Guy Burstein : Visual Studio 2008

Getting Started with jQuery in Visual Studio 2008

Guy Burstein — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:16:47 GMT

Getting Started with jQuery in Visual Studio 2008

In this post I’ll talk about adding jQuery IntellSense in Visual Studio 2008, and how to add jQuery to a simple Web Application inside Visual Studio 2008.

jQuery IntelliSense in Visual Studio 2008 - KB946581

In order to use jQuery in Visual Studio 2008 with IntelliSence a hotfix for Visual Studio 2008 must be installed:

Download the hotfix from Connect
Run the executable and extract its contents to a folder in your hard drive.
Make sure all instances of Visual Studio 2008 are closed, and run VS90-KB946581.exe from the above folder.

Download the Latest jQuery Library + Documentation

To use jQuery in Visual Studio 2008, and enjoy its IntelliSense, you should download 2 javascript files. One contains the actual jQuery library, and the second contains the library with documentation for Visual Studio 2008 to display its IntelliSense.

Go to jQuery Official Download Page
Scroll down and find the Current Release section.
Download the Uncompressed version (jquery-1.2.6.js) and the documentation for Visual Studio (jquery-1.2.6-vsdoc.js).

Using jQuery in a Visual Studio 2008 Web Application

In a new Web Application or inside an existing one, add the jQuery scripts into a certain folder.

In a web page (or a master page), add a reference to the jQuery library:

<head runat="server">
  <title>jQuery Sample</title>
 
  <script src="scripts/jquery-1.2.6.js"         
          type="text/javascript" ></script>
 
</head>

Then, in any javascript function you can start using jQuery functions and enjoy the IntelliSense in Visual Studio 2008.

A Simple Example of Using jQuery Functions

For example, Assuming that you have a page with the following content in it:

<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
  <input type="text" class="inputs" id="txtName"       
         value="Enter Text Here" />
  <input type="button" class="inputs" id="btnSubmit"       
         value="Click Me" onclick="handleButtonClick();" />
</div>
</form>

This form contains a single textbox followed by a button.

The handleButtonClick() function handles the button onclick event.

<script type="text/javascript">
  function handleButtonClick() {
  }
</script>

The way jQuery works is by selecting DOM elements and then doing something with them, such as executing a function or applying some properties. For example:

<script type="text/javascript">
  function handleButtonClick() {
    $("#txtName").css("border", "solid 2px red");
  }
</script>

The above method uses the selector function $ to select DOM elements (in this case – a single element with id = txtName) and to apply a style property of a red border. Running this page and clicking the button results in this output:

Summary

In this post I talked about the steps you should follow in order to use jQuery in Visual Studio 2008 with InstelliSense support. Then, we used jQuery in a simple web application.

ASP.Net MVC on Windows Azure | ASP.Net MVC Web Role

Guy Burstein — Sat, 23 May 2009 16:48:53 GMT

ASP.Net MVC on Windows Azure | ASP.Net MVC Web Role

When you install Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio, you only get a project template for an ASP.Net Web Role. In this post I’ll talk about how to create a new ASP.Net MVC Web Role or move an existing ASP.Net MVC Application to Windows Azure.

There are 2 ways to do this:

Manually adding an ASP.Net MVC application as a Web Role (suitable both for a new ASP.Net MVC application and for an existing one).
Use a Project Template to simply create a new ASP.Net MVC Web Role (new ASP.Net MVC application only).

Creating a New ASP.Net MVC Web Role

The following steps apply both for creating a new ASP.Net MVC application and to moving an existing ASP.Net MVC application to Windows Azure.

1. Create an empty ASP.Net MVC Application (with or without a test project), or make sure you have an existing ASP.Net MVC application that you want to move to the Windows Azure.

2. Close this solution and create a new Blank Cloud Service. Make sure you start Visual Studio as an administrator because working with the Development Fabric requires that.

3. Add an existing project to the cloud service and select the ASP.Net MVC Application you have created earlier.

4. Right click the ASP.Net MVC project and select Unload Project.

5. When the project is unloaded, right click it and edit the project file.

6. The project file opens in the XML Editor.

<Project ToolsVersion="3.5" DefaultTargets="Build" ...>
  <PropertyGroup>
    <Configuration Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == '' ">Debug</Configuration>
    ...
  </PropertyGroup>
  ...        
</Project>

Inside the PropertyGroup Element, add the RoleType element and mark this ASP.Net MVC project as a Web Role.

<Project ToolsVersion="3.5" DefaultTargets="Build" ...>
  <PropertyGroup>
    <RoleType>Web</RoleType>
    <Configuration Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == '' ">Debug</Configuration>
    ...        
  </PropertyGroup>
  ...
</Project>

7. Close this project file, and reload the project.

8. Since the ASP.Net MVC now runs on the Windows Azure Service Hosting environment and will probably use its services – add a reference to Microsoft.ServiceHosting.ServiceRuntime.dll.

9. Right click the Roles node in the project tree, and add a Web Role Project in the solution. Select the ASP.Net MVC project from the project list.

Now the ASP.Net MVC project is shown as a Web Role.

