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Here are three new tips on Tips and Tricks Blog. Tip #4 Did you know… You can add browsers to Visual Web Developer using the “Browse With…” option Tip #5 Did you know… How to Databind a ListView control? Tip #6 Did you know… About the “Tag Navigator”
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we've just released the latest Preview of Dynamic Data Wizard on the CodePlex website that requires that Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is installed. This release is primarily for supporting updating from the Beta to the RTM release of .NET 3.5 SP1. For more
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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
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We have had complaints from some customers saying that their Web Project build performance with VS is very slow and it turns out that for some of the complaints the actual issue was anti-virus programs running on their machines. So, how do anti-virus
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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
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Every year we send a team to TechEds to meet you, our customers. They will be at the event site from 8.30 AM to 6.00 PM to answer your questions from June 3rd to June 6th. This time we have the following representatives at TechEd. ASP.NET Team: Kathy
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Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta is now available! You can download it here (though before you do, read the note below). In SP1, we have added some new features as well as many bug fixes. In this blog post I’ll attempt to give an overview of the features as
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Colorization, validation, IntelliSense, and formatting comprise the core of any modern editor. With VS 2008 SP1, we are completing the core JScript editor by introducing code formatting. Additionally, we have promoted JScript to a dedicated node in “Tools
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Summary Microsoft Silverlight Tools Beta 1 for Visual Studio 2008 is not compatible with Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta. The good news is that Silverlight Tools Beta 2 for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is coming soon. Until then you will not be
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I've noticed quite a few people run into the issue "Why is design mode empty for my web user control (ASCX)?". It's not obvious what might be causing this bug, so I thought I'd offer an explanation and a couple workarounds. Problem You have a user control
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As a part of creating a way for customers to directly communicate with the product team and get help if they are running into performance issues in Visual Web Developer 2008 or web-related features in Visual Studio 2008, the product team has created a
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Update to the preceding blog post... we've just made available an 04-23 refresh of the Dynamic Data Release on the Code Gallery website. This release includes some nice runtime enhancements for routed URLs, Dynamic Data Wizard templates in the Visual
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ASP.NET Dynamic Data is a great innovation for creating data-driven Websites. It provides two key features: The ability to render data by defining templates, either at the page-level (for example, to define default renderings for list, details,
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If you love the web and are passionate about the developer experience building web applications we'd like to hear from you. These are hot positions focused on cutting edge technologies. You can learn more about our positions from the links below:
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Mike Volodarsky on the IIS team just published some very useful articles describing how to setup and configure IIS7 to properly work with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2005. The article covers necessary components needing to be installed, and the
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