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2011 3

  1. Tip #110 Did you know … How to referencing root project’s master page’s properties from sub project’s content page?
  2. Tip #109 Did you know … How to speed up build time by *only* building the currently selected project in a multi-project solution?
  3. Tip #108 Did you know … How to improve reference efficiency in JavaScript files inside a web project?

2010 8

  1. Tip #107 Did you know … How to improve debugging performance for MVC2 application in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate?
  2. Tip #106 Did you know … How to solve the errors when aspnetdb.mdf is created dynamically with IIS?
  3. Tip #105: Did you know … How to include empty directory when package a web application?
  4. Tip #104: Did you know … How to view text for the ‘hint’ buttons on the Publish Web Dialog?
  5. Tip #103 revisited
  6. Tip #103: Adding the New Website and Open Website buttons to the VS2010 Start Page
  7. Tip#102: Did you know… How to specify tag specific formatting
  8. Tip#101: Did you know… How to scope Theme

2009 60

  1. Tip#100: Did you know… How to view ASP.NET trace information?
  2. Tip#99: Did you know… You can now install new Media and Developer Tools products with Web PI v2 RTW?
  3. Tip#98: Did you know… The default Application Pool Identity in IIS 7.5 (Windows 7) changed from NetworkService to AppPoolIdentity?
  4. Tip#97: Did you know… How to Display Hidden Information in Design View
  5. Tip#96: Did you know…You could publish your SQL databases using the SQL Publishing Wizard?
  6. Tip #95: Did you know… That Web Application Projects and Class libraries are now available in Express edition?
  7. Tip #94: Did you know … How to improve the performance of PHP application on Windows?
  8. Tip #93: Did you know … PHP and Custom Error Pages configuration?
  9. Tip #92: Did you know … How to select a master page using 'Select a Master Page' dialog?
  10. Tip #91: Did you know … How to automate FTP 7.5 installation and site creation?
  11. Tip #90: Did you know … How to rearrange menu items in Visual Web Developer?
  12. Tip #89: Did you know…You could customize Toolbars in Visual Web Developer?
  13. Tip #88: Did you know… To not stress your server, limit the number of concurrent requests
  14. Tip #87: Did you know… How to reuse a web page by converting into an ASP.NET User Control?
  15. Tip #86: Did you know… Visual Studio has several different search options?
  16. Tip#85: Did you know… You can now do Multiple Selection of controls in your Designer with VS 2008 SP1?
  17. Tip #84: Did you know… How to set a Start page for your Web Site in Visual Web Developer?
  18. Tip #83: Did you know... You can get the name of the calling method from the stack using reflection?
  19. Tip #82: Did you know... How to migrate Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Project to Visual Studio 2008
  20. Tip #81: Did you know... How to Select the CSS Schema for Intellisense and CSS Properties?
  21. Tip #80: Did you know… How to show JScript validation errors as warnings?
  22. Tip #79: Did you know… How to quickly comment and uncomment in your web pages?
  23. Tip# 78: Did you know… How to navigate using Document Outline?
  24. Tip# 77: Did you know… How to enable Page Level Tracing for your ASP.NET pages?
  25. Tip #76: Did you know… How to hide a non-visual control in your designer?
  26. Tip #75: Did you know…How to maintain scrollposition after post back?
  27. Tip #74: Did you know…How to Add and Remove AJAX Extenders in Visual Studio 2008 Designer?
  28. Tip #73: Did you know... about IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit Beta
  29. Tip #72: Did you know... you can now manage Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 from Windows 7
  30. Tip #71: Did you know... there are several new configuration settings available in FastCGI Extension 1.5 Beta
  31. Tip #70: Did you know… how to install win7 RC IIS through command script?
  32. Tip #69: Did you know…The keyboard shortcut for View in Browser?
  33. Tip #68 Did you know… How simple it is to attach an existing style sheet to your web page?
  34. Tip #67: Did you know the list of ASP.Net MVC shortcuts?
  35. Tip#66: Did you know... how to insert quotes values automatically while typing the attrib values?
  36. Tip#65: Did you know...How to quickly create a GridView that is hooked up to a SQL table?
  37. Tip#64:Did you know … How to convert a GridView column from asp:BoundField to asp:TemplateField in Design View?
  38. Tip#63: Did you know…How to specify a fixed port for Visual Studio Development Server while using WAPs?
  39. Tip#62: Did you know… How to add Ajax Control Toolkit to the toolbox?
  40. Tip #61: Did you know… How to create an ASP.Net Dynamic Data Web Site?
  41. Tip #60: Did you know… How to Profile an ASP.Net site?
  42. Tip #59: Did you know…How you can automatically format unformatted HTML on paste in VS?
  43. Tip #58: Did you know…How you can import/ export HTML Per Tag options in VS?
  44. Tip#57: Did you know… How to manage web site configuration through a web interface
  45. Tip#56: Did you know… How to update JScript Intellisense manually
  46. Tip #55: Did you know...How to change Start-Up Options and Instances of ASP.Net Development Server in a Multi-project Solution
  47. Tip #54: Did you know…How you can turn off intellisense for HTML/ CSS editors
  48. Tip # 53: Did you know... How to edit the templates for gridview in VS designer?
  49. Tip # 52: Did you know... When deploying your ASP.NET web application, debug=false should be set in web.config
  50. Tip #51 Did you know… how to use VS2005 to debug with IE8?
  51. Tip #50: Did you know…How to absolute position the controls in Visual Studio Designer?
  52. Tip #49 Did you know… how to set the editor to always place open braces on new line for functions in JScript?
  53. Tip #48 Did you know… that IIS7 application pool’s “Ping” settings may affect IIS7 based website or application debugging?
  54. Tip #47 Did you know… that front page script remote debugging requires turning off IE’s Enhanced Security Configuration in windows 2003 and windows 2008?
  55. Tip #46: Did you know… that Web Deployment “migrate” operation is “sync” operation with all migration rules enabled?
  56. Tip #45: Did you know…How to change the DynamicData folder location?
  57. Tip #44: Did you know…How to view the Project File while still in Visual Studio?
  58. Tip #43: Did you know... The way you register your IHttpModule depends on the request processing pipeline in which your module will run?
  59. Tip #42: Did you know... ConfigurationEditor allows you to generate C#, JavaScript or AppCmd script to update configuration?
  60. Tip #41: Did you know... establishing a remote connection to a IIS server with self-issued certificate will require a certificate validation delegate?

