Mikhail Arkhipov (MSFT)'s WebLog

A few people reported that Visual Web Developer displayed validation error on fairly simple Web forms not recognizing ASP.NET controls. I would recommend to look at this thread in ASP.NET forums where Todd (who owns intellisense and XML schema generation...

There is a great article on MSDN by Dave Templin about new VS 2005 functionality that allows you to isolate COM components and avoid COM DLL hell. The technique only works on Windows XP though (see Limitations of Reg-Free COM ). But what if you need solution...

Canon SD500 review at Steve's DigiCams: "The Powershot SD500 is the first Canon digicam to exceed 1-megapixel per ounce" I never knew there was such a metric... :-)

This is fairly popular question . The reason is that currently .NET runtime (CLR) has no means to unload control assembly . Therefore each time you change your control and new assembly is produced by ASP.NET runtime, it is loaded into the VS process...

VS HTML editor in Beta 2 sports a small new feature: automatic formatting of HTML on paste. By default it is off, but you can activate it in Tools | Options | Text Editor | HTML | Miscellaneous | Format HTML On Paste. Activating the feature makes editor...

What we have been doing for almost a year? What is new besides bug fixes? We had big security push and I believe it paid off. Beta 2 is much more secure product. We did tons of performance work. The application starts faster, opens Web sites faster...