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Monday, January 19, 2009 2:02 PM

What kind of extensibility would you like to see in HTML/ASPX editor?

Have you ever wanted to extend HTML editor Source view or perhaps modify some of the existing functionality? Perhaps you always wanted to write an add-in or a simple feature youself but lack of extensibility support (or lack of information on it) prevented
Posted by Mikhail Arkhipov (MSFT) | 1 Comments
Thursday, December 25, 2008 12:43 PM

A lot of snow around Seattle

It has been heavily snowing for more than a week. I cleaned my driveway four times already, each time removing a foot of snow - good excercise :-). However, our street was only plowed once :-( so one really needs a high clearance car to get out. It is
Posted by Mikhail Arkhipov (MSFT) | 1 Comments
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Friday, December 19, 2008 12:14 PM

Where do I find all published hotfixes for Visual Studio?

Both VS 2005 and VS 2008 downloads are available here http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=15541
Posted by Mikhail Arkhipov (MSFT) | 0 Comments
Thursday, December 18, 2008 4:33 PM

Russian VS 2008 SP1 has been released

Пакет обновления 1 (SP1) Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (установщик) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=ru&FamilyID=fbee1648-7106-44a7-9649-6d9f6d58056e This is a coordinated release with Russian for SQL, MSDN, and the Orcas
Posted by Mikhail Arkhipov (MSFT) | 0 Comments
Thursday, December 18, 2008 11:24 AM

Why there is no spell checking in Design view?

Some folks asked why VS 2008 and VWD Express 2008 do not have "live" spell checking like Expression Web or SharePoint Designer 2007? Designer is shared with Expression Web and hence code must be there, right? Correct. But there are licensing issues. Office
Posted by Mikhail Arkhipov (MSFT) | 0 Comments
Thursday, December 18, 2008 9:35 AM

Where is Mikhail?

I have been posting in our team blog primarily. Maybe I should have cross posted, but I didn't. I will probably continue posting major articles on the team blog and redirect my blog to more technical subjects. Meanwhile, I hope you discovered that spell
Posted by Mikhail Arkhipov (MSFT) | 0 Comments
Wednesday, June 11, 2008 2:40 PM

Uninstalling VS 2008 SP1 Beta and HTML designer update

Just in case you want to uninstall VS 2008 SP1 Beta, please remember that Web designer is a separate product so you may have to uninstall its update manually in Control Panel. Look for "Update for WebDesigner 2007 (KB945140)" and uninstall it after uninstalling
Posted by Mikhail Arkhipov (MSFT) | 1 Comments
Tuesday, June 03, 2008 9:13 AM

Video tutorials on HTML designer

Since VS is sharing HTML designer with Expression Web, many videos available for Expression Web may also be useful for Visual Studio users. LearnExpression is a great site with many videos on designer tools and page layout: http://www.learnexpression.com/
Posted by Mikhail Arkhipov (MSFT) | 1 Comments
Wednesday, April 02, 2008 12:58 PM

Wireless mouse, HTML editor and idle time processing

Several people reported issues when toolbox, validation and/or server code intellisense do not work reliably on some machines. Turned our that the issue is related to wireless mouse driver broadcasting messages and preventing Visual Studio IDE from processing
Posted by Mikhail Arkhipov (MSFT) | 1 Comments
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 9:08 AM

Sharing designer between Expression Web and Visual Studio

As you probably know, Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer Express 2008 include designer that is shared with Expression Web. See my earlier post on this. Both Expression Web and VS are using same base code, but each team adds unique functionality
Posted by Mikhail Arkhipov (MSFT) | 6 Comments
Wednesday, March 19, 2008 1:01 PM

Microsoft Web Authoring Component setup and Compatibility Pack for the 2007 Office system

I have found that a few people could not install Visual Web Developer 2008 or Visual Studio 2008 because Microsoft Web Authoring Component setup was failing on their machine. In order to diagnose the problem it is necessary to look into SetupExe(...).log
Posted by Mikhail Arkhipov (MSFT) | 1 Comments
Wednesday, March 05, 2008 2:56 PM

Absolute and relative positioning in Visual Studio 2008 Web designer

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
Posted by Mikhail Arkhipov (MSFT) | 5 Comments
Monday, January 28, 2008 10:13 PM

PHP coloring in Visual Studio 2008

Now, this is a creative way of using C++ colorizer to colorize PHP in VS 2008 :-) It won't work in VWD Express though since it employs C++ editor as PHP colorizer.
Posted by Mikhail Arkhipov (MSFT) | 1 Comments
Monday, December 31, 2007 8:19 AM

Spell checker update 2.1: a few bug fixes and couple of new features

This article is obsoltete. Please look here for newer version http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2008/11/29/spell-checker-update-2-2-full-support-for-vs-2008-sp1-simpler-setup-and-a-few-bug-fixes.aspx Bug fixes: <param>Text</param>
Posted by Mikhail Arkhipov (MSFT) | 24 Comments
Tuesday, December 18, 2007 10:41 AM

How to select language for spell checking in code comments

A few users asker how to select language for spell checking in the code comments. Egil Hansen (see comments to http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2007/12/13/spell-checker-for-html-asp-net-jscript-vb-c-css-and-c-for-visual-studio-2005-and-2008.aspx#comments
Posted by Mikhail Arkhipov (MSFT) | 3 Comments
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