Questions tagged [vwdexpress]

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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Where is that file on my system?

Am trying to learn ASP.NET MVC and search the internet in and out including SO. A lot of questions and answers about |DataDirectory| as where and how. When debugging the site breaks: "The model backing the 'ASPNETDBContext' context has changed since…
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Call a web service from a web service using VWD

I want to have a web service developed in a solution in visual web developer, call another web service in the same solution, and I found that I am able to add the web reference by "searching in the solution" however I am concerned that it may not…
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Possible to change Visual Web Dev without stop/start recompiling whilst debugging?

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#…
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VWD 2010 Express won't use default browser

VWD 2010E (on Win7) always uses IE9 no matter what the system default browser is. I've tried making both Chrome and FireFox the default browser, it works with Word for instance, but VWD 2010E always uses IE9. It was working properly in the past…
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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…
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VWD 2010 express in Windows 7 design mode problems

So far I was using VWD 2010 express quite smoothly on Windows XP. Now I have got a new laptop - with Windows 7 64 bit. Yesterday I installed VWD 2010 express. I transfered all my data to the new laptop. When I open an existing project, it opened…
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C# functions in common class not recognized in code-behind

Converting vb web project to c# using vwd express 2010. Development system is a 64bit windows 7. I have a commonly used function declared in an external cs file. Contents of file "clsCommon.cs" = using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using…
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Can I use VWD 2010 and TFS client if so how?

I have TFS server, and I have a remote team that will work off it, the problem is that they don't have VS license they user VWD 2010, how do i share source with them? I don't want to abandon the TFS but I cannot ask them to buy licenses for a small…
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VWD Express 2010 CommandType

I just converted a website from Foxpro to asp.Net with VB. I'm now trying to convert to C# and maybe try a few new techniques. I've not used parameters with datareader before - I found some code that looks similar to what I want to do; however,…
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Debugging vb.net execution of database function call to remote sql server

Working in VWD 2010 Express I have an aspx.vb file with the following connection string: Protected Function getPasswordLength() As Integer Dim conn As New SqlConnection("Data Source=localhost;database=MyDB;Integrated Security=true") …
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Fixing "name does not exist in the current context" errors in Web Developer Express

The name lblorder does not exist in the current context label code behind string test = lblorder.Text; I hate this error. Once in a while it just pops up and I know that it…
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Visual Web Developer 2010 Express - limitations on accessing remote databases?

I'm using Visual Web Developer 2010 Express on my laptop to run some ASP.Net which is trying to access an Oracle database on another machine. I've having some difficulties executing ... SqlConnection myConnectionTest = new SqlConnection(s); ...…
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Intellisense stops working in VWD 2010

I'm working with VWD2010 and as stated in the topic title I have zero intellisense usability for my project. I installed VWD2010 fresh a few months ago to start and noticed that intellisense wasn't working. For the last three months I was working…
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How can I update the schema of a production database in a VWD solution without overwriting data?

I have a data driven website (SQL Express auto-attached mdf file) that was built as a local site in Visual Web Developer 2010 Express, then deployed to a production server. The site is stored locally and checked into SVN for version control. …
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VWD 2010 express asking for registration key

I downloaded Visula Studio 2010 express offline images which includes VWD,C#,VB express and installed but after 30 days it's asking me for registration key (need to register the product). Problem is I don't have internet connection and I don't see…
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