"Adds" <adds21@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> We have a asp.net application (I'll call it an application rather than a
> web-site as it's designed for intranet use, and links in with our
> "desktop" version of the software) which we've now moved into Visual
> Studio 2005, after it was initially developed using a text editor.
>
> I've got the project working in VS, but have a couple of questions with
> regards to VS which I'm hoping someone will be able to help me with.
>
> I'm finding that, at the moment, VS is actually slowing down my
> development of the app. When I was creating the app with a simple text
> editor, and using the command line version of vbc, I'd develop in on my
> local machine, in a directory which my local copy of IIS pointed to. That
> worked quite well, and I was used to very quickly being able to make a
> change to a file, save it, and refresh the browser to see the changes.
>
> In VS, at the moment, if I make a change to the site, I have to go to the
> build menu, and select "publish site" to see any changes. The application
> contains a large number of aspx, ascx and .vb files, and the process of
> building the site takes sometime.
>
> I know that I can "run" a page by using F5 or Ctrl+F5 within VS (using the
> ASP.net development server), but that doesn't work very well for me for
> the following reasons:
>
> 1) All the pages on the site are protected via form protection in the
> web.config file, which means that if I try to start any page using F5, I
> get redirected to the login page (as I would expect), but when I login to
> the site, I always get a 404 error.
>
> 2) All my pages rely on CSS files, but when viewing a file (eg, the login
> screen, as that's the only one I can see!), it doesn't pick up the CSS
> file, so all my formatting is non-existent.
>
> I was kinda hoping I could simply point my local copy of IIS to the
> directory containing the code, but that's not going to work because the
> bin directory doesn't exist, so all my objects won't be found.
>
> I'm sure this is simply because I'm new to web development using VS
> (although I've done .net mobile development in VS before).
>
> Any help would be appreciated! - Especially the easiest way for me to
> quickly view the complete site without having to publish each time,
>
> Thanks!
> A.
>
>

> server uses a virtual directory, and quite a bit of my code assumes it's in
> the root (eg, I'm referencing my css by "/filename.css").

"Adds" wrote:

> Okay - I've got around that problem - It's because the ASP.net development
> server uses a virtual directory, and quite a bit of my code assumes it's in
> the root (eg, I'm referencing my css by "/filename.css").
>
> The problem is that I have hundreds of ASPX files in tens of directories,
> sometimes many directories deep - Because I knew I was in the root, I could
> previously always do a "/filename.css" without worrying about it, but now I
> need to change them to "../../../filename.css" - The number of "../"'s
> depending on the directory the file is in.
>
> I could create my own basepage, from which all pages inherit, and put some
> code in there which figures out when the file is, and references the css
> file accordingly (eg, adds "x" number of "../" to the href). But that seems
> a little wasteful. Is there a better way of doing it? I guess what I need
> really is an asp.net var which always points to the current virtual
> directory?
>
> A.
>
>
> "Adds" <adds21@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:voPWf.149852$zk4.116092@fe3.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
> > Hello,
> >
> > We have a asp.net application (I'll call it an application rather than a
> > web-site as it's designed for intranet use, and links in with our
> > "desktop" version of the software) which we've now moved into Visual
> > Studio 2005, after it was initially developed using a text editor.
> >
> > I've got the project working in VS, but have a couple of questions with
> > regards to VS which I'm hoping someone will be able to help me with.
> >
> > I'm finding that, at the moment, VS is actually slowing down my
> > development of the app. When I was creating the app with a simple text
> > editor, and using the command line version of vbc, I'd develop in on my
> > local machine, in a directory which my local copy of IIS pointed to. That
> > worked quite well, and I was used to very quickly being able to make a
> > change to a file, save it, and refresh the browser to see the changes.
> >
> > In VS, at the moment, if I make a change to the site, I have to go to the
> > build menu, and select "publish site" to see any changes. The application
> > contains a large number of aspx, ascx and .vb files, and the process of
> > building the site takes sometime.
> >
> > I know that I can "run" a page by using F5 or Ctrl+F5 within VS (using the
> > ASP.net development server), but that doesn't work very well for me for
> > the following reasons:
> >
> > 1) All the pages on the site are protected via form protection in the
> > web.config file, which means that if I try to start any page using F5, I
> > get redirected to the login page (as I would expect), but when I login to
> > the site, I always get a 404 error.
> >
> > 2) All my pages rely on CSS files, but when viewing a file (eg, the login
> > screen, as that's the only one I can see!), it doesn't pick up the CSS
> > file, so all my formatting is non-existent.
> >
> > I was kinda hoping I could simply point my local copy of IIS to the
> > directory containing the code, but that's not going to work because the
> > bin directory doesn't exist, so all my objects won't be found.
> >
> > I'm sure this is simply because I'm new to web development using VS
> > (although I've done .net mobile development in VS before).
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated! - Especially the easiest way for me to
> > quickly view the complete site without having to publish each time,
> >
> > Thanks!
> > A.
> >
> >
>
>