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Differences between Web Site Projects (WSP) and Web Application Projects (WAP) are highlighted in blogs such as this one . Based on that, if you feel a WAP would be better for your particular needs than a WSP, but have already created a WSP, you may be
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Last week we released ASP.Net MVC 2 Preview 2 for Visual Studio 2008 Sp1. In the box support for single project areas is now included and the Add View tool has been modified to streamline this scenario. A walkthrough that creates two simple single project
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Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is W3C standard language for describing two-dimensional vector and mixed vector/raster graphics in XML. Firefox 3+, Opera 9+ and Safari 3+ support SVG rendering. Unfortunately, Internet Explorer 8 does not support SVG natively
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Some time ago Jim Cheshire wrote a book on VWD 2008 and recently book publisher kindly allowed us to provide four chapters as free downloadable PDF files. The following chapters are available: Creating Web sites Creating and Managing CSS Styles Applying
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The VWD team is always looking for ways to improve our product for our customers. To help us better achieve this goal we have created a survey that we hope you will take a few moments to fill out. Click Here to take survey This survey centers around the
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ASP.Net MVC 1.0 RTM has been out for a while and I noticed that people are still downloading an NUnit sample project I created for ASP.Net MVC Preview 3. Since then an AccountController class and a corresponding set of unit tests have been added to the
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We have started a new series of video tutorials on Visual Web Developer Express 2008. Over the course of next few weeks we will be adding many more videos to this series . These video tutorials will range in complexity from beginner to intermediate and
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Most Recent Posts: Silverlight Tip of the Day #106 - Setting Default Browser from within VS Silverlight Tip of the Day #105 - How to Enable GPU Acceleration Silverlight Tip of the Day #104 - Cool Silverlight Tutorial Blogs Silverlight Tip of the Day #103
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A hotfix is now available for issues most commonly described as " I make changes in Design view but Source does not get updated " and " After certain actions designer inserts a lot of in the page" . This hotfix can
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ASP.NET MVC 1.0 is now Live. You can download it right now here . Also check out Phil Haack’s post on the release. If you are new to MVC, please check out our previous posts for more information and links to many useful blogs and resources. Alternatively,
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Silverlight 3 Tools Beta for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is now available for download . This installer includes: Silverlight 3 Beta SDK Silverlight 3 Beta Developer Runtime for debugging XAP Compression Improvements Support for Caching Transparent Platform
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Under certain conditions opening Web projects from remote sites may become very slow. We've seen quite a few 'hang' reports submitted via 'Send Information to Microsoft' feedback (aka Dr. Watson ). The reason is that sometimes XML editor (which is used
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ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 2 is live ! Check out Phil Haack’s blog, Haacked.com , for information on the new installer and some other general release info. The release is mostly focused on responding to customer feedback but there are some minor tooling
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If you have been experiencing Visual Studio crashes when opening view pages in design view or having trouble installing ASP.NET MVC due to problems with third party add-ins such as Power Commands, please try out the just released CLR hotfix here: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=16827&wa=wsignin1.0
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ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RC can now be installed with Web Platform Installer: http://www.microsoft.com/web/channel/products/WebPlatformInstaller.aspx Here is a quick description of Web Platform Installer from the Web Platform Installer website: “The Web Platform
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