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CHANGING VISUAL STUDIO DEFAULT SETTINGS FOR ASP.NET
Part one of a five-part series of blogs
Visual Studio is a great tool for developing websites using ASP.NET - it can be made even greater by tweaking some default settings. Use this blog to change the default start-up options, assign a navigate backward key, insert attribute quote marks and open pages in HTML view by default.
- Visual Studio - default settings to change for ASP.NET (this article)
- Changing Visual Studio Start-Up Options
- Opening Visual Studio pages in HTML view by default
- Inserting Attribute Quote Marks Automatically
- Creating a Navigate Backward Key
Visual Studio - default settings to change for ASP.NET
At Wise Owl we do our ASP.NET website development using Visual Studio 2010, but there are a few settings we always change when we install it. I thought it might be useful to list these in one place!
The settings are:
| Setting | Notes |
|---|---|
| Start-up options | When I load Visual Studio I don't want to see a Microsoft news group, but I do want to see the project I've just been working on. |
| Changing default format for pages | I spend most of my time editing web pages in HTML view, so it's annoying that they open by default in design view. |
| Quotation marks | By default, Visual Studio doesn't surround attributes with quotation marks in HTML view, even though it's so obviously what you would want. |
| Navigation keys | The F12 key takes you to the definition of a word, but we find it useful for the SHIFT + F12 key to take you back. |
The rest of this blog shows you how to change the default settings shown above. One thing to watch out for:
All of the changes to default settings in this blog use the Tools -> Options dialog box.
When using this, make sure you have the tick box to Show all settings selected (as shown here, slightly covered by the Wise Owl watermark), otherwise you won't see much!
Even though the diagrams shown are for Visual Studio 2010, the menu options and dialog boxes are similar for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008.
CHANGING VISUAL STUDIO DEFAULT SETTINGS FOR ASP.NET
Part one of a five-part series of blogs
Visual Studio is a great tool for developing websites using ASP.NET - it can be made even greater by tweaking some default settings. Use this blog to change the default start-up options, assign a navigate backward key, insert attribute quote marks and open pages in HTML view by default.
- Visual Studio - default settings to change for ASP.NET (this article)
- Changing Visual Studio Start-Up Options
- Opening Visual Studio pages in HTML view by default
- Inserting Attribute Quote Marks Automatically
- Creating a Navigate Backward Key
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