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#1: Sep 29 '08
Has anyone noticed that if you embed a stylesheet inside an ASCX that the design mode stops displaying anything in Visual Studio 2008? Does this happen to anyone else or is it just me?

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#2: Sep 30 '08

re: ASCX design mode glitches

Its just you ;). Why do you need to embed a stylesheet inside an ASCX?
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#3: Sep 30 '08

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Originally Posted by kenobewan

Its just you ;). Why do you need to embed a stylesheet inside an ASCX?

Because it's easier to debug in design view... I was trying to avoid having to keep skipping back and forth between windows to see what I was doing... so I thought if I embedded a stylesheet right in the ascx file I'd be able to see what I was doing as I was coding...
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#4: Sep 30 '08

re: ASCX design mode glitches

I have had bad luck with the web designer all over.
Half the time it doesn't show the items and the other half that it DOES show them, you cannot select them.
I stay purely in the aspnet source side rather then designer side
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#5: Sep 30 '08

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I have had bad luck with the web designer all over.
Half the time it doesn't show the items and the other half that it DOES show them, you cannot select them.
I stay purely in the aspnet source side rather then designer side

It would be nice if you could see the result of your tinkering without having to keep running the application though... oh well.
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#6: Oct 1 '08

re: ASCX design mode glitches

Just hit F5 in the browser?
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#7: Oct 1 '08

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I've experienced the same problem and just figured that it was a bug in VS.

I rarely use the design mode any more because of it.

I develop directly on IIS (I moved the project into the web application folder that IIS is pointing to)...that way I don't have to keep hitting F5....
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#8: Oct 1 '08

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You don't have to hit F5 in your browser?
How does the browser know to refresh the page?
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#9: Oct 1 '08

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You don't have to hit F5 in your browser?
How does the browser know to refresh the page?

I meant hit F5 to run the web application.

You have to refresh the page if you want to see any changes you made....
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