We have had complaints from some customers saying that their Web Project build performance with VS is very slow and it turns out that for some of the complaints the actual issue was anti-virus programs running on their machines. So, how do anti-virus...

Are you a true beginner at web development? Do you want to know what CSS stands for or how to write your first line of JavaScript? Do you already know HTML and basic web development, but are new to ASP.NET? Are you familiar with ASP.NET but are not sure...

One of the questions I have gotten when showing the new CSS features in Orcas to customers is how do these tools help me analyze the styles on my page. Or more specifically, why doesn’t the page look like I think it should. One of the most powerful new...

I've seen user reports in several forums, where two instances of Internet Explorer get launched when doing F5 , CTRL+F5 , or View in Browser in Visual Studio 2005 running on Windows Vista. If you are encountering this issue, taking the following two...

In Visual Studio Orcas, the CSS property grid renders a red strikethrough when it wants to tell you that a property is either non-inherited or it is overridden by a rule with higher precedence. Read the tooltip when you see a red strikethrough on...

19th of April we shipped Visual Studio Orcas Beta1. See Soma's blog entry : . Downloads are here . This is also first time Express editions are available for download including Visual Web Developer Express . VWD Orcas Express download is bigger than in...

We recently released a set of Silverlight "How-to" videos online. This includes Scott Guthrie's keynote demo at Mix07 which shows off how to create a Silverlight 1.1 application using the Visual Studio add-in for Silverlight. This is also a good time...

A few months back, we had blogged about the new BDLC (beginner developer learning center) on MSDN. This is a a centralized learning environment specifically targeted to beginning .NET programmers. Recently, we have added a couple of Visual Web Developer...

The Visual Web Developer team is looking for a few talented and experienced invididuals to join our team. We have opportunities in development, testing, and program management. Our team builds Visual Studio features that enable creating applications for...

The March CTP (community technology preview) of Visual Studio Orcas is now available here . You can either install it (side-by-side with VS 2005) or use via a VPC image. This is the first CTP that contains significant web tools feature enhancements -...

Many of you are probably aware of Visual Web Developer/Visual Studio web site starter kits that are available online. If you have not seen or used these yet, they are complete end-to-end working web site templates that you can either use a starting point...

We have a few positions open on our test team at the moment. The title for these positions is SDET (software design engineer in test) which is somewhat of a unique position at Microsoft. Scott Louvau on our team posted a good article regarding what an...

6 new Silverlight tutorials are completed! Tip of the Day #15 - Communicating between JavaScript & Silverlight. Tip of the Day #16 - StoryBoard versus DispatcherTimer for Animation and Game Loops. Tip of the Day #17 - How to Animate a Rotating Image...

3 new Silverlight blogs have been completed for this week. Check them out! GameFest 2008 – Silverlight Game Programming Tip of the Day #21 - How to work with Shapes, Brushes and Gradients Tip of the Day #22 - How to add Sound Effects, Music and Video...

Recently we have received a few requests from customers asking whether our out of band (OOB) releases (Silverlight, Dynamic Data Wizard, Model View Controller and Web Deployment Project) are supported in Visual Web Developer (VWD) Express or not. This...

7 new Silverlight blogs have been completed. Check them out and let me know if you have any questions. Tip of the Day #23 – How to Capture the Mouse Wheel Event Tip of the Day #24 : How to Apply a XAML Template to a Class 3D Simulated Terrain Tutorials...

The following link is how to reference an ADO.Net Data Service Service referencing ADO.Net Data Service Xinyang Qiu SDET II Visual Studio Web Tools

Silverlight Tip of the Day #57 Title: How to Dynamically Load a Silverlight Control within another Silverlight Control Silverlight Tip of the Day #56 Title: Accessing the HTML DOM from Silverlight. Silverlight Tip of the Day #55 Title: How to Apply Styles...

Here are four new tips on Tips and Tricks Blog. Tip #10 Did you know… Visual Web Developer 2008 has a New Style Builder Dialog? Tip #11 Did you know… New Style builder can be invoked from various other tool windows in Visual Web Developer. Tip #12: Did...

Yesterday Microsoft released Web Platform Installer (WPI) Release Candidate to the web at http://www.microsoft.com/web/channel/products/WebPlatformInstaller.aspx . Betas have been available for a while, but the release version contains several new features...

I am proud to announce we have released Silverlight 2 Tools localized in 8 languages! Please follow the links below to get the language of your choice.   Download page details: Chinese (CHS) Bits: http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/1/8/218414F1...

Latest on Tips and Tricks Blog. Tip #13: Did you know... How to get the browser agent using ASP.NET Ajax ? Tip #14: Did you know…How to enable debugging of your Web Site? Tip #15: Did you know... How to use tracing with ASP.NET Ajax? Tip #16: Did you...

Last year, we made a post to the IE team blog about the removal of the DHTML Editing Control from the Windows Vista. The removal of the control affects three types of applications: A Windows application that relied on the DHTML Editing Control...

I added a blog "ADO.net Data Service reflection class creation in VS2008 SP1 Beta, a breaking change with CTP time" in http://blogs.msdn.com/xqiu/archive/2008/05/13/ado-net-data-service-reflection-class-creation-in-vs2008-sp1-beta-a-breaking-change...

DIsclaimer: You may experience some in-consistent behavior using this technique. If so please let us know. I have heard a lot of questions and confusion regarding web.debug.config and web.release.config. For example here is just one question on StackOverflow...