2008 40

  1. Tip #40: Did you know…How to scope master pages?
  2. Tip #39: Did you know… How to cancel a remote web operation in Visual Studio 2008?
  3. Tip #38: Did you know... How to use Failed Request Tracing to trace Rewrite Rules?
  4. Tip #37: Did you know…How to organize usings?
  5. Tip #36: Did you know... How to manage pilot or beta program for your site using Application Request Routing in IIS7.0?
  6. Tip #35: Did you know…How to add Intellisense from script libraries for JS files?
  7. Tip #34: Did you know... How to stop hot-linking from your site using URL Rewrite in IIS 7.0?
  8. Tip #33: Did you know… How to create Nested Master Pages using VS 2008?
  9. Tip #32: Did you know... How to easily create your own project templates?
  10. Tip #31: Did you know... How to have user friendly URL using IIS 7.0 URL Rewrite module?
  11. Tip # 30: Did you know... Ajax Extender controls UI behaves differently in VS 2008 than in VS 2005
  12. Tip #29: Did you know… How to enable Edit and Continue feature for Web Application Projects?
  13. Tip #28 Did you know… That “Go to definition” is supported for CSS Class?
  14. Tip#27: Did you know... The Microsoft Web Platform Installer RC release supports Windows XP as well as Windows Server 2003
  15. Tip #26: Did you know... How to have C# and VB.NET files inside your App_Code directory?
  16. Tip#25: Did you know... You can have canonical URLs and Redirects with IIS 7.0
  17. Tip #24: Did you know…You could display CSS/HTML errors as warnings or as errors?
  18. Tip #23: Did you know…How to launch Formatting options dialog for editor with 2 clicks?
  19. Tip #22: Did you know…How to improve performance of Page and Server Control Processing?
  20. Tip #21: Did you know...How to set a fixed port for the Developer Web Server?
  21. Tip #20: Did you know… How to change WAP to use an IIS Web server?
  22. Tip #19: Did you know…How to set the default view to Design view?
  23. Tip #18: Did you know…How to absolute position controls on copy paste or drag drop from Toolbox?
  24. Tip #17: Did you know... How to remote debug WAPs that are using IIS?
  25. Tip #16: Did you know… How to change the default format settings for CSS Editor?
  26. Tip #15: Did you know... How to use tracing with ASP.NET Ajax?
  27. Tip #14: Did you know…How to enable debugging of your Web Site?
  28. Tip #13: Did you know... How to get the browser agent using ASP.NET Ajax ?
  29. Tip #12: Did you know..How to create an IIS Virtual Directory from within Visual Web Developer?
  30. Tip #11 Did you know… New Style builder can be invoked from various other tool windows in Visual Web Developer.
  31. Tip #10 Did you know… Visual Web Developer 2008 has a New Style Builder Dialog?
  32. Tip #9 Did you know … You can also register your ASP.NET Web User Controls in Web.config?
  33. Tip #8 Did you know … How to create an ASP.NET Web User Control and include it in your web page?
  34. Tip #7 Did you know… How to Sort data using a ListView control?
  35. Tip #6 Did you know…About the “Tag Navigator” feature?
  36. Tip #5 Did you know… How to Databind a ListView control?
  37. Tip #4 Did you know… You can add browsers to Visual Web Developer using the “Browse With…” option
  38. Tip #3 Did you know… Split View could be set vertically in VS 2008
  39. Tip #2 Did you know...The Style Application Toolbar works in both Auto and Manual modes?
  40. Did You Know… Tip #1 – Powerful CSS Tools to Create, Manage and Apply Styles