Working with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET

Follow these steps to open an Iron Speed Designer-generated application in Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003:

Step 1: In Visual Studio .NET 2003 select File, Open, Project to display the Open Project dialog.

Step 2: Select an application folder from the Open Project dialog and click Open button.

Step 3: Select the .CSPROJ or .VBPROJ file and click the Open button.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005

Follow these steps to open an Iron Speed Designer-generated application in Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2005:

Step 1: In Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, select File, Open, Web Site...

Step 2: Select an application folder and click Open button.

Iron Speed Designer does not create a .SLN file (“solution” file), because Visual Studio .NET automatically creates one if you open any Visual Studio project file.

Note: Visual Studio 2005 does not use project files, so Iron Speed Designer does not generate them for Visual Studio 2005 (.NET Framework 2.0) applications. To open a generated application in Visual Studio 2005, open it as a "web project".

The web controls in the application classes contain special .NET meta-tags in their code to enable this integration with Visual Studio .NET. You need take no special action to use these controls. These controls are already used in the web pages generated by Iron Speed Designer, so the web pages may be opened directly in Visual Studio .NET.

...\<App Folder>\CompileApplication.rsp

CompileApplication.rsp may contain the “optionstrict” tag. To enable strict mode, change this setting to:

/optionstrict+

To disable strict mode, change the setting to:

/optionstrict-

Note: Visual Studio .NET requires an application resident on the local machine for debugging purposes.

Step 1: Open your application in Visual Studio .NET.

Step 2: In Microsoft Visual Studio, select Build, Configuration Manager. This displays the Configuration Manager dialog.

Step 3: Select a <New...> Active Solution Configuration.

Step 4: Give it a name such as "Debug", and click "OK".

Visual Basic .NET applications

In the Solution Explorer, right-click the solution’s name and select Properties. Then, select the Configuration Properties and the Build option in this group. You will notice a check box titled ‘Generate Debugging Information’ in the panel to the right. Make sure you check this control.

C# applications

In the Solution Explorer, right-click the solution’s name and select Properties. Select the Configuration Properties and the Build option in this group. You will notice a property titled ‘Generate Debugging Information’ in the panel to the right. Make sure the value for this property is set to ‘True’

Step 5: Click the "Close" button in Configuration Manager. Notice that the project can now be compiled in "Debug" mode via Visual Studio .NET.

Step 6: Change your application’s Web.config file for debugging mode:

<compilation defaultLanguage="c#" debug="true" />

or

<compilation defaultLanguage="vb" debug="true" />

Set compilation debug="true" to insert debugging symbols (.pdb information) into the compiled page. Because this creates a larger file that executes more slowly, you should set this value to true only when debugging and to false at all other times. For more information, refer to the documentation about debugging ASP.NET files.

Note: For faster performance, we recommend your application be compiled in Release mode.

Mr. Fisher was a General Partner at Outlook Ventures, Inc., a venture capital company prior to co-founding Iron Speed, Inc. He co-founded Onsale, Inc. (now part of Amazon) and was its Chief Technology Officer from July 1994 to December 1999. He also co-founded and was President of Software Partners, Inc, a developer and publisher of software products from August 1988 to July 1994. From April 1984 to August 1988, Mr. Fisher served as Technical Marketing Manager and Product Development Manager for Teknowledge, Inc., a developer of artificial intelligence software products. From June 1981 to April 1984, he served as a member of the technical staff for AT&T Bell Laboratories.

Mr. Fisher has served on the boards of several publicly traded companies including Onsale, Inc. (NASDAQ:ONSL), an Internet auction retailer; Egghead.com (NASDAQ:EGGS), an Internet retailer of computers and software; FatBrain, Inc. (NASDAQ:FATB), an Internet retailer of technical and professional books; and Infodata Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:INFD), an e-business consulting services company.

Mr. Fisher received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri and received his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.