You have probably seen post in our team blog on how to repair VS 2008 after upgrading from Office 2007 to Office 2010. It provides good explanation on what exactly happens. The issue is specific to upgrading 32-bit Office on 64-bit OS. Note that VS 2008...

Have you ever wanted to extend HTML editor Source view or perhaps modify some of the existing functionality? Perhaps you always wanted to write an add-in or a simple feature youself but lack of extensibility support (or lack of information on it) prevented...

It has been heavily snowing for more than a week. I cleaned my driveway four times already, each time removing a foot of snow - good excercise :-). However, our street was only plowed once :-( so one really needs a high clearance car to get out. It is...

Both VS 2005 and VS 2008 downloads are available here http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=15541

Пакет обновления 1 (SP1) Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (установщик) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=ru&FamilyID=fbee1648-7106-44a7-9649-6d9f6d58056e This is a coordinated release with Russian for SQL, MSDN, and the...

Some folks asked why VS 2008 and VWD Express 2008 do not have "live" spell checking like Expression Web or SharePoint Designer 2007? Designer is shared with Expression Web and hence code must be there, right? Correct. But there are licensing issues. Office...

I have been posting in our team blog primarily. Maybe I should have cross posted, but I didn't. I will probably continue posting major articles on the team blog and redirect my blog to more technical subjects. Meanwhile, I hope you discovered that spell...

Just in case you want to uninstall VS 2008 SP1 Beta, please remember that Web designer is a separate product so you may have to uninstall its update manually in Control Panel. Look for "Update for WebDesigner 2007 (KB945140)" and uninstall it after uninstalling...

Since VS is sharing HTML designer with Expression Web, many videos available for Expression Web may also be useful for Visual Studio users. LearnExpression is a great site with many videos on designer tools and page layout: http://www.learnexpression...

Several people reported issues when toolbox, validation and/or server code intellisense do not work reliably on some machines. Turned our that the issue is related to wireless mouse driver broadcasting messages and preventing Visual Studio IDE from processing...

As you probably know, Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer Express 2008 include designer that is shared with Expression Web. See my earlier post on this. Both Expression Web and VS are using same base code, but each team adds unique functionality...

I have found that a few people could not install Visual Web Developer 2008 or Visual Studio 2008 because Microsoft Web Authoring Component setup was failing on their machine. In order to diagnose the problem it is necessary to look into SetupExe(...)...

Design view in Visual Studio and Visual Web Developer Express 2008 provides several tools that help with absolute and relative positioning of controls. I'd like to describe how do they work and what kind of visual hints the designer provides. How do...

Now, this is a creative way of using C++ colorizer to colorize PHP in VS 2008 :-) It won't work in VWD Express though since it employs C++ editor as PHP colorizer.

This article is obsoltete. Please look here for newer version http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2008/11/29/spell-checker-update-2-2-full-support-for-vs-2008-sp1-simpler-setup-and-a-few-bug-fixes.aspx Bug fixes: <param>Text</param>...

A few users asker how to select language for spell checking in the code comments. Egil Hansen (see comments to http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2007/12/13/spell-checker-for-html-asp-net-jscript-vb-c-css-and-c-for-visual-studio-2005-and-2008.aspx#comments...

A few users discovered that design view in VS 2008 and Visual Web Developer Express 2008 may get broken when Office 2000 is installed. See, for example, http://forums.asp.net/p/1194475/2061103.aspx#2061103 and http://forums.asp.net/t/1191630.aspx . Actually...

If after setup Spell Checker does not appear in the Tools menu, try the following Try installing add-in as administrator. Setup needs to register COM components so it needs access to Local Machine registry key. You may want to save MSI file to disk...

Following Visual Studio 2008 release I updated my Spell Shecker add-in so it works with VS 2008 as well as added some new functionality. So here is version 2.0, updated for VS 2005 and now available for VS 2008. Usual disclaimer This software is provided...

I blogged earlier about ability of VS 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008 to display HTML and CSS validation errors as warnings. Unfortunately, there is a small bug in the setup so although dialog displays that default setting is 'warnings', in fact, CSS...

When you are installing VS 2008 or VWD Express 2008 you may encounter failure when Microsoft Web Authoring Component fails to install. There are two known reasons: 1. Setup may encounter conflict with Windows Update on Vista when both setup and Windows...

You already know from Soma's and Scott's blogs posts that Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 have been released and available for download at MSDN. Visual Web Developer Express 2008 has also been released and is available for download . Difference from Visual...

Jim Cheshire who is working in Microsoft Customer Support wrote a book on the Visual Web Developer 2008 and all the new features that VWD 2008 has for Web designers. Title of the book may be a bit misleading, but if you know that VS 2008 and VWD 2008...

By popular request we added support for CSS vendor extensions in VS 2008. For example, the following CSS will be marked as invalid in VS 2005 div { -moz-background-origin : content ; display : -moz-box ; } but will not be squiggled in VS 2008. VS still...

Some time ago I described how to add custom HTML markup intellisense and validation schema to VS 2005 and Visual Web Developer Express. Same steps apply to VS 2008. Here I am going to describe how to add custom CSS intellisense schema. First of all...