Aptana - how to browse remote site? - aptana

I've recently upgraded to Aptana 3.6.0.201407100658 and the connection icons have disappeared from all my projects - this has happened on both my Mac and my Windows 7 PC, so I assume it is intentional.
I sued to use this feature extensively for browsing remote sites or editing files directly by FTP. What is the replacement, or how do I get this back?

I came here looking for the answer myself, but then I figured it out.
If you go to Window->Show View you'll see the option "Remote"
That worked for me.

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About an hour ago my VS2010 stopped serving style sheets for both web projects in a solution. A hard refresh (Ctrl F5) brings the sheets back, but when I navigate to the next page, I have no style sheet again.
I've restarted my machine, cleaned and rebuilt the solution, stopped and started the dev server(s) several times, and hit the F5 key extra specially hard several times, none of which seem to have helped. I have not changed any settings, so presume this is some sort of bug.
Is this common, anyone else had to fix this or have any ideas?
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Solved. This was caused a gzip http module in the application. Simple fix, I'll leave the question here for myself or anyone else that runs into the same issue.
Found the problem using Fiddler http debugger.

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Special thanks to John Dundon at Microsoft for helping me resolve the issue. Here's what he said:
Thanks for all the details. This actually sounds like a quirky behavior
in VS that I think I can help you work
around.
I believe the reason it’s remembering
to use the local development server is
because it got stored in the SUO file.
So there are two possible ways to fix
this:
Re-open your solution from source control as an administrator on the
machine with IIS installed and
everything should get downloaded to
its right place
If you close VS, delete the SUO file (note – this will erase some
settings about the state of your
solution but shouldn’t cause any real
data loss), and then re-open the
solution, it should ask you to
re-download that particular web site
and will try to make it an IIS web
site again.
Note however though that since your
virtual directory already exists on
your machine, it’s going to ask you if
you want to use it – I’m assuming you
do, but it will overwrite any files
when it does.
Let me know if this works for you (and
while you technically shouldn’t need
to, it may be a good idea to back up
any work you’ve done in this
enlistment that hasn’t been checked in
prior to trying this).
I followed his advice and removed my SUO file and re-opened the solution. The website was automatically fixed as http://localhost/Website and it also checked out the .SLN file as well, and when I checked it in, it fixed the issue for other developers as well. Hope this solution helps out others as well with this quirky issue.
Look in the project properties, on the Web tab. You'll be able to select whether to use IIS or the development server, and which virtual directory to use.

Why does Visual Studio 2005/2008 keep 'forgetting' to color code and format?

Does any else have a problem where when using VS2005 or VS2008, it suddenly 'forgets' to color code and format the text for you? All of a sudden it acts like its a plain old notepad editor. Sometimes if I save and re-open the file, or else re-start Visual studio altogether, it suddenly 'remembers'. I thought maybe this was because of a bad install on my machine, but recently upgraded to a new one, brand new fresh install with all service packs - and we are right back to the erratic behaviour....
Is this a known problem? Is there a workaround (i.e. a key combo I can hit to tell it to do its thing?)
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At the same time, I would lose intellisense, This was happening because the files I was adding were not getting marked as "Compile" in the file properties -> build option.
I never found the cause (assumed it was overburdening the solution) but I found that it would stay fixed for longer if I deleted the SUO file periodically (it was getting into the 1MB range).
Since coming to a new company, new PC, etc, I have not had this problem but then again I'm not working on as large of a web project.
I use C# in VS2008, and haven't had any problems. Maybe this is VB.NET related?
I used to see the problem with "Web Sites". I have since changed most of my projects to "Web Applications" and haven't seen the issue in a while.
I had a similar issue with VS 2003. I use VS 2008 right now and this doesn't happen anymore.

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