I took our existing ASP.NET web site, which was not developed using Visual Studio, and tried to work on it with Visual Studio.  What I discovered is that the way the developer implemented the site each individual file is not valid HTML unless the server side includes are processed.  So VS can't bring up the page designer for the pages (since it finds so many errors in the file representing the page).  I've looked around for a way to tell VS to deal with the #includes (e.g., something like "Validate in context of server-side includes") without any luck.  Is there a way to do this?

 

To validate #include, you must declare #define preprocessor directive. After these variable is declared, check for its existence by using #ifdef or #ifndef directive. For example,

// File1.cpp
#ifndef FILE1
#define FILE1
// your codes here...
#endif

//MainFile.cpp
#include File1.cpp
// your codes here...
#ifdef FILE1
      // codes for file1.cpp here
#else
      // codes here if file1.cpp is not included
#endif

If you mean <!-- #include foo.aspx -->, this syntax is not supported in the VS designer, sorry. Designer only shows design time HTML, it does not actually run any server or client code. Hence anything that requires files to be combined at runtime won't work in the designer. Only basic editing in Source view is provided.

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Thanks

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