so that it doesn't overwrite the server web.config? I've tried setting the following in the web.config, which works for any other files ending .config but not the web.config for some reason. <buildProviders...

Compile error using SubSonic ActiveRecord templates in Visual Web Developer Express

Thanks to ranomore I was able to get the Subsonic T4 code generation to work in Visual Web Developer Express for my ASP.Net MVC project, however only using the LinqTemplates. When I use the ActiveRecord templates with the same settings my project does generate files, but the code doesn't compile anymore... Any ideas? ...

Edit VWD Default MVC project template configuration

I'd love to add <MvcBuildViews>true</MvcBuildViews> to the default MVC Project config. It's required if you wanna to find Errors in views at compile errors http://devermind.com/linq/aspnet-mvc-tip-turn-on-compile-time-view-checking/ ...

Why do ActionLinks not show up in the design view?

Is there any reason why ActionLinks aren't rendered by the VWD 2008 design view? ...

ObjectDataSource and null parameters

Hi everybody, I'm using Visual Web Developer 2008 EE using a Dataset (.xsd) to develop an invoicing application and i'm having trouble creating a custom search query. I have an ObjectDataSource that expects 4 ControlParameters, like so: <asp:ObjectDataSource ID="odsInvoices" runat="server" SelectMethod="getInvoices" TypeName="bllInvoic...

Visual Web Developer 2010 and Nunit.

How would I integrate NUnit with VWD 2010 to create a MVC test project when I create a new project? I tried the procedure I did for 2008 (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/666941/how-do-i-add-nunit-as-a-test-framework-option-for-asp-net-mvc-to-visual-web-devel) but it will not bring a dialog box to create the unit test project. ...