Can I use Visual Web Studio Express from Microsoft and create web pages that will run on Apache servers?
I mean without the "code behind" stuff, just plain CMS website?
I'm still on VS2008 Pro, but I assume it's the same on VS2010 Express. Just open a plain html file (can be empty) or create a new one. You don't have to create a project or solution to edit it. You should be able to use preview pane, code pane, the css property tools, etc.
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I was trying to use CoffeeScript on VisualStudio Express 2013 for WEB and when i create the file and build the solution wasnt it suppose to create the js files on the folder?
I tried to click on "Show All Files" to see if the file was there but wasnt.
Any ideas?
There are two extensions for Visual tudio:
http://vswebessentials.com/features/coffeescript
OR
Mindscape, a tool and component developer out of New Zealand, has a free extension for Visual Studio 2012 (as well as 2010 and 2013) called Web Workbench that enables editing of CoffeeScript files right inside Visual Studio (as well as Sass and Less files). Just create a new .coffee file, edit away and, when you click "Save," the accompanying JavaScript file is generated and saved as well. http://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2013/10/01/top-7-reasons-to-love-coffeescript.aspx
I want to generate Local Resources in Visual Studio Express 2012. Following are the steps given in a book to do it.
Open your webpage (markup) in Visual Studio.
From the Tools menu select Generate Local Resource. This causes Visual Studio to perform the following tasks:
Create the App_LocalResources folder (if necessary).
Generate an XML-based local resource file for the webpage in the App_LocalResources folder. This file contains resource settings for page elements (such as the title) and control properties (such as Text, ToolTip, Title, Caption, and other string-based properties).
However, when I try this with VS 2012 web express I can't see Generate local resource option under tools.
How to fix this issue? Can't we do this with VS Express?
I have recently started to use Web Expression 4. I was under the impression that you can open CSPROJ / SLN in Expression web 4.
When i click File Open I can see both the SLN and the CSPROJ ... but if i choose either it autoamtically loads visual studio 2010.
I thought you could open both??
I want to use expression web 4 for designing my html pages that are in my VS 2010 project.
But of course i want to open the project so i can see all my CSS files and create new ones etc..
Any ideas what i am doing wrong?
The folder list (on the left) in expression web 4 is empty.
The only thing you could in your Expression Web are the ASP.NET web pages (.aspx) and the like.
According to Jim Chesire:
A solution file is simply a "pointer"
to your content. Expression Web has no
understanding of solution files. When
you open the site in Expression Web,
you need to open the location of your
content, not the location of the
solution file.
Which version of Visual Studio Express should I use to develop an HTA application that will script Word and Excel and connect to a web service?
Should I download the web edition because hta files are like web pages, or should I download one of the others because hta files work on the local machine? Or is there another IDE I can use?
SharePoint Designer 2007 which is now free to use. FrontPage 2003 if you already have it. I feel that FrontPage/SharePoint HTML editing is awesome, especially the VBA support during design-time editing. When you want to view the HTML Application, just press F12.
Visual Web Developer Express will also work well. Note that Visual Studio 2008 versions use "SharePoint Designer 2007" as the HTML editor. Even though Visual Studio uses the same HTML editor, the editor user-interface is much better in SharePoint Designer 2007 or FrontPage 2003.
To debug see the below reference.
Debugging VBScript and JScript in vbs, js, wsf and hta files at http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/maikkoster/archive/2009/03/25/debugging-vbscript-and-jscript-in-vbs-js-wsf-and-hta-files.aspx
Microsoft Visual Studio: Editing HTA files with VS2005 - debugging at http://msdn.itags.org/visual-studio/30906/, but use the Stop (VBScript) or stop; (JScript) statements instead of a message box statement.
HTML Applications at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536471.aspx.
Extreme Makeover: Wrap Your Scripts Up in a GUI Interface at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee692768.aspx
HTML Applications (HTAs) provide a way for you to wrap your scripts up in a graphical user interface, an interface replete with check boxes, radio buttons, drop-down lists and all those other Windows elements you’ve grown to love. In this article, the first of a multi-part series, we’ll introduce the basics behind creating your very own HTA.
HTA Helpomatic at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=231D8143-F21B-4707-B583-AE7B9152E6D9&displaylang=en
Utility to help script writers create HTML Applications (HTAs).
Consider the feature in Visual Studio 2010 for snippets in the HTML Source view of a web page.
type a control name in plaintext with no markup or brackets!
... e.g. hyperlink.
Then hit Tab
Your web control has been auto-completed for you. It's up to you to fill in the other details that you need.
This works for form as well:
<form action="default.aspx" method="post">
</form>
This looks like a real time saver. This is supported in WebForms and ASP.NET MVC projects.
What other snippets are available in Visual Studio 2010 in the Source view of a page?
For the authoritative list of snippets, check out the VS2010 installation folders where the snippets are stored:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Web\Snippets\HTML\1033
There is one folder for ASP.NET and one for plain HTML snippets.
Also, if you use jQuery a lot, there is a set of jQuery snippets that you can add to Visual Studio as well.
Here are a ton (100's) of the short cuts in Visual Studio right from MSDN:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/da5kh0wa.aspx
The one thing that has been around forever but a lot of people forget about is block selection done by holding down the ALT key and use the mouse to select a block of text. Great when you want to copy/cut/delete a bunch of code that is lined up but you don't want the whole line.
Yeah, this is a really cool new set of snippets in VS2010. Here are the articles I used to learn it:
Walkthrough: Using HTML
Snippets
Using HTML Code Snippets in Visual
Studio 2010