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April 2006 - Posts

Release: CSS Friendly ASP.NET 2.0 Control Adapters Beta 1

Posted Thursday, April 27, 2006 12:05 PM by bgold
UPDATE #2: These are about to go back online, version Beta 1.1 (last update 4/29/2006) -- thanks for your patience. If you downloaded the Beta 1 verison (4/27/2006) please be sure to get the new version and only use the bits from that. Enjoy and sorry Read More...
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Please welcome the Web Developement Tools team, online

Posted Saturday, April 22, 2006 10:05 AM by bgold
I'm excited to welcome the Web Development Tools team to the blogging world. This is the team that builds all the great Web related tooling for Visual Studio and the Visual Web Developer Express product. They plan to post great info, tips and tricks, Read More...
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Great news VWD is free, forever -- and the Classified Ad Starter Kit is now in beta

Posted Wednesday, April 19, 2006 8:45 PM by bgold
Learn more here: http://blogs.msdn.com/danielfe/archive/2006/04/19/579109.aspx Oh and the beta of the Classified Ad Starter Kit is now live -- check it out, find bugs, give us feedback. Read More...
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Spell check your ASP.NET Website with Visual Studio 2005

Posted Monday, April 17, 2006 1:10 PM by bgold
This is the type of plug-in that I wish I had last week :) Mikhail has built an amazing plug-in for Visual Studio 2005 that enables you to spell check an ASP.NET page (in source view). It has all the smarts to ignore the semantic markup and only check Read More...
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Localization is one of the coolest features in ASP.NET 2.0

Posted Thursday, April 13, 2006 10:52 AM by bgold
To this day I don't think we talk about the localization story in ASP.NET 2.0 enough -- the built in framework really makes it simple to produce a multi-lingual site, the type of thing that would take TONS of code and pain before. In October we released Read More...
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"Atlas" Control Toolkit released!

Posted Wednesday, April 12, 2006 5:48 PM by bgold
It has been a busy week over here, but we just released the "Atlas" Control Toolkit -- a must see for anyone who is using or interested in "Atlas." The kit contains nine controls that make adding client-side functionality to your site super easy -- and Read More...
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Stay up to date with the new ServerFx and ClientFx newsletters

Posted Sunday, April 09, 2006 8:32 AM by bgold
We are continuing to explore cool ways to keep everyone up to date -- one new great outbound model are regular newsletters created by the product teams discussing what is going on. We have two great places, one for ServerFx ("Atlas", ASP.NET, etc.) and Read More...
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.NET, Tablet, and Sudoku -- a developers dream

Posted Friday, April 07, 2006 10:32 AM by bgold
Over the last 6 months or so I've become mildly addicted to Sudoku. As it turns out, a buddy of mine here at Microsoft, Stephen Toub has built a killer Sudoku application for the Tablet, released a bunch of source code and an amazing whitepaper that explains Read More...
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VS2005 Web Application Projects RC released

Posted Wednesday, April 05, 2006 6:03 PM by bgold
It is with great pleasure that I can announce availability of the release candidate of the Web Application Project add-in for Visual Studio 2005. This has been a remarkable journey, driven by your feedback. This release co-incides with a generally available Read More...
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