Disappearing Web User Control in Design View
May 14, 2008 by Jason Bean
Filed under Computers
My boss experienced an weird problem with his installation of Visual Web Developer Express 2008.
When he tried to view a web user control page in the design mode the application only displayed a blank white page. If he clicked on the “Source” view, all the code was there that was expected. Combing through the code didn’t produce anything that should have resulted in the error of things not loading.
It turns out the error was due to confusion on web user controls that also reference a CSS stylesheet. The rendering engine kind of gets choked on what’s going on. Jeff …read more
