Here’s a simple but maybe not so obvious tip. In Visual Studio 2010 the HTML Designer is not enabled by default. This can easily be re-enabled by knowing where to go in your Visual Studio Options. Simply go into Tools > Options > HTML Designer and check “Enable HTML designer”. That’s it! After that restart Visual Studio and you’re good…
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Visual Studio 2010 Code Metrics Viewer
What is Code Metrics Viewer? – Matthias Friedrich highlights his Visual Studio 2010 Code Metrics Viewer extension which plugs into VS 2010 Professional and uses the Code Metrics Power Tool to provide code metrics information to the IDE. Matthias is blogging a number of posts on this project blog which look at the various features of the viewer and I…
Continue Reading→The Microsoft Kinect SDK has arrived!
The official Microsoft Kinect SDK beta is now out and available for download! Covered by Channel Nine Live Media, Microsoft Scientist Anoop Gupta made the announcement himself that after the long wait, users may now go to the official SDK website to download the latest software development kit for the Kinect camera. Here are the features that will come with the Kinect…
Continue Reading→Visual Studio 2010 Web Standards Update adds HTML5 and CSS3 support
Yay!! Microsoft has released a Web Standards Update for Visual Studio 2010 that adds full support for HTML5, CSS3 and new Javascript features like Geolocation and local storage. Scott Hanselman has a good write-up on this update in this blog post. There you can see some more detail about what exactly it brings to the VS.NET IDE, etc. Or, if…
Continue Reading→Easily Disable JavaScript Debugging in Visual Studio 2008
Visual Studio 2008 is not without its faults. They did however add some nice features in the 2008 release such as JavaScript debugging. This feature is great when you need it, but can drastically slow down your debugging experience if you don’t need it or use quite a few “script heavy” controls like Telerik Radcontrols. So after dealing with this…
Continue Reading→JavaScript Reporting Services ReportViewer control error fix
I have been going back and forth banging my head against a wall trying to fix a JavaScript error that was happening on my Reporting Services ReportViewer control when the View Report button is clicked. The error was a JavaScript error and seemed to be related to using something AJAX related on the same page as the ReportViewer control, but…
Continue Reading→Testing email when working with no SMTP server
Happy New Year! While this tip isn’t my own, it still seems as though it will be very helpful. I know that I do a lot of development locally where I don’t have an SMTP server setup. This tip, courtsey of .NET Tip of the Day, really will eliminate that problem and allow you to work with email without the…
Continue Reading→How to enable IntelliSense in .skin files in Visual Studio 2005
A co-worker of mine shared this with me recently. It was one of the biggest annoyances in Visual Studio 2005 if you ask me! How to enable IntelliSense in .skin files IntelliSence everywhere! That’s one of the biggest features in new Visual Studio .NET 2005 (VS 2005). But guess what, it doesn’t work out of the box in .skin file …
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