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,...

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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...