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Microsoft Visual Studio Express is a set of freeware integrated development environments (IDE) developed by Microsoft as a lightweight version of the Microsoft Visual Studio. Express editions were conceived beginning with Visual Studio 2005. The idea of Express editions is to provide streamlined, easy-to-use and easy-to-learn IDEs for hobbyists and students, rather than professional software developers.

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Visual Web Developer Express offers

  • A rich editor that allows you to work with HTML and CSS in source view, design view or both using split-view
  • Powerful debugging support for ASP.NET, C#, VB as well as JavaScript
  • Support for application frameworks like ASP.NET MVC, AJAX, Silverlight and third party libraries like jQuery
  • Built-in support for FTP-based Web deployment and database deployment
  • Intellisense features such as syntax highlighting and auto-completion that help improve productivity
  • Ability to test your Web applications instantly with the integrated Web server or IIS

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How to give asp:Localize the localized text?

My ASP.NET page has some html: Default.aspx:

Now i want to localize that text. So i've created a resource file Default.aspx.resx. Following the examples of…
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NUnit debugging with VWD 2008 Express

How can I do this? Is it even possible? I only see online tutorials for setting up debugging with NUnit for non express versions or for visual studio. I have setup NUnit, I just can't seem to debug with it.
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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…
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VWD 2008 Express : where can i set absolute positioning as a default?

So when I used Visual Web Developer 2005 Express edition, in the ribbon there was a menu option for "Layout", which you could go through and select positioning and set absolute to default. I am using Visual Web Developer 2008 Express now, and I see…
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VWD 2013 - Outlining JavaScript object literals

I am making a website in Visual Studio Web Developer Express 2013, and I have a JavaScript object literal. It looks something like this: var myObj = { a: function(x) {...}, b: function(x) {...}, c: function(x) {...}, } Visual Studio's…
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How do/can designers work with ASP.NET

On most projects I've been one, designers has produced HTML code, then developers turned it into ASP.NET, including master-pages etc that should really be a part of design. After it has become ASP.NET, designers could not work on the code with their…
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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 (How do I add NUnit as a test framework option for ASP.NET MVC to Visual Web Developer 2008 Express?) but it…
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ObjectDataSource and null parameters

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:
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Setting Focus on a TextBox

I have a small ASP.net web app for sales, when the "Make New Sale" page loads, I want the TextBox for the Barcode to be in focus, so that the user doesn't have to navigate to it and click it then enter the Barcode, how can I do that? PS: I am using…
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Can't set default project language with Visual Web Developer 2008 Express

This seems like a very basic feature to me. I can't seem to set C# as the default programming language for Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition. I've searched and searched and found nothing useful. Any ideas? The reason why MVC is tagged is…
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ASP.NET @MasterType Directive Not Working

Using VWD 2008 Express and C#. I created some web pages without using a master page. Later decided I wanted to use a master page so I thought I would do a test page first. Created the master page, then Add New Item (TestMstr.aspx) and Select…
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Visual Web Developer html button onclick event didn't fire

Below is my code: default.aspx: <%@ Page Title="Home Page" Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/Site.master" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Default.aspx.cs" …
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Publishing as Pre-Compiled ASP.net-MVC Website with VWD Express Edition

Is there a way to pre-compile websites with VWD Express ? Can I use ASP.NET Merge tool or similar utility ? and is there any limitation to options (can I choose whatever options like in VS Pro edition)
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Visual Web Developer to access DB with password

I am using Visual Web Developer Express 2010. It is running on Server 2003 with ASP.NET 4. As I add my GridView and choose my DataSource (which is a password protected MDB file) it connects just fine. It does ask me for the password twice throughout…
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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…
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