Hello!

I'm trying to continue an existing ASP .NET website, and I've reached quite a frustrating difficulty... I edit the CSS (just changed the colors of Message Boxes and Buttons, for debugging purposes), and see that it doesn't take immediate effect. Once, after reopening Visual Studio 2008, I saw the new colors were applied, but I can't change them again just by reopening VS again... Closing the browser makes no difference either.

I checked the .css links insides the .aspx markup and they all seem to be okay.

How can we apply the changes done to a .css, immediately?

Thanks!

Note: I haven't purchased a wrox ASP book yet... will do so very soon however!

mmm.. probably you are debugging the app. and you never stop it and restart the debugging?

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Thank you gbianchi for your quick reply :) I tried both "restart" and "stop" and "play"... It didn't work...

However, I think I just found the solution... The default browser was defined as Firefox, so that was where it was debugging... I typed the same url (localhost...) in IE, where it seems to run fine, with the current .css... (As long as "stop" and "play" is used instead of "restart"!) Not to mention the application is much faster in IE!

Don't quite understand why (besides IE and VS both being Microsoft), but it's working now :)

Did you tried a force refresh on firefox?? that could be the problem.

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Yes i have had this problem. Gonzalo is right, you probably need to do a force refresh, sometimes on the actual css file. I found this bookmarklet is useful, just stick in in your bookmarks toolbar and whack it when you need to refresh the css on a page:
http://dmachi.dojotoolkit.org/recss.html

Thanks! I didn't know about "force refresh"... That browsers didn't reload modified css or xml fies with recent changes... Ctrl+F5 does the trick in fact!

[The ReCSS seems to be quite nice, however I seem not to be able to use it, neither by refreshing the ReCSS url, nor by clicking on the link with the JScript... Weird, since more users can. Possibly some browser definition against executing scripts... Well, happy to see my css editing being applied now =) ]

That's never happened to me in VS yet, but happened to me all the time when I was making sites with Dreamweaver. I didn't know about the ctrl + F5 to force a refresh, but I'd clear out my cache and it'd work. I like the force refresh method much better though.