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Web Development Updates in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and Visual Web Developer 2008 SP1 are now available for download.  This blog post highlights the major changes in SP1 related to web development.

New Web Development Features in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

The following is a list of new features in SP1 which relate to web development:

  • Class Libraries and Web Application Projects in Express
  • JScript Formatting
  • More Support for External JScript Libraries
  • Dynamic Data Templates
  • SQL Server 2008 Support
  • WCF Renaming Support
  • IIS Module and Handler Templates
  • Multiple Selection in Design View (new since SP1 Beta)
  • Ability to add ADO.NET Data Service Reference in web projects (new since SP1 Beta)

For more details on the above features, please see the following articles:

http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-sp1-beta.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2008/06/12/multiple-control-selection-in-visual-studio-2008-sp1-rtm.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc748663.aspx

Web Development IDE Performance Improvements

SP1 includes all of the web development performance improvements that were available previously via a downloadable hotfix.  See http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2008/02/09/downloadable-hotfix-performance-and-editor-fixes-for-microsoft-visual-studio-2008-and-visual-web-developer-express-2008.aspx for more information on the performance issue addressed. 

In addition to the performance improvements mentioned in the above hotfix description, SP1 also addresses the following performance issues related to web development:

Notable Bug Fixes

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and Visual Web Developer 2008 SP1 contains several hundred bug fixes related to web development.  Below is a list of the most notable bugs and customer reported bugs that are fixed.

General Issues

WebForm /HTML Design View

WebForm / HTML Source View

Javascript Intellisense

Web Projects

CSS

As you can see SP1 is substantial improvement to VS2008 in the area of web development - hope you enjoy!

Omar Khan | Visual Web Developer

Posted: Monday, August 11, 2008 9:00 AM by WebDevTools

Comments

ナオキにASP.NET（仮） said:

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# August 11, 2008 4:43 PM

Dave Tigweld said:

How do you get VS 2008 sp1 to color code my classic asp .inc files. It is only picking up the .asp extension.

# August 11, 2008 4:51 PM

WebDevTools said:

Hello Dave,

To my knowledge it is not possible to get ASP color coding on .inc files.  It is a request we've heard once or twice in the past, but unfortunately it didn't make it in.

Omar Khan | Visual Web Developer

# August 11, 2008 5:07 PM

infomaven said:

Thanks team! I've been waiting with bated breath.

# August 11, 2008 5:55 PM

WebDevTools said:

Hi Alfred,

I apologize, I accidentially deleted your comment.  Sorry to hear that you are having trouble installing SP1.  The Visual Studio team would like to further investigate your issue.

If possible could you:

1) Collect installation logs as described here - http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2007/08/01/4172276.aspx

2) Post the logs on skydrive.live.com

3) Reply here or on the Visual Studio installation forum - http://forums.msdn.microsoft.com/en/netfxsetup/threads/,  with a link to the posted logs

Thanks,

Omar Khan | Visual Web Developer

# August 11, 2008 6:42 PM

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# August 11, 2008 9:05 PM

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# August 11, 2008 9:05 PM

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# August 12, 2008 12:19 AM

Emerson Honda said:

I tought sp1 was supposed to bring vbscript (.vbs) support back?

# August 12, 2008 9:19 AM

Ryan said:

I installed SP1 fine yesterday and this morning I came across something strange that may or may not be related, so I figured I would check here.

I opened Windows Explorer and went to sort the files in a folder by size but that column wasn't showing. I'm on Vista so I figured it was just trying to be smart and show columns appropriate for the files in the folder (images).

I brought up the list of columns you can view and scrolled down to find Size, but it wasn't in the list. I noticed a Space Used column, but when I enable it, it's just blank.

I've checked around with several other people running Vista and they all have a Size column available to them. The only difference is, I've installed this service pack and they haven't yet.

Anyone else experiencing this?

# August 12, 2008 9:22 AM

Visual Studio Hacks said:

My latest in a series of the weekly, or more often, summary of interesting links I come across related to Visual Studio. Yesterday, Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .Net 3.5 SP1 were released. Below is a list of links related to those releases: Greg Duncan

# August 12, 2008 10:10 AM

Bradley said:

is anyone else crashing vs when trying to "format document" in .css files?  Both from the edit > advanced menu, or the keyboard shortcut ctrl-k+d?

# August 12, 2008 12:11 PM

Ryan said:

@Bradley - Works fine for me but the CSS files I was testing with weren't particularly big and they were formatted nicely to begin with.

# August 12, 2008 12:40 PM

Bradley said:

@Ryan - Its happening to me even a clean new Style Sheet without any editing from the file > new menu.

Another developer I work with gets the same crash also.  I've opened a bug with crash dumps on the microsoft Connect site.

# August 12, 2008 1:08 PM

WebDevTools said:

Hi Emerson,

VB Script support was added.  Can you please describe the scenario that is not working for you?

Thanks,

Omar Khan | Visual Web Developer

# August 12, 2008 1:44 PM

WebDevTools said:

Hi Bradley,

We are trying to get a repo for this bug on our end but were not successful. Could you please help us with the following information so that we can investigate further.

1. OS details of the repro box:

2. x64 0r x86:

3. Do you have any other version/SKU of VS on your box?

4. Were you using VWD SP1 or VSTS SP1?

5. Do you have any other Visual Studio related updates like perforance QFE patch on your box?

6. Could you share the .css file which caused the crash?

7. Was it an upgrade from VSTS RTM to VSTS Sp1?

8. Was it an upgrade from VSTS Sp1 beta to VSTS SP1 RTM?

9. Did you try:

Edit -> Format Document Ctrl+K , Ctrl +D

Or

Edit->Advanced-> There are a bunch of options here. If you used any one of these, can you please let us know which sub option did you use.