10. Since the Windows Azure provides us only with the default .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 assemblies, we must make sure we also copy the ASP.Net MVC Assemblies to the cloud. To do this, right click on each of the following references of the ASP.Net MVC application, and set the Copy Local property to True:

System.Web.Abstractions
System.Web.Mvc
System.Web.Routing

That’s it. You can run the application to make sure that it is running on the Development Fabric.

Creating an ASP.Net MVC Web Role using a Project Template

Thanks to a great word done by the community, we can use a project template to do all the above steps for us. Here’s how to do this:

1. Download the project template from Codeplex at http://c4mvc.codeplex.com/.

2. Create a new project and select the Azure ASP.Net MVC template in the Community for MVC category.

This creates a new Cloud Service for Windows Azure with ASP.Net MVC Application as a Web Role.

Enjoy!

Training Kit for VS 2008 SP1 and .Net Framework 3.5 SP1

Guy Burstein — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:01:15 GMT

Training Kit for VS 2008 SP1 and .Net Framework 3.5 SP1

The ASP.Net 3. 5 Enhancement Training Kit was updated to VS 2008 SP1 and .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 and is available for download. This kit contains presentations, demos and labs for getting started with the new technologies that shipped as part of the service pack.

Download here.

Enjoy!

.Net Framework 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 are Available!

Guy Burstein — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:32:38 GMT

.Net Framework 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 are Available!

Unlike other Service Packs from Microsoft, the SP1 of.Net Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 not only contains bug fixes and improvements, it also contains new technologies such as ADO.Net Entity Framework v1, ADO.Net Data Services v1, ASP.Net Dynamic Data and the framework and tools support for working with SQL Server 2008 that was RTM'ed last week.

Here are some useful download links:

VS 2008 Service Pack Preparation Tool
.NET Framework 3.5 Service pack 1
Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (exe)
Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (iso)
Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions with SP1 (Web Install)
Visual Studio 2008 Shell (isolated mode) with Service Pack 1 Redistributable
Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Remote Debugger
Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Stand-Alone Profiler
Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server SP1
Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86, x64, ia64)
Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Sample Library
Microsoft Report Viewer Redistributable 2008 SP1 Language Pack
.NET Framework 3.5 Client Profile Language Pack

While downloading and installing the SP1 of.Net Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 you can take your time to read the posts I've written during the beta time frame:

Overview of the Service Pack 1

ADO.Net Entity Framework

ADO.Net Data Services

A Simple ADO.Net Data Service Walkthrough (updated for SP1)
Querying an ADO.Net Data Service via .Net Client (updated for SP1)

ADO.Net Sync Services

Sync Services for ADO.Net now use SQL Server 2008 Change Tracking

SQL Server 2008 and Data Access Technologies

Note: If you were waiting for SQL Server 2008 and couldn't install it, now you can.

Enjoy!

SQL Server 2008 Resources

Guy Burstein — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:36:17 GMT

SQL Server 2008 Resources

After being announced on February 27th, SQL Server 2008 has been officially RTM'ed with a related press release. You can download it on MSDN Subscriber Downloads and TechNet Subscriber Downloads.

Here are some additional resources you may want to check out:

Download Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Enterprise Evaluation: Trial Experience for Developers
Read about What's New in SQL Server 2008
Discuss it on SQL Server 2008 MSDN Forums
Download SQL Server 2008 Jumpstart materials.
SQL Server 2008 Learning Resources - Includes podcats, videos and demos.

Download SQL Server 2008 DB Samples:

Several Posts I've written about SQL Server 2008:

Enjoy!

Visual Studio 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 Beta - A Guided Tour

Guy Burstein — Mon, 12 May 2008 20:09:23 GMT

Visual Studio 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 Beta - A Guided Tour

Over the last month I've been working with an internal build of the Visual Studio 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 Beta in order to explore the new features in it. This post lists all the posts I've written exploring the service pack.

Overview of the Service Pack 1

ADO.Net Entity Framework

ADO.Net Data Services

A Simple ADO.Net Data Service Walkthrough (updated for SP1)
Querying an ADO.Net Data Service via .Net Client (updated for SP1)

ADO.Net Sync Services

Sync Services for ADO.Net now use SQL Server 2008 Change Tracking

SQL Server 2008 and Data Access Technologies

Enjoy!

Copy Source As Html (CopySourceAsHtml) on VPC

Guy Burstein — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:54:44 GMT

Copy Source As Html (CopySourceAsHtml) on VPC

I've been using Copy Source As Html (CopySourceAsHtml) for Visual Studio 2008 RTM for a while, but recently tried to work with it on a Virtual PC (VPC). When I tried copying a code snippet to the clipboard I ran into an exception: "Requested Clipboard operation did not succeed."

I found the code that I had to change in Mike Glaser's Blog, but to make thinks a little shorter:

1. Download this ZIP file that contains the add in.

2. Extract it to the following folders:

Vista:
- C:\Users\<username>\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Addins
XP:
- C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\Addins
- C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Addins

Enjoy!

.NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit is available for Download

Guy Burstein — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:09:19 GMT

.NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit is available for Download

The Developer and Platform Evangelism Group in Microsoft has created a new training kit for all the enhancements for the .Net Framework 3.5:

ASP.NET MVC
ASP.NET Dynamic Data
ASP.NET AJAX History
ASP.NET Silverlight controls
ADO.NET Data Services
ADO.NET Entity Framework

Download the training kit (34.9 MB)

Enjoy!