I'm looking for a workaround to allow the IDE of VBA7 (ms-access 2010) to organize multiple code windows in tabs (multi-tab view), like in most modern code editors.
Do anyone of you guys out there knows a settings or a method to achieve this ?
Thanks in advance
Pietro
There is no such option, and you are not the first to request a modernised VBE but, sadly, don't expect it to happen.
Often, I cut and paste between the VBE and Visual Studio Code which has decent add-ins for VB(A) and SQL. Not optimal, but useful in some cases.
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First off, I'm sorry if the title doesn't explain this very well.
I'm looking for an asp.net control that works similarly to the Visual Studio toolbox's auto-hide. In other words, when not needed, it can be "unpinned" and will slide off to the side of the screen. When needed, it can be opened and pinned to stay in place. I'd rather not do it myself using javascript if a (free) control already exists. Does anyone know of such a control? If not, has anyone implemented this type of functionality using a js library with good results? Any pointers?
Thanks in advance.
Edit:
The collapsiblePanel might work, I don't have any experience with it, but it's open source software from CodePlex.
I don't know of any free ASP.Net controls. But if you want to get it working using javascript you can do so with jQuery.
This post on StackOverflow shows how to get the autohide feature working
We use Telerik's RadSplitter. It is exactly what you are looking for.
Unfortunately, it is not free. But it worths checking out since their licensing is very flexible.
Telerik RadSplitter
I am not able to format/align the javascript code using ctrl+K+D in vs 2008. Am i missing some setting?
PLease let me know what should i do inorder to make this happen.
Make sure you have SP1 of VS 2008 installed. Formatting for javascript was added with it.
See this blog post.
the only thing i've come across that stops this from working is when there is an error somewhere in the javascript. seems like a silly answer, but its all i've got.
The menu option is Edit -> Advanced -> Format Document. On my system this is mapped to Ctrl+E, then D.
If that doesn't work, you should check your Errors window for problems with the Javascript code itself.
I wonder whether there is any good WYSIWYG editor when it comes to editing complex HTML pages generated from ASP.NET, PHP, GWT or anything else. I've tried a lot of WYSIWYG tools, but after a certain point I always end up with manually editing the HTML source code or CSS to fix different issues. The editors I've tried are never compatible with the ASP.NET/PHP/etc code I'm writing.
Edit: I have used Visual Studio for a few years to do ASP.NET development. After a while, it always comes to the point where I can't even open the pages and user controls because they rely on so many things which aren't available in debug time.
You're not going to get anything that is perfect. You're almost always going to have to tweak the mark-up by hand at least a little bit.
Your best bet would probably be Adobe Dreamweaver for PHP and Visual Studio (Visual Studio Web Developer Express is free) for ASP.NET.
I love VS, but I'd rather make sweet love to a hedgehog than use the HTML editor. Expression Web does a much better job editing HTML.
Personally I think that Visual Studio is the best for ASP.NET, although Expression Web also seems to be pretty good.
But I personally I think it's the best for you to start writing more code and using the WYSIWYG part less and less.
With Web applications it's all about the way they're displayed in the browser and I think that the browser is the tool which should be used for testing the GUI.
I agree, I have Expression Web right now and it works well. You can move stuff around in design view but will of course, as stated above, have to render the code manually. But it works if you wanna see the changes you have made. I would always of course view it in the browser and not just rely on the design view. Also W3Schools is a great tool.
WYSIWYG editors for complex web site/applications just never measure up IMHO.
The problem comes down to wanting control of the HTML/CSS markup, yet also the flexibility to create a GUI via drag-n-drop. (the 2 are almost polar opposites)
Take a very simple example.
In WYSIWYG mode, I type/create (pretend that World is on the line right after Hello (the Markdown editor forces me to add an extra line break)):
Hello
World
What HTML should the editor create?
Hello<br/>
<b>World</b>
<p>Hello</p>
<p><strong>World</strong></p>
<div>Hello</div>
<div><span style="font-weight:bold;">World</span></div>
<span class="abcNormal">Hello</span>
<br/>
<span class="abcBold">World</span>
(and a zillion more possibilities)
I still think the best thing you can have is an editor/IDE that understands your component/tags and provides auto-completion and code-assist/intellisense - paired up with a very quick deploy option to test changes ASAP in real browser(s)
Take a look at BBCode Editor
http://richtexteditor.com/demo/bbcode.aspx
This example shows a simple BBCode formatter for the Editor.
