Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
Just fresh out of the box today, the famous VS gallery now has a CSSCop by Mads – got it? the counterpart to FXCop but this time for your style sheets. CSSCop makes it easy to adhere to best practices for writing stylesheets. It catches common errors that affect browser compatibility and much more. You can think of it as FxCop for stylesheets. Take it for a spin here
If you are having problems as I was with the App_Data folder particularly will publishing content other than databases that are located in that special folder then here is the solution. Although, you may include any ordinary file as part of the project, visual studio does not copy it to the publish folder because it does not know what it is. I created a BinaryTap database – my key value store and saved it into the App_Data and executed a project published command and I noticed the database file itself wasn’t copied. After research here and there, it turns out...
In the old days, we have to manually create custom configuration sections if we want to do cool stuff with app/web.config or simply just put the values in the appSettings section. However, there are a few config options that are out there that most developers don’t know about, a perfect example is the mailSettings config section which allows you to setup your mail settings in your configuration file and simply call the SMTPClient to send an email and by doing so, changing settings can be done on the fly and oh’ if you are worried about security, don’t forget you...
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 is now available for download as BETA. Here is the link:
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