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Faster switch to design view in VS 2008 SP1 RTM
Some customers discovered that sometimes switch to Design view was very slow. We analyzed submitted reports and tracked the issue down to a code that was discovering available AJAX Extenders and which contols they were applicable to. In order to avoid Read More...
Multiple control selection in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 RTM
We have been listening to your [strong] feedback and we are now happy to announce that multiple selection and alignment operations in Design view are coming back and will be included in VS 2008 SP1 RTM and Visual Web Developer Express 2008 SP1 RTM. We Read More...
Absolute and relative positioning in Visual Web Developer 2008 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 Read More...
JScript Debugging: Made easy with IE8
The feature I'm most excited about in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 is ironically one you might not notice at all. Problem If you're reading this, you probably know (and are still untangling the double-negative logic of) the "Disable script debugging" option Read More...
Tips & Tricks: Web Server Settings for Web Application Projects now can be stored per user as well as per project
Web server settings, which are accessible inside Web Application Projects (WAPs) property pages (Web section) allow you to specify settings associated to to Visual Studio Development Server or IIS. Many a times in a team development environment it is Read More...
Web Deployment Projects (WDP) for Visual Studio 2008 - December 2007 CTP Released
Based on the feedback from web development community we just released the Customer Technology Preview (CTP) of Web Deployment Projects for Visual Studio 2008... This release of Web Deployment Projects (WDP) has all the features that VS 2005 WDP release Read More...
Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition available for download
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 Read More...
First book on Visual Web Developer 2008
Jim Cheshire who is working in Microsoft Customer Support wrote a new book on the Visual Web Developer 2008 " The Microsoft Expression Web Developer's Guide to ASP.NET 3.5: Learn to create ASP.NET applications using Visual Web Developer 2008 ". It describes Read More...
SQL Database Publishing wizard is now in Visual Studio 2008.
The SQL database publishing wizard is a very popular web-downloadable add-in for Visual Studio 2005. The publishing wizard addresses the issue where a developer needs to deploy a local database from his development machine to a hosting environment on Read More...
New VS2008 Feature: “Downgrade” HTML, CSS, and JScript Errors to Warnings
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. Read More...
Tip/Trick: ASP.NET Mobile Development with Visual Studio 2008
If you are using Visual Studio 2008, you might have noticed that it doesn't have item templates for ASP.NET Mobile Web Forms (which were previously available in Visual Studio 2003). To help users with this scenario, I've created the following item templates Read More...
Better Javascript intellisense with Silverlight 1.0
If you are using Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, and are building applications for Silverlight using Javascript, there is a cool project from Justin-Josef Angel , which I recommend checking out. Using Justin's library and Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, one can Read More...
Orcas Beta2 Gotcha: No ASP.NET controls in toolbox, no ASP.NET intellisense/validation on pages
We’ve heard a few reports of cases with VS Orcas Beta2 where ASP.NET controls do not show up on the toolbox and ASP.NET tag intellisense and validation is broken in HTML source view. All of the cases reported so far have been with Vista. The root cause Read More...
New Web Development Features in Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2
You may have heard by now that Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is available for public download. I wanted to take a minute to highlight some of the new web developer features that we've added since Beta 1: Design view support for configuring AJAX Extenders Read More...
Workaround for Beta 2 JavaScript IntelliSense and Colorization Issue
We have discovered that in a very limited number of setup scenarios of Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, Jscript IntelliSense and Colorization may not work property after installing the product. You will get no IntelliSense in JavaScript code, and all JavaScript Read More...
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