If we want to package and deploy .NET assemblies for a web application only, we can simply reference them and change their “Copy Local” property to “True”.  For example, we can do the following to package a MVC project from VS2010. Create a MVC project...

We have seen some customers report the issue that certain controls are not getting generated correctly in the designer file in Visual Studio 2010 RC for the ASP.Net Web Application Projects. We are currently working on a fix for this issue for the...

Discount ASP.Net has updated their Hosting Sandbox for Visual Studio 2010 RC and ASP.NET 4.0 RC. http://www.discountasp.net/press/2010_02_16_free-asp.net-4.0-RC-hosting.aspx To learn more about the new Web Deployment features in Visual Studio 2010 check...

This post introduces you to a small improvement that has been made in Visual Studio 2010 & .NET 4 to reduce the size of the ASP.NET application level web.config 3.0 and 3.5 web.config As ASP.NET technology evolved, the application level Web.config...

It’s finally here.  Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4.0 release candidate is available for everyone to download now. To download the public RC of Visual Studio 2010 go the RC landing page :  Since the beta we’ve been focused on performance improvements...

Web project package and deployment targets files are written with extensibility in mind.  User can easily extend a property to include more functionalities in their package by using msbuild targets and properties.  If we check the Microsoft...

As you probably heard the Visual Studio 2010 RC is currently available for MSDN subscribers! You can download it from here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx . General public release is slated for Wed. The Web Development Tools Team...

We finished generating a new VSDoc for the latest update of jQuery. You can download it from the jQuery Downloads page . A refresher on how to use the file can be found here or here . Happy coding! Jeff King Program Manager Visual Studio Web Tools