Creating a new Project - The process of creating new files and projects within Visual Studio 2005 is different from the process using Visual Studio 2003. In the latest release of Visual Studio 2005 the focus on project based application is gone. Now projects are created in a page-based manner. This means that when you first create the application, the only items created for you by the IDE are the project folder and a single .aspx file.
Making References to Other Objects- when you look at the Solution explorer of your ASP.NET application,notice that the References and Web References folders are not present. You can add them using following ways.
Smart Tags
Saving and Importing Visual Studio 2005 Settings - Visual Studio 2005 allows you for a tremendous number of customizations and modifications to the development environment. To save your settings Tools -> Import Export Settings. From this wizard you can save your settings to a file that can be used elsewhere or you can import settings that are stored in the same type of file. The file has .vssettings extension.
Validating your HTML – accessibility validation.
Reaching out to a Community- The Community section adds a new menu bar item in Visual Studio 2005.THe section allows you to reach beyond your local computer. The available options for this menu included the following:
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Ask a question
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Send feedback
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Check question status
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Developer Center
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Codezone Community
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Community Search
Working with Snippets – Visual Studio 2005 now includes a rather large collection of code snippets for you to freely use within your code. Snippets are little peace of code that perform a specific task.
To insert a snippet in your code, right click on code window and select Code Snippets.
You can manage snippets through Tools -> Code Snippets Manager. You can add/remove snippets used by Visual Studio 2005. Visual Studio includes my snippets folder in which you can place your own snippets. Snippet is a single .snippet file you can find the .snippet file at c:\program files\Microsoft visual stdio 8\vb\snippet\1033.
From this location you can add your own categories,but you have to sure to add this new folder to the sinppetindex.xml file found at the same location in order for your folder to be recognize by Visual Studio 2005.
In ASP.NET 2.0, there are several of directories under your project that have special significance. They are:
App_Code
The App_code folder is a container for class files and WSDL and XSD documents. All files contained within this folder are automatically compiled during runtime
App_Data
The App_Data folder is used to contain database files as well as XML and schema files
App_LocalResources
The App_LocalResources folder stores the resource files generated by Visual Studio to be used for implicit localization.
App_GlobalResources
The App_GlobalResources folder is used to store resource files required for globalization. Note that the resource files(.resx) placed in this folder are automatically exposed via the Resource class, providing intelligence statement completion for the resource contained within.
App_Themes
The App_Themes folder stores themes and skins files
App_Browsers
The App_Browsers folder is used to store browser files for supporting different types of clients.
App_webReferences
The App_webReferences folder stores .wsdl and .discomap files of web service.
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