Mikhail Arkhipov (MSFT)'s WebLog

Why VS 2003 keeps changing my HTML when I switch beween Design and HTML views? Is it a bug? Can it be fixed in a Service Pack? We get bugs opened by PSS folks on customer complaints pretty much every other week. What's the problem? Here is a bit of...

I have been looking for a WMA players (both portable and stationary) that are able to display non-English (non-Western European, to be exact) titles. The only portable player that I know of that is able to display Russian is iPod. However, it does not...

As you might guess from my name I am Russian (born in Moscow). My education is applied mathematics (specifically numerical methods and spectral analysis). In 1990 or so with a few other folks I co-founded imaging company ( http://www.csoft.com/ ). We...

In VS Whidbey HTML Editor Target browser schemas are static. Same, btw, about page directive schemas and schemas that describe limited markup in such files as Global.asax. Yes, you can create your own schemas if you wish. However, a few things are important...

Whidbey HTML Editor continues to use XML schemas to describe target browsers, page directives as well as user and custom controls. However, it is now able to pick up user and custom controls listed in register directives and automatically generates XML...

So here comes yet another Microsoft blogger J My name is Mikhail Arkhipov and I am development lead in the Web.NET tools team. My team owns Source view functionality of the Visual Studio HTML Editor and base editing in Design view. This includes colorization...