Let’s say you still use VB.Net. Also, for some reason you notice that your ‘Me’ keyword no longer works (not recognized by intellisense) and that your application startup subroutines errors out and says “Event ‘Startup’ cannot be found”. It sounds really catastrophic, but for me, it wasn’t that big a deal. In the Application button […]

In this, I’m using VS.Net 2013. As you know, you can easily debug with VS, but did you know you can debug your Javascript/JQuery also? In the image below, see that all you need to do is add the line: debugger; (red arrow) This will start debugging in your script. Just comment it out or […]

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I can’t tell you how many times I’ve opened up Visual Studio and, during debugging, I’ve gotten an error referring to a particular line number, only to realize I didn’t have line numbers turned on. Then I have to scramble to remember just where it is to be able to do it. Just go to […]

I wanted to change the .Net Framework of my C# Windows app. Every site I went to to find out where to change said to right click on the project to get the properties page. Then, I would be able to change it in the ‘Target Framework’ dropdown. I never could see that dropdown.

Here are some really cool features in Visual Studio 2013 that I particularly like: Built in Shortcuts Surround with — Ctrl-K Ctrl-S – this surrounds highlighted text with whatever you choose. The first menu shows ASP.Net, ASP.Net MVC4, and HTML. Choose any one of those items and it gives you the appropriate list of items […]

Recently, I had a problem that only occurred when I debugged my application through Visual Studio. One and only one (out of dozens) of variables became ‘stuck’, if you will. I always got the error message that the variable was undefined. The error remained even when I completely removed the variable and named it something […]

Let’s say you’re adding some newer CSS changes to your site and for some reason, they work fine in Chrome or Firefox, but not showing up like they should in IE10.

if you’re running Visual Studio (for me, it was 2010), and you start debugging your ASP.Net site, and you get the error in the subject line (with your specifics where the dots are), it can be a harrowing experience trying to find the solution.

I just saw a demo on the Page Inspector inside Visual Studio 2012. This is amazing. When you get a chance check it out. Just right click on the page and view in Page Inspector. You get an ‘F12 Tools’-like interface in which you can check and change CSS and find out whether it’s in […]