What’s Razor? Razor is a simple-syntax view engine that is released as part of ASP.NET Model View Controller (MVC) 3. Read more about the syntax on ScottGu’s blog or on ASP.NET How can I get Razor syntax support in Visual Studio 2010? It’s...

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...

With VS2010, we introduced “web deployment tool” as the new publish method; at the same time, FTP publish is still available and supported in VS2010. In web application project system, because we centralized main deployment workflow, so some new features...

In a previous blog, Controls State: "Error Creating Control" in the Design View in Visual Studio 2010 , I have discussed about an Error Creating Control issue related to accessing the Session state in the OnInit() method. Since then, I have...

Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview has the JavaScript design time engine rewritten, sharing base with IE's JavaScript engine. It has faster performance and better memory footprint. The list below shows some new feature and changes comparing with Visual...

A few days ago Jason Zander blogged about the availability of Visual Studio SP1 Beta (all links below in resources section). I am happy to let you guys know that with SP1 Beta we have enabled integration of IIS Express into Visual Studio. After you have...

With the Sp1 release of Visual Studio 2010 now available for download , you now have the option to use IIS Express as the development server for your web projects instead of the built-in Visual Studio Development server (aka. Cassini). Here are some previous...

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,...

With the final release of ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2, we refreshed single page application page on asp.net .  It talks about KnockoutJS Template and introduced 4 community created SPA templates that you can install as MVC templates. There are four...

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...

Jeff King made a recent post to show off the new JScript IntelliSense feature in the March CTP of Visual Studio. Now I am going to show off the improved JScript Debugging experience in the March CTP. The first thing you will notice is that when you...

Web Deployment (see this posting for an overview) offers a set of pre-determined options to allow users to include the most common sets of files for deployment. These options are as follows and can be found under the “Items to deploy” section on the Package...

Today we are announcing the availability of FREE HOSTING accounts for web developers to try out the new feature sets of Visual Studio 2010 Beta1, ASP.NET 4 Beta1 and Microsoft Web Deployment Tool (MsDeploy) RC1… VS 2010 has great set of features on deploying...

Over the past couple of weeks I have come across lots of questions/discussions on while OAuth/OpenId is cool as a feature in the ASP.NET templates in Visual Studio 2012, but how do I easily integrate this into my application outside of the templates....

Hopefully, people reading this post are familiar with the "Web Application Projects" feature that was added to Visual Studio 2005 in Service Pack 1. If you are using Web Application Projects, you might have noticed that it doesn't have item templates...

If you’ve been using Web Deployment Projects in Visual Studio 2008 or 2005, you can upgrade to VS 2010 without hesitation now with the availability of Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Projects Beta (for Visual Studio Professional and higher skus...

The public release of Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 is now available and can be downloaded here . This is one of the most compelling updates to Visual Studio we’ve seen in years.  The entire IDE has been refreshed with a new look and all the code editors...

Microsoft recently released the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 1.4 (August 2011) update which includes a new ASP.NET MVC 3 Web Role project template which makes it easier to deploy an MVC 3 application to Azure. Let’s walk through...

Visual Studio 2012 is now released to the web. Please visit Jason Zander’s Blog for detailed announcement. This page lists what’s new in ASP.NET 4.5 and Visual Studio for Web . We are updating the Visual Studio 2010 publish experience as...

A Windows Defender and Microsoft Forefront Client Security signature file (1.53.256.0) was released at 8:45 PM (PST) on March 9, 2009 to address a Win32/PossibleHostFileHijack issue.  This update modified the hosts file to prevent malicious redirection...

I’ve published a tutorial shows you how to build a secure ASP.NET MVC 4 web application that enables users to log in with credentials from Facebook, Yahoo, and Google and deploy the application to Windows Azure. This tutorial assumes that you have no...

This is the Part 3 of a 3 part series on using sub-projects with the Web Application Projects add-in for Visual Studio 2005. Part 1 of the series can be found here . Part 2 of the series can be found here . This post covers the final concept I wanted...

If you’re looking to build a Facebook App using ASP.NET MVC, then you’re in the right place. With the release of ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 , we’ve added lots of updates to our Facebook Application template and library since we first introduced it in...

When a zip package is built from VS2010 web application UI (via Build Deployment Package command), or through command line (msbuild myproject.csproj /t:package), a few files are generated in the destination folder. Here’s some brief description: File...

When you add a global.asax file to your "Web Application Projects (WAPs) like below: and then write code in Application_Start event and try to debug it like below using Visual Studio inbuilt Development Web Server Then during your first debug...