After seeing a lot of things in the internet I haven't found any explanation between the two file types: .mdf and .sdf. .sdf would be a compact version of SQL Server (.mdf) I believe. Still they a...

I've enabled Enable Edit and Continue on the Web Properties page and it's also enabled in my configuration, yet Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition refuses to allow me to edit source files of...

I recently installed PHP 5 on IIS, however, I am unable to find a PHP syntax highlighting plug-in or extension for VWD. Where can I find a plug-in? I thought there was an official one.

This is a follow up question of Where is that file on my system? Tons of questions and answers all over SO and the internet but I can't find any that gives an answer to this specific question. Al...

Am trying to learn ASP.NET MVC and search the internet in and out including SO. A lot of questions and answers about |DataDirectory| as where and how. When debugging the site breaks: "The model b...

s it possible to create an "Empty Solution" with Visual Web Developer 2010 Express? It looks to me like that was possible to do so with VWD 2008 SP1 Express. Anything to configure to get an empty ...

According to Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0, page 8, "If you are using VS 2008 Standard Edition or Visual Web Developer 2008 Express you will need to download and install the NUnit, MBUnit or XUnit e...

I used to run web applications all the time on my laptop, no problems, I am using VWD 2008 Express, i have the latest framework, Windows Vista Home Basic...etc.. Now, when ever i try to run a websi...

I was wondering if there's a way (even a manual one) to setup an ASP.NET MVC project with unit tests under Visual Web Developer Express 2008 SP1.

When using the project publish feature in Visual Web Developer Express Edition 2008. How can you exclude publishing the web.config so that it doesn't overwrite the server web.config? I've tried se...