10. File version of the following DLLs:

FPACUTL.dll, FPCUTL.DLL, FPEDITAX.DLL can be found here C:\Program Files\Microsoft Web Designer Tools\VWD

and htmled.dll can be found C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\Packages

Thanks for your patience while we try to identify the issue for you.

Regards,

Reshmi Mangalore

# August 12, 2008 2:30 PM

Community Blogs said:

Finally Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 is out! What does it fix? From Microsoft: Improved WPF designers

# August 13, 2008 3:09 AM

Munkeycat said:

Class Libraries and Web Application Projects in Express !

Thank you MS, awesome.

# August 13, 2008 1:34 PM

Bradley said:

@WebDevTools

Here is a link to the Connect site bug report with all your questions already answered.

https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=361401

# August 13, 2008 3:51 PM

(Semi) Official Developer Division Performance Engineering blog said:

We just announced the release of Service Pack 1 for VS 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 . A major push for this release

# August 14, 2008 2:20 AM

For Public Warning said:

Bug in .NET 3.5 SP1

http://sitecore.alexiasoft.nl/2008/08/14/bug-in-net-35-sp1/

.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (Service Pack 1) changes to ViewState causes stability issues in Sitecore products

http://davidlwalker.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!827E108266572C9C!249.entry

# August 14, 2008 10:38 AM

Brandon said:

Is anyone else having trouble debugging when using VS Web Developer w/SP1?  When I go to debug a web site, it builds and opens the "current page" as normal and immediately exits debugging.  Debugging mode actually exits before the page load and therefore there is no way to debug.

# August 19, 2008 4:26 PM

xinqiu said:

Brandon,

Can you email me your detailed scenarios, to xinqiu at microsoft dot com?

I'd like to know:

1. Are you using VSTS , express or other SKU with SP1?  Which OS are you using?

2. Does this occur with your basic senario with

   a. create a filesystem website

   b. F5?

  If Not, could you email me a basic repro website?

I will help you through this.

Thank you very much!

# August 19, 2008 5:07 PM

Brandon said:

I apologize, apparently the problem had nothing to do with SP1... it was a problem with the way I had my forms authentication setup in the web.config.  I forgot I had just enabled it right before installing SP1 but thank you.

# August 19, 2008 8:30 PM

Chance said:

The designer issue still hasn't been fixed. Switching to design view is unusable and making a change in source view and saving is too.

# August 21, 2008 8:26 AM

Chance said:

Sorry for posting again but this is crazy. When I switch to design view after opening an aspx file, my "devenv.exe" process uses up an incredible amount of RAM. I have 8GB running on Vista x64 and if I keep switching back and forth, it will literally take all my RAM. While memory usage is rising, the CPU is spiking @ 25%. How this made it by QC is beyond me.

# August 21, 2008 8:31 AM

WebDevTools said:

Hello Chance,

I'm sorry to hear that you are running into the problem described.  In our general testing we did not find problems with switch to design view.  We would like to investigate the issue you are having, and hopefully resolve it for you.

Please send email to vwdperf-at-microsoft-dot-com, and we should be able to help.  Thanks again for bringing this problem to our attention.

Omar Khan | Visual Web Developer

# August 21, 2008 11:30 AM

Rocky Assad said:

Couple things after the update:

1. .config files are no longer color coded, nor does intelli-sense work with them.

2. vbscript (.vbs) files are also not color coded.

3. symbols are not longer loaded for referenced projects, which means no debugging! (this is my biggest setback)

Can you help?

# August 21, 2008 11:37 AM

WebDevTools said:

Hi Rocky,

I'm sorry to hear that things are not working after the upgrade. I'm going to investigate this issue and get back to you soon. It will be great if you can share your email address with us. Having your email address will help us to contact you directly in case if have trouble in repro'ing the issue.

My email address is vinayr@microsoft.com, in case if you want to directly contact me. Thanks for bringing this problem to our attention.

Vinaya Reddy | Visual Web Developer

# August 21, 2008 3:37 PM

Rocky Assad said:

rockya@tradeweb.net

I reinstalled the SP and now vbs files are color coded, but that's the only one that is working correctly.

thanks

# August 22, 2008 10:31 AM

Rocky Assad said:

rockya@tradeweb.net

I reinstalled the SP and now vbs files are color coded, but that's the only one that is working correctly.

thanks

# August 22, 2008 10:41 AM

Wynter said:

I have noticed problems with the Designer's Optimized Code Generation option causing problems with Telerik controls. This doesn't appear to be a problem in basic use of the controls.

But if your design includes subprojects and/or nested master pages then the problem becomes apparent (and very annoying). This error only affects the Designer view of the web applications, as the actual code on your test web server will render just fine. But it does give you false errors that will waste your time.

The best bet is to simply turn off the Optimized Code Generation until Telerik puts out a new update that compensates for Microsoft's new "feature" with code optimization.

Also, the new SP1 does not completely embrace nested master pages or nested CSS Stylesheets. The designer does work a great deal better in rendering pages than in VS2005, but you still get annoying Intellisense and Warnings on your build when you have try to build a Child Master Page in a seperate Sub Web Application in the same solution. This is the direction we appear to be going to support larger web applications, but Microsoft development on the Visual Studio has a long way to go till we get there.

Good Product, but we need more fixes!

Wynter

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