Tip #76: Did you know… How to hide a non-visual control in your designer?

Some times as you are building your web page, you may want to hide all the non-visual controls like Timer control so that the page looks close to how it would be rendered on your browser.

Our Designer can toggle between displaying and not displaying Non-visual controls using

 Ctrl+Shift+N

Display ASP.NET Non-visual controls turned on:

With Visual Aids turned on

Display ASP.NET Non-visual controls turned off:

NoControls

This option is also present under View menu.

View->Visual Aids –>ASP.NET Non-visual controls as shown below…

Menu

Enjoy!

Reshmi Mangalore

SDET| Visual Web Developer

Comments

  • Anonymous
    June 09, 2009
    Some times as you are building your web page, you may want to hide all the non-visual controls like Timer

  • Anonymous
    June 09, 2009
    I didn't notice this before. In my style, the timer and other controls are in another form which is too small to pay attention to. ;)

  • Anonymous
    June 10, 2009
    Playing around quite a bit with jQuery while re-learning JavaScript. It's easy to see why people fall in love with it. WCF/WF Breaking All The Rules with WCF - Scott Hanselman reminds us that true Interop is hard even using WCF Metadata Client Behaviors

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    June 10, 2009
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