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New CSS editor features in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview
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The CSS Editor for Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview is a complete rewrite of the 2010 version, featuring excellent performance and stability. As soon as you start to edit a CSS file or a style block embedded in a web page, you'll feel the difference! CSS 3.0 has expanded the richness and complexity...
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16 Sep 2011
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How to compress CSS/JavaScript before publish/package
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Today I saw a post on stackoverflow.com asking Using Microsoft AJAX Minifier with Visual Studio 2010 1-click publish . This is a response to that question. The Web Publishing Pipeline is pretty extensive so it is easy for us to hook in to it in order to perform operation such as these. One of those extension...
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24 Feb 2011
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Download four free sample chapters from Visual Web Developer book
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Some time ago Jim Cheshire wrote a book on VWD 2008 and recently book publisher kindly allowed us to provide four chapters as free downloadable PDF files. The following chapters are available: Creating Web sites Creating and Managing CSS Styles Applying CSS to Web Forms Debugging ASP.NET...
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21 Sep 2009
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New series of video tutorials on Visual Web Developer Express 2008
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We have started a new series of video tutorials on Visual Web Developer Express 2008. Over the course of next few weeks we will be adding many more videos to this series . These video tutorials will range in complexity from beginner to intermediate and will help Web developers build everything from simple...
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20 Apr 2009
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Checkout Tip#13 to Tip#23 on our Tips and Tricks blog
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Latest on Tips and Tricks Blog. Tip #13: Did you know... How to get the browser agent using ASP.NET Ajax ? Tip #14: Did you know…How to enable debugging of your Web Site? Tip #15: Did you know... How to use tracing with ASP.NET Ajax? Tip #16: Did you know… How to change the default format settings for...
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13 Nov 2008
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Checkout Tip#10, Tip#11, Tip#12 and Tip#13 on Tips and Tricks blog
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Here are four new tips on Tips and Tricks Blog. Tip #10 Did you know… Visual Web Developer 2008 has a New Style Builder Dialog? Tip #11 Did you know… New Style builder can be invoked from various other tool windows in Visual Web Developer. Tip #12: Did you know..How to create an IIS Virtual Directory...
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10 Oct 2008
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Catch our team at TechEd 2008 - Orlando.
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Every year we send a team to TechEds to meet you, our customers. They will be at the event site from 8.30 AM to 6.00 PM to answer your questions from June 3rd to June 6th. This time we have the following representatives at TechEd. ASP.NET Team: Kathy Carper, Scott Hunter, Simon Calvert, Clay Compton...
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30 May 2008
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Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta
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Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta is now available! You can download it here (though before you do, read the note below). In SP1, we have added some new features as well as many bug fixes. In this blog post I’ll attempt to give an overview of the features as well as some of the key issues the Visual Web Developer...
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12 May 2008
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Absolute and relative positioning in Visual Web Developer 2008 designer
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Design view in Visual Studio and Visual Web Developer Express 2008 provides several tools that help with absolute and relative positioning of controls. I'd like to describe how do they work and what kind of visual hints the designer provides. How do I set my control position to absolute? Use Format...
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11 Mar 2008
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Webcast: New Enhancements for Web Developers in VS 2008
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To View On Demand Webcast : Visual Studio 2008 for Web Developers : CLICK HERE Wanted to update you on a upcoming web cast that I am doing in support of Visual Studio 2008 launch event... Title : New Enhancements for Web Developers in VS 2008 Date/Day: Tuesday, February 26th 2008 Time: 11am...
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25 Feb 2008
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Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition available for download
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I'm glad to announce that Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition has officially shipped, and is now available for immediate download . Here is a quick summary of some of the great new capabilities in this release: Tools to Design Web Pages Use the new Split View pane which shows both the...
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19 Nov 2007
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New VS2008 Feature: “Downgrade” HTML, CSS, and JScript Errors to Warnings
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VS2005 introduced the ability to validate your markup and CSS for standards compliance alongside your code. It’s a great feature, but it can be frustrating when you’re looking for that one critical compilation error underneath a pile of validation errors. Well, we heard your feedback and added two new...
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19 Sep 2007
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Style Application Tool Bar
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After Orcas Beta1 released, some web developers mentioned that there is no documentation available for the new CSS editing features. Since I played around with this feature a lot recently, I would like to give it a try and explain it a little. The first tool I’d like to mention is the style application...
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14 Jun 2007
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Manage Styles Tool window
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This tool window provides a tree hierarchy view of all CSS selectors available from the current page. Users can navigate and find CSS style definitions in source code with this tool window. Developers can change the layout of the tree view with the Options button. The first three context menu items...
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8 Jun 2007
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What does the red strikethrough in CSS property grid mean?
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In Visual Studio Orcas, the CSS property grid renders a red strikethrough when it wants to tell you that a property is either non-inherited or it is overridden by a rule with higher precedence. Read the tooltip when you see a red strikethrough on your property and it will give you the exact reason...
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31 May 2007
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Mix07 Video: Web Development using Visual Studio "Orcas"
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At the Mix07 conference this week, I did an overview presentation of the web development features being delivered in Visual Studio "Orcas". The folks at Mix have been kind enough to make videos of all the sessions from the conference available to the public. Click here to watch my session on Web Development...
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3 May 2007
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How to use the new CSS features in Visual Studio Orcas
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One of the questions I have gotten when showing the new CSS features in Orcas to customers is how do these tools help me analyze the styles on my page. Or more specifically, why doesn’t the page look like I think it should. One of the most powerful new tools included in Orcas is the CSS property grid...
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24 Jan 2007
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Expression Web 1.0 Released, Perfect Companion to Visual Studio
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Here's a quick announcement about the release of Expression Web 1.0 . If you use Visual Studio 2003 or 2005 to build ASP.NET applications, Expression Web is the perfect companion tool to help you create sophisticated CSS and XHTML designs. You might be thinking -- "I use Visual Studio in combination...
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11 Dec 2006
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