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...

Some Best Practices and Guidance for Web Control Vendors Targeting Visual Studio The goal of this post is to provide guidance for control vendors on best practices for writing custom controls with regard to their behavior in Visual Studio. It is designed...

Are you currently doing ASP.NET development in Visual Studio 2010? If so, we would love to hear your feedback! We have created an online survey that will only take a few minutes to complete. Click here to take survey All feedback will be carefully considered...

We are pleased to announce that the RTW version of Web Deployment Projects for Visual Studio 2010 is now available for download. If you’ve been using Web Deployment Projects in Visual Studio 2008 or 2005, you can upgrade to VS 2010 without hesitation...

If you crack open the project file in an ASP.Net MVC 2 application (in notepad or unload your project and then click “ Edit *.proj” ), you will notice an interesting line. <MvcBuildViews>false</MvcBuildViews> This is an option to...

If you are interested in Silverlight 4 based Tips of the Day head over to my new Silverlight blog! So far I have over 20 postings as follows: http://www.silverlightdev.net/2010/05/12/silverlight-tip-of-the-day-19-using-bing-maps-in-silverlight/ http:...

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 Web Developer 2010 Express offers a great set of features for deploying web applications seamlessly. One of the key features is the ability to publish your web application from VS 2010 to a remote hosted web server along with its dependencies like...

We’ve been getting a few questions by our users about Visual Studio 2010’s support for SQL Server versions. So I thought it would be good to address them here (when one person asks a question, there are probably others thinking the same question.) ...

When we released Beta2 in Oct 2009, there was a lot of customer excitement about the super cool features in VS 2010. However, one recurring complaint from customers was that the performance of VS 2010 was not on par with Orcas. Customers were experiencing...

Visual Web Developer 2010 Express is available for installation via the Web Platform Installer at http://microsoft.com/express/web . The English SKU was published on April 12 th , French, German and Japanese went live on April 27 th and Spanish, Italian...

Hi, I’m Dan Chartier, I work on the Web Tools designer and helped improve its performance in Visual Studio 2010. For some background, Visual Studio 2008 completely replaced the original trident (Internet Explorer) designer with the FrontPage designer...

We have had some customers ask why they are unable to target earlier frameworks .NET 2.0, 3.0 or 3.5 using Visual Studio 2010. Targeting earlier frameworks (also known as Multi-targeting) is in-fact fully supported in VS 2010, but there is a pre-requisite...

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...

Publishing using MSDeploy In-Process Deployment or Remote Agent Through the Beta 2 release, VS 2010 had only supported publishing to servers using MSDeploy's IIS deployment handler technology integrated with the “Web Management Service”, a.k.a. WMSVC...

Update (5/3/2010) : In addition to the VS designer surface not loading, there are other actions that will cause a hang. Working with CSS increases your chances of seeing this issue. For example, bringing up the CSS Manage Styles dialog, the CSS property...

In VS 2010, if you are accessing the Session state in the OnInit(…) method of your page, similar to the following code snippet: then you will encounter an “Error Creating Control” for ASP.NET controls when viewing the Design view of the page. For example...

Quite some time ago, when Vista just went RTM, Risk Strahl discovered that when he used Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse, code intellisense and markup validation in Visual Studio stopped working. Since several activities in VS are done in a background on...

This morning we released Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010! The link to download and installs the tools is http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=177508 .  The tools will install: Silverlight 4 RTM Developer Runtime Silverlight 4 Tools RC...

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...

Prior to the RTM release of Visual Studio 2010, the only way to upgrade an ASP.Net MVC 1 application to ASP.Net MVC 2 was to use Eilon Lipton’s tool . With the release of Visual Studio 2010 you will now be able to open your MVC 1 projects in Visual Studio...

Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2010 Express is a free and robust development environment for building, testing and deploying Web applications across the Microsoft Web Platform including ASP.Net, Internet Information Services and SQL Server. Unleash your...

We’re looking for someone who is passionate about web technologies and the developer experience.  If you’ve been an avid Visual Studio developer building great web applications and longed for an even more compelling experience in Visual Studio, Now...

Minor update for the Spell checker add-in for VS 2008 SP1. It is now available at Visual Studio Gallery . Direct link: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/2f3d691d-8838-4d84-ad64-44a02db37e30 What's new in version 2.3: Updated native...

ASP.NET/HTML Spell Checker 2.3 for Visual Studio 2010 has been posted on Visual Studio Gallery (also accessible from Visual Studio Start page in 'Extending Visual Studio' section). Direct link: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/0db4814c...