Is there a way to have Visual Web Developer ignore build errors? - visual-web-developer

I'm using MS's VWD to edit some .aspx files in our website (I'm opening it as a website, not a project/solution).
I have some temporary files just for testing and some generate Build errors in VWD 2010.
But VWD won't let me "run" other pages in the website with those Build Errors present.
Is there a way to get it to IGNORE them?

Im using Visual web developer express,
but assume the the settings are the same.
click on TOOLS on the MENUBAR
click on OPTIONS when the TOOLS menu drops down
click on SHOW ALL SETTINGS when the OPTIONS window appears
click on PROJECTS AND SOLUTIONS in the LEFT hand panel
click on BUILD AND RUN in the projects and solutions drop down
in the rigt hand panel, look for the text "On Run, when build or deployment errors occur:"
change it to "PROMPT TO LAUNCH"
click OKAY button to save changes
Voila.

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Live Preview and Debug in Visual Studio Code

I am using Visual Studio Code in Mac to do web programming.
I see we could use shift+cmd+v to launch a preview and cmd+k v to launch a preview in a separate window.
But once we modify code and save it, does anyone know how to reload and update the preview (by shortcut by preference)? Additionally, is it possible to automate the updates?
Moreover, I have opened the Debug panel, once I click on the green button, it lets me Select Environment:
Does anyone know which one I should choose to debug client side HTML+JavaScript programs?
1.) The "Preview" you mention is for Markdown files. Its not supposed to render a proper HTML preview, that's why it doesn't work or refresh. As soon as you use it with Markdown files, it updates / refreshes as you type.
But there are a couple of HTML preview extensions in the marketplace, just search for "HTML Preview" and you should be able to find some.
2.) None of those options in your screenshot, VSCode does not ship with a client side debugger by default.
But you can install Debugger for Chrome which uses Chromes debugging protocol. Detailed instructions on how to use it are in the extensions README.

How to link Eclipse editor window to Eclipse project

I'm running into an issue in Eclipse where the editor pane is not linked to the project in the Package Explorer window. For instance, if I click on a project in the package explorer and then open a Problems window that is set to Configure Contents > uncheck Show all items > set Scope to On any element in same project, it will show any applicable errors or warnings, but as soon as I open one of the class files with an error/warning in it, in the editor pane, the problems list goes blank as the editor pane does not appear to link the active tab to the active project. Simply clicking the Package Explorer window will then repopulate the problems tab until focus goes back to the editor window/tab.
This used to work with older versions of Eclipse, but ever since I updated Eclipse, it no longer does this and I don't recall which version it was that I had been using. I've also downloaded a completely clean copy of Eclipse Luna (latest version) and simply imported the old projects and still the same issue.
Is there any way to change it so the active tab in the editor points to its associated project? It's quite frustrating having to click the Package Explorer window every time I want to look at a list of problems or tasks for a specific project.
Edit: I've narrowed the issue down to minimized windows only and provided an example of the issue below.
Both windows are restricted to "Show issue on project" rather than showing all issues. Notice how the "Tasks" window works as intended while the "Problems" window does not.
Found the issue... sort of. Apparently, if you minimize the problems tab, then try to access it via the minimized icon for the tab, it loses the correct focusing to tell you what the problems are. My previous version was setup in exactly the same way and had no issues, so they must have changed something that broke this. Going to look at submitting this to the Eclipse team, as a bug.

Slim down Eclipse context menus

I have several plugins (Apatana, SVN, Pydev, Zend Debugger, PHP) installed in my Eclipse 3.5.2 (Ubuntu 10.10) installation. The one problem that keeps bugging me since I first used Eclipse years ago is, that each plugin puts new entries into the context menus.
Unfortunately, it seems that the various perspectives are not able to determine, what menu entries are useless. So while programming PHP the menus are full of java and pydev stuff, I really have no use for!
The more plugins are installed the messier the menus get. It seems a bit odd, that such a rich IDE doesn't have support for context sensitive "context" menus ... :-(
My hope is, that somewhere out there on the internet, someone knows how to remove unused menu entries, or even has created a small plugin for that??
Any ideas?
Screenshot: http://i.stack.imgur.com/D9HjN.png
Eclipse provides "capabilities" as a functionality for the plugin developpers to provide a way to the users to disable the features and UI contributions of their plugins. I don't really know if that feature will help in your case (that is : if the plugins contributing the menu entries that bother you have defined the necessary capability to disable them).
If you go to Window > Preferences, then General > Capabilities, you can see a number of "capabilities" categories to enable or disable. I don't recommend disabling the categories themselves (for example "development") as you would disable all of Ant, Java, Python... menus and extension at once. Rather, use the "Advanced..." menu at the bottom of this page to see not only the categories, but also what they contain. There, under "Development", you should be able to disable "java development" (JDT) extensions and menus, "Ant Development" (remember that "Run Ant Tool" button that is visible on all perspectives beside the "Run" button? That would remove it)... You should be able to disable most of the clutter with this.
Note that if the provided capabilities are not sufficient, you can create your own very easily, allowing you to disable even the contributions from other plugins. For this the steps are simple :
Use the File > New > Other... menu item
Select Plug-in Project and name the new project as you desire, click Finish
In the editor that has opened, select the "Extensions" tab
Click Add, untick "Show only extensions points from the required plug-ins"
search for the extension point org.eclipse.ui.activities, select it, and hit Finish
Right click the item org.eclipse.ui.activities on the left and select New > Activity
enter the id of your new activity on the right of the page, for example my.disable.activity.id. Enter a human-readable name below it; for example "disable JDT".
Right click the item org.eclipse.ui.activities on the left and select New > activityPatternBinding.
re-enter your activity Id (my.disable.activity.id) in the "activityId" field, then enter the "pattern" of the contributions you wish to disable. This is a regex. In order to disable all "JDT" (java development) contributions, enter org\.eclipse\.jdt\..*
Right click the item org.eclipse.ui.activities on the left and select New > categoryActivityBinding
re-enter your activity Id (my.disable.activity.id) in the "activityId" field once again; then click Browse... at the right of the "categoryId" field. Double click the org.eclipse.categories.developmentCategory so that it appears in the preference menu for capability enablement.
Now, if you export this plugin (I won't detail the update site creation here, you should be able to adapt the explanation from Stephane Begaudeau's blog), all menus from the JDT will be disabled (I tested this, so I know it at least disables those I checked (the "source" and "refactor" menus from a right-click on a Java file). As you specified a category, you can re-enable these menu items from the capabilities preference page I hinted at in the beginning of this answer.
Not really a solution for your problem, but worth mentioning anyway: Eclipse does support the context sensitive menus, but in a way where the plug-in developer defines the contexts where the menu entries should be displayed.
Unfortunately many developers don't care and say "Make it visible everywhere". The solution then is to complain loudly to them.
Not a complete solution, but more of a workaround. You can install clearlooks compact theme for Ubuntu. It considerably reduces the size of components, even in Eclipse.

