Saturday, 28 April 2007

Losing intellisense in your content pages?

When using master pages in ASP.NET, visual studio 2005 often gets confused and loses its ability to display intellisense in your content pages. IE: Within your asp:Content tags, if you type asp: you won't get any intellisense for the standard asp controls.

There's a simple work around for this and that's to ensure you have your master page file open in a tab in the editor. If it's open, you'll get the intellisense back in your content page.

I'm sure this will be fixed in a later release, but until then, the above should suffice.