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Search and Navigation Tips/Tricks with Visual Studio

Editor — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:24:57 +0000

This is the twenty-seventh in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. Today’s blog post continues on from the Debugging Tips post I did last week, and covers some useful searching and navigation tips/tricks you can take advantage of within Visual Studio. These tips were ones that my friend Scott Cate (who has blogged dozens of great VS tips and tricks here ) recently recommended to me as good tips that most developers using Visual Studio don’t seem to know about (even though most have been in the product for awhile). Hopefully this post will help you discover them if you aren’t already taking advantage of them. They are all easy to learn, and can help save you a bunch of time. Ctrl + i – Incremental…(read more)

Debugging Tips with Visual Studio 2010

Editor — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 04:48:46 +0000

This is the twenty-sixth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. Today’s blog post covers some useful debugging tips that you can use with Visual Studio. My friend Scott Cate (who has blogged dozens of great VS tips and tricks here ) recently highlighted these to me as good tips that most developers using Visual Studio don’t seem to know about (even though most have been in the product for awhile). Hopefully this post will help you discover them if you aren’t already taking advantage of them. They are all easy to learn, and can help save you a bunch of time. Run to Cursor (Ctrl + F10) Often I see people debugging applications by hitting a breakpoint early in their application, and then repeatedly…(read more)

Tip #104: Did you know … How to view text for the ‘hint’ buttons on the Publish Web Dialog?

Editor — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:00:00 +0000

After the Beta 2 release of Visual Studio 2010, the Publish Web Dialog was modified to include two information buttons associated with the Service URL and Site/application text boxes. (See Figure 1) Figure 1 – New information (‘hint’) buttons (see circled…(read more)

Tip/Trick: Fix Common SEO Problems Using the URL Rewrite Extension

Editor — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:55:39 +0000

Search engine optimization (SEO) is important for any publically facing web-site. A large % of traffic to sites now comes directly from search engines, and improving your site’s search relevancy will lead to more users visiting your site from search engine queries. This can directly or indirectly increase the money you make through your site. This blog post covers how you can use the free Microsoft URL Rewrite Extension to fix a bunch of common SEO problems that your site might have. It takes less than 15 minutes (and no code changes) to apply 4 simple URL Rewrite rules to your site, and in doing so cause search engines to drive more visitors and traffic to your site. The techniques below work equally well with both ASP…(read more)

Tip#102: Did you know… How to specify tag specific formatting

Editor — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:22:22 +0000

Let’s see this with an example. I have the following html code on my page. Now if I format the document by selecting Edit –> Format document (or Ctrl K, Ctrl D) The document becomes I want the content inside td should remain on the same line…(read more)

Tip#101: Did you know… How to scope Theme

Editor — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:22:00 +0000

Themes are a way to define properties of pages and controls, and can be used to provide consistent look across pages. There are several different levels of applying a theme to an individual control, a page, or an application. Control Level Define a named…(read more)

Tip#100: Did you know… How to view ASP.NET trace information?

Editor — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:24:00 +0000

You can enable ASP.NET tracing either at an Application level or at a page level; see Tip# 77: Did you know… How to enable Page Level Tracing for your ASP.NET pages? for more information. With the tracing enabled, you can view the trace output in a trace…(read more)