Looking for an good list of Silverlight Resources? I have created a list of Silverlight Blogs, Tutorials and more that you can find here: http://silverlight.net/blogs/msnow/archive/2008/05/05/silverlight-resources.aspx I will be keeping this list up-to...

I've noticed quite a few people run into the issue "Why is design mode empty for my web user control (ASCX)?". It's not obvious what might be causing this bug, so I thought I'd offer an explanation and a couple workarounds. Problem You have a user...

As a part of creating a way for customers to directly communicate with the product team and get help if they are running into performance issues in Visual Web Developer 2008 or web-related features in Visual Studio 2008, the product team has created a...

Update to the preceding blog post... we've just made available an 04-23 refresh of the Dynamic Data Release on the Code Gallery website. This release includes some nice runtime enhancements for routed URLs, Dynamic Data Wizard templates in the Visual...

ASP.NET Dynamic Data is a great innovation for creating data-driven Websites.  It provides two key features: The ability to render data by defining templates, either at the page-level (for example, to define default renderings for list, details,...

If you love the web and are passionate about the developer experience building web applications we'd like to hear from you. These are hot positions focused on cutting edge technologies.  You can learn more about our positions from the links below...

Mike Volodarsky on the IIS team just published some very useful articles describing how to setup and configure IIS7 to properly work with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2005. The article covers necessary components needing to be installed, and the...

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 have uploaded a series of tutorials on Game Programming with Silverlight 2 using Visual Studio 2008 Tools beta 2. If you are interested in these topics, feel free to track my blog here: http://silverlight.net/blogs/msnow/default.aspx Mike Snow...

Ext is great framework for adding rich AJAX interactivity to your web application. Unfortunately, JScript IntelliSense currently has difficulties processing the script and it's not uncommon to see this message: I just wanted to let everyone know...

  If you previously had ASP.NET MVC Preview 1 (CTP 1) and had already created a few projects on it then you might have to take this additional step to convert your project to ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 (MIX 2008) [After installing MVC Preview 2 ( Resources...

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...

I am attempting to compile the relevant resources for ASP.NET MVC Framework Preview 2 at one place so that you will not have to keep searching around... ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 Download Location: Preview 2 Download (English-US) - Microsoft.com download...

Note: Please see this post for an updated set of templates created for ASP.NET MVC RTM: http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2009/04/28/updated-nunit-templates-for-asp-net-mvc-1-0-rtm.aspx Vishal’s earlier blog post, ASP.NET MVC Test Framework...

BradleyB has posed a blog entry with some installation tips for Silverlight Tools Beta 1 for Visual Studio 2008  here .

The feature I'm most excited about in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 is ironically one you might not notice at all. Problem If you're reading this, you probably know (and are still untangling the double-negative logic of) the "Disable script debugging...

To View On Demand Webcast : Visual Studio 2008 for Web Developers : CLICK HERE Wanted to update you on a upcoming web cast that I am doing in support of Visual Studio 2008 launch event... Title : New Enhancements for Web Developers in VS 2008 ...

Previously I gave an overview of new tooling features for ASP.NET MVC Framework that we are hoping to make available during MIX 2008 timeframe. You can read more about Overview of MVC Tooling Features for MIX 2008 here . Goals: ASP.NET MVC Framework...

There has been a tremendous positive response on ASP.NET MVC Framework from the community since we released the December 2007 CTP of ASP.NET Extensions . With MIX 2008 coming closer our teams have been super busy in trying to bring out value additions...

Last month we released RTW version of Web Deployment Projects (WDP) 2008. You can read more about this release by clicking here . After getting this ENU release together our Redmond team and Japanese team got together to work on the Japanese version of...

We have good news for jQuery fans. The hotfix we released today fixes a bug in IntelliSense where it would fail with jQuery. Any page with jQuery should just work now. While experimenting with this new-found functionality today, I found annotating the...

We have received a great deal of feedback on VS 2008 and VWD 2008. Thank you for all the feedback. We have looked at the feedback carefully and selected some critical issues around performance and editor usage to fix in this hotfix. This article...

I often get the question “Why isn’t IntelliSense working?”. The most common cause is an error in one of the referenced scripts. If there was an IntelliSense update error, the status bar will tell you. Given this situation, the Error List will complement...

In December 2007, we had released Community Technology Preview (CTP) version of VS 2008 Web Deployment Projects... Thanks a ton to all of you in the community for being so active in adopting and trying the CTP versions of WDP... Since the December CTP...

Web server settings, which are accessible inside Web Application Projects (WAPs) property pages (Web section) allow you to specify settings associated to to Visual Studio Development Server or IIS. Many a times in a team development environment it is...