how do i "View in browser" a mvc 2 app?

This is probably a pretty simple question, but I don't see how to view in browser like I would for a traditional asp.net application.
If you're using Visual Studio, Ctrl + F5 to run without debugging and Cassini will take care of the rest (or do you mean from inside visual studio like you can with webforms)?
Sadly, it seems that Microsoft has acknowledged this as a bug.
There are a couple workarounds you can try -- though none of them are exactly what you are looking for. None of them let you start your web page from any arbitrary page simply by right-clicking.
One inexact workaround that is good enough for me is:
If you open up your project properties and go to the Web tab you will see the "Start Action" setting. Change this to "Don't open a page. Wait for a request..."
Now when you start debugging, nothing will happen! (oh no, it's worse!)
Now you can right-click on the Cassini system-tray icon and choose to open the browser from there. You only have to do this on your first session of the day. Once you do this, you can navigate to where you want in your site, and keep that browser window open all day. Letting you start and stop debugging from that point whenever you want.
Again, it isn't exactly the same, but it isn't terrible either.
Just run the Visual Studio Project and it should open the application's Index view of home controller by default!
If you are talking about IIS file viewing, in IIS go to your application -> switch to content view -> go to default.aspx -> right click -> choose browse

Developing an Eclipse Plugin and adding a submenu item to navigator

This is my first attempt at an Eclipse plugin- the plugin architecture is vast and a little overwhelming, but I've found a number of tutorials and how-to's online which is helping, but trying to do the following is driving me nuts:
I want to add a submenu item that is available in the navigator context menu when you right click on an Eclipse project.
I can get a submenu to appear on a project file or folder, but absolutely no idea how to have it appear on a project.
Would someone be so kind as to provide me with step by step instructions, starting with creating a new plugin-project? This is probably a lot to ask, but I can't seem to find an online guide that has just the right amount of detail. I specifically want to use the plugin-project wizard rather than hand code a plugin.xml file as I am not very familiar with the Eclipse plugin architecture.
Ok- I got it- it was simple, but I got lost in the noise of the API-
Create a new Plug-in Project using the Plugin-Project Wizard and when the wizard has launched...
1.
On the Plug-in Project page, use anything as the project name and 3.5 as target platform eclipse version
2.
On the Content page, skip ahead and just press next
3.
On the Templates page, select "plug-in with a popup menu" and press next
4.
On the Sample Popup Menu page, you will see that eclipse has prefilled the field
"Target Object's Class" with a value of "org.eclipse.core.resources.IFile".
This means that when your popup menu will only appear when you right-click on a file in
a project. As we want the menu to appear when we right click on a Project when
we are using the Navigator view, simply use "org.eclipse.core.resources.IProject" instead
5.
Finish
You can validate that your pop-up will appear as expected by right-clicking the MF file
and "Run-as" > Eclipse Application
Now to refactor the resulting code to use menuContributions and commands rather than objectContributions and actions :)
I think you have a similar question (menu in the package explorer) here:
Renaming packages in Eclipse (thanks to Rich Seller)
This could be a good start, and is a complete plugin project.
You should look into the Eclipse Common Navigator Framework there are a few tutorials on this side that tell you what to do in detail The Project Explorer is an implementation of the CNF. You should also consider using the Platform Commands to add your commands (and popup menu item) to the popup menu associated with the project explorer. It's somewhat easier to use commands than actions. You should be able to do it with by adding a Command in your plugin extensions. Unfortunately off the top of my head I don't know the right incantation to have the command appear in the project explorer. But you will be able to find it in these resources.