Is there any tool for Visual Studio 2008 which can reformat ASPX code to make it more presentable (eg insert line breaks, format the lines so they wrap when necessary, etc)?
Thanks
Have you tried hitting Ctrl+K+D? Is this what you're referring to?
http://blogs.msdn.com/markhsch/archive/2008/01/10/visual-studio-tip-autoformat-your-code.aspx
To have Visual Studio fix it all up nice and tidy for you, select the text, hold CTRL and hit K followed by F (CTRL+K-F). What I usually do is do a CTRL-A to select all text then do the CTRL+K-F combo. Voila!
You can also do it from the menu Edit > Advanced > Format Document or toolbar.
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There are actually a number of tools dedicated to code formatting that you might want to take a look at. Visual Studio's formatting capabilities are actually quite limited, and a lot of projects I have worked on use one of these external tools.
Good luck!
This may not be directly related to your issue, but DevExpress has a free product CodeRush Express that will not only help with tidying but has a great interface for refactoring. Here is a link to their demo video. I've used their products for a few years and they really up your productivity.
After 11 years there is still no tool that does it right. All online formatters I found dont cope well with ASP (.NET/Core/Blazor) tags, and VS20xx (even the latest 2022) doesn't deal with tags from custom controls, it formats all, except for sections within custom tags. In my case, 90% of the aspx files.
Some requirements:
Step-by-step debugging & Break Points
View variable values while debugging
IntelliSense (auto-completion). Ideally done with "smarts" so it only shows you the syntactically valid options to complete something. E.g., Textbox. would trigger members of that class (.Text, .BackColor), etc. And then Textbox.BackColor= would trigger a list of valid colors.
Drag'n Drop style GUI design.
I'm not concerned about cost (Ok, over $1K gets a little pricey looking :-)
Step by step debugging with variable view (and often with additional views like stack or global variables etc) is working in some IDEs. FlexBuilder, FDT3 Enterprise (only the enterprise version allows debugging), FlashDevelop (with extra plug-in). You can also try the (free!) Visual Studio plug-in Tofino (Ensemble), so you can debug inside Visual Studio.
But the best implementation for debugging I found in the Eclipse based IDEs. I'm not much impressed with FDT3 at all, so I recommend FlexBuilder for debugging (+profiling) and of course coding of AS and eventually (visual) design for MXML.
You can try FlashDevelop with the FDB plug-in. Many people prefer this free IDE for coding because of the nice code assist (IMHO the best of all known IDEs). Debugging is working with this plug-in but I wouldn't say that is the "most productive". But give it a try, its free!
There are only 2 I know:
Flex Builder
IntelliJ Idea
I was interested in the comments on debugging above. I am one of the developers of the Amethyst Flex/AIR IDE for Visual Studio. We are very keen to have the best Flex debugging available so I would appreciate any feedback to help us achieve this.
The current beta of Amethyst has breakpoints, watch variables, locals, call-stack, step-into/step-out/step-over plus drilldown expansion in the debugging windows or in hovering debug tips in the code editor. There's a small movie showing a few debugging features of Amethyst here:
http://www.sapphiresteel.com/Debugging-Adobe-Flex-Applications
Shortly we will add more features (e.g. tracepoints and conditional breakpoints). But if there are any features we've missed, now would be a good time to tell us ;-)
best wishes
Huw Collingbourne
SapphireSteel Software
I've used them all and I can say without a doubt IntelliJ is the most powerful of them all.
http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/flex_ide.html
It also is the best JS IDE, and unless you are using .NET on the back end it is probably the best IDE for your back end language. These guys really have it going on.
FlashDevelop from FlashDevelop.org is another free editor that appears to be gaining momentum. It's windows-only but seems to be pretty feature rich.
Netbeans also has a plugin called FlexBean. But by now isn't powerful.
How about SapphireSteel Amethyst Personal Edition? It's based on VS.
Quite a few prominent Flex+Flash developers swear by FDT
It's an Eclipse plugin, and it's probably the most expensive Flex development tool out there, but it's very good.
Flex Builder. And BONUS you can get it for FREE if you are a teacher or student.
From the discussion above, below is the list of IDEs for Flex with debugging support
Powerflasher FDT
Amethyst
Adobe Flash Builder
IntelliJ IDEA (Ultimate Edition)
Flash Develop