Juan Rivera from JCX Software and the developer of VS.PHP has added support for Silverlight 3 .  If you’re a PHP developer this is very cool news. VS.PHP is a plug-in for Visual Studio that brings the rich development environment of Visual Studio...

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 is now Live. You can download it right now here . Also check out Phil Haack’s post on the release. If you are new to MVC, please check out our previous posts for more information and links to many useful blogs and resources. Alternatively...

Silverlight 3 Tools Beta for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is now available for download . This installer includes: Silverlight 3 Beta SDK Silverlight 3 Beta Developer Runtime for debugging XAP Compression Improvements Support for Caching Transparent Platform...

Today I want to advance our discussions around Web Deployment in Visual Studio 10…  To catch up on the previous discussions in this series check out: Web Deployment with VS 2010 and IIS Web Packaging: Creating a Web Package using VS 2010 Web Packaging...

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...

Web Deployment has taken a huge stride in Visual Studio 2010.   I have started a blog series where I have written about web deployment, you can read more about them below: Web Deployment with VS 2010 and IIS Web Packaging: Creating a Web Package...

Under certain conditions opening Web projects from remote sites may become very slow. We've seen quite a few 'hang' reports submitted via 'Send Information to Microsoft' feedback (aka Dr. Watson ). The reason is that sometimes XML editor (which is used...

ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 2 is live ! Check out Phil Haack’s blog, Haacked.com , for information on the new installer and some other general release info. The release is mostly focused on responding to customer feedback but there are some minor tooling...

If you have been experiencing Visual Studio crashes when opening view pages in design view or having trouble installing ASP.NET MVC due to problems with third party add-ins such as Power Commands, please try out the just released CLR hotfix here: https...

jQuery 1.3 was released a little over a month ago. The 1.3 release adds exciting features such as selector performance improvements, "live events" where events can be bound to both current and future elements, and more. Version 1.3.2 was released a few...

This post is next in the series of VS 2010 articles that we have been putting together to dive into the Web Deployment improvements with VS 2010 and IIS.  I would recommend reading the the preceding posts to get an overview of all the scenarios supported...

The IIS team has just shipped the Microsoft Application Request Routing 1.0 module for IIS7!!! Application Request Routing (ARR) enables Web server administrators and hosting providers and to increase Web application reliability and scalability through...

Most Recent Posts: Tip #93 - Reading XML with Silverlight Tip #92 - How to Load Images from a Stream Tip #91 - How to Apply Themes from the Silverlight Toolkit Tip #90 - How to Edit your CSPROJ File from VS Tip #89 - How to use String Resources Tip #88...

In the earlier post I highlighted various investments that we are making in Visual Studio 2010 and IIS to make Web Deployment easier.  You can read that post below: Web Deployment with VS 2010 and IIS Deploying a web project with all its correct...

Today, deploying a web application is not as easy as it should be. Whether you are deploying your web to a shared hosting environment and paying monthly to maintain it OR whether you have a web server/s managed by your enterprise, there are a lot of manual...

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RC can now be installed with Web Platform Installer: http://www.microsoft.com/web/channel/products/WebPlatformInstaller.aspx Here is a quick description of Web Platform Installer from the Web Platform Installer website: “The Web...

As mentioned in our recent blog post on the ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate , our code-generation features (namely, Add Controller and Add View) now use the T4 (Text Template Transformation Toolkit) templating technology behind the scenes. Because users...

The ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate (RC) is finally out, and we wanted to give returning MVC users as well as new MVC users an overview of what the tooling in Visual Studio provides. The MVC 1.0 RC can be downloaded right now here ( Release Notes...

MIX Is just around the corner and if you haven’t already registered I highly recommend you do! This is one event I look forward to the most each year. I attended last year and I had the most incredible experience learning about Silverlight and meeting...

This link provides a complete Tips of the Day Summary Outline - http://silverlight.net/blogs/msnow/archive/2009/01/02/silverlight-tips-of-the-day-summary-outline.aspx . This page will be kept updated with any changes or additions to the Tip of the Day...

If you are using Visual Studio 2005 and are experiencing random crashes when saving ASPX or HTML files with linked stylesheets, try this hotfix that we published recenty: Crash in vswebdesign.dll!CStyleSheet::LoadFromURL using Visual Studio 2005 SP1:...

Latest on Tips and Tricks Blog. Tip #40: Did you know…How to scope master pages? Tip #39: Did you know… How to cancel a remote web operation in Visual Studio 2008? Tip #38: Did you know...How to use Failed Request Tracing to trace Rewrite...

At PDC 2008 in LA and TechEd EMEA 2008 in Barcelona we announced key new features for Visual Studio 2010 for Web Developers... Apart from our focus on MVC, Dynamic Data, Silverlight and other key ASP.NET runtime functionality, this was the first time...

Microsoft Report Viewer Add-on for Visual Web Developer 2008 Express is now available for download. It includes the RDLC designer and Microsoft Report Viewer 2008. The RDLC designer creates and edits RDLC files with RDL 2005 schema. Download: http...

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